Thursday, October 31, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
Skyline Circuitboard
Using the skyline of Denver, the greatest city in the world, I demonstrate the conundrum of technology's advancement of society, and it's proper place in this constantly changing world.
In this piece, technology is spreading from the city, toward the Eastern Plains. Some places have been left out, representing both the difficulty of some people to afford this technological expansion, and the Church's obvious conflict regarding the ways in which to simultaneously embrace and reject scientific advancement.
Some circuit boards (mainly motherboards) more than vaguely resemble neighborhoods, in abstract; which largely contributed to my desire to create this amalgamation of images.
In this piece, technology is spreading from the city, toward the Eastern Plains. Some places have been left out, representing both the difficulty of some people to afford this technological expansion, and the Church's obvious conflict regarding the ways in which to simultaneously embrace and reject scientific advancement.
Some circuit boards (mainly motherboards) more than vaguely resemble neighborhoods, in abstract; which largely contributed to my desire to create this amalgamation of images.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
A Camera and a Gun
They're more
similar than you think...
Both of them
shoot...
Both of them
have the ability to destroy lives and careers...
Both of them
are linked to some level of guilt or responsibility...
Both can serve
as evidence, in the right arena...
Both have the
ability to change the world; and both have...
Both come in
black...
Both can have
telescoping lenses...
Both have
sights...
Both have
triggers...
Both can be
rapid-fire...
Both can be
modified to one's specifications...
Both can be
dangerous, in the wrong hands...
Both can be
concealed easily...
Both have
cartridges of varying capacities...
Both have been
used to take down political figures...
Both are seen
as symbols of Constitutional Amendments...
Both require a
human to operate them...
Both are viewed
as symbols of revolution...
Both must be
operated with proper timing and skill...
Both require
training or instruction...
Both come in a
variety of styles...
Both are found
on all corners of the planet...
Enthusiasts of
each are equally crazy...
Both can settle
or escalate an argument...
Both have
fatefully found people in compromising positions...
Both have been
used by James Bond...
Both are found
in most American households...
Both can be
used as a tool; although, I wouldn't recommend using either one as a
hammer...
Both can come
with a strap and/or case...
Both are
commonly used in the wilderness...
Both are
commonly used by people working abroad...
Both are used
by the military...
Both have been,
at times, mounted on various vehicles...
… and
personally, I don't like haring either one pointed at me.
Strange, isn't
it, how two things so different can have so much in common?
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Pointing a Few Middle Fingers
We saw it with
the Massey Mining Company.
We saw it with BP, Transocean, and Halliburton.
And now, we've
seen it with the West Texas Fertilizer Company.
We've seen it
time and time again... profit over life... many of us have lived it,
ourselves... and now, a pattern repeats itself.
We all remember
the tragedies associated with these companies; yet, we fail to make
the simple connection linking them all...
Not a single
one of them thought enough of their piddly employees or neighbors to
ensure their safety. When it came to improving conditions, they
bought their way out of it with bribes to Congress by means of
“lobbyists”... and their greed cost human lives, and continue to!
These bribes
lowered standards and reduced the numbers of regulators to the point
that they were too swamped to do their job...
… and now, in
Texas, we have a SPECIAL case, in that Rick Perry BRAGS about the
deregulation that's “bringing businesses to Texas.” First of
all, the VAST majority of jobs that have moved in are MINIMUM WAGE
jobs! What fuckin' good is that going to do for a father of two?
Minimum wage...
do you realize what 'minimum wage' ACTUALLY means??? 'Minimum wage'
means,
“... well, we
WOULD pay you less, but we can't... you're really only a peon...”
… and, given
the fact that businesses can get away with almost ANYTHING in Texas,
minimum wage jobs are moving in, because employers KNOW that they
don't have to give a shit about their employees there!
Do we REALLY
need any more evidence that these douchebags don't give a fuck about
the lives of ANYONE else??? They all knew the risks their employees
and neighbors were taking, and they simply didn't care... as long as
it saved them a few bucks.
Consider
this... employer abuses now are as high or higher than they were...
