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  1. Wow, Harry, I didn’t know you had that kind of talent! That’s awesome!

    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @ben tillman

    Thank you, but honestly something like this doesn't take a great deal of talent, just some familiarity with Photoshop. I found a photo of an angry woman on Google images, gave it the Shepard Fairey treatment, which I learned from a YouTube instructional video, and matted it to his poster. It took me about 45 minutes. This is why, while I envy Fairey's genius at self-promotion, I'm not very impressed with his artistic ability.

    Replies: @SPMoore8, @Bill B., @theo the kraut

  2. Perfect. That lays bare the real message of the original, and the intimidation-aimed-at-US of Fairey’s whole shtick.

    Maybe Harry will do Steve’s Statue of Immigration concept.

  3. It would be nice to have the picture with Professor Steiner’s face.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Hodag


    It would be nice to have the picture with Professor Steiner’s face.
     
    Or Keith Olberman's.

    Replies: @Dennis Dale

  4. Nice work Harry, but before you disseminate too many copies of this, check for a copyright or trade mark. Otherwise we will need a Go Fund Me for your legal bills.

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @Buffalo Joe

    If it is not used commercially, it should not matter. And even if it is used commercially, the exceptions to copyright law for parody and satire are pretty broad.

    http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/parody-satire/

    P.S. I'm not a lawyer.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Anonymous

    , @Days of Broken Arrows
    @Buffalo Joe

    This would most likely counts as satire, and things like "parody logos" are allowed under U.S. lawn, unless you're selling the same product. But I agree he should check with a lawyer.

    That said, this is fantastic and I really like it. More honest, too.

  5. I liked Fairey’s version a lot more.

    But nice try and all.

  6. @ben tillman
    Wow, Harry, I didn't know you had that kind of talent! That's awesome!

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin

    Thank you, but honestly something like this doesn’t take a great deal of talent, just some familiarity with Photoshop. I found a photo of an angry woman on Google images, gave it the Shepard Fairey treatment, which I learned from a YouTube instructional video, and matted it to his poster. It took me about 45 minutes. This is why, while I envy Fairey’s genius at self-promotion, I’m not very impressed with his artistic ability.

    • Agree: theo the kraut
    • Replies: @SPMoore8
    @Harry Baldwin

    Yes, whatever, you still did a great job. Major props.

    , @Bill B.
    @Harry Baldwin

    I met Andy Warhol once (when he was passing through Hongkong) and noted that his screen prints - Marilyn Monroe etc. - were not terribly difficult to produce, especially IIRC since much of the work was done by assistants. He accused me of being jealous!

    Replies: @Lot, @Anonymous, @Harry Baldwin

    , @theo the kraut
    @Harry Baldwin

    The Troll Empire strikes back!

  7. the face of lady “liberty”?

  8. Well done! I agree with others, this should be disseminated.

  9. Until she is in a burka the artwork is obscene. It is a picture of a whore. And where is her mustache if it is not behind a burka?

    Allah willing the greatness of her mustache will be concealed.

  10. Harry is the talented commenter who also created the infamous image of the Eye of Soros!

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-eye-of-soros/

    • Replies: @Wade
    @Anonymous

    Thanks for pointing that out. I loved the Eye of Soros. That was ingenious!

  11. @Buffalo Joe
    Nice work Harry, but before you disseminate too many copies of this, check for a copyright or trade mark. Otherwise we will need a Go Fund Me for your legal bills.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Days of Broken Arrows

    If it is not used commercially, it should not matter. And even if it is used commercially, the exceptions to copyright law for parody and satire are pretty broad.

    http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/parody-satire/

    P.S. I’m not a lawyer.

    • Replies: @Buffalo Joe
    @Almost Missouri

    Almost, Well my best friend is my lawyer and he always says..."Free legal advice, you get what you paid for."

    Replies: @bomag, @Stealth

    , @Anonymous
    @Almost Missouri

    Much of Warhol's most iconic art used other people's trademarks and logos. Campbell's Soup, Brillo boxes, etc. This means that one can use these today and _invoke_ Warhol, but simply come to an arrrangement with Campbell's or Brillo or whoever, which is likely to be a whole lot cheaper.

