Corporate Revolt

Billboard Liberation Front

Carl — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:44:22 +0000

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

Election Night

Carl — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:44:04 +0000

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.

Anarkon Exhibition Prep

Carl — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:21:07 +0000

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.

An Evening With Anarkon

Carl — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:52:14 +0000

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.

Anarkist Handbook Progress

Carl — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:20:53 +0000

Over the past month I’ve been working on the first edition of the, “Anarkist Handbook: An Instructional Guide.” This will be a perfect bound 6×9 inch book at around 100 pages that gives step by step guidelines for successfully navigating the revolution. The first chapter starts out with topics like protesting, how to deal with police, how to avoid being arrested, how not to get shot, how to handle chemical exposure, etc. The guide then moves on to breaking and entering (picking locks, hotwiring cars, etc.) and into how to make some basic revolutionary items (guide to 3 different types of Molotov Cocktails, how to make your own tear gas, smoke bombs, fake ID’s, napalm, etc.)

I’ve posted a few of the preliminary illustrations here. If anyone has anything they think should be in guide let me know.

The World According to Monsanto

Carl — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:48:29 +0000

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.

Anti Corporate Film Festival

Carl — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:07:37 +0000

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.

Idiocracy

Carl — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:04:40 +0000

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.

Flyers

Carl — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:19:21 +0000

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.

Anarkon.net

Carl — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:03:48 +0000

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.