Honoring Yuri Kochiyama and Puerto Rican history
I write this post in memory of Yuri Kochiyama, who passed just over three years ago on June 1, 2014. Yuri’s legacy of organizing should be an inspiration to anyone…
I write this post in memory of Yuri Kochiyama, who passed just over three years ago on June 1, 2014. Yuri’s legacy of organizing should be an inspiration to anyone…
There’s a new project space that opened in Santa Fe recently called Biocultura. They had an inaugural event April 23rd where they were one of several organizations to partner with the…
Welcome to the 2nd interview with one of the parents in Justseeds. I decided I needed to interview my fellow Justseeds parents as a way to reflect on my own…
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina is one of the country’s oldest and most respected schools of craft. Opened in 1929 by Lucy Morgan who focused her initial…
by Diana Kirk (from The Progressive) April 11, 2017 Chip Thomas Dr. Chip Thomas, also known by his artist name Jetsonorama, lives in Tuba City, Arizona, on Navajo land. For thirty…
I was invited to participate in the 2017 Joshua Treenial. The theme this year was event horizon. I ventured to Joshua Tree in January to find a potential location for…
Check out this powerful video by Showtime about last weeks Milwaukee Public Schools board meeting where the board voted 8-0 to make MPS a sanctuary school district. The video highlights…
Welcome to the first interview with one of the parents in Justseeds. I decided I needed to interview my fellow Justseeds parents as a way to reflect on my own…
“Up above the land, in the clouds, borderless.” A new short video from long-time Justseeds friend and comrade, Portland based filmmaker Vanessa Renwick.
There are many ways to support the Water Protectors at Standing Rock. This is one that relates specifically to art. Months ago an art tent was constructed that is open…
The most recent production from submedia.tv: This week we bring you a special sedition on the anniversary of one of the most bad-ass and sophisticated revolutionary organizations in the United…
I was processing a donation of books at Interference Archive yesterday that contained this book, The Secret. It came in a package from a friend that volunteers at the Inside…
TOUR Join award-winning queer Asian-American poets, Kit Yan and Jess X. Chen (justseeds artist) on the Queer Heartache Summer Tour. Combining oceanic laughter, the violence of heartbreak, and the sorrow lost…
This spring I hammered out a fun and fairly experimental print, one where I wouldn’t actually draw much of anything and mostly relied on dried flowers and leaves to create…
In 2011 Justseeds traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia to create a collaborative installation for the 29th Graphic Arts Biennial. During our visit there we became familiar with various projects and fellow…
I’m staffing Interference Archive today and listening to an archived episode of DJ Devon E. Levins’ Morricone Island. It’s a really great show called “The Greatest Soundtrack Tribute,” with a…
I’ve collaborated, with my pal Alexander Dwinell, on an installation for the final exhibition at ABC No Rio. The current building at 156 Rivington St will be torn down in…
The latest It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine from subMedia.tv. This week we take a look at the economic and political crisis…
Fuck Your Phone Keep Your Head Up Williamsburg, Brooklyn. May 15, 2016 What I just learned, while doing some online research on my smartphone, is that we spend 90-120 minutes…
Dump Hillary War Criminal. Long island City, Queens. May 8, 2016. Plenty of graffiti and street art being produced this primary election cycle. This was painted in the shadow of…
Justseeds member Jess X. Chen, and Diné artist Demian Dineyazhi, are going on an eco-feminist poetry tour across America between May 5-May 17th 2016! Stops include: Los Angeles, Tucson, Gallup,…
This week, we take a look at the tens of thousands of migrants tapped in limbo in Europe, facing down the prospect of being deported back to the war zones…
Let Them Eat Reality Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. April 23, 2016 Written on the construction wall at the former site of Cascade Laundry across the street from the Marcy Projects. Most people…
Paris is Burning from subMedia.tv This week we take a look at the multiple converging flashpoints of resistance in France, which have combined into a popular movement that has inspired…
My old buddy Christopher Kardambikis caught up with me at the LA Art Book Fair last month to do an interview for his NYC-based Clocktower radio show Paper Cuts, devoted…
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen has been hiding in a hermit hole writing poems exploring eco-feminism, environmental resilience and love amidst diaspora, violence and trauma. Here are some of her…
from subMedia.tv: This week we take a look at the nefarious capitalist mechanism called free trade agreements, with a focus on world wide resistance to the TPP or Trans Pacific…
Tomorrow evening I’ll be representing Interference Archive at the following panel discussion at BRIC, in Brooklyn, NY. It is part of the programming for the current exhibition, Whisper or Shout,…
A friend in Slovenia recently notified me that the artist BLU’s removing his murals from Bologna Italy for very anti-commercial reasons. Check out the article and further discussion, in Italian,…
In a Crimethinc. Ex Workers Collective podcast, an audio strike against a monotone world, “On the Chopping Block” a review of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. In episode #46: International Anarchist…
Colleague Maren Ward has been putting together a musical celebrating 30 years of Earth First!– the radical, no-compromise environmental movement that brought direct action to the forests, mountains and deserts…
Call for art and article submissions: Sustaining Movements The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective (www.certaindays.org) is releasing its 16th calendar in the Fall of 2016. Over the…
No More Deaths/No Más Muertes has turned Justseeds member Fernando Marti’s contribution to our most recent Justseeds/CultureStrike portfolio—We Are The Storm—into a benefit t-shirt. Go to the No Mas Muertes…
We received this great portrait, produced by Genevieve Roudané, in honor of assassinated indigenous organizer Berta Caceras Flores. #JusticiaParaBerta In 1993 she co-founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous…
I’ve spent the last month or so in collaboration with Asian-American filmmaker Tani Ikeda, Immediate Justice, and the Center for Biological Diversity leading a weekly stencil and mural workshop to…
Colleagues in Taring Padi, the amazing Indonesian political art group that I recently spent some time with, produced a calendar a couple of years ago featuring beautiful paintings of 6…
The later at From subMedia.tv: In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new…
Free Art. Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. February, 2016. Two things I’ve always loved about art made in public is that it can be produced by anyone, willing to take the…
Legendary punk performer Vi Subversa died today, aged 80. Vi fronted the equally legendary British punk group the Poison Girls, bringing an elder perspective to the turmoil of youth culture,…
Librarians and Archivists With Palestine (LAP) is co-sponsoring a panel on Palestinian libraries at this year’s American Library Association (ALA) conference in Orlando, Florida June 23-28 2016. They are working…
I’m just back from Indonesia, and a slew of little art projects there. First up, a paste-up wall of Manta Ray screenprints and papercuts- I made these before I left…
No war, Promote Peace and Love. Caye Caulker, Belize. Feb 2016. Belize is a small country, of 300,000 people, on the Carribean Sea bordered by Mexico and Guatemala. It has…
New piece from subMedia! This week we look at the growing fascist movement in Europe and what the antifa are doing to fight back. On the break we have Sindicato…
One of the organizations, RAMPS, represented in our new portfolio We Are the Storm is fundraising to continue their efforts. Check out their campaign, support if you’re able, share cos…
Audio Interference is a podcast by Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY, a volunteer-run archive of material culture produced in social movements. Interested in the capacity of audio to capture oral…
You Are Not What You Own. May 2011 You Are Not What You Own. August 2012. Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. 2011, 2012
REVOLUTION its ready when its ready. Give or take 500+ years. In the Broadway stop of the G train. Brooklyn, NY. December 2014.
