A friend just passed this link along to me about a billboard close to my apartment and I thought I’d share it. Kinda clever.

www.billboardliberation.com/burn.html

A big thanks to everyone for coming out to the show on election night. A great turn out and lots of good conversation. Myself, ISH and the Meridian gallery couldn’t have asked for more from the evening.

This past week I’ve been getting little sleep in preparation for the “Evening With Anarkon,” this Tuesday evening (see previous post). I thought I’d post some photos of the process. Right now I have a bunch of final comped pieces littering my room and took photos of a few included “Anarkon Amber Beer,” which will be available at the event, the printing of those labels, various packaging for various products, an Anarkon Brand Standards Guidliness, an Annual Report and a bunch of posters.

I just found out that on election night I’ll be given some space at the gallery I work in to show the Anarkon project off. This is in conjunction with the closing party for their current exhibition entitled “The Art of Democracy: War and Empire.”  If you haven’t seen it yet I would highly recommend it. All political art.

So come one and all, bring your friends and check out my thesis project in progress. This is of course election night and I believe we will be showing live coverage on the giant projector screen upstairs. I’ll be on the third floor in the room currently occupied by ISH, the design “experiment” I work at with this guy, and these fine people.

Information

What: An Introduction to Anarkon / Closing party for the “Art of Democracy: War and Empire”
Where: Merridian Gallery / 535 Powell Street (at Sutter)
When: Tuesday, Nov 4 Election Night / 6PM - Midnight

I’ll be there around 6:30 or so. See you there.

Kind of a late post but I went to the first night of the SF CounterCorp film festival last week and saw a documentary on Monsanto called, “The World According to Monsanto.”I was a little disappointed in the production quality and research methods that went into making the film but never the less learned more than I already knew about this truly evil corporation.

It’s that time of the year again and this time the SF Anti-Corporate Film Festival is taking place on October 15-17th at the Brava Theatre at 2781 24th Street. I went to a few screenings last year and all the films I saw were pretty great. Take a look at this years showtimes at Counter Corp. See you there.

Just watched Idiocracy this evening. A pretty fun (could have been better written) movie about where the human race is heading. Over all though it’s a decent futuristic comedy about the dumbing down of the population and has some great commentary about modern entertainment, corporate domination and the state of democracy.

I just got some new flyers in the mail back from Vista Print. They are smaller versions of the posters I’ve been working on. Look for them in the record stores and coffee shops around S.F. If you’d like a handful let me know.

This weekend I finally got anarkon.net up and running. It’s a discussion board where I’m hoping users can talk about issues concerning branding, advertising, corporate responsibility, government and our relationship as citizens to all of the above.

If you haven’t been yet please sign up and chime in.

The past two weeks I’ve been reworking the Phase 1 advertisements which present future consumption possibilities pending the success of Anarkon’s branded take-over. I’ve taken them away from the illustrated style I had going before and comped them to look like real products you might be able to buy from Target, Walgreens, etc. I think my favorite thus far is the Heroin Fun Kit followed closely by the Plan Z Emergency Contraceptive Pill.

Feedback very much welcome.