My Kid's Fridge Pictures Are Different Than Yours

Some art done years ago by Savant. I know the images are much darker on my screen than they are on Savant's. My apologies to the artist. After his illness struck when he turned 18, we sold posters of his work on eBay for a while, then I got tired of running the auctions, but we can still make them if we need to. He is a prolific artist and his style changes as time passes. This is just a taste.

This abstract reminds me of Marcel Duchamp's painting "Nude Descending a Staircase no.2", but Savant says it is a visual of the sound a guitar string makes.



Chomsky:

[PS: (Feb. 2007) Noam Chomsky has this print now! I emailed Mr. Chomsky to get permission to use his quote, featured here, in a small edition of signed and numbered, 18" X 24" prints for sale. His representative gave permission and asked for one for Mr. Chomsky's own archives. Contact me or check eBay if you want one. Beautiful Mind Fine Art.]

A tribute to Noam Chomsky. It is a shame the text is unreadable at this size, because it goes so well with the art and is still politically relevant. He calls the character "Picasso's Bull". This one sold more posters than any other.
Chomsky text:
Top left frame:
They were called "scientific methods of strike breaking," and worked very effectively by mobilizing community opinion in favor of vapid, empty concepts like Americanism. Who can be against that? Or harmony. Who can be against that? Or, as in the Persian Gulf War, "Support our troops." Who can be against that? ....Anything that's totally vacuous.

Top Right Frame:
In fact, what does it mean if somebody asks you, Do you support the people in Iowa? Can you say, Yes I support them, or No, I don't support them? It's not even a question. It doesn't mean anything.


Bottom Left Frame:
The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything. They mean as much as whether you support the people of Iowa. Of course there was an issue. The issue was, Do you support our policy?
But you don't want people to think about that issue.
That's the whole point of good propaganda.

Bottom Right Frame:
Its critical value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about. So you have people arguing about support for the troops? "Of course we don't not support them." Then you've won. That's like Americanism and harmony. We're all together, empty slogans, let's join in, let's make sure we don't have these bad people around to disrupt our harmony with their talk about class struggle, rights,...& that sort.

Nostalgia:



Not All Punk Gods: