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Observing the Obscure: Romare Bearden

Posted on 7 February 2011 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong In honour of Black History Month, join me in observing and celebrating the work of Romare Bearden. Though not a household name (unless your household is really cool), Bearden was an influential artist and major figure of … Continue reading →

Posted in Fine Arts, Geo, Music | Tagged african american artists, art as social revolution, baltimore, berkeley, berkeley city council chambers, berkeley the city and its people, black artists, black history month, bluer than blue, civil rights movement, collage, harlem, harlem renaissance, in e sharp, jazz, mural, new york city, new york university, obscure artists, observing the obscure, oils, painting, paris, patchwork quilt, romare bearden, sixties, social commentary, sorbonne, subway, the block, time for the bass, trombone solo, watercolours | Leave a comment

Bay Area Poetry Wars in the 1980s: A History Lesson

Posted on 25 January 2011 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong —Wait, what? Bay Area poetry wars in the 1980s??? What’chu talkin’ ’bout, Urchin? The Black Bart Poetry Society remains shrouded in such obscurity that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. (Isn’t that sad?) Perhaps the only … Continue reading →

Posted in Geo, Literature | Tagged 1980s, art as social revolution, bay area, berkeley, bill hawley, black bart poetry society, bob kaufman, books, frank o'hara, gail king, language poetry, language poets, life of crime, literary magazine, maureen hurley, mimeograph, northern california, oakland, pat nolan, phil coturri, poetry, poets, san francisco, satire, small press distribution, steve lavoie, susan brandt-hawley, tony coturri, wikipedia | 2 Comments

My Time at the Coffee House and Karen Tei Yamashita’s ‘I Hotel’

Posted on 11 January 2011 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong I had a good feeling about I Hotel, a novel by Karen Tei Yamashita, right from the start. In the first pages, before the copyright and title page, was printed the mission statement of Coffee House Press, … Continue reading →

Posted in Geo, Literature | Tagged art as social revolution, books, cafes, civil rights movement, coffee, coffee house press, coffee houses, coffeeshops, fiction, i hotel, inspiration, international hotel, karen tei yamashita, minneapolis, nonprofit, novels, publishing companies, san francisco, sixties, social movements, tea, yellow power movement | Leave a comment

What Is SUPERFLEX?

Posted on 8 November 2010 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong While in Washington, D. C., I bopped into the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden beside the National Mall. In addition to wonderful paintings by Joan Miró and Edward Hopper as well as one of the best sculpture … Continue reading →

Posted in Art & Money, Environment, Film & Television, Fine Arts, Geo, Politics & Global Issues | Tagged alberto giacometti, alexander calder, art as social revolution, art collective, artistic collaboration, biofuel, biogas, brazil, capitalism, consumerism, copenhagen, denmark, edward hopper, engineering, environmentalism, flooded mcdonald's, free shop, globalisation, globalization, guarana, guarana power, hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden, joan miro, mcdonalds, national mall, paintings, rio de janeiro, sculpture, social commentary, superflex, supergas, Washington D.C. | Leave a comment

A New Urchin Manifesto, Part Two: The Revolution of the Urchin

Posted on 22 July 2010 by The Urchins

[Read Part One if you haven't done so already!] Why should we be taken seriously, especially in this age where everyone blogs, everyone has something to say, without any credentials or anything? While we often resist the urge to blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Art & Money, Examples in Urchinism, Geo | Tagged anger, apathy, art as social revolution, blogs, change, cynicism, justin bieber, money, responsibility, revolution, urchin manifesto, young people, youth | 1 Comment

A New Urchin Manifesto, Part One: The Evolution of the Urchin

Posted on 21 July 2010 by The Urchins

The Urchins have been on the move for over two years, but we’ve hit a stride ever since crossing the border into cyberspace. While the audience that cyberspace provides will always be randomised and unpredictable, we knew the possibilities of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art & Money, Examples in Urchinism, Geo | Tagged art as entertainment, art as social revolution, blogs, change, faust, good art and bad art, judd apatow, mephistopheles, money, responsibility, revolution, urchin manifesto | 1 Comment

Bad Nature, Bad Words, and Bad People: Three More Revolutionary Books

Posted on 16 July 2010 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong Part Three of the ongoing and hopefully infinite list of revolutionary books. If you haven’t yet read Part One: Begin from Within or Part Two: You Animals!, be sure to check out those posts, too! Civil Disobedience … Continue reading →

Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues | Tagged art as social revolution, books, castro, civil disobedience, communism, communist manifesto, discrimination, essays, false consciousness, fox news, friedrich engels, gandhi, henry david thoreau, immigration, imperial, injustice, joseph mccarthy, karl marx, martin luther king jr, marxism, mccarthyism, mexican immigrants, mexican-american war, mexico, pol pot, poverty, resistance to civil government, revolution, revolutionary books, slavery, stalin, tariq ali, the idea of communism, War!, william t vollmann | Leave a comment

Why We Are Hungry: A Dave Eggers Appreciation

Posted on 8 July 2010 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong Last March, Dave Eggers won the coveted ‘Exemplary Human Being’ award at this year’s Urchies. In 2008, Eggers was the recipient of another award (a bit more prestigious, for now, at least). Eggers was awarded the TED … Continue reading →

Posted in Art & Money, Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues | Tagged 826, art as social revolution, dave eggers, education, ted, ted prize, urchies | 2 Comments

Keep the Protests Rockin’: Part 2 Top Revolutionary Songs

Posted on 7 June 2010 by The Urchins

When war refuses to end. When blame is shifted and nothing done. When we’ve problems and no solutions. When we’d be better off dead… When these words ring true, is when great writers and philosophisers sing. Until now however, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborative, Music | Tagged AIDS, all you need is love, art as social revolution, Barry McGuire, CCR, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eve of Destruction, Fortunate Son, George H.W. Bush, george orwell, Great Divide, hanson, HIV, Imagine, Imagine video, John Fogerty, John Lennon, Lennon/McCartney, Neil Young, paul mccartney, Rage Against The Machine, revolutionary songs, Rockin' in the Free World, Testify, the beatles | 2 Comments

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