Hatch Kingdom | Stickerkitty International Sticker Exhibition DE VIGUEUR et DE VERVE! Fresh Paint – Peint Frais Edition III Hatch Kingdom, the only sticker museum in the world, has collaborated with Catherine Tedford, a.k.a. Stickerkitty, to present an exhibition of street art stickers and photographs from Berlin and New York City, with additional pieces from cities across Europe and North America. As part of a larger exhibition entitled Edition III, which includes work by contemporary muralists, graffiti artists, photographers, and others, the international sticker exhibition will be on display at Fresh Paint Gallery, Montréal, Québec, from December 2, 2011, through…
Border crossings
I drove to Montréal last week to show some of my stickers to Elise Luong at Fresh Paint Gallery. They’ll be shown there in December along with some of Oli’s stickers from Hatch Kingdom – everything Oli, Nada, and I (and my students!) presented at SLU in the fall of 2010, plus some new framed stickers that I’m putting together on oil consumption (see previous post), the economy, as well as stickers from the 2008 Presidential election that I haven’t shown before and other miscellaneous stickers from 2010-2011 to bring the exhibition up to date. Crossing the border into Canada…
“Bush did it for oil”
According to the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook Web site, in 2010 the US consumed 19.15 million barrels of oil every day, compared with Afghanistan (4,800), Australia (960,800), Bhutan (1,000), Canada (2.209 million), China (9.189 million), Germany (2.495 million), Greenland (4,000), Hong Kong (333,000), India (3.182 million), Iran (1.845 million), Iraq (694,000), Israel (238,000), Italy, 1.528 million), Japan (4.452 million), Nigeria (279,000), Pakistan (410,000), Qatar (166,000), Saudi Arabia (2.643 million), and Singapore (1.08 million). The global consumption of oil that year was 86.99 million barrels per day, so by calculation, the US consumed a little over 22% of…
The revolution will be bookmarked.
Which is about as far as I’ve been getting lately. Lots of bookmarks, printouts, etc., while I bide my time to still my thoughts, focus, and write. It’s been busy busy at school since I got back from Germany, but I am working on a post about my short trip to Hamburg and the St. Pauli football game the night I arrived (and the related stickers!). The post is called “Hamburg ist braun weiss” meaning “Hamburg is brown/white,” which is the color of the team’s home jerseys and the text on one of the stickers I picked up. Other topics…
ctrl + alt + T
Firefox came out recently with a handy free add-on called ImTranslator that allows one to select text from any digital source, hit ctrl + alt + T, and receive an immediate translation. Easy to install and easy to use. If you like it, you can make an online donation to help cover costs, I assume. Here is an example from antifastreetart’s About page: Nachdem dies mit dem deutschen Faschismus vernichtet wurde, entstand im konservativ geprägten Nachkriegsdeutschland mit dem Beginn der 68er Bewegung ein neuer Anlauf, die Menschen vor allem durch politische Plakatkunst zu erreichen. Unter dem Motto „Kreativität gegen Kapitalismus!“…
Arts in Society conference 2011
The sixth international Arts in Society conference will be held next May in… guess where? Berlin! I have submitted a proposal for a paper that will present a comparative study of political stickers from Berlin and New York City. Here is my proposal: For the last several years, sticker art in Berlin has dealt with issues that are highly political, such as national and trans-national identity, war and conflict, right-wing extremism, religious freedom, capitalism, gentrification, and surveillance. In particular, “antifa” stickers from various anti-fascist organizations throughout Germany dot the city, covering most every imaginable surface of the built environment and…
Sticker artists are so BAD!
This week, I’ve been following a few threads on a Flickr site called Graffiti Street Art – Sticker Traders. Lately, some of the contributors have been trying to out-bad one another with this gendered and faux gangsta stuff: We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives © says: Slowly bite the curb so I can hear the enamel start to scrape on the bumped pavement, then I’ll bring my foot over your head and stomp with all my weight, as I hear your teeth shatter you hold your mouth and look up at my scared for your life, Then I’m going to…