The latest from the stimulator! 2015 wrapped up with a bang, with dozens of militant actions carried out by anarchists under the banner of “Black December.” In Turkey, aspiring Fuhrer,…
1. Create Now Question Later 2. Fortune favors the Bold 3. Do it with Love Seen on a wall in Brooklyn, NY. August 2013.
I recently wrote a short essay on the 1960’s San Francisco-based antiauthoritarian group The Diggers, and how they both relate to my way of navigating the world, but also how…
I’m excited to announce that we have released our 16th if a song could be freedom mixtape. A series of political playlist that accompanies the Interference Archive exhibition if…
During the holidays, remember to write to those incarcerated and migrants in detention centers who are so far away from their homes and loved ones. Here are two amazing organizations…
John Trudell, a poet, recording artist, actor and speaker, passed away on December 8th. Trudell (Santee Sioux) was a spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island…
In 2015 we successfully launched our first Print of the Month club, in which club members received one print a month from a different Justseeds artist. Artists and supporters were…
Adalah-NY teamed up with some cultural workers, and friends of Justseeds, to produce this video in support of the cultural boycott of the Israeli state. NY based artists are asked…
Welcome back to Sounds of the Week, I’m going to try and pull this blog post out of hibernation and get back to sharing some of the musical inspirations floating…
Everyone knows that art is an engine that drives transformation. The art we look at reminds us that other people feel like we do, and gives us something to believe…
I’ve been at a residency in the grassy hills of northeastern Wyoming for the past few weeks. I realized the other day that I had passed quite close to…
Heard this on the last couple episodes of Rebel Beat Radio. Super appropriate track for these days with forced migrations around the world. Kein Mensch is illegal- No one is…
I’m at an arts residency in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25. It’s pretty amazing here- the vast dun high plains full of turkeys and deer, the blue Bighorn Mountains off to…
How the atomic bomb destroyed the people and cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, 70 years ago. Little Boy, the first nuclear bomb used in war, was dropped at 08:15…
Last summer I was in lower Manhattan and had 6 hours to kill before a meeting Washington Heights. l took the opportunity to visit the Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson…
Rockwell Kent has been a big influence on more than a few of us here at Justseeds. He was a prolific draftsman whose illustrations dominated book design and advertising in…
In 1965, ten years before I was born, my father faked his death in a scuba diving accident on the north coast of Wales, in order to abscond from the…
For a couple weeks in November, I hammered out a four by eight foot version of my “Teach History From Below” print (from our Liberating Learning Portfolio) for the Sidewall…
Last week I posted this to my instagram, made sense to share it here: I spent the day harvesting in the field but constantly thinking about the students and families…
I just opened a solo show of prints, installation, sound, and video in the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Gallery 214. It’s up until the end of November, so if…
This past Saturday, Stuart Anderson and I dragged the penny smasher prototype out into public for the first time for a “soft” debut before the Flood Tide screening at the…
I wrote this article for Bitch Magazine in the leadup to the recent People’s Climate March, thinking about futility and frustration and the reasons we do the work we do….
“August 6th 1945 was the day that the US air force dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, striking Hiroshima and killing up to 160,000 of the city’s inhabitants, most…
Don Martin ft Immortal Technique (US), Eltipo Este (Cuba), Tumi (South Africa), Tonto Noiza (France). Prod Tommy Tee. Video by Ulfdawg. Visit bdsmovement.net for more information on boycott campaign. Boikott…
On our way up to Cape Cod, Laurel and I stopped in for lunch with Meredith Stern and Peter Glantz. Here’s some flicks of Meredith’s studio and a print series…
Today would have been Patrice Emery Lumumba’s 89th birthday. Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo, was an emblem of passionate resistance to Belgian colonial rule, and at…
Emma Goldman was born, June 27, 1869, Kovno, Russian Empire. She was an Anarchist known around the world for her writing, political organizing and speeches. Here are just a couple…
This past weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman working for the Freedom Summer campaign in Mississippi in 1964. I am inspired…
The Flying Lizards formed in 1976 in England and are one of the weirdest bands that produced an album on Virgin Records. Their first record features the song they are…
When I first heard the British band Huggy Bear, and their song lyric “This is the sound of the Revolution!” I really did feel like I was listening to the…
This week in reviews: Liliput. This Swiss band started out being called “Kleenex” before they were threatened by the tissue company to change their name. Their music is unique, dynamic,…
This is part of an ongoing series of links to music which has influenced me over the years. Valerie Scroggins remains one of my drum icons. They began in the…
The Fall is an incredible band. To date, they have recorded 30 LPs. The band formed in 1976 in Greater Manchester- a city in Northwest England. There have been many…
Welcome to Edition #2 of “My Awesome Record Collection” where I share some of the gems from over 25 years of gathering (mostly second hand) vinyl from around the world.This…
Thee Headcoatees tackle sexual harassment in their song “Park it Up Your Arse.” The members were Holly Golightly, Kyra LaRubia, Ludella Black and drummer “Bongo” Debbie Green. This song starts…
Paul Robeson was born today, 116 years ago,in 1898. Above is the Celebrate People’s History poster in homage to him. Also belated Happy B’day to Biz Markie!
