These are blankets, laid all over the place, by Sally Ann in Boston, the hungry take these, wrap them in these blankets, and because we have been trained to notice text, force the complacent to watch them...brilliant


Damian Scott has an issue of Solo next month, and his combo of super hero porn, outsider rawness, and street art smarts make the most exciting pervert suit imagery ive seen in months--here is a link to his wonder woman:

it might not work

and here is a link to his monkey:

big green monkey
markers!1

Anything marked the Postmodern Bible means i will buy it--but this catalog copy:
ou probably have a Bible in your house, whether you're interested in the stuff on its crinkly pages or not. We all have Bibles - believers and non-believers, conservatives and liberals, carnivores and vegans, gas guzzlers and hybrid fans - because the Good Book is, by far, the most owned book of all time. And probably the least read. Admit it, you've heard all the stories about Noah (ark) and Jonah (whale) and Baby Jesus (manger), but that's about it, right?

Still, the Bible shows up everywhere in our culture. In our language, our law, our entertainment, and especially our art. From Michelangelo to Rembrandt to Keith Haring, artists the world over have applied their vision to all kinds of biblical passages and themes, bringing ancient words to life. In this project, that tradition continues. Some of the best illustrators and designers in the world contribute their interpretations of those familiar passages we often take for granted. The results are striking, risk-taking, illuminating. Inside, along with the illustrations, you'll also find brief insights by the artists themselves about the subject matter. More than a work of art, Postmodern Bible Stories is also a spiritual conversation. This is Scripture like you've never seen it before.

made me feel really excited about Realvent's book, abstract, complicated, holy, and truly about illuminating the text, you can find samplepages in a pdf on the publishers website...buy this. (esp noted is Marc Sgarssas almost tender and gentle abstraction of noahs flood, Jeff Prasfiks text peirced collage of the destruction of babel, and a Chris Kosle picture of Jacob fighting the angel, that is one of the first to show how fucking destructive, violent and opressive that act was, and Matt Currys decalouge

10 images from the street, at the death of Moses Tennbauam, an important Hasidic Rebbe...here The full story of the implications (violent hasidic street fights, 500 million dollars in property, major estates in Brooklyn, a largish town on long island, settlements in London, Amsterdam, and Montreal, two sons, both with legit claims to be the next Rebbe, and a tangled web of governmental, proto ngos, and other suppourt services, the shit is offically hitting the fan, the new york magazine peice that sort of explains the mess is here (the article is well worth reading, for its wisdom, and its ability to explain to all sides...the pictures are from the day of the funeral, and are amazing for the sheer number of people, and the oddity of cellphone/blackberry presence while people are still fighting about the ezum


From AP--Here is their text: House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Ill, center, gets out of a Hydrogen Alternative Fueled automobile, left, as he prepares to board his SUV, which uses gasoline, after holding a new conference at a local gas station in Washington on Thursday. Hastert and other members of Congress drove off in the Hydrogen-Fueled cars only to switch to their official cars to drive back the few block back to the U.S. Capitol.

Bush is comparing his little adventure in iraq to WWIII, here is an image from The Roosevelt (useless/imperial/violent/obscene/choose other word) little adventure from the phillipines, almost 100 years earlier, March 5 1906: (the picture indcludes women and children, sometimes infants at breast)



(you guys can find similar images from the united fruit wars, the various mexican wars, the indian wars, the wars in korea, vietnam and elsewhere in indochina before it was called vietnam, any of a number of wwi messes, the bombings of tokyo and dresden in wwii, my lai when it was called vietnam, etc etc)

and on that note of state based hatred, here are some SI slogans, and some posters
(Every day i am reminded that we need more SI in our lives--this time its the far right rise in Poland, including one or two genuinely fascist parties winning seats, and the BNP (read nazis) mainstreaming sort of working, doubling the council seats in England, including 13 in a london borough mostly made of Muslim Immigrants)

remind me to write about going to church with gerard, charismatic catholics, faith healing, social justice and evangelism tomorrow