#visual protest

[sheltiechicago]

Political and documentary photography posters from the 1970s

In the late 70s, the cash-strapped Half Moon Gallery in London developed an innovative approach to getting its shows seen. Showcasing socially engaged photographers such as Daniel Meadows, Janine Wiedel and Philip Jones Griffiths, it laminated their prints and shipped them by rail as touring exhibitions.

Political Photomontage, a DIY Guide, 1983. The rediscovery of John Heartfield’s anti-fascist photomontages of the 1930s led to new forms of visual protest against Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government. David Evans and Sylvia Gohl played an important part in introducing photomontage theories and approaches to British audiences, with several exhibitions and publications.

Photograph: ©Rhinoceros

[ew-selfish-art]

DpxDc AU - If his parents are going to treat him like a punk, he might as well lean into it. 

Danny is getting seriously worn down by his parents constantly asking him to explain why he’s gone all the time and why his grades have slipped so far. I mean, sure, it took them months to notice, but now that they have, they’re alluding to the fact that he’s turned into some kind of punk and that he’s not taking life as seriously as he should be. This is what makes Danny kind of snap. 

He cuts his hair, gets Sam to pierce his ears in a few places (which sucked but was nice to catch up with her since Team Phantom didn’t get out much anymore), learns how to skateboard and gets Tuck to help him mask his identity on the internet as he begins online protesting the unethical treatment of ghosts. He makes picket signs that he leaves outside of Fentonworks and it takes days before his parents see them because they’re down in the lab. They go back up immediately after his parents take them down, and he begins tagging buildings with protest sayings and art all over amity park.

No matter how they ground him, the Drs Fenton are at a loss as to what to do to control Danny. Jazz says it’s not her place to interfere and is cheering her little brother on for being passionate about a new hobby. 

Danny’s honestly really vibing with the changes. He always understood why Sam wanted control over her own look, but he’s really leaning into the whole shebang. Ember and Johnny13 have never bonded over anything more than they have the punk transformation of their King. He’s really representing them fr fr- she taught him how to play the bass. 

With enough protests about the Anti-Ecto acts, the JL step in and begin their efforts to lobby change within the US government. Constantine is up to date on the new King being from Earth and thinks they might be able to weasel out a non-apocalyptic scenario if they reach out sooner than later. A letter gets sent through the infinite realms (No way in fuck was John going to try and summon a fucking King excuse you Bats)- Danny gets the letter and decides to let them sweat a bit, sending back his own letter that just says “K.” cause he’s learned that adults/authority figures all suck ass until proven otherwise. After a few days, a portal opens up in the middle of their meeting. 

Ghost King Phantom is rolling in on a skateboard, with the Ring of rage dangling from one of his ear piercings and ice crown floating above his head. He’s drinking an off brand smoothie, wearing a leather jacket that has medieval chainmail on it over his now distressed hazmat suit and his boots steel toed.

“...Sup. Y’all want to do something about this whole situation? I’m an all or nothing kind of guy.” Danny greets them. He means that he’s willing to be diligent in his efforts to disbar the Acts. It gets interpreted as him threatening to end the world, ofc, but that’s an issue he has to deal with later. 

“King Phantom we have been working daily to-” 

“Uh huh. Look, didn’t you guys have like a teenage group? I want to work with them, they’ll probably actually help me get shit done while you fuck around with paper work.” 

[lettersfromthewindmill]

[blistexenthusiast]

Natalie Baxter, Ribbons

[almaville]

france sheep protest 1972

[eclaire-went-bam]

idk if i'll get my thoughts out clearly bcs it's 2 am but

i've seen people talk about the different ways dutch has acted counter to his own beliefs in rdr2, especially as the main story progressed

like, dressing real "smart" (looking more at home in cities), progressively moving camp cliser to the (civilised) east instead of west, getting buddy-buddy or appealing to powerful people who kinda represents what he's supposed to resent, allowing strauss to loan shark desperates (how arthur literally describes it as a legal/"civilised" crime or something like that), enacting revenge

& on that revenge note, i don't think i've seen anyone really talk about colm o'driscoll's hanging outside of that lens. i think it had equally to do with not only showing his morals against vengeance slipping, as it does with visually showing how dutch keeps driving himself & the gang closer & closer to society/law at the very same time as He In Particular becomes more & more lawless

the writers could have chosen numerous different impactful ways to kill colm off, but symbolically speaking, i think there's a reason why they had dutch, sadie, & arthur blend in with saint denis civil society as an upper class citywoman & lawmen while watching colm die. dutch's gang always seemed more as a commune of misfits lead by a robin hood, at least at first, while what we know of colm's gang seems more in line with what we expect from the ugly sides of the old west (like micah). being irresponsible, sleeping around, killing random people, torturing, etc (& if i remember correctly, didn't dutch say they began to drift prior to killing colm's brother bcs of how much their ideals clashed??). So i mean. Dutch, blending in as a lawman, watched a microcosm in one person of the wild west die, at the hands of the law

