Projects tagged
Revolution
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Television Commercial for Communism
Read more: Television Commercial for CommunismTelevision Commercial for Communism: https://vimeo.com/129592556 Formed in 2006, the Propeller Group is a Ho Chi Minh City– and Los Angeles–based collective composed of artists Phunam, Matt Lucero, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen. The convergence of the diverse backgrounds of its members—antique…
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Green Day’s “American Idiot”
Read more: Green Day’s “American Idiot”Mass media using propaganda to brainwash citizens. Confusion and ignorance causing a divide. People rising up against an oppressive government. Humans being torn between rage and love. These are the themes of Green Day’s widely successful 2004 album, “American Idiot.”…
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Black History: Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”
Read more: Black History: Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”Many may not realize, but legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday was a big part of the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, her 1939 song about lynching, “Strange Fruit,” made her a target of the FBI. “When you think of Billie…
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Linha Vermelha – Red Line
Read more: Linha Vermelha – Red LineLinha Vermelha was created in 2016 by the non-profit organization Academia Cidadã (Citizenship Academy). At that time there were fifteen active contracts for oil and gas drilling and we were inspired by the “Red Line Action” in Paris, during COP21…
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Gandhi Begins Fast in Protest of Caste Separation
Read more: Gandhi Begins Fast in Protest of Caste SeparationOn September 16, 1932, in his cell at Yerwada Jail in Pune, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British government’s decision to separate India’s electoral system by caste. A leader in the Indian campaign for…
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‘Zombie’: The Story Behind The Cranberries’ Deathless Classic
Read more: ‘Zombie’: The Story Behind The Cranberries’ Deathless ClassicPresaged by shimmering spin-off hits “Dreams” and “Linger,” The Cranberries’ landmark debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, suggested its creators had taken up the baton handed down by jangly indie-pop classicists The Smiths and The…
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End Bad Breath
Read more: End Bad BreathWired Article: IN 1957 SEYMOUR Chwast published a book titled A Book of Battles. It was 24 pages of hand-colored linocut illustrations depicting infamous battles waged throughout history. Chwast, by then a partner at the famed graphic design outfit Push…
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The Harlem Festival of Culture
Read more: The Harlem Festival of CultureThe Harlem Festival of Culture not only pays homage to the past but also envisions a brighter future. It serves as a platform to showcase the rich diversity and dynamism of Harlem’s artistic community, while also acting as a catalyst…
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Books (Please)! In All Branches of Knowledge, 1924
Read more: Books (Please)! In All Branches of Knowledge, 1924Seattle Times: In 1921, just four years after the Bolshevik Revolution, American journalist Albert Rhys Williams wrote: “The visitor to Russia is struck by the multitude of posters — in factories and barracks, on walls and railway-cars, on telegraph poles…
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The Great Migration Series
Read more: The Great Migration SeriesNational Public Radio (NPR): There’s no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence’s childhood home in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might…