MAD SHIT TO LOOK AT

groucho on what's my line?

2012-01-16T09:11:00.000-08:00

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2011-11-30T14:22:00.000-08:00

# nov 30

2011-11-29T14:19:00.000-08:00

skeleton dance

2011-09-17T04:14:00.000-07:00

more cats

2011-09-16T04:12:00.000-07:00

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2011-09-15T04:09:00.000-07:00

the filter bubble

2011-09-14T04:09:00.001-07:00

Elephant

2011-09-12T16:12:00.000-07:00

memory

2011-09-08T16:46:00.000-07:00

kellogg question

2011-09-07T16:45:00.000-07:00

peckham

2011-09-06T16:44:00.000-07:00

impington village college

2011-09-05T16:44:00.000-07:00

jumping

2011-09-04T16:43:00.000-07:00

twin towers

2011-09-03T16:37:00.000-07:00

funeral of enrico berlinguer

2011-09-02T16:33:00.000-07:00

student anarchy

2011-07-17T19:04:00.000-07:00

drawings

2011-07-16T19:01:00.000-07:00

23 today

2011-07-15T02:00:00.000-07:00

....................

2011-07-14T18:52:00.000-07:00

tour de france

2011-07-13T18:49:00.000-07:00

a couple of timely tour de france films. the fantastic 'Vive Le Tour' by Louis Malle

and the classic 'A Sunday In Hell' by Jorgen Leth (that bloke from the Five Obstructions with Von Trier)

design for a biscuit

2011-07-10T10:32:00.000-07:00

DSK

2011-07-05T14:13:00.000-07:00

this is long but very very worth watching.

reverse psychology

2011-06-30T10:45:00.000-07:00

pingu

2011-06-29T10:44:00.000-07:00

lion king

2011-06-28T10:40:00.000-07:00

tornado

2011-06-23T16:21:00.000-07:00

Turf Feinz

2011-06-22T09:55:00.000-07:00

Have you ever had a dream...

2011-06-21T09:54:00.000-07:00

Claire Fontaine II

2011-06-20T09:54:00.000-07:00

Iron

2011-06-19T09:53:00.000-07:00

Si Je Chante

2011-06-18T09:52:00.000-07:00

cyborg cellist

2011-06-17T09:50:00.000-07:00

claire fontaine

2011-06-09T12:25:00.000-07:00

dublin lockout

2011-06-08T12:23:00.000-07:00

POUM

2011-06-07T12:23:00.000-07:00

BIEBER FEVER

2011-06-06T12:20:00.000-07:00

outpunk

2011-05-16T08:32:00.001-07:00

Joey Ramones Mum

2011-05-12T03:06:00.000-07:00

captain america + - "tolerance"

2011-05-11T12:03:00.001-07:00

the partisan

2011-05-08T18:22:00.000-07:00

ezln

2011-05-07T18:40:00.000-07:00

freddie

2011-05-06T18:34:00.000-07:00

sartre-cat

2011-05-05T02:58:00.000-07:00

fun fun fun fun looking forward to the weekend

2011-04-20T15:59:00.000-07:00

555

2011-04-19T15:56:00.000-07:00

666

2011-04-18T15:51:00.000-07:00

Baldwin's Nigger

2011-04-17T15:49:00.000-07:00

Baldwins Nigger_Title_02_02 by BFIfilms

what are you doing back there?

2011-04-16T12:06:00.000-07:00

a parent's guide to the cults

2011-04-15T12:05:00.000-07:00

the victim

2011-04-14T12:03:00.000-07:00

beautiful cover design

Anarcho Syndicalist Youth

2011-04-13T12:03:00.000-07:00

the drawing room

2011-04-12T12:01:00.000-07:00

flo absolutely killing it

lucia/rachel

2011-04-11T11:49:00.000-07:00

parachutes

2011-04-10T11:47:00.000-07:00

the dream

2011-03-31T04:32:00.001-07:00

fade

2011-03-28T18:04:00.000-07:00

T O U C H I N G

2011-03-27T18:02:00.000-07:00

shot down

2011-03-26T17:56:00.000-07:00

Comprehensive Celebrity List (google maps edition)

