Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Repeal, Don't Progress

For Rembrandt, Ryan Harman 2010.

Top US military brass testify before congress about whether or not to repeal DADT, arrive at no consensus or decision, contradict themselves and each other, and dramatically reenact Rembrandt's 1662 painting, The Syndics of the Drapers Guild:

The Syndics of the Drapers Guild, Rembrandt, 1662.

See also:

Rachel Maddow: Signs Point to DADT Repeal

For Omar Khadr

For Omar Khadr, Ryan Harman, 2010.

I honestly thought that things were going to get better. You can promise to close Camp X-ray, Guantanamo, wherever? But when does that actually happen? The Bush doctrine is that strong? The most ineffectual president in the history of our country has created a system so powerful that you cannot avoid operating under the auspices of its unpublished/unwritten/unknown rules since election day? And now, as a country we persecute a man (now a man) that committed crimes against the United States of America at the age of FIFTEEN, and call his guilty plea a victory? Congratulations, this blue print for change is everything we HOPED for...

See also:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130961713

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/us/26gitmo.html?scp=3&sq=omar%20khadr&st=cse

http://unbearablenonsense.blogspot.com/2008/11/camp-x-ray-sarah-kane.html

You Know Who I Am...

You Know Who I Am, Ryan Harman, 2010

Digital fallout from the Rachel Maddow Show, 2010

Scoped

Scoped, Ryan Harman, c. 2000

From my first screenprinting class, c. 2000.

Shallow Tears

Imagine that Al Jourgensen and Peter Murphy got together and managed to (finally) produce Q Lazzarus' debut album. Gorgeous, visceral, intensely compelling pop music. I look forward to hearing whatever this band puts forth...

 

Dark Allies, Light Aslum. 2009

See also:
Light Asylum
Wikipedia: Q Lazzaurs

The Final Solution

M.I.A. manages to both invoke Huggy Bear circa 1995 and realize South Park's 'Ginger Kids' episode to its most possibly devastating trajectory:

Her Jazz, Huggy Bear.

Born Free, M.I.A., 2010, Directed by Romain Gavras.

Ghost Rider, Suicide, 1977.

All via a Suicide sample.

See Also:
South Park - Ginger Kids

The Three Beggars

Still from Antichrist, Lars Von Trier, 2009.

Pain, Grief, and Despair. More to follow...

See also:
Antichrist (2009)