Projects tagged
Media
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#EverydayIran
Read more: #EverydayIran“Everyday Iran”, inspired by “Everyday Africa”, is the most widespread mobile photography project based on social networks in Iran which started since early in 2014. We in Everyday Iran ask the whole people who live and work in Iran to…
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The Panama Papers
Read more: The Panama PapersA giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies. External sources: https://panamapapers.icij.org/
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GreatFire
Read more: GreatFireGreatFire was set up in 2011 by three anonymous individuals to counter the “Great Firewall of China”, the systematic blocking by the Chinese government of any website deemed controversial, including any that touch on news, human rights, democracy or religion.…
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Every Single Word Spoken
Read more: Every Single Word SpokenDylan Marron is a Venezualan-American actor, writer, and director who noticed something about the film industry: in most of the major films, people like him (and other non-white groups) were not being well represented. Taking to Youtube, he started the…
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Smuggling Books Across The Border
Read more: Smuggling Books Across The BorderFor the People Artists Collective is a collaborative network of radical artists of color in Chicago. #ForThePeopleFriday: Each Friday, we will be sharing artwork by one of our members. Today, we are featuring Leila Abdelrazaq, a Chicago-based Palestinian artist, whose…
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MTA Posters- Gas Test
Read more: MTA Posters- Gas TestWhat would a chemical attack on NYC look like? How would poisonous gases spread, through the lines of the subway and above ground? These are some of the questions the NYPD and a team of researchers hope to answer this…
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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
Read more: Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition“Seeing street art exhibited in a museum is paradoxical and grotesque,” they [Blu and his comrades] wrote of Banksy and Co. “This ‘street art’ exhibition [featuring 250 works of street art, some of which were removed from their original public…
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Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New York
Read more: Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New YorkIt may have been a while since you’ve set foot in an internet cafe, but a pop-up one on the Lower East Side offering free tea on top of free wifi is well worth a visit for a lesson in…
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Always ‘Like a Girl’ Says the Female Emojis Are Terrible
Read more: Always ‘Like a Girl’ Says the Female Emojis Are TerribleMost brands have expressed eternal love for emojis in recent years, as they try to talk the talk of young people today. Not so fast, says Always’ “Like a Girl” campaign, which points out in a new ad that the…
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Hamilton
Read more: Hamilton‘‘HAMILTON,’’ the new musical biography of Alexander Hamilton created by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, kicks off with a doozy of a question. The houselights rise on Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States and, infamously, the killer…