Posts tagged Occupy Wall Street

Interview with creator of Occupy Wall Street “bat-signal” projections during Brooklyn Bridge #N17 march. - “[Video Link]. Earlier this evening, tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched throughout New York City, many making their way on to the Brooklyn Bridge, carrying LED candles and chanting. As Occupiers took the bridge in a seemingly endless sea of people, words in light appeared projected on the iconic Verizon Building nearby…”

Interview with creator of Occupy Wall Street “bat-signal” projections during Brooklyn Bridge #N17 march. - “[Video Link]. Earlier this evening, tens of thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched throughout New York City, many making their way on to the Brooklyn Bridge, carrying LED candles and chanting. As Occupiers took the bridge in a seemingly endless sea of people, words in light appeared projected on the iconic Verizon Building nearby…”

The Second Gilded Age, Has America Become an Oligarchy?

“The Occupy Wall Street movement is just one example of the sudden outbreak of tension between America’s super-rich and the “other 99 percent.” Experts now say the US has entered a second Gilded Age, but one in which hedge fund managers have replaced oil barons — and are killing the American dream.”

Occupy Wall Street Joins Art Handlers’ Protest at Sotheby’s

Excellent, yesterdays protest at the Sotheby’s corporate offices on York Avenue was enlivened by dozens of people from Occupy Wall Street, as the protesters joined the Sotheby’s art handlers in their efforts to get a fair agreement with the auction giant who pulls down billions in profits. Love the Sotheby’s client and Carrie Donovan lookalike who is worried because she can’t take her thrice weekly luncheon at the auction house and questions why protesters aren’t being frisked.

Shepard Fairey Designs Occupy Wall Street Times Square Invitation -“Street artist and controversial graphic designer Shepard Fairey is adding his imagery to the Wall Street protesters: using a palate of red, black and beige, the “Hope” artist has designed an invitation to the Occupation Party, a protest planned in Times Square on Saturday.”  I ask you, what does Shepard Fairey know about a chemical blow-out? Is this Angela Davis gazing out in the future? Perhaps it’s a design inspired by Mother Popcorn, Vickie Anderson - You’re Welcome, Stop On By album cover? More here, and here, and yep, my favorite, here.

Shepard Fairey Designs Occupy Wall Street Times Square Invitation -“Street artist and controversial graphic designer Shepard Fairey is adding his imagery to the Wall Street protesters: using a palate of red, black and beige, the “Hope” artist has designed an invitation to the Occupation Party, a protest planned in Times Square on Saturday.”  I ask you, what does Shepard Fairey know about a chemical blow-out? Is this Angela Davis gazing out in the future? Perhaps it’s a design inspired by Mother Popcorn, Vickie Anderson - You’re Welcome, Stop On By album cover? More here, and here, and yep, my favorite, here.

Pepper Spray Goldman’s-Sack! - NYC based fashion photographer Bradford Gregory’s images of Occupy Wall Street in New York Parts 1 and 2. Also Sydney based illustrator Matt Huynh’s drawing of every placard he found on display at Occupy Wall Street. Download a high res of the drawing here. Download, print, and cover multiple concerns in one sign.

Pepper Spray Goldman’s-Sack! - NYC based fashion photographer Bradford Gregory’s images of Occupy Wall Street in New York Parts 1 and 2. Also Sydney based illustrator Matt Huynh’s drawing of every placard he found on display at Occupy Wall Street. Download a high res of the drawing here. Download, print, and cover multiple concerns in one sign.

Panic of the Plutocrats

“It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent…Nonetheless, Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, has denounced ‘mobs’ and ‘the pitting of Americans against Americans.’ The G.O.P. presidential candidates have weighed in, with Mitt Romney accusing the protesters of waging ‘class warfare,’ while Herman Cain calls them ‘anti-American.’ My favorite, however, is Senator Rand Paul, who for some reason worries that the protesters will start seizing iPads, because they believe rich people don’t deserve to have them.”