  12. @Harry Baldwin
    @ben tillman

    Thank you, but honestly something like this doesn't take a great deal of talent, just some familiarity with Photoshop. I found a photo of an angry woman on Google images, gave it the Shepard Fairey treatment, which I learned from a YouTube instructional video, and matted it to his poster. It took me about 45 minutes. This is why, while I envy Fairey's genius at self-promotion, I'm not very impressed with his artistic ability.

    Replies: @SPMoore8, @Bill B., @theo the kraut

    Yes, whatever, you still did a great job. Major props.

  13. We, the New People, Are Greater Than You

    Sorry, but it kind of looks like you’re becoming the old “new people.” See below.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-refugee-plan-would-prioritize-christians/

  14. it needs : ” Obey Giant”.

  15. OT or related:

    Great question raised on the Wretched Refuse thread…

    Why is the pro life march so very very white?

    This subject has little to no coverage in the media. Great question to ask a leftist. Also how about Jewish, Muslim, and Asian breakdowns of the attendance.

    • Replies: @Lot
    @Anonymous


    Why is the pro life march so very very white?
     
    I saw a group of Latinos wearing identical churchy pro-life shirts not long ago.
  16. Mr Baldwin, congratulations for your creativity and technical mastery.

    Don’t you feel like printing some bumper stickers?

  17. OT: CNN is expressing strange new respect for the Donald.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/donald-trump-first-week/index.html

    Gosh, the MSM is such a pack of sycophantic collaboration monkeys….Utterly predictable.

    • Replies: @Ivy
    @anonguy

    CNN realized that they are not immune to rating and ad revenue decline. Business models and boards do that to a network.

  18. Anon • Disclaimer says:

    I think we lost the distinction between contract and right.

    For example, if I sign a contract for someone to come work on my house, he does the work, I pay him, and he leaves. That was the agreement. He has NO RIGHT to stay in my house.

    And this contractual arrangement existed in the US with Mexican guest-workers. And with Turkish workers in Germany. They signed a contract. They would do such-and-such work and then would leave. Also, travelers to America are under contract/agreement to stay for a certain time and then LEAVE.

    But tons of people didn’t leave. The contract was turned into a ‘right’.

    Relations between US and other nations should be contractual. Rights belong ONLY to US citizens. But the corruption of meaning has led people all over the world to think they have some special RIGHT to come to America, overstay their Visas in America, make demands on America, and etc. And why? They ‘dream’ of becoming Americans. So, all those illegals demand that they not be called ‘illegals’ because … uh… ‘no human is illegal’. True, no human is innately illegal, but in a society governed by Rule of Law, those who do illegal things are illegal beings.
    A Mexican isn’t illegal for being Mexican. He isn’t innately illegal. But if he does an illegal act, he is a person who acted illegally, thus an illegal.

  19. • Replies: @bomag
    @eah


    Chief Rabbi says...
     
    He rails about restrictive laws in 'Old Europe', not noticing that the new demographic setting itself up in Europe has a lot more restrictions in store.
  20. Better America First than America Burst.

  21. Who is that chick in the hijab? Ashley Judd?

  22. @Hodag
    It would be nice to have the picture with Professor Steiner's face.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    It would be nice to have the picture with Professor Steiner’s face.

    Or Keith Olberman’s.

    • Replies: @Dennis Dale
    @Mr. Anon

    Or the guy on money in idiocracy.
    http://bit.ly/2jq2mGl

    "Hauling ass gettin' paid" lends itself well to the parody too.

  23. @Almost Missouri
    @Buffalo Joe

    If it is not used commercially, it should not matter. And even if it is used commercially, the exceptions to copyright law for parody and satire are pretty broad.

    http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/parody-satire/

    P.S. I'm not a lawyer.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Anonymous

    Almost, Well my best friend is my lawyer and he always says…”Free legal advice, you get what you paid for.”

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Buffalo Joe

    I've paid for plenty of legal advice that ended up being pretty bad.

    , @Stealth
    @Buffalo Joe

    Personal experience has made me painfully aware of how true that is.

