media and culture
News and articles about work, policy and workers' struggles in the media and culture industries around the world, and analysis and reviews of art, culture and the media.
Subvertising billboards
A guide to subvertising - altering commercial outdoor poster and billboard advertisements to get your message across.
The Art & Science of Billboard Improvement
a comprehensive guide to the alteration of outdoor advertising
Introduction
Comfort, Alex, 1920-2000
A short biography of British doctor, anarchist and author of the Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort.
Alex Comfort (February 10, 1920 - March 26, 2000) was a British physician, anarchist, poet, novelist, anti-nuke activist, sexologist, etc...
A psychiatry lecturer at Stanford, Comfort was most famous for writing the many-times bestselling book, The Joy of Sex.
Einstein, Carl, 1885-1940
A short biography of German poet, writer, art historian and anarchist combatant in the Spanish Revolution, Carl Einstein. He commited suicide in 1940 to avoid Nazi persecution.
Carl Einstein
Aka Karl Einstein, born 26 April 1885 - Neuwied/Rhein, Germany, died 3 or 5 July 1940 - France
Impassioned by art, Einstein was loosely associated with the Dada movement, and was part of the German expressionist movement where he discovered Picasso, cubism, and also African art.
Tiger Woods - shot advert during strike
Golfer Tiger Woods scabbed on a commercial actors strike in 2000 by filming a non-union advert for Buick in Canada.
Populist.com reported that Woods' agent has portrayed the shoot as a contractual obligation that had to be fulfilled immediately because of its tie to the upcoming Sydney Olympics.
Liz Hurley - filmed advert during actors strike
Actress Elizabeth Hurley was fined £70,000 by her union for scabbing on a five month Screen Actors Guild (SAG) strike.
In 2000 the "star" had the fine imposed by the trial board of the SAG for breaking a five-month strike by appearing in a perfume advertisement for Estée Lauder.
SAG members held demonstrations and film events Hurley attended, holding placards stating "Elizabeth Scabley, you make me Hurl."
She claimed not to know about it.
