Is Peace for Sale?
Some of the nation's biggest corporations make money when peace activists travel to events, using fossil fuels and accommodations provided by big chains. Then there is all of that peace merchandise and books, much of which is manufactured and originally sold by some of the biggest corporations in the world. Michael Moore and other big film makers get rich selling liberal and peace ideas on film.
There are certainly many smaller corporations out there that sell peace. There is the money made by dozens of small companies selling bumper stickers and t-shirts to peace activists.
Police and government officials make money when they get paid for planning crowd control. Politicians use eager volunteers and issues brought up by peace groups to get themselves elected into office, regardless of what kind of change they might actually make in office towards peace.
Elite Subversives
More subversive may be how the biggest institutions actually control the peace movements. Elite professors are elite universities talk about peace and resisting corporations, while at the same time being paid by those corporations. Every Harvard, Princeton, or Yale professor is paid for out of corporate money.
Most of the ideas of the peace movement are not organic, but instead come out of the corporate elite and a disseminated through shows like Democracy Now. The peace movement is made homogeneous by those national talk radio shows, and websites that define what the peace movement should be.
Need a Local Peace Movement:
Not an Elite One
This is why it is so important for peace activists to think locally and be critical of the national elite in the movement. While there may be a natural dissemination of ideas from corporate elite on downwards, we shouldn't automatically accept what we hear on a national program like Democracy Now. While I agree with many of the things heard on that show, remember it's programming is ultimately dominated by information handed down from the elite's ranks, such as Howard Zinn and Noam Chompsky.
Blue bloods, that went to Ivy League schools that preach peace are no different then those government officials that are warmongers. They share common ideas and beliefs, even if their official ideology presented to the public is different. Howard Zinn and George Bush probably agree on more of the same then they disagree. The elite, regardless of what they proclaim, can not and will never understand the common the man.
PEACE FOR SALE.
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The Making of a Coca-Cola Sign/Advertisement from 1945
The Making of a Coca Cola Sign
(1945)
In the new issue of CR, I talk to Coca-Cola archivist, Ted Ryan, about the history of the brand's 125 year-old identity, explored in a new show at the Design Museum. One of the highlights of the display is a book documenting the design and build of their first neon sign for Piccadilly Circus, in 1954...
When he returned to Atlanta, Ryan kindly sourced some scans of some of the pages from this rare publication, a few of which we used in the print piece in the July issue. The rest we present here as a series, alongside two Technical Data pages, should anyone be interested in how the sign was actually constructed.
The manufacture of the sign is also recorded – here, spray-painting the letters:
The sign begins to take shape on Piccadilly Circus:
The final image in the book, the only one in colour, shows the sign lit-up:
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Royal/T - Party Animals Exhibit.
ROYAL/T: “PARTY ANIMALS,” A NEW EXHIBIT
The forthcoming show—curated by Lindsay Scoggins—features works that reanimate creatures from childhood curiosities, set against the backdrop of Culver City’s whimsical art space
(CULVER CITY, CA; June 2011) – On Thursday, July 7, 2011, http://www.royal-t.org/" Royal/T—Culver City’s playful 10,000-square-foot Japanese pop art-inspired space goes “into the wild” with the summer debut of “Party Animals”—a new show curated by electronic media artist Lindsay Scoggins. On display through Saturday, September 24, 2011, the group exhibits whimsical connotation alludes to the common human experience of reinterpreting everyday surroundings by animating childhood experiences and curiosities. Glitter! Confetti! Radiant Tableaux! Featured works include an eclectic mix of beastly beings depicted as party-goers and captivating creatures as formidable adversaries that transform the space into an indulgently imaginative environment, with works by Scoggins, Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, KAWS, and Yoshimoto Nara among many others.
A Florida native, Scoggins studied electronic media and fine arts at the University of South Florida before her "Wonderland Mafia” video was selected as one of 25 winning entries in the 2010 Guggenheim’s YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video competition—in which her work was exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, in addition to Guggenheim museums in Venice, Italy; Bilbao, Spain; and Berlin, Germany. “I enjoy abducting viewers from the safety and protection of their own reality,” says Scoggins. “With ‘Party Animals’ at Royal/T, we want to encourage people to re-think the way we see the world of animals and art by redefining the typical emotions connected to them.”
Featuring works by today’s contemporary artists including Andre Ethier, Christen Bach, David Ellis, David Shrigley, David Tamargo, Jeff Koons, Jillian Mayer, KAWS, Ken Kagami, Ken Tanaka, Mike Reynolds, Misaki Kawai, TM Sisters, Takashi Murakami, Yoko Ono, Yoshimoto Nara and others. The show will challenge the audience’s perception of familiar creatures from childhood experiences by constructing a visual environment that combines opposing forces such as domesticity and wilderness. With differences in influences ranging from Hello Kitty and children’s television, to the artists’ contemporaries, each piece reinforces Royal/T’s embodiment of a welcoming environment for both children and adults to explore. Scoggins’ video, “Wouldn’t Change for the World,” celebrates the primal nature embedded within Royal/T’s treasured objects, documenting Chiyo the Maid as the art’s creatures explode to life when infused with the power of her magical Japanese tea kettle—transporting them to a world where anything is possible and where chaos runs wild.
