war

This has been blogged pretty heavily, but a friend hadn’t seen it so I’m posting it here. This is my favorite video short of this election cycle. It shows so much in just two minutes: war, Katrina, the economy, housing and infrastructure collapse... telegraphing familiar characters from their past comfort into the present crises, riding humor into pathos and back again into hope. For readers outside the US, the video is based on a short film that became a popular, widely aired TV ad some 8 years ago. More at wikipedia.

A few collections of wonderful things:

• Political street art mostly related to the U.S. presidential election
• Anti-war stencils, a Flickr group
• Activist images and posters from around the world in the traveling Propaganda III exhibition

Download as a PDF.

Thinking about the pace of social change. Here’s a quick sketch.