Why don't I know Tatsumi Orimoto!!!!!!

Performance Artist Tatsumi Orimoto, better known as 'Bread Man', 71 years old and still performing. Last month in Hiroshima, an 'All bread matters' protest. It looks cool!

"In the early 70s Orimoto spent time in New York working as Nam June Paik’s assistant and taking part in the Fluxus movement and the performance art pieces of John Cage, Yoko Ono and Joseph Beuys. Around 1991 a defining moment for Orimoto occurred when he learned that in the Bible ‘bread means body.’ That’s what gave him the idea for Bread Man. “If Marcel Duchamp could call a toilet a fountain then bread means not food: it is sculpture.”"

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Icons For Change by the Noun Project

The power of visual language.

"Over the last 6 years, the Noun Project community has built one of the biggest repositories of visual language in the world. And visual language matters, especially in times like these. Visuals can communicate an idea in a blink of an eye. They are memorable and often universal–and thus they can become iconic representations of nuanced ideas and movements."

And powerful it is. Very nice and clear protest designs. Check them out over here.

Amanda Palmer reads Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Protest poem

"To sin by silence", the first words of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's 1914 Protest Poem. Read by Amanda Palmer.

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PROTEST

To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men. The human race
Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised
Against injustice, ignorance, and lust,
The inquisition yet would serve the law,
And guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare, must speak and speak again
To right the wrongs of many. Speech, thank God,
No vested power in this great day and land
Can gag or throttle. Press and voice may cry
Loud disapproval of existing ills;
May criticise oppression and condemn
The lawlessness of wealth-protecting laws
That let the children and childbearers toil
To purchase ease for idle millionaires.

Therefore I do protest against the boast
Of independence in this mighty land.
Call no chain strong, which holds one rusted link.
Call no land free, that holds one fettered slave.
Until the manacled slim wrists of babes
Are loosed to toss in childish sport and glee,
Until the mother bears no burden, save
The precious one beneath her heart, until
God’s soil is rescued from the clutch of greed
And given back to labor, let no man
Call this the land of freedom.

Shepard Fairey’s Inauguration graphics

'We The People' by Shepard 'Obey' Fairey. For printing and distributing Amplifier Foundation created a Kickstarter project. And there is very good news:

$806,547
pledged of $60,000 goal
12,540 backers
3 days to go

at this moment, and still more people join. Congratulations!

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Shoot portraits, not people

Photography hardware disguised as weapons. Shoot portraits, not people. A project by photographer Jason Siegel. I guess it takes a lot of paperwork to get this show on a travel around the world.

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Shoot Portraits Not People | A Jason Siegel Project from JASON SIEGEL on Vimeo.

I like these anti-Trump protests

'Not this white woman', launched by 2 advertising creatives Michelle Hirschberg and Karen Land Short. Shirts for 47% of the white woman who didn't vote for Trump. All profits will be donated to Planned Parenthood.

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And this is so good. Comedian Scott Rogowsky is casualy reading fake Trump books on the subway. It's part of the project 'Taking fake books on the subway'.

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Photoshop - All-In-One Beauty

‘Beauty Is Only Pixel Deep’ by photography student Anna Hill. A mock Photoshop campaign. I love it. Immortalize your beauty ...

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Banksy's Protest Against The Meat Industry

Banksy is in NY, creating street art, video's and performances. This is Sirens Of The Lambs, a protest against the meat industry.

Banksy's Anti-BP Dolphin Ride

Cool! An eductional kiddy ride by Banksy.

George Orwell’s Birthday Party

Dutch artists decorate surveillance cameras with party hats for George Orwell’s 110th birthday.

"On tuesday the 25th of June, to celebrate the 110th birthday of George Orwell, surveillance cameras in the center of the city of Utrecht were decorated with colorful party hats! George Orwell is best known for his book ‘1984’, in which he describes a dystopian future society where the populace is constantly watched by the surveillance state of Big Brother. By putting these happy party hats on the surveillance cameras we don’t just celebrate Orwell’s birthday. By making these inconspicuous cameras that we ignore in our daily lives catch the eye again we also create awareness of how many cameras really watch us nowadays, and that the surveillance state described by Orwell is getting closer and closer to reality."

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Requiem 2019 - Stop Whaling

Beautiful short film Requiem 2019 starring Rutger Hauer, directed by Rutger Hauer & Sil van der Woerd. A must see and a must share!

The last remaining blue whale comes eye to eye with its only enemy; mankind.

Requiem 2019 from Sil van der Woerd on Vimeo.

The Truth About Soda

The Real Bears is the unhappy truth about soda.

It wasn't so bad when soft drinks were the occasional treat. But now sugary drinks are the number one source of calories in the American diet. With one third of America overweight and another third obese, it's a wonder anyone is still swallowing what the soda companies are selling.

Big soda companies have billions of dollars to tell their story, but we have each other. Oh, and we have the truth. Help The Real Bears spread the truth about soda by sharing the film.

Chocolate Mill

Nom nom nom ...

"dutch designers at studio wieki somers have combined forces with chocolatier rafael mutter to create ‘chocolate mill’. shown as part of the confrontations exhibition at the vitra design museum, the project celebrates a global weakness, the sweet tooth. delicate rosettes are shaved off a cylindrical block of the cocoa-based confection, which is made up of a mixture of flavors, using a crank-turned blade. from this, a topography of various patterns integrated within the candy slowly emerge, creating a flip-book effect as the layers are scraped off."

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Chocolate Mill from Wieki Somers on Vimeo.

Plan B 'Ill Manors'

Ben Drew, aka Plan B, takes to the streets of riot-torn London and turns his ire on the UK's political establishment and its treatment of the poorer parts of the country.

Glenn Beck’s Response To Anonymous

Perhaps true, perhaps a spoof.

Darkness has been creeping across the country for far too long while we sat idly by. The time for being asleep and silent is over. It's time to rebuild our families, communities, cities, states, and our country. It's time to spread the light. Expect Us

Blackout

Jonathan Auch Photographs The 99%

Jonathan Auch is a freelance photojournalist based in New York. He travels all around the world under extreme conditions to deliver through newspapers and magazines pictures of the world’s news. Here you will find this series on a day of action of anonymous who “Occupy Wall Street” these last days of November and December. Poignant pictures that shows the investment of these “anonymous”, of these 1%, who fight for a fairer society.

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Anti SOPA Rap

Sopa Cabana by Dan Bull. An anti SOPA rap.

"Regarding the video: I first suggested the idea of collaborating on a SOPA track on Twitter a couple of days ago, asking for help with themes and lyrics. After I finished writing the song, I put a post on my Facebook wall asking people to take photographs of themselves presenting lines from the song. The response was phenomenal, and I ended up with far more volunteers than I could include in the video. People from all around the world wanted to share in the creative process, for free, and to me that demonstrates the best of what the internet is about. Regarding SOPA: As an internet geek, a musician, and a non-evil person, SOPA is abhorrent on three fronts."

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Anonymous' LulzXmas

Review of the year + more by Anonymous

Kill Comic Sans

Another website against the font Comic Sans (which I don't like either). This is fun, just kill it.

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