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10,000 yellow construction helmets lined up outside Milan Stock Exchange

LB — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:37:25 +0000

Via designboom. In a “day of anger,” unemployed construction workers hit by Italy’s recession stage brilliant protest outside Milan’s Stock Exchange. For more photos see link.

Idle No More

LB — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:46:21 +0000

I am in full support of Idle No More and Chief Theresa Spence’s now perilous hunger strike in a tipi across from Canada’s Parliament buildings in Ottawa. Chief of the beleaguered town on Attawapiskat in Ontario, where inadequate housing has led to a level of misery that attracted even UN censure, Spence is engaged in a desperate gambit to force PM Harper to speak with her.

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Cartoonist Dan Murphy’s spoof of proposed BC pipeline

LB — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:06:46 +0000

By cartoonist Dan Murphy of the Vancouver Province newspaper (which pulled it after he posted it). Hilarious.

“Jobs”… or not. This oil pipeline proposal is the worst deal ever for B.C., with all the benefit going to China and corporations.

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You Know Things are Messed Up When Librarians Start Marching

LB — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:50:15 +0000

Most of the photos here were taken by a friend of mine, Canadian filmmaker Velcrow Ripper, at Occupy Wall Street. Reproduced here with permission. See his whole gallery of Occupy Wall Street photos.

2010 Olympics anti-graphics

LB — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:16:06 +0000

Graphic design isn’t usually my focus, but when you’re interested in design and are living amidst the deluge of an impending Olympics in your hometown, the tide of graphics is impossible to ignore.

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The Tresure Chest (sic) is empty

LB — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:05:13 +0000

Apologies for my continuing semi-absence from this blog. I appreciate your patience and I thought you might enjoy this sign from one of the crafts stalls at the Ferry terminal between Vancouver and Victoria.

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Ruins

LB — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:08:03 +0000

After a disastrous week for the arts in British Columbia, this is all I’ve got, a photo of a ruined barn and some statistics.Read this entertaining set of facts about arts and arts workers, what they contribute to the economy, and some serious public misconceptions about the role of the arts.

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When bric-a-brac was part of a revolutionary politics

LB — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:07:59 +0000

Vancouver curator Scott Watson’s essay Urban Renewal: Ghost Traps, Collage, Condos and Squats is part of the impressive and totally compelling Vancouver Art in the Sixties website project.

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