i don't think this is the writers Literally saying dutch sides with the law now, that clearly isn't the case he Literally just killed himself after going all "our time is over john </22222" he definitely was unable to realise & accept it the way hosea had. but i do think it's a visual portrayal of a very real shift in his priorities/morals/however you wanna put it

yada yada micah also personifying the evils of the old west while also siding with the law whilst also obviously not being a lawful person there's a connection there to the rest if this idk maybe since dutch was already Gone by then he started to do that too to a less conscious or organised extent something something i'm too tired to make a full line of reasoning and i dont even know where i'd put it so like. So like.

[eucanthos]

Barbara Kruger (US, 1945)

Untitled (Tradition), 1980. Mixed media 65.4 x 152.4 cm (25 3/4 x 60 in)

https://www.cristintierney.com/art-fairs/12/works/artworks-2430-barbara-kruger-untitled-tradition-1980/

[clumsydoodles]

solidarity

[indigostories]

Photos by Sehar Sufi (@indigostories_)

Protestors gather outside The Galleria in Houston, TX demanding a permanent cease to Israel’s relentless bombing campaign in Gaza. 25,000 + Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes. Read that over again. 10,000 + children brushed to bits. Read that over again. We won’t stop at a ceasefire. We want the end of Israel’s illegal and brutal occupation of Gaza. @agelessphotography @heritageposts @photojournalisms-blog

[lavampira]

good morning idk why I’m awake rn but I just remembered the returner lalafell whm in a leveling roul last night who ran for the next room before a magitek terminal was done counting down, and then lost esuna and asked where it was on their hotbar, and immediately after a wipe suggested bigger pulls in that one corridor of dzemael. you know the one. and the thing is that they weren’t actually a bad healer but seemed very scattered, 10/10 hilarious experience. unlike robert

[numbers-have-feelings-too]

Knitting for the quietly enraged

Yarn-based data visualisation – which is very much a thing, if you didn’t already know – often seems to come with an undercurrent of rage attached to it.

One of the first examples I remember was a woman in Germany, who knitted a colour-coded scarf that recorded every time train delays ruined her commute.

Not too long after came a scarf from a city councillor knitting her way through meetings in Montreal. She changed colours based on the gender of the person speaking: green for women and red for men. The scarf was, inevitably, mostly red.

These both feel allied with the slightly bigger phenomenon of the ‘temperature scarf’. Lots of people have done these, and they’re the ones you’re most likely to have seen. Artist and author Josie George knitted one in 2020, recording the weather every single day for a year.

Of course, the weather rarely behaves as it should these days. After recording a week of unseasonably hot May weather, she tweeted:

“For me, a month of deep grief and deeper resolve, side by side, as I looked unflinchingly at the world's damage. I read and spoke words of hope and change as I knit. I continued. I committed. I began again.”

Knitting is steady, continuous, and pattern-driven. It’s perfect for making a record of things as they happen.

And that’s how it goes with a lot of things we get angry about. They happen once - a train is late, a man drones on, the temperature lurches into something alarming - but it’s just one little thing. Not enough to justify rage.

And then they keep happening, and happening again. React to any one instance and you look irrational. But keep a record, quietly, politely, and calmly, and maybe you get to feel like you’re building the evidence base for a revolution.

Or not. Whether or not you get to make your point, whether or not other people listen, just the act of recording might feel important. You get to process the things that you have to put up with, without ignoring the part of yourself that’s insisting it isn’t right.

[cow-wife]

Dan from Deli Girls

[aghastro]

i have found i have a somewhat subconscious personal symbology that appears in all of my artwork and i often wonder how much others have the same. A seemingly random reocurring symbol in my work can hold a long history of thoughts and feelings, that i never express in words, but it is there in my art. i tag things as "misc" as in "there is no named character here, not yet at least" but inside of these conceptual pictures is pieces of myself and my life, regardless

this is to say, i don't often draw things for no reason. sometimes the reason is silly! but i think everything has meaning :-)

[agirlnamedbone]

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[almaville]

Toy protest in belarus, 2012

"Free the people" "Where is the freedom of the press?" “Toys against lawlessness."

10 days in jail

[mrhass]

Yalla (2023) 🕊️

In 1948 the Nakba took place, and in essence, has continued to this day. The ongoing ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine has been condemned by human rights organisations, and is illegal according to international law. While oppression of the indigenous Palestinians receives scant mention in western media, their territorial dispossession proceeds at an unyielding pace. The BDS movement highlights institutional complicity in the ongoing injustice, and advocates for consumer, academic and cultural boycotts.