  24. Although the original poster’s زوجة took part to the D.C.’s march, nobody recognized her.

    I wonder why.

  25. I recommend reading this latest piece at Politico: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/trump-immigration-refugee-vetting-consequences-executive-order-214702?cmpid=sf.

    It’s worth reading because the writer, Daniel Benjamin, uses all the cliches about Emma Lazarus, refugees, Muslims, and immigration in general to attack Trump.

  26. • LOL: Lot
    • Replies: @Anon
    @Anon

    Here's the whole tape.

    The bald-headed goombah claims to be half-Jewish when he attacks Soros.

    https://www.facebook.com/DeplorablesInc/videos/363566307362892/

  27. @Anonymous
    OT or related:

    Great question raised on the Wretched Refuse thread...

    Why is the pro life march so very very white?

    This subject has little to no coverage in the media. Great question to ask a leftist. Also how about Jewish, Muslim, and Asian breakdowns of the attendance.

    Replies: @Lot

    Why is the pro life march so very very white?

    I saw a group of Latinos wearing identical churchy pro-life shirts not long ago.

  28. @Harry Baldwin
    @ben tillman

    Thank you, but honestly something like this doesn't take a great deal of talent, just some familiarity with Photoshop. I found a photo of an angry woman on Google images, gave it the Shepard Fairey treatment, which I learned from a YouTube instructional video, and matted it to his poster. It took me about 45 minutes. This is why, while I envy Fairey's genius at self-promotion, I'm not very impressed with his artistic ability.

    Replies: @SPMoore8, @Bill B., @theo the kraut

    I met Andy Warhol once (when he was passing through Hongkong) and noted that his screen prints – Marilyn Monroe etc. – were not terribly difficult to produce, especially IIRC since much of the work was done by assistants. He accused me of being jealous!

    • Replies: @Lot
    @Bill B.


    I met Andy Warhol once (when he was passing through Hongkong) and noted that his screen prints – Marilyn Monroe etc. – were not terribly difficult to produce
     
    Being Andy Warhol was the impossible thing to replicate.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    , @Anonymous
    @Bill B.

    Anyone with some clean dry space and a willingness to get ink on it, and themselves, can easily duplicate Warhol's prints. It's Silkscreening 101: the same process used to make circuit boards. He wasn't even particularly good as a printmaker.

    , @Harry Baldwin
    @Bill B.

    In Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe spends a lot of time on the contemporary art scene. One of the points he makes is that the really high-dollar artists, like Jeff Koons, don't even get their hands dirty producing their artwork. They have a concept and it's up to various unsung craftsmen to realize it. Marilyn Carr, the Art Advisor (A.A.) in Wolfe's novel, calls it “De-Skilled art.” Referring to Jeb Doggs, an artist who had himself photographed himself having sex with a call girl and then reproduced the images in etched glass, she says,


    “How did Doggs learn how to work in glass? He doesn’t work in glass or anything else. Don’t you know about No Hands art and De-skilled art?”

    “Oh, I guess I’ve heard about it—but no, not really,” Norman said lamely, or lamely for Norman.

    A.A. said, “No cutting-edge artist touches materials anymore, or instruments.”

    “What do you mean, instruments, A.A.?” said Fleischmann.

    “Oh, you know,” she said, “paintbrushes, clay, shaping knives, chisels … all that’s from the Manual Age. Remember painting? That seems so 1950s now. Remember Schnabel and Fischl and Salle and all that bunch? They all seem so 1950s now, even though their 15 minutes came in the 1970s. The new artists, like Doggs, look at all those people like they’re from another century, which they were, when you get right down to it. They were still using their hands to do little visual tricks on canvas that were either pretty and pleasant and pleased people or ugly and baffling and ‘challenged’ people. Challenged … Ohmygod—” She broke into a smile and shook her head, as if to say, “Can you believe the way it used to be?!”
     

    Replies: @IA

  29. OK no more about Trump’s being slow with his first Exec Orders.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-executive-order-could-block-legal-residents-from-returning-to-america

    I don’t think anyone was expecting “terrorist 7” (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia) holders of valid visas or green cards to be denied reentry to the USA. And one week into the presidency!