I’m an audiofile. I’ve been collecting records since I was 11 years old, and I’m now 37, so it’s been over 25 years of appreciating and collecting music. I’ve…
Erase Errata is an experimental band which can perhaps be described a bit as “art punk.” Very stylized sounds are evident in every aspect of this band. Their sound is…
The Scissor Girls were a No Wave band who played shows in the 1990’s and were based out of Chicago, IL. I saw them perform at a show in California…
Panty Raid was extremely catchy, lo-fi, fuzzy, and super fun band. They released a 7″ record called “The Secret’s Out” on Raw Sugar Records in the year 2000. When I…
When I first started going to underground music shows in the early 1990’s most bands were made up of straight, white boys in their early 20s. When I saw the…
Doughnuts was the first all female hardcore band I ever heard of. They were on Victory records, so remained relegated to the “straight edge” sub-genre of Hardcore, so many folks…
Using their own words: “Tribe 8 is considered one of the first queercore groups, they take their name from the practice of tribadism, a “tribe eight” being a play on…
Peter Glantz directed this ethereal and brilliant video with Death Vessel. The whole album and video were just unleashed upon the world today! Check it out!
Trying to describe LiLiPUT renders me speechless. This band has had a huge influence over me and many of my musical peers. They have carved a legacy which has influenced…
This is a little series of music videos of bands who have influenced me over the years. These are bands whose awesome drummers have not been given the recognition they…
There is mega issues with the mainstream culture marginalizing and ignoring the brilliant cultural production of women, queer folks, and people of color. With the necessity for us to tell…
A tumblr devoted to an Anarchist comic strip:
Burglars who took on the FBI abandon shadows
A Call To Halt: A multimedia installation and critical timeline of the Euromissiles Crisis, and of the nuclear abolition movement in the United States from 1977-1987 is a new project…
The Coup surfaces to serve up the official video premiere of “Long Island Iced Tea, Neat” – a stop-motion social commentary on the epidemic of police brutality and racial profiling…
One of my closest and oldest friends, The Buddy Cat (“B” to those who knew her well), passed away while I held her in my arms the week before this…
Today is the official launch of the newest “WorldWord” short video series. This is a collaboration between Becky Stark, Peter Glantz, and Kevin Hooyman. This series premiered on the relaunch…
On a grim and drippy morning earlier this week I sat in my house reading an article about slave capitalism in the magazine n+1, specifically a review of Walter Johnson’s…
The Neighborhood Print Shop is a beautiful community based printing space in Braddock, PA. Braddock is a small town about 7 miles outside of Pittsburgh, a site of one of…
Bill Bigelow, co-director of the Zinn Education Project, has another quick and lucid history lesson up. This week, identifying yet another sore gap in our popular history textbooks, he’s illustrating…
Here’s another new series which I’m going to do for the blog, in which I ask members of Justseeds to take pictures of where they make their work, ask them…
Justseeds is sponsoring a film at the Milwaukee Film Festival this year. It looks fantastic. Narco Cultura – USA | 2012 | 106 min. Director: Shaul Schwarz In Ciudad Juarez,…
Among the photos my cousin Fannie took in the 1930s, one stood out for me. It was a picture of Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. This photo reminds me of…
I’ve posted several images of my cousin Fannie Black’s overseas excursions in the 1930s. Here are a few images on board the ship. Here she is looking so stoic, beautiful,…
Here’s another set of postcards from my cousin Fannie’s trip to France in 1935. I love these old black and white postcards. These pictures look so serene, and since there…
Culture about resistance, resistance cultural production! Check out this video by Twice Thou about resistance to Bank of America Foreclosures.
This is another set of postcards discovered in the ephemera of my relative Fannie Black who recently passed away in January of this year. She has an amazing range of…
It is a rare moment when one celebrates a labor victory in Wisconsin, much less anywhere in the U$A, yet that is the welcome news coming out of the Badger…
So, this is the second series of images of paper paraphernalia from my relative Fannie Simonowsky’s family archive. The first was a series of photographs of her trip to Russia…
First photograph: Moscow, The Kremlin, 1935 My third cousin, Fannie Simonowsky- Black, lived to the incredible age of 103. We all called her “Aunt” because in many ways she epitomized…
Ask First from Brendan Anckaert on Vimeo. Just turned on to this brilliant reworking of the Robin Thicke creepy top-40 tune by a bunch of Canadian coastal queers…it’s all about…
Sarah Quinter, a good friend of Justseeds, has been working hard on a great Sandy Memorial Sculpture project, melding storm debris and the voices of those effected by the…
Perusing the ol’ Hark! a Vagrant tumblr yesterday I came across this absolutely marvelous video by Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tic for a song called Google Google Apps Apps. I…
“History is not the past. It is the stories that we tell about the past. How we tell these stories – triumphantly, self-critically, metaphysically, or dialectically – has a lot…
Some colleagues made this awesome, star-studded explosion of a video tribute to Bradley Manning. Watch it, think hard about it. What are YOU willing to do for what you know…
There’s a really nice collection of Joao Pina’s photos of South America’s Disappeared on NPR Picture Show. In 1975, the right-wing dictatorships of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay…
Radical Portland MC Mic Crenshaw has a new EP out and just posted a video for one of the tracks called “Free My MInd”. It’s a great cut: an homage…
I have been asked several times about the use of cats in my artwork and so I now present a succinct explanation of why I am not simply obsessed with…
Notes from the farm: is the first in a series of drawings and writings telling of my experience coming back home to my family’s farm. It’s been nearly three years…
Vladmir Mayakovsky: “Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Hannah Hoch: “I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we…
A doomed past doesn’t mean a doomed future. The weight of history doesn’t bear down forever- people shrug their burdens off. I’ve got two new prints (here and here) up…
I just came across the World War 3 illustrated tumblr site where they’ve posted Magdy El Shafee’s comic “The Anonymous,” a contribution to issue #42 of WW3. Their Tumblr no…
Two Cranes, 2012, 22.5×32.75in, ink on paper
Street Scene, 2012, 43x40in, ink, gouache, acrylic, and flasche on paper
Homemade Floatation Device, 2012, 12.25×14.5in, ink and acrylic on paper
The Engineering of a Disaster Proof Building, 2012, 21.75×31.5in, ink on paper
American Dreaming, 2012, 22x30in, ink, gouache, and acrylic on paper
Last week, on the sly, I went around with my phone’s camera and took pictures of all of the variations on the “Fragile” icon from shipping crates at the museum…
There is a growing social movement in the small Eastern Europe nation of Slovenia. Protests against austerity and corrupt politicians began last December. Comrades sent this short video of the…
People might have already heard that Mess Hall —the great experimental cultural space that has existed for 10 years in the Rogers Park in Chicago—is shutting down at the end…
This past week I got a kick out of Thomas Frank’s article “Dead End on Shakin’ Street” in the last issue of The Baffler. Frank skewers the term Vibrant, particularly…
I read an article yesterday at the Cluster Mag about the ever-widening circle of art-superstars who never actually participate in the fashioning of their own work. While this is nothing…
