In his pursuit to change the perception of art, American artist Javiye Bentley has developed an interesting perspective himself. Although he respects the tradition of art, his approach seems that of someone who prefers disruption and rebellion. His fluid-like abstractions seem to contradict the very raw, and battered canvas’s they inhabit. Although the paintings are tantalizing, the colors seem to almost mask the very dark and painful stories they depict. -
In his pursuit to change the perception of art, American artist Javiye Bentley has developed an interesting perspective himself. Although he respects the tradition of art, his approach seems that of someone who prefers disruption and rebellion. His fluid-like abstractions seem to contradict the very raw, and battered canvas’s they inhabit. Although the paintings are tantalizing, the colors seem to almost mask the very dark and painful stories they depict.
I forgot to say I did the art for this year’s free comic book day Judge Dredd story, here’s the first couple of with & without letters (harvested from screenshots because the preview images were converted into WEBP OF COURSE)
I illustrated a story in this week’s (last week’s) 2000AD Prog! Never drawn a roomba before in my life Here’s a preview with & without letters (for some reason the digital preview desaturated everything, but the colours on the actual object look the same, curious)
Jacinto was a nahual who protect the people of Jojutla, Morelos, in charge of defending the community of evil spirits.
He joined the revolutionary forces in the south after a police patrol rural, influenced by mesmerists vampires, kill his eldest son.
While nahuales not usually interfere directly in the events of non-magical world since the spanish conquest , Jacinto has been one of the few exceptions to the rule.
His fate is unknown, some say that vampires caught him and kill him, but others argue that his family run away in the mountains to lead a quiet life until the end of their days.
Sooo I JUST took this photo of downtown Columbus, Ohio on fire. And did this painting for my bro like 4 years ago…legit goosebumps. This painting is inspired by the Tulsa Race Massacre and gentrification in Columbus
#OTD in 1798 – The first clashes of The United Irish Rebellion begins in Wexford and in Leinster just after dawn.
#OTD in 1798 – The first clashes of The United Irish Rebellion begins in Wexford and in Leinster just after dawn.
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirí Amach 1798), also known as the United Irishmen Rebellion (Éirí Amach na nÉireannach Aontaithe), was an uprising against British rule in Ireland lasting from May to September 1798. The United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group influenced by the ideas of the American and French revolutions, were the main organising force behind the rebellion. The rebellion…
A reflection on the Vaughn Prison Rebellion from Kim Wilson, who has two sons at Vaughn:
“… At a time when the federal government has targeted vulnerable groups of people in this country, the #VaughnRebellion should be seen as a signal that solidarity includes solidarity with incarcerated people.
The men of Vaughn are demanding better treatment, education, correct status sheets, and effective rehabilitation. They are telling society that they will not be disappeared and forgotten. They are saying, unequivocally, that they matter, and that they will not be denied their humanity even if it risks them more time or their lives.
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Abuse thrives on silence. I don’t believe that we can afford to ignore the #VaughnRebellion as some outlier event in an otherwise model prison (though prison officials and politicians will try to push this line—hard). We don’t know who was involved in the #VaughnRebellion, but I stand in support with them and with everyone else at Vaughn that is subject to abuse. There are many inside that are legitimately afraid to speak up. There are also those outside who feel as though they can’t speak up because they worry that they will be banned from the prison. This is a legitimate concern, and I worry that I’ll be banned from seeing my sons for writing about the #VaughnRebellion.
This is how power and control work.
This is how abuse works. In the struggle for justice, I can’t allow fear to stop me.”
when we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. we revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, we can no longer breathe. {frantz fanon} #baltimore #ripfreddiegrey #shutitdown #rebellion #revolution #protest #blacklivesmatter follow @bydvnlln for epic footage
In Italy this is a very special day, taking the name “Festa della Liberazione”.
Today marks the day when the nazi-fascists were driven out of my country and defeated.
I want to take this moment to remember all the people, men and women, that took up arms in the Resistance and gave everything they had in the fight for freedom from the oppressors.
My thanks goes to them, for allowing everyone who came after them to live in a free, democratic country, but it also goes to the people that to this day still fight in the name of freedom and a better future for the next generations.
The fight for freedom lives on, let us never allow evils like those we saw in the last century show their face again.
