Archive for June, 2009
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Butchering A Fawn On Sunday
Yesterday my friends returned to the house with a roadkill deer that they’d already skinned. Being slightly into taking gory photos, I decided to photograph some of the process of butchering the dead creature. (As an aside, the omnivores pictured are mostly freegan. The animal wasn’t hunted. Most importantly, it wasn’t raised for slaughter. Its [...]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
More Reading On The G20
Well, first of all, there are apparently 877 police in Pittsburgh, but they’re hoping to field 4000 for the event by calling in troops from all the hell over. Lots of talk about the national guard and the purchasing of less-lethals. Then there’s the Pittsburgh Organizing Group‘s [POG] first general update. This covers a few [...]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Destroy the G20
(poster culled from strangers in a tangled wilderness, link goes to a pdf.) Reposted from infoshop news: A committee of outside agitators, ne’er-do-wells, unpredictables, and ungovernables gets excited about the G-20. The Grievances On September 24-25th, leaders from the 20 richest and most powerful economies of the world will assemble in Pittsburgh, PA to discuss [...]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Fuchs Lubricants Co.
See, this is funny because Fuchs Lubricants Co. makes two accidental sexual references in one company name. That’s why I took a picture of the truck.
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Haymarket Square, Circa 2009
I took this picture in Chicago at Haymarket Square. Haymarket Square, where anarchists fought cops for the right to assemble and the right to organize unions, is now a bunch of condos. Yay. Here’s a zine about Haymarket and Mayday.
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Papyrus
Many people who’ve met me recently have learned about my involvement in the war on papyrus.
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Chunky Move – Mortal Engine
I don’t know much about contemporary dance. But now I want to. Because this is, more or less, the best thing that has ever happened. Technology is at its best when we don’t need it, when it is something that adds wonder to the world, not takes wonder away.
