“The Exstinctor propaganda project aims solely at destroying the notion of commodity.
Just like graffiti, my work is public, and not private. NoGalleryNoMaster was created so that we can choose and select how my work is sold and distributed, in accordance with very specific criteria.
We will refuse any sale or collaboration involving galleries, institutions or any other for-profit artistic entities, which enables me to keep unrestrained artistic vision, independence and freedom.”
More infos at Hypebeast.

The single greatest threat to the climate comes from burning coal but despite this a whole new fleet of dirty coal-fired power stations are on the verge of being built in the UK (the first for 30 years). The snow globe was designed for Ctrl.Alt.Shift in anticipation of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

Designed by UK collective Dorothy

(via WeWasteTime)

Truther Toys: “concept toys that’ll get ya thinking”…

[via nerdcore]

“Voina (or “War” to give them their English name) are a radical art group concerned with challenging the Russian establishment on important political issues such as attitudes towards homophobia, race, and the totalitarian actions of the state, through creating outrageous and provocative art performances in Russia. Two of their members; Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev have been detained for more than a month at St Petersburg Prison on false allegations.”

Read the interview on dontpanic.

“They respect nothing, have no values, except those in their stock portfolio
and are rewarded with mind-boggling bonuses, despite their deplorable actions.
They are the presidents. In three words, “They **** us.”

By purchasing one of these tshirts, you will also help support many non-profit organizations that every day try
to repair the consequences of Ze President’s actions.

[via lustik]

This is not a recent project, but we never posted it and it totally deserves to be here!
Ladies and Gentleman… The Yes Men and Gilda, the Golden Skeleton:

“On April 28, 2005, at a London banking conference to which they had accidentally been invited because of their satirical website, “Dow representative” “Erastus Hamm” unveiled“Acceptable Risk,” a Dow industry standard for determining how many deaths are acceptable when achieving large profits. The bankers enthusiastically applauded the lecture, which described several industrial crimes, including IBM’s sale of technology to the Nazis for use in identifying Jews, as “golden skeletons” – i.e. skeletons in the closet, but lucrative and therefore acceptable ones.”

Read the full story here.