By Mark | September 19, 2021
Late last night, under cover of darkness, members of a white supremacist group called the Patriot Front appear to have painted over the large “Black Lives Matter” mural in Ypsilanti’s Riverside Park. This, apparently, is something that this particular organization — a group which splintered away from the neo-Nazi organization Vanguard America after 2017’s “Unite […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged angry white men, black lives matter, domestic terrorism, driving while black, George Floyd, Heather Heyer, murals, Nazi, Patriot Front, public art, racial injustice, racism, racist, Riverside Park, Southern Poverty Law Center, Thomas Rousseau, Unite the Right, Vanguard America, white ethnostate, white power |
As much as I hate it when people come up to me and say, “You know what you should write about on your blog,” or “You know what you need to do on your radio show,” I found myself doing something very similar yesterday, when I wrote to Shepard Fairey on Twitter and suggested that […]
Posted in Ideas, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andre the Giant, Andre the Giant Has a Posse, Donald Trump, FBI, James Comey, Mark's big ideas, Russia, Shepard Fairey, stickers, Twitter |
By Mark | September 8, 2013
I guess, because I’ve written about the fuzzy line separating street art and vandalism before, I received a letter a few days ago from a local designer asking about the legality of wheatpasting – the act of affixing artwork or posters to walls and other structures with flour paste. Here’s his note. I’ve been trying […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged access to information, Amy Walker, committee to build a kiosk, graffiti, handbills, Hedger Breed, Historic District Commission, Kevyn Orr, kiosk, litter, posters, public art, Shepard Fairey, vandalism |
In the past three days, I’ve seen two local examples of what I think are knitted graffiti, or, to use the terminology of the vandals, “yarn bombing.” One was on the back deck of Ypsi’s Cafe Luwak. The other, featured in the following video clip, was on a fence along the Ypsi/Arbor corridor of Washtenaw […]
By Mark | January 7, 2010
Thanks to Dan Gillotte for turning me onto this.