2011-03-25T17:53:00.000-07:00

View Comprehensive Celebrity Map in a larger map

ever wondered the individual location of my every celeb spot since the 12th of September 2007? well it's your lucky day

exposa

2011-01-10T16:07:00.000-08:00

Неадекват в Ставрополе

2011-01-09T16:06:00.000-08:00

from the hips

2011-01-08T16:04:00.000-08:00

come again

2011-01-07T16:03:00.000-08:00

TEN YEARS

2011-01-06T15:59:00.000-08:00

LAST YEARS RESOLUTIONS

2011-01-01T18:02:00.000-08:00

- Get job
- Volunteer at Lewisham Refugee Action
- Leave the country
- Apply myself (try and get a first)
- Have at least one practise with a band

RESOLUTIONS ACHIEVED : NIL

MRRY CHRSTMS

2010-12-24T16:10:00.000-08:00

Voina

2010-12-23T14:05:00.000-08:00

jumping on the bandwagon/tipping the bandwagon over

cafes

2010-12-11T17:46:00.001-08:00

false jesii

2010-12-09T08:01:00.000-08:00

"man has an accident"

2010-12-08T08:00:00.000-08:00

how about some hardcore

2010-12-07T07:59:00.000-08:00

nineties at it's pinnacle

2010-12-06T07:59:00.000-08:00

UNDER MI SLENG TENG

2010-12-05T07:57:00.000-08:00

aggravating

2010-12-04T16:43:00.000-08:00

saw this sticker while browsing ebay for christmas presents and for some reason found it infuriating. then tried to figure out why I found it so frustrating. i've come up with the following reasons.

1. general smugness to apathy ratio.
the point is that the neoliberal/capitalist machine will inevitably create the next war once the current one (or two, or four, etc) have run their course, so the sticker you put on your car (avoiding the crass accusation or pointing out of the relationship between oil supply and foreign policy) is a statement that you are aware of this, and not fooled by the various reasonings given for any particular war. the annoyance comes in at the seeming abandonment of responsibility. you're voicing opposition, but also accepting the inevitability of the next war and therefore to a certain extent confirming that there is no possible force of resistance to "the next war"

2. lack of imagination from the left
the crux of my annoyance is therefore that this fictional person who buys this sticker and puts it on their car is effectively giving up, it's an admission that this is the way and that all you can do is voice your opposition in the least effective way possible. i recently went to a talk by Michael Albert in which he brutally laid out the fundamental problems with the left at this point in time. one of the main points was that 'we' don't believe we can win on anything. we're constantly resigned to never expecting victory, and this effects every part of organisation. if you don't think you can win how do you ever expect to? the point he made and that I agree with, is that much of what is done is merely making you feel better, like at least you gave it a shot, to appease your conscience rather than bring about any meaningful social change. the left is stagnant and the result is stickers like this. you put it on your car and feel better and maybe even think you're 'sticking it to the man', but really you just sleep better at night while being complicit in allowing the next war to formulate.

#generalpoorlyformedinitialthoughts

metinides.

2010-12-03T16:40:00.000-08:00

ben shahn

2010-12-02T15:27:00.000-08:00

really beautiful illustration and painting by Ben Shahn, one of those whose work I've unconsciously picked out (see above) and only recently linked up and put a name too. bridging the gap between thoughtful, conceptual work in commercial settings and politically and socially engaged projects - for example his series on sacco & vanzetti + links with diego riviera etc. great guy

negs

2010-11-25T17:22:00.000-08:00

"We have a method for the destruction of work. We are in search of a positive measure of non-work, a measure of our liberation from that disgusting slavery from which the bosses have always profited, and which the official socialist movement has always imposed on us like some sort of title of nobility. No, we really cannot call ourselves ‘socialists’, for we can no longer accept your disgrace. At long last, we are all bastards. And that most venerable man which I did call my father, was I know not where when I was stamp’d"

greco franco

2010-11-24T15:49:00.000-08:00

slav

2010-11-23T17:21:00.000-08:00

Violence Revisited - Slavoj Zizek

worst

2010-11-22T17:17:00.000-08:00

hpy bday alx brwn

2010-10-28T07:42:00.000-07:00

St. John Philby

2010-10-18T09:14:00.000-07:00

St. John Philby, also known as Sheikh Abdullah, father of Kim Philby, the renowned MI6 double agent who also worked for Stalin. Kim Philby was a life long communist and friend of Graham Greene, it was he who extended the invitation to Greene to become an agent himself.

