Projects tagged
Corporate Power
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The Wack Donalds Project and Mr One Teas
Read more: The Wack Donalds Project and Mr One TeasA French illustrator/painter/graphic designer from Nice who also has had shows in galleries in Monaco, Mr OneTeas is known to some as a graffiti artist who samples pop culture on his canvasses and appropriates commonly recognizable images of Hollywood names…
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Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega
Read more: Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega“is a conceptual documentary project in which I photographed every Mom and Pop-style cornershop on the island of Manhattan as quickly as possible, as I walked each block in the city ( CLICK FOR A MAP of my route). I…
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Hong Kong Apple Store met with protest over supply chain violations on iPhone 6 launch day
Read more: Hong Kong Apple Store met with protest over supply chain violations on iPhone 6 launch dayApple implemented improved reservation procedures and policies for employees dealing with the iPhone 6 launch at retail stores on September 19th, 2014, but the launch at the company’s Hong Kong store hadn’t gone quite as smooth as elsewhere. The store…
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The Teddy Bear Catapult
Read more: The Teddy Bear CatapultIt was a classic summit protest at the height of the anti-globalization movement. Thirty-four heads of state from across the Americas were gathering in Québec City to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a sweeping trade deal…
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Cartoons Against Corruption
Read more: Cartoons Against CorruptionCartoons Against Corruption is a cartoon based campaign by political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi to support anti corruption movement in India, best known for sharp hard hitting anti corruption cartoons. Using national emblems and current political news, Trivedi creates cartoons that…
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#SaveNYC
Read more: #SaveNYC#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced, DIY movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores…
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In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum Plaza
Read more: In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum PlazaOn Tuesday evening, at the end of an action staged by Occupy Museums at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the unveiling of the David H. Koch Plaza, three members of The Illuminator were arrested. Earlier in the evening,…
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$100 bills try to rush the White House
Read more: $100 bills try to rush the White Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wlSzkOlFE Anti-corruption activists unite: The Tea Party and Bold Progressives fighting side-by-side On Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 2 p.m., hundreds of activists marched K Street in Washington D.C. (aka “Influence Alley”) dressed as giant $100 bills. When the activists…
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The Sugar Sphinx
Read more: The Sugar SphinxOver the past twenty-five years or so, ever since her spectacular New York début at the Drawing Center, in 1994, the now forty-four-year-old artist Kara Walker’s visual production—sculptures, cutouts, drawings, films—has been diaristic in tone. But the diary Walker keeps…
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Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America
Read more: Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America(Taken from Group’s Event Statement): “The big banks have been playing monopoly with our money & our homes. On Saturday July 14th, as part of #J20 Bring the Fight Back to the Banks Week, let’s return the favor…” “While drawing…