(Art cred goes to Ron English, The Guy It’s All About.)
A little birdie submitted…
“Culture jam” movie night begins Tuesday, March 11th at 8:30pm with a public screening of “POPaganda- The Art & Crimes of Ron English” at ourspace, 414 East Main Street, two floors below Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar. Suggested donation: $1 and all monies go to ourspace. This documentary looks at Ron English, a founding father of the “culture jam” movement. Co-starring the Billboard Liberation Front. Brought to you by the ProPaganDada Due.
…and I don’t know if this little birdie knew I’d be the go-to person with this event or only had my email address. I ticked off the UVA chapter of NOW with a very clever jujitsu jam a few years ago in a flyer campaign I did for a friend. I’m so glad it raised a unibrow or two.
See that? It was kind of like that, right there– exaggerated reinforcement of a bad stereotype with word/image to make a point about how outrageous and offensive that stereotype is. They didn’t seem to think we were there yet. (It’s a fine line between being provocative and being offensive.) They might have been right. Enough about me. Let’s talk about you. You should go to ourspace tonight and learn about jamming.
Here’s a thread topic. Has anyone else noticed that for the price of one issue of fake ads in Adbusters, I could get, like, 500 real ads in 10 issues of Newsweek? How is that even fair?
Related posts:
- OurSpace: Opening on Friday Underneath the Tea Bazaar
- The Culture of Food: An Interview with Tara Tober
- “Special”
Oh, and HELLO, can we take this opportunity to thank belmont yo for being the site OFFICIAL culture jammer? This is what he DOES, and he rocks at it. I’m in awe, always.
/gushygushy
I’m sorry, I can’t get passed the image of the seductive cow girl.
/not eating any dairy products today, thank you very much
Crap. I’d go to this, but I forsee a CLAW in my future. Udderly.
stolen from the Jim Waive aesthetic meme pool, methinks
For more Jammy goodness, put these phrases into the google:
Survival Research Laboratories and / or Mark Pauline
Cacophony Society
Billboard Liberation Front
Adbusters
Improv Everywhere
2600
SubGenius
Barbie Liberation Organization
guerilla girls
…i could go on and on. Heroes, all.
SubGenius! I met the Rev. Ivan Stang at a pagan gathering in upstate New York years ago. Repent! Slack off!
Then of course, there are all the unintentional jams. Who needs a movie?
(sorry, i know its a stretch, but this is just breaking across boards left and right, and I wanted to share with the villain community. make sure to peep a sample of their “work” on their account page. I think they did underdog ladies audition tape… snicker))
my brain just exploded
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
re. belmont yo @ # 5:
it’s like you wrote the cliff notes to my autohagiography…
oh yeah, screw adbusters.
but then again, if they turn some people on, “whatever works”.
have you noticed the feeble attempts lately at co-opting media pranksterism? i say we infiltrate cheeto’s “orange underground”. after i figure out what to do next with it.
Yeah adbusters is a little on the high and mighty self righteous tip. I have always preferred more fun berries in my culture jam, but whatever.
SRL is the shit. Caught a couple of his “performances” in SF way back when. Life changing.