    I admit to a little squimishness about the harsh results in some individual cases from Trump’s firm policy.

    But that smidgen of squimish broke down when I read this:

    About 25,000 citizens from the seven countries specified in Trump’s ban have been issued student or employment visas in the past three years, according to Department of Homeland Security reports.

    On top of that, almost 500,000 people from the seven countries have received green cards in the past decade, allowing them to live and work in the United States indefinitely. Legally speaking, green card holders are considered aliens. While lawyers are unsure if they would actually be barred from reentering the U.S. if they have traveled abroad, they conceded it’s a possibility.

    Yes that is right, 500,000 people from the “terrorist 7” have been granted permanent residency in the USA from 2007 to 2016, and hundreds of thousands more earlier in W’s term.

    • Replies: @27 year old
    @Lot

    How many terrorists from Iran have there actually been? Other than that jews hate Iran, why are they on the list? Why isn't Saudi Arabia on the "terror 7"? Remember them? The country that gave us all of the guys that did 9/11?

    Replies: @Lot

  30. @Bill B.
    @Harry Baldwin

    I met Andy Warhol once (when he was passing through Hongkong) and noted that his screen prints - Marilyn Monroe etc. - were not terribly difficult to produce, especially IIRC since much of the work was done by assistants. He accused me of being jealous!

    Replies: @Lot, @Anonymous, @Harry Baldwin

    I met Andy Warhol once (when he was passing through Hongkong) and noted that his screen prints – Marilyn Monroe etc. – were not terribly difficult to produce

    Being Andy Warhol was the impossible thing to replicate.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Lot

    But who would want to replicate Warhol?

    Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand.......

  31. @Buffalo Joe
    @Almost Missouri

    Almost, Well my best friend is my lawyer and he always says..."Free legal advice, you get what you paid for."

    Replies: @bomag, @Stealth

    I’ve paid for plenty of legal advice that ended up being pretty bad.

  32. Yeah, Harry, you’re right, lots of people can pick up Photoshop basics…but it takes a varied skill set/set of aptitudes to put them to good use in creating imagery with impact.

    Your posterization of the photo, balancing its color and tones with the Fairey style, is excellent. I know people who’ve used Photoshop professionally for years who lack that instinct.

    The face being white on the starry side of the flagqa (starry night, stars in eyes, when the stars come out to shine) and dark-skinned and shadowy on the bloody-red-striped one tweaked the snot out of my mythic/visual centers.

    For those not following me, do the old “facial asymmetry” test: take a little mirror and hold it up so as to double first the starry half of the face, then repeat this for the other side. You’ll see how Harry’s New People female is represented insightfully, astutely as two-faced.

    A great job indeed.

    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @Olorin

    Thank you, I appreciate that. I have great respect for the commenters at iSteve and am glad I am able to contribute in my own way.

    Replies: @vinteuil

  33. @Anon
    Sopranos for Trump.

    https://twitter.com/Eggkin/status/824881411119210496

    Replies: @Anon

    Here’s the whole tape.

    The bald-headed goombah claims to be half-Jewish when he attacks Soros.

    https://www.facebook.com/DeplorablesInc/videos/363566307362892/

  34. @eah
    Chief Rabbi says Jews are ‘fighting alongside their Muslim brothers against Old Europe’

    Gee, I wonder how Old Europe feels about that.

    Replies: @bomag

    Chief Rabbi says…

    He rails about restrictive laws in ‘Old Europe’, not noticing that the new demographic setting itself up in Europe has a lot more restrictions in store.

  35. @Bill B.
    @Harry Baldwin

    I met Andy Warhol once (when he was passing through Hongkong) and noted that his screen prints - Marilyn Monroe etc. - were not terribly difficult to produce, especially IIRC since much of the work was done by assistants. He accused me of being jealous!

    Replies: @Lot, @Anonymous, @Harry Baldwin

    Anyone with some clean dry space and a willingness to get ink on it, and themselves, can easily duplicate Warhol’s prints. It’s Silkscreening 101: the same process used to make circuit boards. He wasn’t even particularly good as a printmaker.