St. John Philby spent most of his life in the middle east, working for the British first in Baghdad, then Mecca, Palestine and what was to become Saudi Arabia. He then converted to Islam and worked for the new king of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud. He was officially no longer working for the Secret Service in Palestine, both due to his working for Saud and a differing of opinion on his allowance of Jewish immigration to Palestine. However he still worked for the British Secret Service and received a salary for a further 5 years.

In 1939 he proposed the Philby Plan to Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann, the head of the Zionist movement. It offered substantial Jewish immigration to Palestine in exchange for their support for Ibn Saud's son Faisal as King of Palestine. It was also proposed that they pay Saud £20 million to re-settle Palestinian Arabs. It was accepted but not acted upon. When questioned by President Roosevelt, Saud was offended at the suggestion he could be bribed.

Meanwhile, Philby had briefly returned to London to stand for parliament for the far-right British People's Party, headed by ex-British Union of Fascists member John Beckett. He lost, and was arrested for being a suspected Nazi-sympathiser. His friend John Maynard Keynes intervened and he was released seven months after his arrest.

After the war he returned to Arabia and at the age of sixty he purchased his second wife, a 16-year-old girl, from the slave market at Taif, about forty miles south of Mecca.

In 1960, on a visit to his son Kim in Beirut, while in bed at his side, he said "God, I'm bored" and died.

the power and the glory

2010-10-17T09:04:00.000-07:00

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"In 1953 the Holy Office informed Greene that The Power and the Glory was damaging to the reputation of the priesthood; but later, in a private audience with Greene, Pope Paul VI told him that, although parts of his novels would offend some Catholics, he should not pay attention to the criticism"

Francis Sedlak

2010-10-16T02:47:00.000-07:00

"Wanting to post an article he'd written, 'My Military Experience', he realised he could not bring himself to lick the back of a stamp bearing a portrait of Queen Victoria and support the government-run postal service, so he set out to walk to London and deliver his article by hand, but "the weather was very cold with heavy snow and he was clad only in thin clothes with no shoes. Not surprisingly he was forced to turn back"
~ from the back cover of Designs for Anarchist Postage Stamps by Clifford Harper.

absolutely batshit

2010-10-15T02:45:00.000-07:00

~found in a card shop on the strand. i cannot even begin to understand what on earth this card means, let alone how it was designed, approved, produced and distributed in the first place.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

swoon

2010-10-14T02:40:00.000-07:00

from the source; "Vladimir Putin's grandfather was a chef who cooked for Rasputin and later Lenin and Stalin"

Speed Levitch: The New York City "Grid Plan"

2010-10-13T02:40:00.000-07:00

st. james infirmary

2010-10-09T15:26:00.000-07:00

one time

2010-10-08T17:01:00.000-07:00

you got me

2010-10-07T17:01:00.000-07:00

clutching at straws

2010-10-06T16:52:00.000-07:00

harold pinter's nobel prize speech

2010-09-27T17:11:00.000-07:00

i hope this is true

2010-09-24T07:24:00.000-07:00

Who Was Peter The Painter? from Siege Memory on Vimeo.

Shit gets wild after the rant

2010-09-23T04:50:00.000-07:00

mayer

2010-09-20T04:01:00.000-07:00

you can dance to rock n roll

2010-09-17T05:38:00.000-07:00

big takeover

2010-09-07T15:54:00.001-07:00

roberts pits

2010-09-06T09:21:00.000-07:00

pet seal

2010-09-05T09:20:00.001-07:00

Et la guerre est à peine commencée

2010-08-29T07:41:00.000-07:00