How Rich Are The Superrich? Eleven charts that explain what’s wrong with America - “A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. See all of Mother Jones’ inequality charts here.”

How Rich Are The Superrich? Eleven charts that explain what’s wrong with America - “A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. See all of Mother Jones’ inequality charts here.”

The Story of the First Wall Street Rebellion - “Descriptions of the event on Wall Street might seem eerily familiar. ‘It was a crush out of a blue sky—an unexpected, death-dealing bolt,” one witness observed, “which in a twinkling turned into a shambles the busiest corner of America’s financial center and sent scurrying to places of shelter hundreds of wounded, dumb-stricken, white-faced men and women—fleeing from an unknown danger.… Looking down Wall Street later I could see arising from the vicinity of the subtreasury building and the J.P. Morgan and Co. bank, a mushroom-shaped cloud of yellowish, green smoke which mounted to a height of more than 100 feet, the smoke being licked by darting tongues of flame.’” Anger and Anarchy on Wall Street

The Story of the First Wall Street Rebellion - “Descriptions of the event on Wall Street might seem eerily familiar. ‘It was a crush out of a blue sky—an unexpected, death-dealing bolt,” one witness observed, “which in a twinkling turned into a shambles the busiest corner of America’s financial center and sent scurrying to places of shelter hundreds of wounded, dumb-stricken, white-faced men and women—fleeing from an unknown danger.… Looking down Wall Street later I could see arising from the vicinity of the subtreasury building and the J.P. Morgan and Co. bank, a mushroom-shaped cloud of yellowish, green smoke which mounted to a height of more than 100 feet, the smoke being licked by darting tongues of flame.’” Anger and Anarchy on Wall Street

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET / the global movement - Streamed live on Adbusters.

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET / the global movement - Streamed live on Adbusters.

“Not satisfied with the suggestion through paint of our other senses, we shall utilize the specific substances of sight, sound, movements, people, odors, touch. Objects of every sort of materials for the new art: paint, chairs, food, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things that will be discovered by the present generation of artists. Not only with these bold creatures show us, as if for the first time, the world we have always had about us but ignored, but they will disclose entirely unheard of happenings, and events, found in garbage cans, police files, hotel lobbies; seen in store windows and on the streets and sensed in dreams and horrible accidents. An odor of crushed strawberries, a letter from a friend, or a billboard selling Drano; three taps on the front door, a scratch, a sigh, or a voice lecturing endlessly, a blinding staccato flash, a bowler hat-all will become materials for this new concrete art.” Allan Kaprow’ Essays On The Blurring of Art and Life, The Legacy of Jackson Pollock, 1958

“Not satisfied with the suggestion through paint of our other senses, we shall utilize the specific substances of sight, sound, movements, people, odors, touch. Objects of every sort of materials for the new art: paint, chairs, food, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things that will be discovered by the present generation of artists. Not only with these bold creatures show us, as if for the first time, the world we have always had about us but ignored, but they will disclose entirely unheard of happenings, and events, found in garbage cans, police files, hotel lobbies; seen in store windows and on the streets and sensed in dreams and horrible accidents. An odor of crushed strawberries, a letter from a friend, or a billboard selling Drano; three taps on the front door, a scratch, a sigh, or a voice lecturing endlessly, a blinding staccato flash, a bowler hat-all will become materials for this new concrete art.” Allan Kaprow’ Essays On The Blurring of Art and Life, The Legacy of Jackson Pollock, 1958

The Bankers and the Revolutionaries - Nicholas Kristof discusses the Occupy Wall Street Movement that some are calling Tahrir on the Hudson, and how banks got away with murder and managed, through excess leverage, to socialize risk and privatize profits. The discussion continues on his blog.

The Bankers and the Revolutionaries - Nicholas Kristof discusses the Occupy Wall Street Movement that some are calling Tahrir on the Hudson, and how banks got away with murder and managed, through excess leverage, to socialize risk and privatize profits. The discussion continues on his blog.