Many recognize M.I.A for her hit ” Paper Planes” which released in 2007. It;s nearly eight years later, and she’s more well known for her “Bad Girls” video which came out in 2013. But M.I.A. is much more than a musician; she’s a visual artist and she features heavy political
Month: November 2015
So Chris Hansen crowdfunded a new “To Catch a Predator.” I think I could end this article here. I won’t, if only because I haven’t discussed how sixty-two people are now, for donating a hundred and fifty or more (upwards to around two thousand) real, actual dollars, part of the
Robert Yager is British born photographer who is known for documenting Los Angeles street gangs. Yager was raised in a poor family and learned about “the cholo” first hand when he as living in a trailer park. Being white, he was a minority and saw a taste of what it
There has recently been discussion in the local San Diego area regarding the opening of an art park and program where artistically talented individuals would be legally able to display their art. The space for this park would be at an underpass beneath the 163 Highway. The proposal was made
The United States makes up 4.4 percent of the world’s population, yet it houses 22 percent of the world’s criminals. The difference in these percentages is staggering and it speaks volumes to the failing state of the justice system in the United States. The U.S. penal system often traps criminals
Bill Henson is a renowned Australian artist that has spurred controversy in the art world regarding his photographs of nude children. In 2008 at the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney, police seized around 21 photos of naked children and threatened to charge the artist for child pornography. The police raid
Ai Wei Wei, born in 1957, grew up as an exile in Shihezi, Xinjiang, because his father was a poet in the Anti-Rightist Movement in China. Basically, political activism and artistic abilities are in his blood. In 1978, he enrolled in the Bejing Film Academy to study animation, until he
Self-titled pick up artists Vince Kelvin, Arash Dibazar, Nick Hawk, Julien Blanc and ‘Bad Boy,’ are a group of men who have supposedly cracked the secret code to picking up women, so much so that they have begun to call it an art. This art is all about seduction and