Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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In Photos: The True Cost of the Tar Sands
Read more: In Photos: The True Cost of the Tar SandsIn Photos: The True Cost of the Tar Sands Conservation photographer Garth Lenz’s exhibition seeks to show the impact of tar sands oil extraction. go to => http://youtu.be/84zIj_EdQdM Garth Lenz is an award winning conservation photographer whose work has been…
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Can Humor Topple Monsters?
Read more: Can Humor Topple Monsters?Can Humor Topple Monsters? An interview with Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum on his latest prank against Bank of America and why every protest needs some fun. by Laura Gottesdiener Last week, a press release was released announcing YourBofA.com, a new…
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Yes, the Climate is Changing
Read more: Yes, the Climate is ChangingYes, the Climate is Changing Video: People around the world show how climate change is already affecting their lives. [see external link or YouTube> People Everywhere Connect the Dots on Climate Change] The effects of climate change come in many…
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Yes, the Climate is Changing
Read more: Yes, the Climate is ChangingYes, the Climate is Changing Video: People around the world show how climate change is already affecting their lives. http://www.youtube.com/embed/mgaxuYhI_9E” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen> The effects of climate change come in many guises: increasingly intense storms, too much snow, not enough snow,…
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Invincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop Activism
Read more: Invincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop ActivismInvincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop Activism: Powerful, passionate, and politically charged rhymes that speak for marginalized people. by Shannan Stoll Ilana Weaver started listening to hip hop when she was seven, after her family moved from Israel to Ann Arbor, Mich.…
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Read more: Aboriginal Tent EmbassyIn the 1970s, inspired by the Black Power movement in the US, Aboriginal people were politically very active. In Sydney, Australia’s first Aboriginal legal and medical services were founded. Aboriginal people demanded land rights for the areas that they lived…
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Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)
Read more: Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)“I decided to shoot pictures of men who made comments to me on the street. I had always hated this invasion of my privacy and now I had the means of my revenge. As I walked along Houston Street with…
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Reversing the Lens: Sexual Harrassment Victim uses social media, leads to harasser’s arrest
Read more: Reversing the Lens: Sexual Harrassment Victim uses social media, leads to harasser’s arrestA young woman named Thao Nguyen was riding the R train in NYC when a man sitting across from began to masturbate. Nguyen snapped a picture of him, but the policewoman to whom she reported the incident had little interest…
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Claiming Territory with Ink_ a street calligraphy graffiti artist in Hong Kong
Read more: Claiming Territory with Ink_ a street calligraphy graffiti artist in Hong KongA toothless garbageman who once wandered Hong Kong’s streets with dingy bags of ink and brushes tied to his crutches is now the subject of a major retrospective. About 300 calligraphic works by the late Tsang Tsou-choi — who is…
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Nowhereisland
Read more: NowhereislandNowhereisland was an island which journeyed from the High Arctic region of Svalbard to the south west coast of England in summer 2012. As it made this epic journey, it travelled through international waters, whereupon it became the world’s newest…
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Huelga decir, gráficas de brazos caídos
Read more: Huelga decir, gráficas de brazos caídosHuelga decir, gráficas de brazos caídos, es un libro digital de gran importancia estético-política, dados los recientes acontecimientos sociales a escala mundial, en los que el llamado a la huelga de nueva cuenta se pone de manifiesto en las plazas…
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A Gift for Amsterdam
Read more: A Gift for AmsterdamIn the summer of 2011, squatters take over an unused building, once an animal shelter, and begin renovating it into a social and cultural center for a neighborhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. They call it Op de Valreep (“in…