{"id":12539,"date":"2007-11-02T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T09:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/11\/illustrations-with-bite.html"},"modified":"2007-11-02T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T09:49:08","slug":"illustrations_with_bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/02\/illustrations_with_bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrations with bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running across examples of illustration designed to shake things up &amp; reflect on the world, for better &amp; for worse: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Note: Not for those offended by profanity]&#160; Paul Krassner&#8217;s 1963 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ep.tc\/realist\/fuckcommunism\/\">F Communism&#8221; bumper sticker<\/a> is a an incredibly efficient little satire of politics and obscenity.&#160; Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulkrassner.com\/vonnegut.htm\">Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s commentary<\/a> on the work for historical context.<\/li>\n<li>On war &amp; walls:\n<ul>\n<li>The NYT features a piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/11\/world\/middleeast\/11murals.html?th&amp;emc=th\">Baghdad muralists<\/a> hired to beautify, or at least adorn, the city&#8217;s grim anti-suicide-bomber blast walls. <em>&#8220;With few opportunities for work, [the artists] are delighted with the money, but are also uncomfortably aware that all they can do is paint the symptoms of a conflict that has mired their city in death squads&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Elsewhere in the region, elusive British street artist Banksy has <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.guardian.co.uk\/pictures\/0,,1543331,00.html\">decorated Israeli&#8217;s security wall<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Back in this part of the world, online company Brickfish kicked off a contest to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/graphicdesignbasics.com\/2007\/design-your-portion-of-the-border-fence.html\">Design your own border fence<\/a>&#8221; for the US-Mexico frontier. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The San Jos\u00e9 Museum of Quilts &amp; Textiles (we have a museum of quilts &amp; textiles?) just concluded a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjquiltmuseum.org\/exhibitions_past.html\">show<\/a> cataloging the ways war is represented in traditional folk art. I was struck by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rugreview.com\/stuf\/afgwar.htm\">Afghan war rugs<\/a>, featuring enormous craftsmanship: &#8220;Weaponry images are rendered in extreme, accurate detail, so much so that one can distinguish between a Hind Mi-24 attack helicopter and a Hip Mi-8 troop-carrying helicopter.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Worth1000 members have fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worth1000.com\/cache\/contest\/contestcache.asp?contest_id=16643&amp;display=photoshop#entries\">subverting propaganda posters<\/a>.&#160; Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worth1000.com\/emailthis.asp?entry=404834\">giant bloody kaiser space gorillas<\/a> scare the hell out of me, too. <\/li>\n<li>In response to the Boston PD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/01\/31\/aqua-teen-hunger-force-viral-ads-cause-boston-bomb-scare\/\">flipping out<\/a> earlier this year about Lite-Brite depictions of cartoon characters, deviantART member Kalapusa has worked in the same medium with an eye towards really <a href=\"http:\/\/kalapusa.deviantart.com\/art\/Tribute-to-Boston-Authorities-47863526\">getting their goats<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/02\/01\/boston-led-terror-sc.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Persoff has dug up a creepy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ep.tc\/problems\/nineteen\/00.html\">segregationist comic from 1962<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/144418879\/george_wallace_prose.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Hagy offers concise political commentary by way of a <a href=\"http:\/\/indexed.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/around-we-go.html\">Venn diagram<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.net\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running across examples of illustration designed to shake things up &amp; reflect on the world, for better &amp; for worse: [Note: Not for those offended by profanity]&#160; Paul Krassner&#8217;s 1963 &#8220;F Communism&#8221; bumper sticker is a an incredibly efficient little satire of politics and obscenity.&#160; Check out Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s commentary on the work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}