RIP P183

Today the street art movement lost an upcoming icon. Russian street artist P183 (or Pasha 183) died at the age of 29 (source). Nicknamed as the "Russian Banksy" by The Guardian he was known for his own playful way to express social commentary and mock politics.

RIP, see you in space!

Moscow's Banksy: the street art of P183 – in pictures

A MESSAGE FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT

THE WINGNUT ANARCHIST COLLECTIVE

"We Gladly Consume Those Who Oppress Us!"

The Wingnut is an anarchist collective house in Southern Barton Heights in Richmond, Virginia.

The Wingnut hosts all sorts of sober, all ages events, such as acoustic musical performances, craft nights, food not bombs, movie screenings, workshops, group meetings, copwatch, anarchist black cross etc.

About The Wingnut

ANARCHY AND ART BY ALLAN ANTLIFF

One of the powers of art is its ability to convey the human aspects of political events, ranging from war to revolution to sexual liberation. Art can also transform society, a theme that pervades this fascinating survey on art, artists, and anarchism since the nineteenth century.

In numerous essays, Allan Antliff interrogates moments of engagement when artists, poets, philosophers, and critics have confronted pivotal events over the past 140 years. The survey begins with artist Gustave Courbet and writer Emile Zola's activism during the 1871 Paris Commune (which established the modern-day French republic), and ends with an examination of anarchist art during the fall of the Soviet empire. Other subjects include the Neo-Impressionists and their depictions of the homeless in the 1890s; the Dada movement in New York City during World War I; the decline of the Russian Avant-Garde during the 1920s and 30s; the West Coast Beats of the 1940s and 50s; the Modernists of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s; and anarchistic responses to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 by visual artists.

Exploring art's potential as a vehicle for meaningful social change from an anarchist perspective, Allan Antliff throws new light on what it means to be radical.

GRAB IT HERE

DANGEROUS

EVOLUTION

EXPLODE

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

My partner in crime posted about this movie when it was announced and it was released in my absence about a month ago. But better too late than never.. here it is.

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP 

The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Billed as 'the world's first street art disaster movie' the film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.

http://rapidshare.com/files/418141959/Exit.Through.the.Gift.Shop.2010.READNFO.DVDRip.XVID-TASTE.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/418145946/Exit.Through.the.Gift.Shop.2010.READNFO.DVDRip.XVID-TASTE.part2.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/418148065/Exit.Through.the.Gift.Shop.2010.READNFO.DVDRip.XVID-TASTE.part3.rar

Use the open-source multimedia player VLC to play the MKV file format. 

Grab the VLC media-player here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

NO GODS NO MASTERS

 

"Introduction to anarchy" can be found here

CULTURE JAM

POLITICS

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An quick collage I pooped out to express my current thoughts...

"...the deeper you dig

 the dirtier it gets..."

DON'T

BE

FOOLED

GET

INFORMED! 

REVOLUTION

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ZOMBIE PLAYGROUND

By Jason Chart

Click on pic for bigger size!

RESIST

RANDOM BULLSHIT

 

AKASHIC RECORD OF THE ASTRAL CONVENTION

In 1987 Hakim Bey invited several friends and allies to astrally project to Antarctica for a convention. Afterwords, visitors sent their accounts to Bey and he compiled them into this zine. The Akashic Record of the Astral Convention. This collection was originally sent only to the contributors and has never before been reprinted. It features lost works by: Coil, Hakim Bey, Shirley MacLaine, James Koehnline, Ivan Stang, Feral Faun (aka Apio), Reverand Crowbar (aka Susan Poe) and Trevor Blake.

INTRODUCTION (excerpt from the zine)

This is the record of the AAAZ, the Antarctic Astral Autonomous Zone, that occurred on the night of August 31st - September 1st, 1987.

Hakim Bey is the author of Temporary Autonomous Zone. It's a cultural milestone for a wide variety of subversives from anarchists, occultists, vandal artists, and freaky festival people. The main idea of TAZ was to create exactly what it sounds like TAZ is about: creating places that serve as alternative realities to the prevailing system of control. Specific times and spaces designated to let chaos free, and allow psychological and social mechanisms to self regulate and mutate beyond the confines of so-called consensus reality.

The focus is on having individuals find and establish meaning on their own terms. Creating a TAZ requires face to face interaction and dialog, in a sense, creating an art form which is impossible to ever fully record or understand. In the void where stagnancy and boredom once ruled, wild fantasies called real life take root. The elusive genuine article, with no possible televised reenactments.

Before TAZ's thought virus would reach the anti-capitalists and the rave scene as it did in the 90's, many of the people who recognized the value of Bey's work were few and far apart. Mail order culture was the primary mode of communication with the underground for many people in the 80's. The postal world seen within the pages of High Weirdness by Mail by Ivan Stang has now mostly migrated to cyberspace, where many of these fringe cultures have exploded into bonafide phenomenas. In the meantime, the mutants who were plugged into the paper trail of fresh ideas were yearning for an opportunity to encounter a TAZ. This meant finding a 'Zone' which was totally unexpected.

It was decided to meet astrally or in dreams, at a specific sacred space in Antarctica. Bey sent invites out to his network, and arranged for everyone who participated to send him their experiences, which he would then compile and send back out. What you end up with is an compilation of rare works by an all-star cast of individuals who comprised the occulture before there was a word for it. In this instance, the media created here facilitated a syncing up of communal experiences, and was an essential component of the AAAZ, yet not the AAAZ in itself.

The objective reality of astral projection is inconsequential to the AAAZ. What is of importance is the narrative, lives encouraged to be lived mythically, drawing those lives together in the process. Then again, for those who do entertain astral experiences as accepted facets of reality, the AAAZ was most likely one of the earliest documented records of shared lucid dreams and consciousness. It is historically important for occultists, and personally fulfilling for those who got to participate in it.

READ IT HERE 

WHEN THE FREAKS COME OUT

RADICAL GRAPHICS

The purpose of this website is to provide activists, radicals, revolutionaries, and otherwise left-leaning individuals, who are working to put together flyers, pamphlets, zines, propaganda etc., with high resolution graphics. Most of the images you will find are of an inherently anti-authoritarian, anti-status quo nature. Of course, everything depends on the context that the image is used. Some of the images are not radical in and of themselves, but they might serve a purpose for certain radical groups/projects (eg. images of animals for animal liberationists).

- http://www.radicalgraphics.org