At the end of August, one of my favorite Ypsilanti artists, Rita Jane Riggs, will be packing up and heading west to see what the universe has in store for her. Please join me in wishing her well on her journey. MARK: What first brought you to Ypsilanti, or were you born here? RITA: I […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Albuquerque, angels, animal spirits, astrology, Bee Roll, Binkie, blankets, blood, Breaking Bad, Buddha, Deja Vu, Demons, Dreamland Theater, eastern religion, EMU, EMU Art Department, exit interviews, extraterrestrials, fairies, First Fridays, ghosts, God, halos, hamsters, Huron River, iconography, illustration, innocence, Jesus, Krishna, Mary, meth, multidimensional realities, New Mexico, Normal Park, painting, plant spirits, psychic abilities, rats, reincarnation, religion, religious icons, Richard Brautigan, Rita Jane Riggs, Robert Spier, saints, sausage gravy, spirit guides, spiritual practice, stripping, T- Hardy Morris, tarot, Video Games, vulnerability, watermelon, watermelon sugar, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews |
Those of you weren’t alive in the ’80s probably won’t get the reference, but there was a commercial that used to play all of he time on television for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in which a man, strutting down the street, eating a chocolate bar, turns a corner and runs right into a young woman […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arizona, biker gangs, Elton Simpson, Flash Nelson, hate speech, Jon Ritzheimer, Mohammed, motorcycles, Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, Nadir Soofi, Phoenix, racism, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups |
For this, the seventh in the Art, Food, Sex and Trauma series, I’ve decided to reach out to my friend teaching art at Eastern Michigan University, can generally be found painting wonderfully complex fox-head-covered tartan patterns on canvas in his Chicago studio. MARK: You’re a Canadian, right? CHRIS: Yes, I’m a Permanent Resident of the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anthropomorphic textiles, art food sex and trauma, Canada, Canadians, Chris Hyndman, Degrassi Junior High, dogs, Dudley Do-Right, Eastern Michigan University, EMU Art Department, eyeballs, flannel, fox heads, greed cards, hands, lobster, No-Touching Zone, painters, paintings, plaid, Steve Sabados, tangrams, tartan patterns, textiles |
By Mark | January 7, 2015
This was Stéphane Charbonnier, better known as Charb. He was a political cartoonist, and the editor-in-chief of the French satire publication Charlie Hebdo. Today, he was murdered in Paris by masked gunmen along with 11 others, including cartoonists Cabu, Wolinski and Tignous. The men who perpetrated the attack have yet to be found, but evidence […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Allahu Akbar, Cabu, Chab, Charb, Charlie Hebdo, David Pope, Everybody Draw Mohamed Da, France, Free Speech, God is Great, Islam, Islamophobia, Joe Randazzo, Muhammad, Paris, political satire, radical Islam, religious extremism, satire, Stéphane Charbonnier, The Onion, Tignous, Wolinski |
Every so often, on Facebook, Roger Ebert posts his submissions to The New Yorker’s weekly Cartoon Caption Contest. I’ve never given it a shot, as I don’t think I really have a handle on the editorial voice of The New Yorker, but, as I’m laying in bed sick at the moment, with nothing better to […]