Printmaker Antonio Frasconi passed away earlier this year. Frasconi was a Uruguayan artist that mastered the medium of woodblock printing. He produced artwork on a wide range of social issues…
I woke up early and read another great post by filmmaker Adam Curtis on his excellent blog. In it, he describes the rise of fear and hatred among a populace…
I’ve been enjoying the teaching materials and modus operandi of the Zinn Education Project ever since I discovered them back when we were working on the Firebrands book. These days…
My dad works as a Guardian ad Litem in rural North Carolina. As such, this year he was collecting donated Christmas packages from Toys for Tots, a project of the…
This is my print for the Sowing the Seeds of Love show at Munch Gallery in New York. It’s four color reduction print (four shades of grey!) turned into a…
Sublevarte Colectivo is currently installing a retrospective exhibition at Interference Archive, that opens tomorrow, Friday, November 16th. Here’s a peek of them at work. All photos taken by Irina Arellano-Weiss
Roadtrip, 2012, 40.5×48.25in, ink and acrylic on paper
Moving On, 2012, 40.25×58.5, ink, acrylic, gouache, and flasche on paper
The following essay was written for the anthology Revolutionary Love Letters (Minor Compositions, forthcoming in 2013), edited by Jamie Heckert, who kindly and lovingly gave me permission to share it…
NYC Book Release: Freedom Through Football: The story of the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls by Will Simpson & Malcolm McMahon Tuesday September 25th, 7pm Interference Archive 131 8th st. #4…
I was out of the country for the past year. While I was away my father Neil designed and built a solar powered golf cart (in our case a work…
I’m so inspired by this project taking place in Portland, Oregon. Street Books is a bicycle-powered mobile library for people living outside. It is bicycle with a built in cart…
A new friend here in Toronto, Ponni, shared some amazing political graphics by Aarti Sunder, criticizing the government’s use of the charge of Sedition to silence over 6,000 anti-nuclear activists…
The Illuminator, in case you haven’t heard, is a tactical media machine (aka a van with a really powerful projector, sound system, and library) that has been roaming the streets…
The rubbish and anti-teacher statements from Rahm Emanuel is becoming hard to stomach. No wonder Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney is standing in support with him. And go figure –…
I’ve been fascinated by my friend Jenn Pascoe’s quietly growing collection of name stamps from the bottoms of paper bags. She keeps a Flickr set of these images, right now…
French filmmaker and troublemaker Chris Marker died yesterday at the age of 91. If you haven’t seen his film Grin Without a Cat, put it on the top of your…
A couple weeks back I read an interesting story in the New York Times, about a nascent protest movement in Sudan, inspired by Tahrir Square and Occupy, and struggling against…
I recently finished reading a book called “Built by Animals”, by Mike Hansell, published by the Oxford University Press. It’s a quick read, but quite full of fascinating things to…
The Red Square is the symbol of Maple Spring and the student movement currently happening in Quebec. Justseeds comrade Cindy Milstein has an obsession with documenting the red squares of…
Our comrade Cindy Milstein has been participating and writing about the Maple Spring from Montreal for quite some time now. The following piece is from her blog, Outside the Circle….
The Voice of Art team (including Justseeds friend John Carr) spent the month of May filming members of the Chicago IVAW chapter as they carried out protest actions against the…
Couldn’t resist posting this radical patch by Lauren Jurysta, a former teen of mine super active in Pittsburgh queer/dyke community. Lauren co-organized this year’s Dyke/Trans March as well as Rhinestone…
My friend Sandy K., who is regularly producing inspiring work at his design firm Image-Shift, has jumped into a more embodied form of organizing with his neighbors, and they have…
From a series of drawings titled Life Skills.
A beautiful video that isn’t selling ANYthing! It’s message is stronger than any advertisement.
Greg Miller has posted some incredible photos of the NATO/G8 protests in Chicago and the IVAW-led demo where veterans returned their medals. To see more photos from the action, click…
From a series of drawings titled Life Skills.
Ecole de la Montagne Rouge (School for Red Mountain) is a group of graphic design students producing work for the student strikes currently happening in Montreal. Their designs and methods…
From a collection of drawings titled Life Skills. They are a sort of instructional drawing project.
From a collection of drawings titled Life Skills. They are a sort of instructional drawing project.
This silkscreen print was created by Deria for Planned Parenthood of Western PA. No Glove No Love!!!!
A stunning short film documenting the movement in Barcelona. Take a couple minutes and give it a view. “And we continue…”
This week’s silkscreen print was created by Talonda and Iysha, to promote healthy food habits.
A detail from a series of images titled Life Skills.
It has been a while since I have done a drawing all the time post. I have been living in rural Ireland and the internet feels far away.
This week’s silkscreen print is by Ella, for Planned Parenthood of Western PA. Planned Parenthood is using this series of posters by Power Up in their youth education programs.
This week’s silkscreen print is by Lauren, in response to a presentation on healthy eating by Kimberly Bracken of the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum and YMWAHA.
This weeks Rad Teen Print was created by Talonda, and printed as a group by Power Up as a thank you gift to all our wonderful partners in this round…
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry TEASER from Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry on Vimeo. To me Ai Weiwei defines courage. He defines the role of the artist as taking a leadership role…
For the past seven months I have been an artist in residence / teacher at the Burren College of Art on the West Coast of Ireland. Eileen Hutton is getting…
Rad Teen Print of the Week is back for 2012! I was looking through old entries and realized that I started off numbering them, and then stopped…after counting, I realized…
What an incredible two-week span in Chicago! First the news broke that two prisons in Illinois are shutting down, including the TAMMS prison that prison justice and human rights activists…
Dara Greenwald, February 27, 1971–January 9, 2012.
Here are a couple of interesting stories from the gorilla regions of central Africa: The Fossey Gorilla Fund, which operates a variety of active conservation efforts in Rwanda and DR…
For the past two months Wisconsin has been swept by recall fever. The recall movement was given 60 days to gather 540,208 valid signatures needed for an election to take…
Abigail Satinsky wrote a beautiful eulogy for Dara Greenwald for the Bad at Sports blog that speaks volumes about the impact that Dara’s work had on so many of us…
On Monday, the Justseeds family lost our dear friend and collective member Dara Greenwald who passed away from cancer at age forty. We cherish the memories of an incredible person…
Uh, the name kind of says it all. This is a collaborative drawing that Shaun and I made at the London Anarchist Bookfair, for a zine project that was supposed…
Our Hen House recently posted this short video interview with Sue Coe, wherein she discusses the powerful motivation behind her work. It’s part of their “Art of the Animal” series…
When my friend Katherine Ball was being interviewed by the Oregonian here in Portland during the Occupation this fall, she asked me to write up something to address the so-called…
Adam Curtis, the BBC filmmaker behind a series of amazing documentaries like The Power of Nightmares and Machines of Loving Grace, has a great entry on his blog this week….
