the future

what does the future hold for this blog? what do people want it to form? i think this deserves a seperate discussion...

My new blog...

http://braysstudio.blogspot.com/

obey

check out this manifesto by Shepard Fairey. He created the Obey Giant logo, which you might recognise.
http://www.obeygiant.com/main_new.php?page=articles

irony

From Naomi Klein’s No Logo, section describing the protests against the G8 summit in Cologne:
“On the same day that the Indian farmers were peacefully protesting in Cologne, London’s financial district turned into a war zone – the city hasn’t seen anything like it since the 1990 poll-tax riots. The 10,000-strong gathering started as a classic RTS surreal political party. The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the door steps of office towers, formed a human chain around the treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks. The bankers and investment brokers, meanwhile, came to work disguised in casual sports clothes, having been advised by police to “blend in” with the activists so as not to catch a flying pie.”

I love the image i have in my mind of 10,000 people converging on London's bank district, waving flags, dressed in suits, yelling , chanting and reclaiming the streets; while the people that work for the corporations that the protests oppose sheepishly cut through the crowds in their Polo and Ralph Lauren Golf shirts and slacks.

T-Shirt thingy

Thought about T-shirt thingy... "Place Your Brand", I think is the best. Another option could be the famous Bush phrase, "Shame On You!". Let me know what you think.

T-shirt designs

To try and get the ball rolling for the t-shirt design, can we submit our phrases as comments to this post or images to the photobucket?

theyrule

www.theyrule.net details the relationships between corporations according to who sits on their boards. There are many influential people who sit on more than one board, and sometimes five or more. Also included are members of political boards. The premise is that with networks of associates all interested in the financial gain of each of their companies, the board members can help each other out.
Go through the flash welcome and then go to load map>popular for a great visual tool for relating the corporations. You can also create your own map through the companies, directors of institutions buttons.
What do you guys think? This is the kind of map I want to represent in a 3d map, but more with relations of companies…

Re: Printing T-shirts

Hey folks,
I've just been to see my old print making teacher about screen printing t-shirt. Since we are only looking at making a few shirts, it'd be quite expencive for us to go out and get all the equiptment we need. We'd be looking at; around $30 for a cheap screen, $3-4 per shirt, $40 for the photostencil emolsion, $10-15 for ink and $20 to get the screen cleaned at the end (unless someones got a high pressure hose...). Also, we'd need to have access to a darkroom and UV lamp to expose the stencil. So..... Iv been told that the companies "Jones Bros" and "Tee Shirt Graphics" are both good for getting t-shirts printed. Jones Bros will also just make up the stencil for us (for a fee) so we could print them our selves without actually buying the equiptment. Another option would be to cruise over to the RMIT fine art faculty and see if they have some screen printing equiptment we could use.