{"id":3076,"date":"2007-11-02T12:08:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2007-11-02T12:08:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T12:08:11","slug":"illustrations_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3076","title":{"rendered":"Illustrations with bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/11\/illustrations_w.html\">John Nack<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I&#8217;ve been running across examples of illustration designed to shake things up &#038; reflect on the world, for better &#038; for worse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Note: Not for those offended by profanity]  Paul Krassner&#8217;s 1963 &#8220;F Communism&#8221; bumper sticker is a an incredibly efficient little satire of politics and obscenity.  Check out Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s commentary on the work for historical context.\n<li>On war &#038; walls:<br \/>\nThe NYT features a piece on Baghdad muralists hired to beautify, or at least adorn, the city&#8217;s grim anti-suicide-bomber blast walls. &#8220;With few opportunities for work, [the artists] are delighted with the money, but are also uncomfortably aware that all they can do is paint the symptoms of a conflict that has mired their city in death squads&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nElsewhere in the region, elusive British street artist Banksy has decorated Israeli&#8217;s security wall.<\/p>\n<li>Back in this part of the world, online company Brickfish kicked off a contest to &#8220;Design your own border fence&#8221; for the US-Mexico frontier.<\/ul>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/11\/illustrations_w.html\">John Nack<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I&#8217;ve been running across examples of illustration designed to shake things up &#038; reflect on the world, for better &#038; for worse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Note: Not for those offended by profanity]  Paul Krassner&#8217;s 1963 &#8220;F Communism&#8221; bumper sticker is a an incredibly efficient little satire of politics and obscenity.  Check out Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s commentary on the work for historical context.\n<li>On war &#038; walls:<br \/>\nThe NYT features a piece on Baghdad muralists hired to beautify, or at least adorn, the city&#8217;s grim anti-suicide-bomber blast walls. &#8220;With few opportunities for work, [the artists] are delighted with the money, but are also uncomfortably aware that all they can do is paint the symptoms of a conflict that has mired their city in death squads&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nElsewhere in the region, elusive British street artist Banksy has decorated Israeli&#8217;s security wall.<\/p>\n<li>Back in this part of the world, online company Brickfish kicked off a contest to &#8220;Design your own border fence&#8221; for the US-Mexico frontier.<\/ul>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}