On December 6th a group of over 1,000 went on a tour of East New York, Brooklyn, a neighborhood immensely affected by predator lending and foreclosures. It was a powerful…
This past Sunday Justseeds tabled prints at Milwaukee’s Public House – the best bar in the country. Why you might ask? Because the Public House is cooperatively owned and profits…
I’m enjoying the memes coming out of the Occupation movement. here’s one inspired by the UC Davis officer that used “less than lethal” weapons on students last week. More at…
Artist/activist Lane Hall has been reporting weekly on the labor struggles in Milwaukee and the efforts to recall Walker. Below is recent post on the Daily Kos by Hall on…
Congrats to the working people of Ohio for repealing SB 5, the anti-union legislation that had ended collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers in Ohio. Last night voters overwhelmingly…
Justseeds is a 25 artist cooperative scattered across 14 cities and 3 countries. There is no way we could do what we do without the amazing online tools created by…
I just got this book in the mail. It is a companion to an exhibition at Monash University Rare Books Library, Melbourne, Australia. From the dust jacket, ” a journey…
I recently came across Tahrir Documents, an amazing website and resource that is archiving, scanning, translating, and representing a huge collection of documents, fliers, posters, and newspapers produced as part…
My friend Chas just forwarded me this link to a real awesome website dedicated to Labor Arts. Their mission: “To present powerful images that encourage understanding and appreciation of the…
Lately, I have been enamored with hiking and backpacking blogs, particularly those interested in retro outdoors gear and the centrality of the so-called out-of-doors. As I enter middle age, I…
Workers from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) are waging a critical fight in Longview, Washington – blocking trains and scab labor, and showing the rest of the country…
Milwaukee was festive today with a large labor day parade today that showcased the best attributes of the city – diversity, dissent, and creativity. The “Recall Walker” signs were out…
My friend Shawn in Providence sent me a link to this cool time-lapse video of on of his new installation paintings. How come we never make fun videos like this…
There is a successful campaign going on in Brooklyn right now. Last Friday supporters of, 82 year old, Mary Ward prevented Federal Marshals from evicting her from her foreclosed home….
Themba Lewis has a great gallery of pictures of street art from the revolution in Egypt on his website. His photos captured an explosion of public art onto the walls…
Yesterday, I took my daughters and nephew to see the studio of Gwen Frostic (1905-2001). Like many in Justseeds, my summer has been jam-packed with exciting and busy activities. I…
One of the most frequent questions I get when I lecture in universities around the country is: “What Art School did you go to?” I actually did not attend art…
A good friend of Justseeds, Bill Daniel, has recently launched a new photosite called Tri-X-Noise. Bill has been taking fantastic photos of American sub-culture since the early 1980s, from early…
I have been in Antwerp, Belgium this month, enjoying many of the benefits of a country that values cultural production in much more tangible ways than I am used to….
These flashmobs put a smile on my face. They are creative, fun, great pop parodies, and opportunities to engage with folks that may be unaware of the issue. May 29,…
This is part of the escalating nonviolent movement headed by Palestinian youth activists in the West Bank, Gaza, 1948 territories, refugee camps, and the diaspora. Palestinians and human rights activists…
My colleague Jemila Hart, who is a fellow board member of the Flight 64 print studio in Portland, recently had a show in the space of a series of monotypes…
Gil Scott-Heron, one of the great poets and musicians of our time, passed today. Few artists could fuse politics, social justice, and the language of the street as well as…
a project of Miller Schulman, one of the rad teens I have the pleasure to work with… Print Haiti: Fine Artibonite Prints from the Hangar Prosthetics Clinic, Hopital Albert Schweitzer,…
My friends Bettina and Devon in Chicago have recently released a new album as Teko Sãso, a 2-piece anarchist folk death metal band! Their first record, 11/11, is based on…
I just finished hanging a window installation of my Queer Scout prints, embroidered patches, and bear hankies at 5013 Penn Ave in Pittsburgh, where it will stay on view for…
Every week I have been making a drawing of one of my favorite scavenged objects. It is a nice way to think about all the amazing things you can get…
Russian art interventionists Voina (whom you might recall from this wonderful action and it’s hilarious world-upside-down aftermath) have donated a portion of the funds that Banksy gave them for bail…
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Just got this today from MoveOn. Please share far and wide on tax day!
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This van (seen in Pittsburgh) wryly references the myriad, often toxic rainbow of chemicals found in the hydraulic shale fracturing (or “fracking”) method used in drilling and stimulating natural gas…
Here are a few photos of the protest in Madison today. After some disappointing news this week, it was inspiring to see the largest protest in Madison yet. Labor is…
The March on Blair Mountain will be June 5 to 11, 2011 in West Virginia. It commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, when 10,000…
Silly post this week. I was hired to draw for a few hours in the lobby of the business school at Marquette University last week. It was a bizarre experience….
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Like many others across a continent that is being ravaged by a changing climate, Mid-Michigan experienced a foot of snow last night. In response to this blizzard, Michigan State University…
This week’s Rad Teen Print is by Maya Dean, and is another piece for Just Harvest. Maya puts a contemporary twist on the familiar Rosie the Riveter image in her…
I’ve been glued to my computer screen and speakers listening to the news from Egypt. There has been a growing social movement the last few days that has erupted into…
We received an envelope at the shipping office this past month with a couple of these stamped US$1 bills and this brief statement: The line between security & tyranny is…
Another poster for Just Harvest, this time by Shaquanda Winbush. The text both refers to overcoming obstacles in general, and an Usher song, that the girls listened to for inspiration…
Just finished setting up a ceramics studio in our basement. Working on making some pickling pots for the Spring Season. Here is where they are spun: Some sneak previews of…
Mary Tremonte is having an artist in residency at Wonderland! See photos of the studio where the magic happens! And Mary making magic!
