More info:
Categories
- actvist example (35)
- advertising example (8)
- art example (40)
- design example (3)
- event (1)
- interviews (3)
- politics (1)
- pop culture example (11)
- research (51)
- science example (2)
- social marketing example (2)
- Uncategorized (10)
Tag Archives: comedy
Al Gore on Creative Activism
Click to play or download here: Al Gore On Creative Activism.
Miami’s Community Avengers
Have No Fear the Community Avengers are Here!
As the right wing mob mobilizes to shut down democratic debate on health care reform; as Van Jones is forced from the White House through distortions of the truth and plays on racial and political fears; as the recession deepens – the masked marauders known as the Community [...]
Posted in actvist example Also tagged action, activism, humor, media, performance, politics, popular culture, pranks, resistance, showmanship, street, stunts, theater Leave a comment
Jonah Lehrer on Colbert
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Jonah Lehrer
Emotions vs. Rationality in decision making.
Artists need to embrace the emotional influence their work has in decision making.
Posted in pop culture example, research Also tagged empirical, media, neuroscience, perceptions, psychology Leave a comment
Candy Raver Russian Revolutionaries
Not everyone has much faith in art-activism, but you can’t please ‘em all. Do symbolic protests accomplish anything more than raising morale for the protesters? If not is it enough to simply raise morale? Or do actions like this War prank create temporary autonomous zones and manifest, albeit briefly, the type of reality the [...]
Posted in actvist example, art example Also tagged activism, art, politics, pranks, stunts 2 Comments
Mark Fiore’s Subversive Cartoons
Mark Fiore is a political Flash cartoonist who cranks out a new short almost every week. He is clearly a liberal Democrat and his cartoons slant that way, but even when I find the ideas annoying or simplistic, or superficially critical, the cartoons are still funny. There are objectively funny moments (if such things can [...]
Wassup 2008
Funny, engaged in pop culture, arguably hard-hitting message… this is good.
Posted in actvist example, pop culture example Also tagged politics, popular culture Leave a comment
Laugh at a Campaign Pitch? Sure. Visit the Grandparents? Not So Much. – NYTimes.com
MIAMI — When Sarah Silverman told young Jews to get their lazy rotund rear ends to Florida to persuade their grandparents to vote for Senator Barack Obama, one question loomed: Would they go?
This weekend was the first big test, a kickoff for the so-called Great Schlep, and so far, momentum has been building with the [...]
Posted in actvist example, pop culture example Also tagged elections, emperical, evaluation, failure, media, metrics, nytimes, perceptions, stunts Leave a comment
Larry Flynt Producing ‘Palin porno’ political parody
I think the key line here actually comes at the end. “Whatever you think of Larry Flynt, the man knows his First Amendment,” Kelly concluded. Seriously, that smut monger is a true champion of the First Ammendment, and we should all remember that the freedom of speech is the freedom to be offended. Now is [...]
God Hates Flags