emeraldtriangleprincess:

so there’s a lot of beautiful Rosie the Riveters out there, and I’ve compiled a set of them, so we can appreciate them all together :)

ps I don’t know the artists or women depicted for most of these, so if you have info, let me know and I’ll add it!

1. original print (J. Howard Miller)
2. Sabina England (artist and portrayal)
3. unknown
4. Kelly Rowland (portrayal); Derek Blanks (photographer)
5. Guatelmalan Woman of Quetzalteca Especial (artist: Mario Lanz)
6. unknown
7. Roshan the Riveter (artist: Omid Hast)
8. Latina Rosie the Riveter (artist: my-little-native)
9. Robert Valadez (artist)
10. unknown

Bit of an old one this, back when i was trying realism, thankfully i improved since then. This is based on the Kolchak tv series from the 70’s. Kolchak was yellow journalist who kept stumbling on ghosts and vampires and of course no one believed him.

This, i think is with someone else now, probably in the bin i suspect. I never take care of things i make.

Sexual swear words.

Mike Reid was an 80’s d.j who got the axe along with a whole calvacade of banal radio personalities in the early nineties for a younger more relevant crowd. Who really were just as banal, just played more up to date music.

He is infamous for narrating the rating warning on films, warning about ‘drug use, nudity and the famous ‘sexual swear words’. Which has been parodied in songs, comedy sketches.

I have had this image for a while now and am still unsure what to make of it, only knowing that it is useful.

Censorship i always thought of as a bad idea, since adults must be trusted to be adults, the idea that we cannot regulate our lifestyles  better than those who regulate us is laughable. And ‘who watches the guards themselves?’.

I read up on Reid and he is a small bigoted man, bitter at being booted off the radio, he used to do these manipulative narrations about listeners tragedies to some syrupy soundtrack. There all on youtube.

Anyway i suspect this will lead in to work being made about censorship, since we are more monitored than ever.

Good idea for an add about the Amsterdam red light industry. If you know about it, its famous for having these open windows that public can walk past. It is a tourist attraction with people going down to take pictures of the women like it was a famous building or something.

And it gets lost, that a lot of the women are not there by choice.

I’ve been posting a lot of art to my db, so thanks if you check it out. Or if you have db add me, i alwys leave a few nice comments and follow back.

Biggie Smalls- Where Brooklyn at?. Freestyle.

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the bridge and tunnel kids stand shoulder to shoulder in neon lit bars sipping over priced drinks from plastic cups. drinks as watered down as the requisite small talk that people make in bars on friday nights in this city when they are tired of sleeping alone.

and a weekly ritual plays out…

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

Pretty interesting wiki article on the tactics used by business to get you to buy things. Advertising and the control of customers is this huge billion pound business, and very hard to resist. The history behind it and the methods used are fascinating, and infuriating. But i think this is a great start to broadening my knowledge base.

I actually made art on signifiers. Signifiers are symbols laden with hidden meaning often with cultural relevance. Advertisers use them to create an emotional connection to their product.

Their ultimate goal is to get you to feel loyalty to a product or store.