This Rad Teen Print of the Week was created by Carrie McGinnis and M’Antayla Jackson for Just Harvest. Founded in 1986, Just Harvest is a membership organization which promotes economic…
Looking through my files of prints I realized that there is this whole set of handmade prints that don’t make it onto the store, but may nonetheless be interesting- –…
I was just recently able to see Army of Shadows(1969), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, for a second time at NYC’s Film Forum. The film is adapted from Joseph Kessel’s Army…
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great time. Here’s a little something for your hangover! The National Science Foundation released a report on the 29th of December…
I think this is a homesick image. I made this in Belgium after being away from Milwaukee’s landscape of numerous cranes for a month. I was just appreciating a row…
When I was a mini-proto-krusty-skater-travel punk, in the 90’s, I went to a handful of DIY punk and hardcore shows. The self-produced culture and autonomy involved always intrigued me. Growing…
When I was 10 I thought Madonna was the hottest woman on the planet! She represented a lot of what I wanted to be, breaking rules, teasing boys and girls…
M’Antayla Jackson created this silkscreen print in protest of the strict school uniform policy at her school. The text reads: “Do you think Urban Pathways Charter High uniforms seem to…
I got a great used book for my birthday, World Architecture 2 a large picture book of architectural trends from 1965. It contains many examples of Brutalism, an architectural style…
Some of us at Justseeds are working on an upcoming project with IVAW (Iraq Veterans Against the War). It has been really inspiring to be a part of it. A…
A lot of people have been excited recently about mobile silkscreen units, and the possibilities of setting up a simple silkscreen set-up most anywhere…I have done this in storefronts in…
It is a little known secret, but Justseeds can only do what it does because groups like the Riseup Collective create online tools that facilitate 25 artists in 14 cities…
A drawing made for two billboards. This double billboard is sponsored by In:Site, a public art org in Milwaukee. You can see it going west on Capitol Drive (near 32nd…
Over the weekend with the help of family and friends I installed a “Rowboat Lookout Tower” on 35th and Capitol in Milwaukee. This is part of a project organized by…
I am going to try and do a semi-regular post on things that interest me in, of, or about New Mexico. I’m still very much learning about this place so…
Hip-Hop activists Rebel Diaz, based out of the Bronx, have a new video- Libertad. http://rebeldiaz.mvmt.com/
Birmingham Sunday (September 15, 1963) Four little girls Who went to Sunday School that day And never came back home at all But left instead Their blood upon the wall…
There’s a great show up at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland this month, photos of the prisoner/volunteer-run hospice program at Angola State Penitentiary (LA) taken by Lori Waselchuk. Angola has…
I recently spent some quality time in northern Wisconsin. The best way to spend a summer day in Wisconsin is at a cabin on a lake. Luckily my uncle has…
Here are a few photos of what I made at WERKKAMP this July at Fort 8 in Antwerpen, Belguim. This wonderful event was put together by the fine folks at…
I am making a bunch of drawings and sculptures of “plausible inventions.” Here is one of them.
There’s a thoughtful (and critical) review of the Justseeds collaborative book Firebrands on Ernesto Aguilar’s blog here. (It’s a great blog too!)
Jules Perahim was a Romanian artist who died in 2008. Most links to him on the web refer to his surrealist works (in the Dali vein of surrealism) produced while…
I am making a bunch of drawings and sculptures of “plausible inventions.” Here is one of them.
Justseeds RESOURCED Portfolio Launch Reception Pittsburgh, PA Friday, July 30th – 6-10pm Free and Open to the Public 3410 Penn Ave 2nd Floor (entrance and bike parking around back via…
I am making a bunch of drawings and sculptures of “plausible inventions.” Here is one of them.
Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last day to see this show in person: Sailing the Barbarous Coast: work by Colin Matthes and Anthony Smith At Walker’s Point Center for the Arts,…
I am making a bunch of drawings and sculptures of “plausible inventions.” Here is one of them.
I am making a bunch of drawings and sculptures of “plausible inventions.” Here is one of them.
I just ran across a digital archive of Radical America, an SDS associated magazine that began in 1967. I downloaded a pdf of an issue at random and it was…
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:30pm-7pm Free Colin Matthes Artist In Residence Presentation Wednesday at 5:30 for no charge at all Justseeds artist and May AS220 Drawer/Inventor in Residence Colin Matthes…
This drawing is from 2007, titled Yesterday or Tomorrow.
I have been a big fan of Guru, Gang Starr, and the Jazzmatazz albums and wanted to share some tribute shows I’ve been listening to over the last week. Mister…
Yeah, I admit it. I draw birds every once in a while.
The Rondos were a punk band from the late 1970s from Rotterdam. They have a pretty thorough website documenting not only the band, but the many collective projects that the…
A review of my recent exhibition in Portland can be found here: Ultra
This is one of many “Mr.” drawings.
This is a detail of a large drawing that will be in E X P O, an installation at Igloo Gallery in Portland, OR that is opening Thursday (April 1)…
I was fortunate enough to have Favianna Rodriguez and Jesus Barraza drop by my house late last Thursday. With very little arm twisting, at 1AM, they convinced me to go…
Probably the silliest image I have posted. I was looking through my planner and it as on a blank page. It cracked me up. I have no idea when or…
Mary Kelly Here is a drawing in celebration of Mary Kelly, the Irish nurse and mother of 4 who decommissioned a US war plane with an axe while it was…
This week I’m bringing you rad art, rather than print…this drawing is from a project that students in Schenley High School’s Theory of Knowledge course did a few years ago….
Half brainstorming, half drawing. not sure where this is going yet.
This is one of the first prints created at Power Up, a new after school program I am teaching, by Shaleia McElligott. This poster is to promote Planned Parenthood of…
This is a detail of the drawing series titled “Bonus Footage about Loving, Leaving, or Existing in a Country that Revels in its Wars.” It is installed at the Central…
Another old skool image here…this silkscreen print was created by Abby Gordon and Kimi Hanauer for a Celebrate Pittsburgh People’s History project as part of RUST 2008. This piece is…
This week’s Rad Teen Print of the Week is from Schenley High School Theory of Knowledge class from Spring 2008. This project was a Pittsburgh People’s History print, and the…
This drawing is called Lean To. I made it while setting up the show Sailing the Barbarous Coast in Boston. I was thinking about symbols of power as theatre, a…
front back This week’s rad teen print is a t-shirt design, collectively conceived, drawn and printed by the girls of Power Up, a new after-school youth program I am teaching…
Just heard the sad news, Howard Zinn died Wednesday of a heart attack. I know all of us here at Justseeds were inspired by this great historian. These are some…
This is a little slice-o’-life blog entry. the van, all done up in front of the ranch Justseeds Artists Cooperative have a collective wealth of skills beyond making radical prints….
This drawing is in the show Sailing the Barbarous Coast that opens at the New Art Center, Newton, MA on Jan 15.