  36. @Almost Missouri
    @Buffalo Joe

    If it is not used commercially, it should not matter. And even if it is used commercially, the exceptions to copyright law for parody and satire are pretty broad.

    http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/parody-satire/

    P.S. I'm not a lawyer.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Anonymous

    Much of Warhol’s most iconic art used other people’s trademarks and logos. Campbell’s Soup, Brillo boxes, etc. This means that one can use these today and _invoke_ Warhol, but simply come to an arrrangement with Campbell’s or Brillo or whoever, which is likely to be a whole lot cheaper.

  37. @Lot
    @Bill B.


    I met Andy Warhol once (when he was passing through Hongkong) and noted that his screen prints – Marilyn Monroe etc. – were not terribly difficult to produce
     
    Being Andy Warhol was the impossible thing to replicate.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    But who would want to replicate Warhol?

    Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand…….

  38. We need to do something about the Poison Ivy League.

  39. Anon • Disclaimer says:

    Why did the Holocaust become so central to the US narrative? It happened in Europe and Germans done it.

    I mean the Rape of Nanking happened in China, and Japan done it. Americans can acknowledge it as terrible, but why would they be responsible for saving the world on account of what happened to China during WWII?

    Yet, it’s as if the Narrative applies to America. Because of the Holocaust, the US must save the entire world…. or at least when the GLOB says it must. After all, I don’t recall the GLOB saying anything about how the US must save East Timorese from Suharto or Palestinians in Gaza from Israeli bombing.

    Holocaust promoters might say the Holocaust applies to the US because of what happened to Indians — arguably a genocide — and to the blacks, the slavery thing.

    Okay, then whites owe something to Indians and to blacks of slave ancestry. What does that have to do with American’s responsibility to SAVE THE WORLD? If anything, if US devotes all this energy to saving the world and welcoming immigrants/refugees, there will be less energy and resources to deal with Indian and black problems, which are considerable and getting worse.

    Besides, didn’t the Progs say the US is an imperialist power and leave SE Asia during Vietnam War and may the chips fall where they may? Their attitude was, If communists take over all of Vietnam and kill many, who cares? Not our business. And I don’t recall any prog saying US must re-enter SE Asia to save Cambodians from Khmer Rouge.
    Even today, the Prog Narrative is the US involvement was immoral, the US should have left sooner, and if tons of people die over there under communism, well, tough luck. Not our problem.

    So, why all this crap about how the US must be the savior and conscience of the world?

  40. @Lot
    OK no more about Trump's being slow with his first Exec Orders.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-executive-order-could-block-legal-residents-from-returning-to-america

    I don't think anyone was expecting "terrorist 7" (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia) holders of valid visas or green cards to be denied reentry to the USA. And one week into the presidency!

    I admit to a little squimishness about the harsh results in some individual cases from Trump's firm policy.

    But that smidgen of squimish broke down when I read this:

    About 25,000 citizens from the seven countries specified in Trump’s ban have been issued student or employment visas in the past three years, according to Department of Homeland Security reports.

    On top of that, almost 500,000 people from the seven countries have received green cards in the past decade, allowing them to live and work in the United States indefinitely. Legally speaking, green card holders are considered aliens. While lawyers are unsure if they would actually be barred from reentering the U.S. if they have traveled abroad, they conceded it’s a possibility.
     
    Yes that is right, 500,000 people from the "terrorist 7" have been granted permanent residency in the USA from 2007 to 2016, and hundreds of thousands more earlier in W's term.

    Replies: @27 year old

    How many terrorists from Iran have there actually been? Other than that jews hate Iran, why are they on the list? Why isn’t Saudi Arabia on the “terror 7”? Remember them? The country that gave us all of the guys that did 9/11?

    • Agree: Chrisnonymous, Escher
    • Replies: @Lot
    @27 year old

    I don't care about terrorism that much. I care about reducing African and Muslim immigration. If concern for terrorism is the best pretext politically, happy to go with this.

