American Affairs Desk: Great American Tea Party
By Mark Kaufman Here’s my take on all of the tea bagging that’s going on. Sure it’s a convoluted idea, Paul Ryan, Newt Gingrich, tax cuts, technology, the future of the GOP, but hell this whole tea party phenomenon is a convoluted mess of anger and messages.
Happy Anniversary. Saddams Away.
By Mark Kaufman To mark the anniversary of the fall of Baghdad I found one of my illustrations from from way back in 2003.
Free Speech? Priceless.
By Mark Kaufman The Free Press Society in Denmark and the International Free Press Society are offering limited edition prints of one of the infamous Mohammed cartoons that caused riots, mayhem, death threats, trade boycotts, fear, apologies from heads of state, and more than 100 deaths in violent street protests. I don’t know about art, […]
L’Aquila Earthquake. Donate to the Italian Red Cross.
By Mark Kaufman Love italy? Of course you do. Make a donation to the Croce Rossa Italiana, and help those affected by the earthquake. Don’t speak Italian? No worries, the online donation form is easy. More ways to help here.
Mighty Boosh Back in the USA
By Mark Kaufman The Mighty Boosh are back on American television, albeit at 1:00 am on Sunday nights. Thanks to my DVR and Adult Swim for bringing back the masters of all media to the USA. I first caught them on BBC America a few years back, and much to my despair the network has […]
Varoom Magazine Issue No. 1 / FREE
By Mark Kaufman I heart magazines. I am old. I love to hold them in my hand, I love to lazily thumb through them. I love to start over and pore over every spread in detail. I love to read the articles and study the images. However you can’t always get what you want, sometimes […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Shuts Down
Put a fork in the Seattle P-I.By Mark Kaufman Yet another newspaper bites the dust. The Seattle P-I has published it’s last print edition today. It was my preferred Seattle daily. The Hearst Corporation will be publishing an online only version of the 146 year old newspaper. It seems doubtful to me that the online […]
Illustrations of the Week: Bernie Madoff
Courtroom art, Elizabeth WilliamsThe above illustrations are by noted courtroom artist Elizabeth Williams. A schemer, swindler and former master of Wall Street and the go-go Bush years, pleads guilty to 11 charges of fraud, perjury and money-laundering and an illustrator is there to preserve the moment for history.
American Affairs Desk: Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal Jibber JabberBy Mark Kaufman The Bobby Jindal non-response to President Obama’s non-State of the Union.
Rights Mis-Management
Happy Little PawnshopsBy Mark Kaufman Odd and disturbing story in the NYT yesterday about an outfit called Art Capital Group which according to the article is basically a pawn shop for wealthy patrons to pawn off their art collections. Nothing so disturbing there, it is actually a clever twist on the hoi polloi pawning off […]