Two years ago, when Cindy Sheehan started sitting in a ditch in Crawford, TX, I didn't know how to make a bumper sticker. Rena at Crawford Peace House was the first person to ask me for one, and I've done a few more since then. Now it's Impeachment Summer!
I was delighted when some Kossacks requested permission to use this soft, retro MPEACH fruit image for stickers, at rallies and so forth. Creative Commons licencing is such a good idea. So I'm going to load this diary with resources you might find useful - images, graphics tools and a couple of ideas.
Please, take some iMpeaches - and add your own! More MPEACHY goodness below the fold.
I'm often inspired by Kossack diaries and comments, so over time I've made a few images here.
These graphics and more are available for your personal use at
http://www.flickr.com/...
More are added as they are made.
To turn images into huge murals or billboards (up to 20 meters/60 feet) look at
the information on this site:
http://www.makeuseof.com/...
"The words of the prophets are wrtitten on the subway walls And tenement halls..."
While I would never suggest that anyone spray grafitti on walls, or use markers - so toxic - there is another way to get your message out. Oil pastels, available wherever artist's supplies are sold, are inexpensive. Oil pastel looks like chalk, but stays and lasts.
If you want to buy items with my designs on gear, I have a shop at http://www.cafepress.com//peaceangel
and am setting up at Goodstorm. Profits go to peace work and social justice causes - your purchases help support Cindy Sheehan, Veterans and Common Ground Relief of New Orleans.
Finally, I would invite all peace loving folk to speak truth to power by shining light as this artist did.
Image - Xen Kub by Jenny Holzer
http://www.gwu.edu/...
“The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A tax-exempt public charity, the Archive receives no U.S. government funding; its budget is supported by publication royalties and donations from foundations and individuals. On March 17, 2000, Long Island University named the National Security Archive as winner of a Special George Polk Award for 1999 for “piercing self-serving veils of government secrecy” and “serving as an essential journalistic resource.”
http://www.gwu.edu/...
Art Before Power
New Jenny Holzer Exhibition
Showcases Archive’s Documents;
Artist Projects Former Secrets onto
Buildings, Walls, Floors, Memories
Washington D.C., June 17, 2004 - Noted modern artist Jenny Holzer, whose signature “xenon” film projectors have cast monumental light images of texts and truisms on the sides of buildings and landscapes from Florence to Buenos Aires, features the National Security Archive’s declassified documents in her latest exhibition, which opened on June 11 in Bregenz, Austria, through September 5.
Holzer’s texts for the Bregenz show, titled “Truth Before Power,” include more than 30 former secrets obtained by the National Security Archive through the Freedom of Information Act (primarily on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, especially Iraq), as well as an essay by the Archive’s director, Thomas Blanton, titled “The World’s Right to Know,” from the July/August 2002 issue of Foreign Policy.
The texts appear in a series of projections, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. each night between June 11 and June 18, onto such surfaces as the façade of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Rhomberg rock quarry, the Vermunt reservoir dam, and the “West Side Story” floating stage on Lake Constance. In addition, the top three floors of the Kunsthaus feature Holzer’s electronic sign arrays as they stream extracts of the texts.
“Jenny Holzer does for the digital age what a nail and broadsheet used to do, for example when Martin Luther pounded his theses onto the church door,” commented Thomas Blanton, the Archive’s director. “She turns every surface into a page, she illuminates not only texts but perception, and by projecting these secrets into the night she transforms the words of power into transitory bolts of lightning.”