WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY?

"What Would Jesus Buy?" a documentary about New York anti-globalism-performance artist-activist Reverend Billy comes out in theaters today. Trailer is here.

I had the pleasure of experiencing Reverend Billy's "Service" in person at MASS MoCA a year or two ago. He is hilarious, and actually so funny in his exposing of the ridiculousness of todays giant corporate conglomerates that he is far LESS "preachy" than most "serious" anti globalists.

Also see his Starbucks protest in this Youtube Clip:

Elliott Earls updates

Some updates from the studio of Elliott Earls, artist-in-residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art's 2D Design Department.



Elliott Earles: "On thursday evening I gave a lecture at The Wolfsonian Museum as part of their exhibition on the work of John Heartfield. My lecture used the work of Heartfield as a kind of foil against which we can begin to understand a more powerful role for the contemporary graphic designer. In the lecture I primarily used the work of Heartfield as a way of attempting to place my own work within an historical context and to provide it a cohesive conceptual framework. To radically simplify the lecture, initially I pit John Heartfield against Paul Rand1 (Lord Vader) and discuss the goals of the post world war one avant-garde. In the lecture, I frame my own work in terms of the spirit of oppositional cultural practice exemplified by Heartfield – and by extension El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko et al.
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From Bull and Wounded Horse.