Fiona Apple - "Hot Knife"

If I'm butter...love this.

Everybody Street - A Street Photography Documentary Trailer

No le digas a nadie (Don't Tell Anyone)

 "In the shadows of an abusive past and a precarious future, undocumented immigrant activist Angy Rivera tells her extraordinary journey from poverty in rural Colombia to the front page of the New York Times." 

An important story and cause.  Donate at Seed and Spark to make this documentary happen.

NPR: How The Death Of A 12-Year-Old Changed The City Of Dallas

Twelve-year-old Santos Rodriguez was shot and killed by a police officer in Dallas on July 24, 1973.

 

Like a Lunatic

Hikari Shimoda

Let me first say I love these paintings! It makes me reconsider how I bring the portrait/color/feeling into my own work.  Hikari Shimoda is a Japanese artist, obviously influenced by Mangaand Lisa Frank-like stickers but there is a heavier emotional tension to them.

"Impacted by the catastrophic earthquake in Japan in 2011, Hikari painted a series of children who have magical features as a result of the power plant explosion from the earthquake. 'The work mainly takes up the problem which people live in modern society faces with a child motif, create a original world view mixing innocently cutie and painfully eerie based on the way of expression peculiar to Japan'."Juxtapoz

Don't let it get you

Theaster Gates

awesome.

We're sorry

David Hammon - "Hood"

David Hammon's "Hood," (directly above) came to mind the second I heard the verdict that Zimmerman was found not guilty is his case involving Trayvon Martin.   This piece was made in 1993 and is still so relative 20 years later. Fucking heart breaking- and so enraging.

Fruitvale Station

Malala Yousafzai

 

Malala Yousafzai spent her 16th birthday demanding compulsory education for young people worldwide.

 In a speech Friday at the UN in New York, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head in October 2012 for speaking out about her right to education, talked about how she represents some 57 million children around the world are not going to school.

"We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced." 

Robin Rhode

“The source of inspiration is something which is not even a consciousness. It’s intuitive.” -Robin Rhode

Cosby Show favorite

BaaaAAAABAAAAaaaaay

Educate, Agitate, Organize

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Documentary

I don't know why it took me so long to see this movie because I love Ai Weiwei's work- But I saw this movie last night and was completely inspired.  It really brings forward what an artist is capable of doing and their responsibility within society.  beautiful.

The Underground Newsstand

cool idea.

pairs