Upcoming Events

Galway | Arts and Media

no events match your query!

New Events

Galway

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link The Wholesome Photo of the Month Thu May 09, 2024 11:01 | Anti-Empire

offsite link In 3 War Years Russia Will Have Spent $3... Thu May 09, 2024 02:17 | Anti-Empire

offsite link UK Sending Missiles to Be Fired Into Rus... Tue May 07, 2024 14:17 | Marko Marjanović

offsite link US Gives Weapons to Taiwan for Free, The... Fri May 03, 2024 03:55 | Anti-Empire

offsite link Russia Has 17 Percent More Defense Jobs ... Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:56 | Marko Marjanović

Anti-Empire >>

The Saker
A bird's eye view of the vineyard

offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.  We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below). 

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

The Saker >>

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Netanyahu soon to appear before the US Congress? It will be decisive for the suc... Thu Jul 04, 2024 04:44 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N°93 Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:49 | en

offsite link Will Israel succeed in attacking Lebanon and pushing the United States to nuke I... Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:40 | en

offsite link Will Netanyahu launch tactical nuclear bombs (sic) against Hezbollah, with US su... Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:09 | en

offsite link Will Israel provoke a cataclysm?, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jun 25, 2024 06:59 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Subvertising in Galway

category galway | arts and media | other press author Thursday March 08, 2007 17:27author by Shaolin - Galway Institute of Ninja Piracy Report this post to the editors

Some recent instances of culture jamming in Galway City
dscn0527a.jpg

The purpose of this kind of art is to make people on the street think about our world and how they're living in it.

It's also reclaiming mental space - in our consumer culture we are constantly bombarded with materialist advertising, so this is one way we have of countering such messages (with our budgets being considerably less than those of the multinationals).

Some of the stencils are originals, some were taken from internet galleries (see link below).

Related Link: http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/

dscn0535.jpg

dscn0526.jpg

dscn0603.jpg

dscn0602.jpg

author by Shaolin - Galway Institute of Ninja Piracypublication date Thu Mar 08, 2007 17:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A couple more pics

dscn0598.jpg

dscn0597.jpg

author by darwinistpublication date Thu Mar 08, 2007 19:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I like the evolve thing - so wanted to add a little evolution thing i've got.

-
-

author by Dubpublication date Thu Mar 08, 2007 19:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Nice Art. But what's wrong with being a motorist? If a car is run on biofeuls what's your problem? Anyway surely it's the urban planners and Car firms that are to blame for car emmissions not regular punters that rely on cars as their only means of transport. You seem to blame them.

author by mutantpublication date Thu Mar 08, 2007 19:18author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The raw materials which make the car are extracted and refined using fossil fuels with little regard to environmental damage. Just as the tarmac a car requires to run efficiently is a by-product of the petro-chemical industry.
What we need is a return to the horse, but one which has been modified or carefully bred to reduce its manure producing side-effects.

author by iosafpublication date Thu Mar 08, 2007 19:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The horse is thought to have been domesticated (in the service of the great ape of the order homo sapiens (sapiens)) at some point in the last 7,000 years. It is thought to have completely replaced slave labour as the main tool of heavy lifting and pulling about 200 years ago leaving only 3 other quadrapeds competing its status as "number one beast of burden". The others being oxen, camels and the related donkey. Even today the principle cause of death in road accident in Latin America is a donkey or mule. A horse replenishes itself every 335 days and after only one year may be trained - it is thus quicker to produce and bring to end consumer than a car. A horse lasts an average of 25 to 30 years - a car does not. A horse is intelligent - a car is not. A horse is sexy - a car needs a naked big titted woman lying on it.

I'd also like to remind people that the perfectly functional simian village of "planet of the apes" had seen fit to keep only a few important attributes of its predecessor human civilisation -
Horses.
Magazine loaded rifles which the gorillas used.
Religion which Dr Zeus used to hide the truth.
Science - which gave the chimpanzees something to get their mind off constant shagging.

The ascent of the car caused the descent of the horse.
I defy any one to counter my 4 legs good 4 wheels bad theory. We can stop global warming in one generation.


author by drool sgt see d chaffer - clandestine insuregent rebel clown army, safe-chi patrolpublication date Thu Mar 08, 2007 20:49author email drsrgtseedchaffer at gmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

while promoting an alternative to motoring, "the revolution will not be motorized" doesn't explicitly attack morotists. It is a complex situation, and surely no one individual (or cohort of people) is to blame..... the whole motoring/transportation industry needs to evolve.

But anyway, Hurrah! for bio-diesel!

being in colorado, usa, we don't have quite the same intensity of congestion as in ireland, but we do have too many suvs! and i have heard rumblings that our suv fad is catching on over there... that true? if so, that's a big problem for ye! there's no room for monster trucks!

(however, a lot of our public transportation vehicles are run on bio-diesel which would be great to push for in Eire. again, Hurrah!)

big LUV! and Viva la Revoluccion!

author by Shaolin - Galway Institute of Ninja Piracypublication date Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thank you Sergeant Chaffer of CIRCA-US.

"The Revolution will not be Motorised" is not intended as an attack on ordinary motorists. It's merely supposed to encourage people to use green transport where possible, and to think along the lines of reducing carbon emissions.

author by assjockeypublication date Mon Mar 12, 2007 07:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"The ascent of the car caused the descent of the horse.
I defy any one to counter my 4 legs good 4 wheels bad theory. We can stop global warming in one generation."

em, do you plan to shift the cultural mindset that much?i used to think inside an activist bubble....it burst... now i have realistic ideas/thoughts....i am all for reducing emissions, recycyling etc but do you actually own a horse and ride it to work/social activities and just tie it up outside?how would all your food get transported before it goes off?do you grow your own food at home?

i`m curious.and not to sound overtly pessimistic but sure we can change the way people think in western society, but whats the plan for countries like China and India which are sprawling beyond belief??? i heard a fact that, if you imagine all of the structures and buildings in the whole of Manhatten, New York, well thats how much China is buliding each year.So the aim of stopping global warming in one generation is just a tad over ambitious.I dunno, I am no authority on the subject but time will tell and I hope, sincerely, that I am wrong.

4 wheels good but yes when the world population was 1/6 of what is now and nobody could actually afford any of the goods/services they crave now.its gonna take alot longer than one generation to quench that thirst for materialism.

author by wageslavepublication date Fri Apr 06, 2007 04:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The dripping paint on the red shell one is particularly evocative. And the remote control one is good too. :)

This is rather cool graffitti. Sadly most of the stuff I normally see is stupid mindless name writing and defacing by morons. IMHO this makes difficult areas even more depressing to live in and usually acts as a signal that it is ok for vandals to start messing the place up further because it's already run down. I've never understood what good graffitti-ing up and vandalising your own fucked up neighbourhood does. Now if it was all smart stuff like this, that might be different.

Number of comments per page
  
 
© 2001-2024 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy