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Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:31 am

puttin' in work..clean 2 i bet...JP call me at the homefront...chea !!! :pint: :banana:
“But as Garcia said, you know, the '60s ain't over till the fat lady gets high. And that means that whatever it takes to get you high: sometimes grief, sometimes it's prayer, fasting. I prefer a joint.”-Ken Kesey
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Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:24 pm

thanx!! yo out on the streets!!!
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Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:49 am

yo :shock: printing soon in the town!!!
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Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:27 pm

now @ 4.900 poster printed!!
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Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:09 am

we have now printed 6.200 posters!!
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:20 pm

we r now up to 6.500 posters we printed!!
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Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:21 pm

A friend at a coffeshop told me Occupy was going to start up
in Oakland about three days before, and I complained that I didn’t like it
because it was going to rain and I was thinking, why couldn’t we have this last
Spring, and he said you can’t choose things like this. So day one it rained,
but I was following what was going on in New York, and so on day two I said “I feel like making
a poster,” and instantly “Hella Occupy” formed in my head. I pretty much have a
recipe I follow, it’s a bit of everything, so when I did the drawing it was a
very natural process.I grabbed a regular piece of paper and sketched out the
drawing, then laid a piece of acetate over that, and then got out some India
ink and a paintbrush and hand painted over the drawing to make my film positive
which I used to make the stencil. It took me less than 45 minutes to make the
drawing, altogether maybe an hour and a half to create a final film positive. I
then shot the screen.I printed them at my studio and on the third day we went to
Occupy and gave out 45 posters. Everyone super liked them. The response I got
was amazing. So the next day we went and printed 150 and gave those out. On day
five we showed up and printed 200 on site. We went on for three of four more
print sessions and on the day of the General Strike we printed 1,000 posters at Oscar Grant Plaza.
It was a smart choice to make the poster split-fountain,
really beautiful. And of course the colors are symbolic, the black for anarchy
and the red for Marxism. And the posters were free, that was the critical part.
Most people had never had a free poster given to them, let alone a political
poster, that was not an advertisement. People responded with offers of help,
buying paper, and supplies, the general public gave us all sorts of donations,
it was super nice. There are also several variants – a “Hella Solidarity with
Egypt” poster, an “Oscar Grant” poster, a “Hella Occupy San Francisco” poster, a "Hella Occupy UC Davis" poster and a "Hella Occupy UC Berkeley" poster. At both the UC Davis and UC Berkeley General Strike we printed 900 posters on campus and for free. At last count, we have printed 6,400 posters for free. And a few weeks ago we printed at a San Francisco protest in the rain. Water and oil-based ink don’t mix, so when I
was making these prints it was leaving a pattern down the middle. I’m used to
making a clean poster, so it took a bit to let go and let it be what it was.
The people really liked it. I took a bunch down to the [OMCA] White Elephant Sale to
donate, and an elderly white haired-lady said “Oooh, art,” and I said “Yes, these are Hella Occupy posters,” and a
lady behind her said “Oh, I don’t think we want these,” and the first lady said
“I think we do,” at which point I said that the Oakland Museum is interested in
them, and while they were arguing I walked back to the Art section. By the next
day they’d all been sold, raising $100 for the Museum, and they asked me to
donate another batch.
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Sun Apr 08, 2012 10:54 pm

now up to 7.000 poster!!!
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Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:44 am

gridlock wrote:now up to 7.000 poster!!!
Thank you! :clap:
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Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:23 pm

samuraiwriter wrote:
gridlock wrote:now up to 7.000 poster!!!
Thank you! :clap:
:pint: chea!!
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Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:46 pm

http://museumca.org/calendar/omca-scree ... ug-minkler ...........now up to 8400 postsers!!
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