Shepard Fairey's VOTE!

Shepard Fairey's great print work!
(Get out and vote by the way :-)


http://thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Shepard_Fairey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey

Flickr and Troy Davis

Troy Davis is awaiting the death penalty in Georgia where he was convicted of killing a police officer in Savannah Georgia in 1989. However, this was only on the basis of eye witness testimony, there was not other evidence connecting him to the crime and seven of the nine witnesses have recanted their testimony.

Here is an image from shaggyisaac on Flickr. This is one of many of the protest on behalf of Troy Davis on October 23, 2008.


Flickr (http://www.flickr.org) is an online database where people upload their photos to the web. Many times people upload current events in their area, protests, and gatherings. Uploading photos to Flickr has become a form of citizen reporting using photography.

For more information on Troy Davis here are some more links:
Amnesty International:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty/troy-davis-finality-over-fairness/page.do?id=1011343

Troy Anthony Davis website
http://www.troyanthonydavis.org/

-sam smiley

Painting Poetry

Check out this great project about Youth poets in San Francisco and their collaboration with a visual artist named Evan Bissell who transcribes their poems into painting.



http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9410d222d2391934859e510748802653

The full description and gallery is at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco
http://theintersection.org/gallery/

Via Racewire via a web site called New American Media.

-sam smiley