(are you ready for this?)... during THE GREAT DEPRESSION!!!
Yes, there it
is again... the Depression... we've seen it in relation to worker
compensation, wealth distribution, and reckless Wall Street
behavior... and yes... working conditions.
They wanted
child labor. They fought a minimum wage. They fought a 40 hour work
week. They fought against safe working conditions. They fought it
all, because it was eating into their paychecks... and they're STILL
doing it today!!!
The upper
echelons of the business world have become entirely held by
sociopathic blue-blood narcissists, and THIS is what we get for it!!!
You can't even call what we get “table scraps” at this point...
we get the “pity” pay...
“Here you
are... now, go away before you get your 'poor' on me... and don't
touch the pool... I'd hate to have to drain it... stay on the
plastic, please... off the carpet...”
So what if a
few of the lost little lemmings die... there are SO MANY of them...
and they just keep making more... they're so CUTE!
Don't you get
it yet??? That's how they see us!!! If they didn't, they would have
the conscience not to do the things that have taken the lives of so
many of the people. If they actually DID care about their employees,
they would actually put SOME effort into making safer conditions for
the people who make them their fortunes!
Business these
days is run like a slaughterhouse. For every one slaughtered,
there's another cow coming right in behind to fill the exact same
position. So, why take care of them, when they're so easily
replaceable?
For a long
time, they only paid people enough to keep them from bitching. These
days, they don't care how much people bitch... you'll take what you
get and you'll LIKE it, or you'll get FIRED for bitching when you
should be working!
Employers have
us by the balls, because they KNOW it's a shitty economy out there,
and they KNOW that you HAVE TO take it, because you'll just get more
of the same shit for less money at the next place that tricks you
into joining their ranks with silver-forktongue promises without
telling you that you have to be there ten years before you get a
nickel's raise.
But is anybody
in Washington talking about this??? FUCK NO!!! Why??? Because “We
the People” don't have a LOBBYIST!!!
Wanna know the
fucked up thing???
WE SHOULDN'T
HAVE TO HAVE ONE!!! That job SHOULD be filled by the ASSHOLES WE
ELECT!!!
At what point
does corporate “lobbying” get recognized for what it is...
corporate oppression?!
My friends,
we've been placing our efforts in the wrong places.
Many of us
recognize this for what it is... a silent class war.
We tried to
make a change with “Occupy”... but sights were set too high. We
were attacking the wrong first target.
If you want the
advantage, you first take out the infrastructure with which they arm
themselves, so that when they're out of ammo, they're just out; and
they can't fire any more shots.
Considering the
fact that their ammunition is the money that's flooding into
Washington, the first target should be the LOBBYING FIRMS; not the
banks, themselves.
The banks are
soulless. Asking them to change their ways is no different than
asking Charles Manson politely to abandon “Helter Skelter”...
which is why you have to take down the “Manson Family” first!
So, what we
SHOULD be doing, is making it as hard as possible for these lobbying
firms to conduct business! Every time they have a meeting, someone
should be RIGHT THERE with a microphone and a video camera!
Those assholes
should be shadowed the same way the Paparazzi follows Britney
Spears!!!
In fact, TMZ,
I'm tired of your shallow, exploitative bullshit! Why don't you
direct your efforts somewhere that's ACTUALLY productive for society!
Why don't you start following the assholes that might be committing
FELONIES, rather than the people who might at some point commit a
'nip-slip?'
I don't give a
FUCK about 'who got fat,' or about who's pregnant with who's kid, or
who's cheating on who...
NONE OF IT
MAKES A FUCKIN' DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD!!! IT'S NONE OF OUR FUCKIN'
BUSINESS!!!
You have
so-called “journalists” who can find out that J-Lo has a mosquito
bite on her ass from three miles away, but you can't use that same
team to expose the lobbyists and Congresspeople for the douchebags
they are??? Come the fuck on... do the right thing for a change...
then, maybe... JUST MAYBE... America won't be seen as the shallow
assholes we've become to the rest of the world...
… for
fuck's sake...
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