Wednesday August 20, 2008 at 13:48

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meganallison: emptyage: Gold Medalist Shawn Johnson’s peace earrings are, I think, a sure sign of thechanging times. There would have been all kinds of noise about this in2004. Anyway, the point of this reblog was that I hope that her peace earrings and her peace sign flashes really indicate some kind of sea-change on the part of the American public; that it’s a signal that even in the Breadbasket and the Bible Belt the “regular” people are sick enough of the hypocrisy of conservatism, the abuses of justice, et. al, that they’re tolerating this overt televised statement-making. But I dunno. I guess I’m not convinced it’s that frought with meaning. (snipped) Maybe I’m overanalyzing this and maybe because I’ve lived in the Haight Ashbury most of my adult life I have a knee-jerk “you don’t know what you’re talking about” reaction to anyone attempting to fly the hippie flag, but I’m inclined to see this whole peace sign thing as superficial. Or if a statement, a partly unwitting one. Whether or not she was making a willful statement (And I tend to think she had to be making one. What, she’s not going to think about what she’s wearing on a massive  primetime, nationalyl televised interview?) what I find interesting is that these earrings passed without comment from the Fox News crowd conserva-blogs. Whether or not she meant it as a political or fashion statement, I think four years ago there would have been a lot of blowback.

meganallison:

emptyage:

Gold Medalist Shawn Johnson’s peace earrings are, I think, a sure sign of the
changing times. There would have been all kinds of noise about this in
2004.

Anyway, the point of this reblog was that I hope that her peace earrings and her peace sign flashes really indicate some kind of sea-change on the part of the American public; that it’s a signal that even in the Breadbasket and the Bible Belt the “regular” people are sick enough of the hypocrisy of conservatism, the abuses of justice, et. al, that they’re tolerating this overt televised statement-making. But I dunno. I guess I’m not convinced it’s that frought with meaning.

(snipped)

Maybe I’m overanalyzing this and maybe because I’ve lived in the Haight Ashbury most of my adult life I have a knee-jerk “you don’t know what you’re talking about” reaction to anyone attempting to fly the hippie flag, but I’m inclined to see this whole peace sign thing as superficial. Or if a statement, a partly unwitting one.

Whether or not she was making a willful statement (And I tend to think she had to be making one. What, she’s not going to think about what she’s wearing on a massive  primetime, nationalyl televised interview?) what I find interesting is that these earrings passed without comment from the Fox News crowd conserva-blogs. Whether or not she meant it as a political or fashion statement, I think four years ago there would have been a lot of blowback.

This post was reblogged from guerrilla curatorship.

Wednesday August 20, 2008 at 12:04

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Omar Lee’s work appears to have been stolen by Premise Marketing: I’ll keep the story short. A few months ago, at the behest of someone I went to school with, I agreed to do some illustration work for a social networking site being built by these guys. I normally don’t take on freelance work outside of what my rep finds for me but, for some reason, I relaxed my policy for this job. What can I say? My art school chum was a nice guy. I didn’t think he’d steer me wrong. My mistake. I bid on the job (a set of 9 illustrations), they agreed, and I sent in some initial concepts. They weren’t happy with the direction, so I agreed to take another run at it. This time, I only took one illustration to final as a sample. Gregg, my contact at Premise Marketing, promptly disappeared. I was actually relieved because I didn’t really want to do the job for a number of reasons but imagine my surprise when I found the site recently and discovered that some of my work had been altered and re-purposed. No, they did not pay me. Not a kill fee, not a portion of it, not anything. Nice job, Premise. Oh, look: they have a Flickr account. I don’t see how people expect to get away with that in this day and age. I mean, have they not heard of the Internet? (via Omar Lee)

Omar Lee’s work appears to have been stolen by Premise Marketing:

I’ll keep the story short. A few months ago, at the behest of someone I went to school with, I agreed to do some illustration work for a social networking site being built by these guys. I normally don’t take on freelance work outside of what my rep finds for me but, for some reason, I relaxed my policy for this job. What can I say? My art school chum was a nice guy. I didn’t think he’d steer me wrong. My mistake. I bid on the job (a set of 9 illustrations), they agreed, and I sent in some initial concepts. They weren’t happy with the direction, so I agreed to take another run at it. This time, I only took one illustration to final as a sample. Gregg, my contact at Premise Marketing, promptly disappeared. I was actually relieved because I didn’t really want to do the job for a number of reasons but imagine my surprise when I found the site recently and discovered that some of my work had been altered and re-purposed. No, they did not pay me. Not a kill fee, not a portion of it, not anything. Nice job, Premise. Oh, look: they have a Flickr account.

I don’t see how people expect to get away with that in this day and age. I mean, have they not heard of the Internet? (via Omar Lee)

Wednesday August 20, 2008 at 9:39

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Gold Medalist Shawn Johnson’s peace earrings are, I think, a sure sign of thechanging times. There would have been all kinds of noise about this in2004.
Gold Medalist Shawn Johnson’s peace earrings are, I think, a sure sign of the
changing times. There would have been all kinds of noise about this in
2004.

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