2013-05-03
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Five years ago today, Flickr announced its video feature. Some users weren’t happy.
(I’m actually kind of happy I made these posts now, as they’ve all been taken down. One of the users has now left Flickr entirely. I’ve been through Flickr so I know that users own their images, but on the other hand I like that these otherwise ephemeral protests escaped their creators clutches.)
2012-03-09
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“GOD HATES GAME DESIGNERS” and “THOU SHALT NOT MONETIZE THY NEIGHBOR”, seen outside the Game Developer Conference, San Francisco. via Jack Murphy; photographer unknown.
2012-03-05
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English Heritage Image Explorer:
Graffitti on a wall in French Ordinary Court, beneath Fenchurch Street Station.
2012-01-05
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2011-05-26
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2011-01-20
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Polaris, by David Mach. This sculpture, made of roughly six thousand car tyres, was exhibited outside the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1983.
Intended as a protest against the nuclear arms race (and Britain’s participation in it), the sculpture itself became controversial. As Wikipedia relates, a member of the public attempted to burn it, but “got caught in the flames himself and suffered fatal burns”.
(via Damien Hirst’s Top 5 Art Moments, via Michelle Kasprzak.)