I wish you all a happy Liberation Day
The song I linked in the post is one of the partisans’ songs that were sung in that time period. I encourage everyone to listen to it
Back in 1647, Christmas was banned in the kingdoms of England (which at the time included Wales), Scotland and Ireland and it didn’t work out very well.
New Arrivals: MAU MAU IN ACTION (1985), by Waruhiu Itote (General China). A history of the Mau Mau uprising in British Kenya (1952-1960) by one of the rebellion’s leaders.
Just spent a delightful evening clinching and trading kicks, elbows, knees and fists with my boy Adam in preparation for his title fight on Saturday. Been training with this lad since my second fight - can’t wait to see him get the gold!
On the way to the fights and feeling pretty emotional. I’m so jealous of my current/ex training partners who’re on the show. It’s the biggest/best one in Australia and there’s a couple of lads I’ve beaten on it, loss of training time and halting the fight career is the biggest loss I’m feeling since my baby girl was born. I guess that’s life…struggle and sacrifice. It’s all worth it; I wouldn’t trade the love and support I can give the girls for anything.
After reading George Orwell’s book Animal Farm and his life-changing dystopian 1984, I happened to be struck with a very powerful and triumphant point; why it is important to read.
In general, the books reflect events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was remarkably known to be a critic of Stalinism.
Anyways, why is it so important to read?
In the Animal Farm, Old Major – who symbolizes Marxism – was the oldest pig, he had assembled all the farm’s animals before he died. “Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night.” He had a dream of a world in which animals would live without the tyranny of the farm’s owner, Mr. Jones. – Who symbolizes Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II.
Animalism – which symbolizes Communism – was a system of ideals that Old Major established, which were put into words and hung on the barn wall for all animals to see.
After the rebellion of the animals against Mr. Jones, pigs were the ruling class, and as time passed by, they had started taking excessive advantage of all of it.
Clover was a female horse – who symbolizes the working class people – and when the pigs begin sleeping in beds, she thought that she remembered a rule against animals sleeping in beds.
Like in the Animal Farm, countless people are currently living under tyranny and opression. They are being, on ongoing basis, disdainfully patronized, fooled, with their rights being abducted away from them with all complacency and indifference.
In fact, the female horse, Clover, was right. One of the ideals was “4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.” But how could she prove the pigs’ deviation from the authentic laws if she could not read?
Clover represents those people who are able to distinguish deviation, but are helpless to change anything.
Another important moment was that of Clover watching other animals being executed by the ruling pig, Napoleon. – who symbolizes Stalin. – “As Clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago…”
The key phrase is, “If she could have spoken her thoughts.” But could she? Clover was not so good in using her words. She could not read.
Like the Animal Farm,1984 also speaks of betrayed revolution. The ruling party, which led to the revolution (in a very particular way), started to change and to take advantage of the people’s hard work. People were living under a totalitarian tyrant system. There was no such thing as freedom. “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.” For, “Big Brother [Oceania’s autocrat] is watching you.”
Until now, you may think just ‘knowing words’ might be useless. Well, that isn’t as futile and as simple as it might sound. In Orwell’s 1984novel, the totalitarian state Oceania had created a controlled language, the Newspeak, as a tool to actually limit thought. Yes, to limit thought! By reducing the vocabulary of the actual language.
The Newspeak had barely something new. It was English, but a more limited one. It attempted to eliminate personal thought by restricting one’s expressiveness.
By creating the Newspeak, Big Brother sought to tighten the range of thought through “the Destruction of words.” “It’s a beautiful thing, the Destruction of words.” Says Syme who works with Winston, the main character, at the Ministry of Truth.
Big Brother, who was all the time watching them through the Telescreen, managed to narrow the range of thoughts and concepts that would pose a threat to the regime, such as self-expression, individuality and freedom generally, in order for Thoughtcrime – the crime of simply thinking – to be “literally impossible.”
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” For the less you express yourself, the less you’re likely to make change.
In conculsion, and in Orwell’s view, the deluded dominated people must seek for knowledge. They need to wake up, to be aware, to become “concious”. For it is by conciousness that Truth would result, and it is within Truth that lies freedom.
“Until they became conscious they will never rebel…”
