Randomly thinking of Dave Chappelle tonight (drawing from 2003)

Badass Santa

medora, premiering at sxsw

this is how you hail a cab

Cover art for Little Daylight’s debut single, “Overdose”

Billboard on Houston & Lafayette based on posters I designed

Propaganda and political responsibility in art, vis-a-vis Zero Dark Thirty

From Wikipedia:

“[Social Critic and feminist] Naomi Wolf likened Bigelow to the acclaimed director and propagandist for the Nazi regime, Leni Riefenstahl, saying: ‘Like Riefenstahl, you are a great artist. But now you will be remembered forever as torture’s handmaiden.’”

David Denby:

“Yet, in attempting to show, in a mainstream movie, the reprehensibility of torture, and what was done in our name, the filmmakers seem to have conflated events, and in this they have generated a sore controversy: the chairs of two Senate committees have said that the information used to find bin Laden was not uncovered through waterboarding. Do such scenes hurt the movie? Not as art; they are expertly done, without flinching from the horror of the acts and without exploitation. But they damage the movie as an alleged authentic account. Bigelow and Boal — the team behind The Hurt Locker — want to claim the authority of fact and the freedom of fiction at the same time, and the contradiction mars an ambitious project.”

Michel Focault:

“…there is no power that is exercised without a series of aims and objectives. But this does not mean that it results from the choice or decision of an individual subject; let us not look for the headquarters that presides over its rationality; neither the caste which governs, nor the groups which control the state apparatus, nor those who make the most important economic decisions direct the entire network of power that functions in a society (and makes it function); the rationality of power is charac­terized by tactics that are often quite explicit at the re­stricted level where they are inscribed (the local cynicism of power), tactics which, becoming connected to one an­ other, attracting and propagating one another, but finding their base of support and their condition elsewhere, end by forming comprehensive systems: the logic is perfectly clear, the aims decipherable, and yet it is often the case that no one is there to have invented them, and few who can be said to have formulated them: an implicit charac­teristic of the great anonymous, almost unspoken strate­gies which coordinate the loquacious tactics whose ‘in­ventors’ or decisionmakers are often without hypocrisy.”