Street stencil: "The new land barons ride fixies"
Thanks to Chris (shoes above) for this photo and his memorable visit! Thanks to Kabu for her appearance. This stencil is on Valencia Street, the ground zero of San Francisco fixie culture, in front of Lost Weekend video. Spatial fix: see Arrighi; Harvey.
The Ivy Plus Society. TIPS, for short. Just couldn’t resist posting this announcement of an event that invited elite grads to cavort and frolic in the very womb of underprivilege, San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.
Slummin’ it with twelve dollar cocktails, while your own privilege gets accentuated by the contrast with the grimy misery all around. Check this out:
Luis sent new images to follow the progress of his Bhutto collages seen here last week. I also noticed one site that kindly linked to that post and called these collages “puzzles.” That word is very appropriate. As I was mentioning before, these works ask the viewer to try to follow a complex chain of causality; to try to piece together the true moments of U.S. power and influence. Continue reading
As “they” say, ‘you can’t compare apples to oranges,’ but that’s just one of the ways that the pesky hegemons block contrarian thinking. (FYI: my browser’s spell check claims that “hegemons” and “contrarian” are misspelled. Go figure). The promise I made myself was to keep these notes short, almost like text messages, …almost. So here goes. If a bunch of architects stay up all week and come up with great ideas about some future city scenarios, does not the winner deserve more than 10k? My point is this: while writers are on strike in Hollywood, here we are producing online and multimedia content for next to nothing in exchange, or are fictional cities not the realm of Hollywood fantasy? Wait, how much do the Survivor winners get?