My good friend Dwight, owner-operator of the Tucson multi-functional art/community/print space the Gloo Factory and allied enterprise Peace Supplies has been struggling against eviction from his crazy downtown space for…
This drawing is part of the series “Feature Presentation about loving, leaving, or existing in a country that revels in its wars.” It is titled “Protection Project.” It is on…
This is a drawing from a series of drawings tentatively titled, “Bonus Footage about loving, leaving, or existing in a country that revels in its wars.”
This is a drawing from a series of drawings tentatively titled, “Feature Presentation about loving, leaving, or existing in a country that revels in its wars.”
Here’s a little gem that Icky forwarded to me, which is oh-so apropos in the aftermath of the Great Failure of the Copenhagen Forum. Keep on telling yourselves you can…
Our pal Brett Story’s film Roads Through Palestine can be viewed online now. It’s an impressive collection of imagery captured in the West Bank over 2003-5, I believe. I came…
This is a drawing from a series of drawings tentatively titled, “Bonus footage about loving, leaving, or existing in a country that revels in its wars”
I am working on a drawing titled Staying Afloat for an upcoming show at the New Art Center in Newton, MA (near Boston). Here is another detail of it (about…
I am working on a drawing titled Staying Afloat for an upcoming show at the New Art Center in Newton, MA (near Boston). This is a detail of it (about…
The month before my cousin got out of prison I sent him a drawing each day to help break up the days. This is one of em.
The month before my cousin got out of prison I sent him a drawing each day to help break up the days. This is a drawing of a table in…
I have decided to start a new blogging series about art and culture I have appreciated recently. I can’t promise it will be a series actually but at least there…
This week’s rad teen print is a postcard designed and silkscreen printed by Autumn Morgan for RUST 2008. Students created postcards for the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture’s (PASA) local…
My bro just sent me this photo of him in the ‘Hot In Here’ polar bear shirt I made him, at 14,000 feet! I’ll be running off more of these…
October 28th, 2009. For over one and a half hours, hundreds of corporate lobbyists wishing to attend the annual BusinessEurope conference were prevented from entering the Charlemagne building. The Climate…
“1917, Day of the Revolution, soldiers on [maybe a street name?]” This is a postcard set detailing the Revolution(s) of 1917 in Russia. Someone was auctioning these awhile ago and…
This just in from our friend John Duda in Baltimore, an automated insurrectionist rant generator! Guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment! John explains: “The purpose of this little program is…
It’s time once again for…rad teen print of the week! This week’s print is from Ben Page, a junior at Pittsburgh’s High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, who…
This one is called “Extras.” Ink and paint on paper, 10″ x 14″
My pal Erok & I sent some copies of Favianna Rodriguez and Josh Macphee’s book Reproduce and Revolt down to Chile about a year ago. Like many of the punks…
To go along with Mary’s posting about media coverage at the G20, here’s an awesome remix of the police order to disperse, heard in the streets of Pittsburgh during the…
At the suggestion of Shaun Slifer, I am going to post a new rad teen print each week…(some of my teens would totally make fun of me for using the…
YNKB is an arts group in Copenhagen (you may remember them from an old post I did on a trip Josh and I made to Europe). I continue to be…
John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods has argued that American workers do not deserve a health care system. We believe that heath care should be affordable for everyone, not…
Another drawing in the group I post each Wednesday at 8am.
Labor historian William J. Adelman has passed. His walking tours of labor sites in Chicago, his books, his union organizing, and vision inspired and educated many generations of activists and…
I went to Peter Kuper’s presentation of his recently published book Diario De Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico on PM Press. The event was an opening…
After our justseeds retreat in Pittsburgh in August I took a trip to my homeland of Wisconsin. Now I am sure most people don’t daydream of Wisconsin imagining how amazing…
This drawing, Spectators, is from my sketchbook. I will post a random drawing each Wednesday at 8am.
I draw obsessively and was recently asked if I would blog drawings now and again. I will be posting a random drawing to the justseeds blog every Wednesday at 8am….
This Summer has been crazy, it started in May with a three week trip through the U.S. with Latino and Indigenous artist from New York, Oaklahoma, Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia and…
The folks over at Arthur Magazine are building a cool online archive of printed papers created by the Diggers back in the mid-60s. For those new to them, the Diggers…
Tonight, several folks organized a Ghost Bike installation and memorial service for Rui Hui Lin, 38, who was killed while returning from a delivery on his bicycle Monday in the…
I don’t know where Justseeds would be without Riseup.net. Using the beta version of Riseup’s Crabgrass software, sort of like a car crash of a wiki, facebook and google apps,…
Artwork Inspired by 21st Century Breakdown Green Day commissioned artist Logan Hicks to assemble a group of artists to create works of art based on each song from 21st Century…
The insurrection in Greece in December was a visible and mass expression of the social war that rages at all times and will continue until the destruction of all domination….