    Our relationship with Saudi Arabia is awful. You can do something about that right now, today. Go to your Chevy dealer and buy a 110MPG Volt.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous

  41. @Buffalo Joe
    Nice work Harry, but before you disseminate too many copies of this, check for a copyright or trade mark. Otherwise we will need a Go Fund Me for your legal bills.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Days of Broken Arrows

    This would most likely counts as satire, and things like “parody logos” are allowed under U.S. lawn, unless you’re selling the same product. But I agree he should check with a lawyer.

    That said, this is fantastic and I really like it. More honest, too.

  42. @Harry Baldwin
    @ben tillman

    Thank you, but honestly something like this doesn't take a great deal of talent, just some familiarity with Photoshop. I found a photo of an angry woman on Google images, gave it the Shepard Fairey treatment, which I learned from a YouTube instructional video, and matted it to his poster. It took me about 45 minutes. This is why, while I envy Fairey's genius at self-promotion, I'm not very impressed with his artistic ability.

    Replies: @SPMoore8, @Bill B., @theo the kraut

    The Troll Empire strikes back!

  43. @Bill B.
    @Harry Baldwin

    I met Andy Warhol once (when he was passing through Hongkong) and noted that his screen prints - Marilyn Monroe etc. - were not terribly difficult to produce, especially IIRC since much of the work was done by assistants. He accused me of being jealous!

    Replies: @Lot, @Anonymous, @Harry Baldwin

    In Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe spends a lot of time on the contemporary art scene. One of the points he makes is that the really high-dollar artists, like Jeff Koons, don’t even get their hands dirty producing their artwork. They have a concept and it’s up to various unsung craftsmen to realize it. Marilyn Carr, the Art Advisor (A.A.) in Wolfe’s novel, calls it “De-Skilled art.” Referring to Jeb Doggs, an artist who had himself photographed himself having sex with a call girl and then reproduced the images in etched glass, she says,

    “How did Doggs learn how to work in glass? He doesn’t work in glass or anything else. Don’t you know about No Hands art and De-skilled art?”

    “Oh, I guess I’ve heard about it—but no, not really,” Norman said lamely, or lamely for Norman.

    A.A. said, “No cutting-edge artist touches materials anymore, or instruments.”

    “What do you mean, instruments, A.A.?” said Fleischmann.

    “Oh, you know,” she said, “paintbrushes, clay, shaping knives, chisels … all that’s from the Manual Age. Remember painting? That seems so 1950s now. Remember Schnabel and Fischl and Salle and all that bunch? They all seem so 1950s now, even though their 15 minutes came in the 1970s. The new artists, like Doggs, look at all those people like they’re from another century, which they were, when you get right down to it. They were still using their hands to do little visual tricks on canvas that were either pretty and pleasant and pleased people or ugly and baffling and ‘challenged’ people. Challenged … Ohmygod—” She broke into a smile and shook her head, as if to say, “Can you believe the way it used to be?!”

    • Replies: @IA
    @Harry Baldwin


    the really high-dollar artists, like Jeff Koons, don’t even get their hands dirty producing their artwork.
     
    That's more of an American thing. Big name Europeans still do their own stuff:

    http://www.dw.com/en/new-gerhard-richter-film-reveals-painters-secret-process/a-15373877

    Richter has two assistants that help with mixing paint and hanging paintings on walls.

    http://nerdrummuseum.com

    Nerdrum even makes his own paint.

    http://www.jonasburgert.de/startpage/

    Burgert is getting a lot of attention lately.
  44. @Olorin
    Yeah, Harry, you're right, lots of people can pick up Photoshop basics...but it takes a varied skill set/set of aptitudes to put them to good use in creating imagery with impact.

    Your posterization of the photo, balancing its color and tones with the Fairey style, is excellent. I know people who've used Photoshop professionally for years who lack that instinct.

    The face being white on the starry side of the flagqa (starry night, stars in eyes, when the stars come out to shine) and dark-skinned and shadowy on the bloody-red-striped one tweaked the snot out of my mythic/visual centers.

    For those not following me, do the old "facial asymmetry" test: take a little mirror and hold it up so as to double first the starry half of the face, then repeat this for the other side. You'll see how Harry's New People female is represented insightfully, astutely as two-faced.

    A great job indeed.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin

    Thank you, I appreciate that. I have great respect for the commenters at iSteve and am glad I am able to contribute in my own way.

