> I always found this slogan provocative:
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> http://catandgirl.com/store/fca.php
On a gut response, I find this offensive. Tho I suspect, the American
military - in some quarters, at least - implicitly slogans, "Future Corpses
of x, y and z countries" as part of their Manual of Operations. It's all
nonsensical, and leads to more and more indiscriminate killing of innocents
et al.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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> On 7/29/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Re Hiroshima:
>>
>> Yesterday I was thinking of a provocative act. To make white cloth envelopes
>> with stencils of pictures and names of the Iraqi civilian dead. These would
>> be temporarily, and periodically placed over the grave stones of soldiers in
>> American, Australian and United States' military cemeteries.
>>
>> There would be huge, righteous outcry/outrage from certain, predicatable
>> public sectors. But the act would level the dead and/or 'living' fields. In
>> fact, I would call it an homage to the "living dead."
>>
>> It might also speaking to the living, albeit amputated outrage that I
>> suspect many of us feel about this war, as well as a few other disastrous
>> incursions in the 20th and 21st century.
>>
>> Stephen Vincent
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> This reminds me of visiting Leicester some 20 or more years ago, and finding
>>> some of the paths stencilled with human figures -- men, women, children,
>>> lying as though surrounded by the chalked outlines indicating murder
>>> victims. It was Hiroshima Day. And I could not bring myself to step on them.
>>>
>>> joanna
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:42 AM
>>> Subject: Re: New de blog
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Peter. Stenciled sidewalk art is just gaining a toe hold(!) in San
>>>> Francisco. Apparently it is all over Europe now. A German artist friend
>>>> told
>>>> me that Barcelona is filled with it to the point of way too much. Ironic
>>>> how
>>>> things are born, get a great peak, and then get destroyed by saturation
>>>> and
>>>> mediocre stuff - like subway cars in New York that got suffocatingly full
>>>> of graffiti in the 80's. That help bring on the likes of Mayor Giuliani
>>>> with
>>>> heavy hitter cops, jail terms, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, well. Poetry on the page or in the air forever!!
>>>>
>>>> Stephen V
>>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Great post Stephen!
>>>>> Eros Meets Stencil Art - Dolores
>>>>> Park<http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=556>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Peter Ciccariello
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/28/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Eros Meets Stencil Art - Dolores Park
>>>>>> ... the way the erotic appearing dirt stain on a sidewalk
>>>>>> unintentionally
>>>>>> both augments and betrays the voice of a forlorn speaker. The way the
>>>>>> red
>>>>>> stencil ink - variously awash about the concrete - speaks to an enduring
>>>>>> passion. A woman, I think. An artist who came west with her lover,
>>>>>> either
>>>>>> left him, or was betrayed, then set to stenciling the romance...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Green, green, I want you..." Haptic & Commentary
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cantor Museum, Stanford University - Haptic
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 733 Guerrero - Haptic
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Joanne Kyger at City Lights - A Haptic with brief commentary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As always, comments appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stephen V
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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