I’ve had the discussion about my frustration with the saying “vote with your dollars”. Thats not voting, its consumerism. Its an economic relationship and system that denigrates activity and participation…
Maybe this means something different in Iran. (Sorry, if I knew where this photo came from I would credit it)
Just got this package in the mail. Awhile back Kristine Virsis and I had been contacted about having our art used on this benefit CD put out by the anarcopunk…
Celebrate your queerness and nerd out at the New York Public Library with this rad exhibit: 1969: The Year of Gay Liberation June 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009 Stokes…
Head over to Cat and GIrl for another good comic
Riffing off Kevin’s post about art and resistance in Northern Ireland, I thought I would post some photos of murals by the Bogside Artists’ in Derry, Northern Ireland. I took…
I was looking thru old posts from the C-monster blog and came across a link to the Magnum photography site. The link led me to a set of images titled…
I can’t remember where I found this book, but this is a children’s biography of Lenin published in 1934 by the CPUSA press. The writing is a basic heroic summary…
Some friends in Barcelona decided they were “fed up with the crisis, were tired of the fear that mass media communicate everyday, and sick of suffering in silence at home,…
Everyone in Justseeds has been cranking out illustrations for a collaboration with Microcosm to do a series of books about influential radical people/groups in the Americas. I had to make…
I came a cross some really beautiful images while looking for some visual references for a comment I wanted to post on Josh’s review of Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca. Photographer,…
Friend of Justseeds Brandon Bauer is a part of the project, Bathas Internationale, which now has a public access television show. BATHAS Internationale is a Milwaukee, WI based American art…
A friend told me about this artist Knaan, a Somali-Canadian who recently made this video. I found his work and political views to be really provocative and interesting. He was…
I found this book called Humanities nestled into the Social Science section in a used bookstore in Pittsburgh a few years ago. A thin handsome old spine, I pulled it…
Sad news from Chicago. Franklin Rosemont passed away this week and will be greatly missed. His profound legacy as an artist, activist, historian, IWW scholar, and co-editor of the Charles…
I came across Cat and Girl the other day and found it a charming and provocative comic. This one interested me since I’ve been discussing the values and necessity of…
I got this from Brian Ponto today: On this first day of spring we are proud to launch LANDFILL–an annual publication made in collaboration with our friend, the environmental printer,…
What can I say? The Justseeds installation was totally fun and I feel a bit of post-installation depression or something being back in my daily routine… Finding myself a little…
When I was in LA I got over to the California African American Museum to see Howard L. Bingham’s photographs of the Black Panther Party. The exhibit is made up…
Recently my friend who works at the Buckminster Fuller Institute in Brooklyn told me a story about the connection between visionary Bucky to the much beloved community group CHARAS that,…
A friend sent me link to some interesting montage made by Sergei Larenkov in honor of the 65th anniversary of the Leningrad Blockade, juxtaposing present day street shots with shots…
My friend Shaun Gilheeney from Providence, RI just sent me a link to his new site, which documents a large body of print and painting work he’s been doing over…
There is a brand new site called Think-Palestine-Act which will house resources “to (help) learn, teach, organize, and act with Palestine”. The site is described on their homepage as a…
Some folks changed the lyrics to Down by the Riverside to reflect the current needs of everyone living in Gaza. They went onto the NYC subways and sang some songs…
Whats more effective than adbusting? Taking the whole damn thing down! Found this while reading over at AnimalNY
Ladies and Gentlemen, the jury has returned from their deliberations and they have delivered the following verdict: we are fucked. Yes, fucked. The Earth is strapped down to a filthy…
“break (vitalogy)” all matter related we connected ana on corners holy grams ana incarcerated light gaze me ana gaza you can’t see me ana blood wa memory it was all…
15 years ago, on new years day the EZLN declared war on the Mexico, taking over the town of San Cristobal de las Casa in Chiapas in an attempt to…
In light of the current events in Israel/Palestine, a friend of mine asked me where I look for news about the agressions. I told him I usually check in with…
While I have been ranting and writing so confusedly, about the economic crisis, since September, some friends were putting together Radical Perspectives on the Crisis. Check it out, contribute, this…
The Christmas tree in the center of Athens, see Icky’s earlier post. Greece: Protests and Unrest Enter Third Week Protests continue across Greece in response to the police murder of…
Here’s some news from a friend in Argentina: A month ago the students of Escuela Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano in Buenos Aires, responding to plans by the city government to…
My friend elin o’Hara slavick just sent me this great holiday card designed by British political artist and photo-montagist Peter Kennard. Kennard has been making political collages for decades, he…
Last week I had opportunity to visit the advanced printmaking class at Portland State University here in Portland. Valerie Wallace teaches the class, and shares with me a fondness for…
I just got a rad book from the library called “Family Legacies” and it is about the art of Betye and her two daughters Lezley, and Alison Saar. Betye: Alison:…
Here’s a great video on printmaking, made by the folks at La Mano Press.
Hen of the woods bicolor bolete This summer I went mushroom foraging and even took a few Justseeds members on a couple of hikes! Mary Tremonte and Shaun Slifer both…
Naomi Klein on this morning’s Democracy Now!, “Wall St. Crisis Should Be for Neoliberalism What Fall of Berlin Wall Was for Communism”
In recent years many of the projects I’ve worked on have involved the creation of signs, and in the case of the ghost bike project– signs and a corresponding map…
This is your nation on White Privilege By Tim Wise For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples…
Does capitalism work? I need someone to explain this crisis to me, cos I can’t seem to figure out who gains with this most recent economic calamity. Anyone?
AbandonView tipped us off to an action that happened in Brasil on September 6th. No dia 06-09-08, um grupo de 30 Pixadores invadiu a Galeria Choque Cultural em protesto à…
Pittsburgh-based artist Bill Yund (Insulator’s Union, retired) has just launched an online collection of his drawings and stories about child labor, “Hardbred”. I was first turned on to Bill’s work…
Hello, fellow apes. I’m here today to tell you about your relatives. I’m referring to the other three African species of Great Ape, namely the gorilla, the chimpanzee and the…
While Republicans tried to take advantage of the potential destruction by Hurricane Gustav, and the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, stencil artist Banksy visited New Orleans to paint his own pointed…
Someone finally decided to do a street poster based on American Apparel’s Dov Charney. Most folks can identify the intriguing and sexual advertisements of American Apparel, yet probably didn’t know…
There’s a bunch of press on Steve Powers–ESPO– new sideshow installation, “Waterboard Thrill Ride”, in Coney Island. It appears that Powers made some robots that simulate waterboarding in a space…
This is a great project worth supporting at any level if you are down with art, zines, radical cultural spaces, and freight train hopping. Hard to imagine a better alternative…
As you may have noticed the Justseeds site goes thru some minor adjustments from time to time, one being the recent addition of the “blog roll”. (Its found on the…
Gonna make this garden grow…. My garden is in full bloom, and I thought it would be nice to share some photos! I’d love to see other gardens in bloom…
I booked a tour this week to take some of the kids we’re working with at RUST to see the murals of Maxo Vanka at St. Nicolas Croatian Catholic Church…
Today in 1892, Anarchist,Alexander Berkman, entered the office of Henry Clay Frick and attempted to assassinate him, holding him accountable for the deaths of strikers in the Homestead Massacre. This…
Joshua David Stein has written an article titled Ghost Riders about the Ghost Bike Project for New York Magazine. Really beautiful photographs by Christopher Griffith accompany the article. I disagree…
Photo by Fred Askew The 3rd Annual Memorial Bike Ride went as planned on Sunday, January 5th. There were around 250-300 cyclists that attended the rides that eventually converged on…
I recently traveled to Argentina and Chile. My intention was to travel more in Chile and not Argentina, so I only spent 4 days in Buenos Aires before taking a…
Our hosts, Finn and Kiersten, in Copenhagen ran a great little space called YNKB. Josh gave a talk/slideshow there on political printmaking. Located in the diverse working class Outer Northern…
Halloween is descended from Samhain, an ancient Gaelic harvest festival. It was brought to the United States by Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and English imperialism. Poor children would…
About a week and a half ago I was sitting in my living room ogling over my bikes. I had just gotten home from my friend, Johnny’s, house. He was…