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wmtc: ruby dee, 1922-2014
Ruby Dee was a towering figure in the American theatre. She was a great actor, a poet, playwright, and screenwriter, and a steadfast voice for equality. Along with the actor Ossie Davis, her husband of nearly 60 years, Dee never stopped campaigning for full civil rights for all people. Dee
Continue readingcartoon life: Octopussy kitten beneath the sea
A reworked version of the original, now with added background. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, kitten, octopuss
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Robocop Remake Skips its Elysium Class Warfare Moment
Don’t bother with the Robocop remake. The original–campy, sensationalized, mildly intolerable–still succeeds in one key element: examining class warfare. You’d think that in an era of post-2008, the 1% being called out as contemptuous greed-mongerers and the Occupy Movement, that a Robocop remake would examine in a contemporary frame, the
Continue readingcartoon life: Back to the fifties floor cat
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Continue readingcartoon life: Am I close enough to your face?
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Continue readingcartoon life: Food, man! There’s no food!
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Continue readingcartoon life: Cat with a very hot tail
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Continue readingcartoon life: Cat seriously stretched out on a couch
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Continue readingcartoon life: Empress of the chrysanthemum cushion
Perhaps this is a bit unfinished just yet. Perhaps there will be more work done. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat
Continue readingcartoon life: There’s something there
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Continue readingcartoon life: Floor, cat, rug… Who knows anymore?
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Continue readingPostArctica: Samana — Palm Plantations of Death
Photographs and text by Jan Smith On the road from Santo Domingo to Samaná there is stretch with many miles of oil palm plantations on each side of the highway. Within this corridor there is a smaller section, itself quite large, of nothing but dead oil palms. When they grow beyond a certain
Continue readingPostArctica: Samana — Palm Plantations of Death
Photographs and text by Jan Smith On the road from Santo Domingo to Samaná there is stretch with many miles of oil palm plantations on each side of the highway. Within this corridor there is a smaller section, itself quite large, of nothing but dead oil palms. When they grow beyond a certain
Continue readingcartoon life: Never before seen Tiananmen Square photos found in shoebox
Originally posted on The China Girls: It was a black film canister, rattling around the bottom of an old Naturalizer shoebox labeled “photos.” I opened it, wondering if it was a roll of unused film. Instead, I found a twist of white tissue paper wrapped around tightly rolled black-and-white negatives.
Continue readingwmtc: "just because it’s broken, doesn’t mean it’s not beautiful": ashlea brockway and brokenart mosaics
The Brockway family, 2013 I want to tell you about an exciting venture: an opportunity to help make art more accessible for all, to help a low-income woman start her own business, and to help the family of an Iraq War resister, all at the same time. I hope you’ll
Continue readingPostArctica: The Thing About
The thing about right wing believers they love a good fight good and evil black and white the extremities heroes and villains sinners and saints But when it comes to ordinary people and ordinary stories and all kinds of talk about what’s good and what’s right They get lost in
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The thing about right wing believers they love a good fight good and evil black and white the extremities heroes and villains sinners and saints But when it comes to ordinary people and ordinary stories and all kinds of talk about what’s good and what’s right They get lost in
Continue readingcartoon life: The cat responsible for Global Warming
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