DEBUTING THURSDAY, JULY 7
About Curator Lindsay Scoggins:
Lindsay Scoggins cultivated her love for electronic media as a fine arts student at the University of South Florida. At the age of 15, she began learning non-linear video editing and electronic music composition and during college, began working with video installation and using YouTube as an online gallery. As one of 25 selected artists featured in the 2010 Guggenheim’s YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video, Scoggins’ work was displayed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; and Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Germany. For more information, please visit http://www.LindsayScoggins.com
About Royal/T:
Located in Culver City, Royal/T is a playful blending of café, concept shop, and art exhibition space. The 10,000-square-foot space reflects the interior realm of fantasy that strongly influences the artists included in Owner Susan Hancock’s art collection. The art space showcases curated exhibitions with a focus on Japanese contemporary art. “Party Animals” will be on display at Royal/T from Thursday, July 7, 2011, through Saturday, September 24, 2011. The exhibit is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily, with extended hours on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. For additional information, guests can call Royal/T at 310.559.6300 and visit http://www.royal-t.org
“What really drew us to partnering with Lindsay Scoggins for ‘Party Animals’ is her incredible video art talent, which is becoming an increasingly mainstream and relatable medium for today’s young artists who grew up on Nintendo and other video games,” says Royal/T Owner Susan Hancock. “The focal piece of ‘Party Animals’ centers around Lindsay’s video on one of our magical maids, Chiyo, who brings the art pieces to life through an animated tea party. We make it our mission to encourage each guest to have a little party of their own every time they visit us, and with this new show, our goal is to help everyone—both adults and children alike—to find their inner ’party animal’ once they step through the doors at Royal/T.”
Check out this show if you find yourself in Cali...
YouTube Promo for the exhibit.
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We Blog 1, Forever Faithless
Having never gotten the chance to see Faithless live and the fact that they’re now officially broken up, does not bode well with me. How I got to be such a big Faithless fan rather surprises me, since their hit Insomnia took off in the late 90s, I’d bought album after album and enjoyed just about every one of them! A nice added perk to Faithless is Dido’s involvement with the band as she’s Rollo’s sister, so she is always featured on at least one song and he’s been known to produce her albums as well.
Reverence starts things off quite nicely, the hooks are developed, the sound groovy and chill. Insomnia is of course the biggest track here “I can’t get no sleep” … Maxi Jazz’s rhymes so smooth like butter on a song. You just get lost in their music so easily. Don’t Leave, Salva Mea, If Lovin You Is Wrong, are all also standout tracks on this record. Very nice way to start off their collection! I’m proud to have been a follower of Faithless from the beginning, and Reverence started me off the way a Faithless fan should.
Sunday 8 PM is another Faithless classic. The cover is also amazing, that of Faithless venue/gig entrance. First released in 1998, Sunday 8 PM includes an incredible instrumental to start things off right, The Garden. While Why Go? Is an incredible track, God Is A DJ is perhaps their biggest hit here. Bring My Family Back is also classic Faithless. It may not have as classic Faithless tracks as their debut got, but Sunday 8 PM was definitely a step in the right direction!
Outrospective was released three years later in 2001, which contains probably my favorite Faithless track ever, We Come 1. To see that live would have been insane. One Step Too Far was a nice addition with Dido on the vocals as well. Tarantula is classic Faithless. Muhammad Ali always struck me as a little odd for Faithless, being more reggae sounding, but it still holds its own on this album. Maybe not my favorite Faithless album, but it’s still Faithless, and still kicks ass.
Before The Dance came out, No Roots was my all time favorite Faithless CD. Released in 2004, it includes I Want More, Miss U Less See U More, Everything Will Be All Right Tomorrow, and No Roots. As usual, Dido makes an appearance. The thing that struck me as genius about this album is the fact that they developed it to be more lyrical in the beginning and turning into more instrumental towards the end, and it works wonderfully.
Unfortunately in 2006, Faithless released the worst album in their career, To All New Arrivals. Perhaps this was the sign of an end to come soon, and it seemed as an afterthought after just having released a best of disc as well. The only good track worth mentioning is Music Matters. It was sad but true, Faithless had hit their rut, and hard, such a bad CD I couldn’t even listen to the whole thing and to this day I don’t think I ever will. I’m glad they have a saving grace on this CD though, Music Matters is indeed a great track if nothing else. It’s also where the lyrics come from that are featured on my blog page. :)
When Faithless released The Dance in 2010, it was a masterpiece. I wasn’t too upset to hear that they were splitting up after hearing The Dance. Yeah, it sucks I won’t get to see them live (I guess there’s always Faithless Soundsystem, what’s left of Faithless touring now), but The Dance is absolutely perfect in every way. Starting off with Not Going Home, and Feel Me being my favorite track, then the reggae sounding Crazy Bal’Heads. Tweak Your Nipple is classic Faithless, North Star features Dido again, and Sun To Me closes it out perfectly. I’m glad to have followed Faithless from the beginning, and I’m proud to own The Dance, having special ordered it online all the way from across the waters since it was only available in the UK.
You can’t go wrong with Faithless, but if there’s one CD I suggest you start out with…. Do yourself a favor and check out The Dance. Then backtrack and check out everything else.
It’s okay that you’re a Yankees fan Maxi Jazz…. I still love ya!
After all,
You told me that music matters.
P.S. It was cool chatting with Sister Bliss online the day you randomly held a contest online to see who would ask the most intriguing question. I think the question ended up being “which song makes you cry” or something of the sort, but the reward was for festival tickets in the UK anyway. Ah, good times!
- Dan Golden, June 2011 (email any comments to [email protected])
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