the status corp

Interesting article about the myth of American women opting out of the workforce to stay home to raise families. Most of the stories focus on white, married, upper-class women with high-earning husbands, maternity leaves are getting shorter, and bias and inflexibility in the workplace forces many women to “choose” to stay at home with the family. “The American idea of mothering is left over from the 1950s, that odd moment in history when America’s unrivaled economic power enabled a single breadwinner to support an entire family. Fifty years later we still have the idea that a mother, and not a father, should be available to her child at every moment.” (link)

Originally
from kottke.org

reBlogged

by the status corporation

on Mar 22, 2007, 9:46PM

Xeni Jardin:

Here is a series of ads from Amnesty International (in Spanish) asking why prolific American serial killers such as John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy and Pee Wee Gaskins received due process, but Guantánamo detainees have not. All three ads are made to look as if they were written in blood.

Originally
from Boing Boing

by Xeni Jardin

reBlogged

by the status corporation

on Mar 16, 2007, 7:45PM

this ad seems like a culture jam, but it’s an actual ad from the NY times website!

Originally
from Culture Jamming IMA

by snw

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by the status corporation

on Dec 2, 2006, 12:53AM

Dear subscribers, blog readers, and friends: After over a decade of running Stay Free!, I’m sad to say that I’ve decided to stop publishing the magazine. We’re going to do one more issue and then publish more-or-less exclusively on the web. There are a number of reasons, but the over-arching theme is burnout — burnout coupled with financial woes. Selling ads has gotten all but impossible. Indie record labels and small book publishers — our bread-and-butter — are in the toilet. Ditto newsstand sales. No one goes to book stores looking for zines anymore; the nerds are all online. And…

Originally
from Stay Free! Daily

by Carrie McLaren

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by the status corporation

on Mar 9, 2007, 9:16PM

I recently had the greatest night of Texas Style drinks with the Eyebeam fellows. Steve Lambert introduced me to his project Anti-Advertising Agency - and I am an instant fan/supporter/hopeful future collaborator! A great resource, inspiring projects and smart commentary. I know I’ve already added the feed….

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.

Link

(Thanks, Chuck!)

Originally
from Boing Boing

by Cory Doctorow

reBlogged

by the status corporation

on May 13, 2006, 6:13PM

We could all use a bit more stenciling in our jamming!

Converting a color photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop.
Make a stencil at the Stencil Revolution.

This dutch site gathers non-profit advertisments and different worldwide social campaigns. Some of these are all too familiar and some are just plain genius.

Bruce Ratner is on a campaign to convince Brooklynites that moving their neighbors out and changing the neighborhood is fun. New flyers went out in the threatened areas that make everyone throw up in their mouths a little.

The Ministry of Reshelving wants to move Orwell’s 1984 to the Non-Fiction section at your local bookstore. Help ‘em out. There are downloads to do this at your home.