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Afro-American Express, 2004Part of Hank Willis Thomas’s Branded series.
Via Bezembinder.

Originally from we make money not art [...]

Cory Doctorow:

Sticker Nation: The Big Book of Subversive Stickers Volume 1 is a new book from Srini Kumar and Disinformation. Srini is the creator of Unamerican.com whose stickers (i.e., I WORSHIP SATAN HA HA HA and BOY DOES HIGH SCHOOL EVER SUCK) are classic Internet schwag. Srini is incredibly prolific, coming up with sticker designs at a prodigious rate — he also operates Sticker Nation, where you can roll your own Unamerican-style stickers.

The book is something I’ve never seen before: 400+ vinyl paper bumper stickers, in sheets, in alphabetical order, bound in a big trade paperback. You get hundreds of Unamerican stickers for $15, ready to peel and stick (along with the hilarious back-cover disclaimer: “Please don’t sticker up public spaces or other people’s property without permission. Use this book with respect for other people’s property or you might get into trouble. We are not going to be held liable for your zany vandalism schemes and you are not a freak property damage robot. Use this book correctly for maximum effect. Thanks for reading, we’re on your side.”)

The Volume 1 in the title suggests that there are more editions to come — I eagerly await them. However, I’d prefer if future editions contained some sheets of small stickers, appropriately sized for laptops, phones, etc — how many bumpers does the average stickerer own?

Link

See also:
New book on kooky counterculture stickers by Srini Kumar

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from Boing Boing

by Cory Doctorow

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on Mar 21, 2007, 5:04PM

Cory Doctorow:

Foldschool has a handful of downloadable PDF patterns for foldable, functional kid-sized furniture: a chair, a stool and a rocker.

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(via Craft)

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from Boing Boing

by Cory Doctorow

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on Mar 21, 2007, 9:24PM

Originally
from Culture Jamming IMA

by Laura Chipley

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on Dec 22, 2006, 2:08PM

It’s been five years, but Troy, NY was the birthplace of Whirl-Mart. Prompted by a call for foolishness on April Fool’s Day, Andrew Lynn came up with the idea: a group of strangers enter a superstore at a predetermined time and silently walk through the store pushing empty carts. Through this “ritual of [...]

Status Corp’s Commoddities inspired me to make my very own status symbol. In Adbuster’s mashup style, I used the Louis Vuitton logo as the decoration. Ironically, folding it left me wishing for a bigger Bummer-it was hard for me to fold on such a small scale. Next time, I’ll blow it up [...]

Cory Doctorow:

Guatam Rao has produced some whimsical oil paintings showing magnified, impressionistic elements of MacOS X’s GUI (like this detail from the Safari interface). Quite lovely!

Link, Link, Link
(Thanks, Gautam!)

Originally
from Boing Boing

by Cory Doctorow

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on May 12, 2006, 7:14AM

Cory Doctorow:
Here’s a video of Mark Hosler of the illegal art band Negativland giving his views on the copyfight.

“You don’t get total control.” Mark Hosler is a founding member of sound collage pioneers Negativland. He talks about their role in creating the Creative Commons sampling license, and about copyright + culture in general. He says Creative Commons is the Sierra Club of intellectual property, and Negativland is more like Earth First!.

Mark is in Minneapolis for the opening of “Negativlandland” which is touring the country. Here’s another video of Mark from the same visit where he talks about the ubiquity of online video and their famous connection to a Minnesota axe murderer.

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(Thanks, Chuck!)

Originally
from Boing Boing

by Cory Doctorow

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by the status corporation

on May 13, 2006, 6:13PM

Prudhoe Bay Proper 007
Originally uploaded by felispardalis.
Ok so in the remotest parts of the world the mighty powers of shittyness continue their conquest and maintain that they are not wreaking havock. This is terrifying.

Please take care this summer.

Originally
from Ads of the World - Advertising Archive & Community

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on May 12, 2006, 3:26PM