    • Replies: @vinteuil
    @Harry Baldwin

    I agree with everybody else - this is great. This should go viral.

    One suggestion for improvement: for "We The New People/Are Greater than You" use an Arabic-look font like "Al-Andalus."

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin

  45. Bill Maher on why Democrats lost. Even though Maher identifies as a liberal, he is actualy a very center guy. He has actively condemned Islam as a religion and not only radical Islam as a religion that stimulates violence, and has openly condemned feminism many times.

    • Disagree: Escher
    • Replies: @Jasper Been
    @Nick Diaz

    I'm an atheist and anti-Islam, but Maher's a schmuck. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

    , @Ragno
    @Nick Diaz

    I propose a 12-month ban on well-meaning types insisting Bill Maher's not that bad!

    We won the damn election and we don't need any reacharounds from that scuttling bug. Not that we ever did.

  46. @Anonymous
    Harry is the talented commenter who also created the infamous image of the Eye of Soros!

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-eye-of-soros/

    Replies: @Wade

    Thanks for pointing that out. I loved the Eye of Soros. That was ingenious!

  47. @anonguy
    OT: CNN is expressing strange new respect for the Donald.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/donald-trump-first-week/index.html

    Gosh, the MSM is such a pack of sycophantic collaboration monkeys....Utterly predictable.

    Replies: @Ivy

    CNN realized that they are not immune to rating and ad revenue decline. Business models and boards do that to a network.

  48. @Harry Baldwin
    @Bill B.

    In Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe spends a lot of time on the contemporary art scene. One of the points he makes is that the really high-dollar artists, like Jeff Koons, don't even get their hands dirty producing their artwork. They have a concept and it's up to various unsung craftsmen to realize it. Marilyn Carr, the Art Advisor (A.A.) in Wolfe's novel, calls it “De-Skilled art.” Referring to Jeb Doggs, an artist who had himself photographed himself having sex with a call girl and then reproduced the images in etched glass, she says,


    “How did Doggs learn how to work in glass? He doesn’t work in glass or anything else. Don’t you know about No Hands art and De-skilled art?”

    “Oh, I guess I’ve heard about it—but no, not really,” Norman said lamely, or lamely for Norman.

    A.A. said, “No cutting-edge artist touches materials anymore, or instruments.”

    “What do you mean, instruments, A.A.?” said Fleischmann.

    “Oh, you know,” she said, “paintbrushes, clay, shaping knives, chisels … all that’s from the Manual Age. Remember painting? That seems so 1950s now. Remember Schnabel and Fischl and Salle and all that bunch? They all seem so 1950s now, even though their 15 minutes came in the 1970s. The new artists, like Doggs, look at all those people like they’re from another century, which they were, when you get right down to it. They were still using their hands to do little visual tricks on canvas that were either pretty and pleasant and pleased people or ugly and baffling and ‘challenged’ people. Challenged … Ohmygod—” She broke into a smile and shook her head, as if to say, “Can you believe the way it used to be?!”
     

    Replies: @IA

    the really high-dollar artists, like Jeff Koons, don’t even get their hands dirty producing their artwork.

    That’s more of an American thing. Big name Europeans still do their own stuff:

    http://www.dw.com/en/new-gerhard-richter-film-reveals-painters-secret-process/a-15373877

    Richter has two assistants that help with mixing paint and hanging paintings on walls.

    http://nerdrummuseum.com

    Nerdrum even makes his own paint.

    http://www.jonasburgert.de/startpage/

    Burgert is getting a lot of attention lately.

  49. @Nick Diaz
    Bill Maher on why Democrats lost. Even though Maher identifies as a liberal, he is actualy a very center guy. He has actively condemned Islam as a religion and not only radical Islam as a religion that stimulates violence, and has openly condemned feminism many times.

    https://youtu.be/JaC1-U8LIY0

    Replies: @Jasper Been, @Ragno

    I’m an atheist and anti-Islam, but Maher’s a schmuck. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

  50. These American women who participated in the march, and the German women who recently demonstrated shouting Allahu Akhbar, are simply acting up like a bunch of teenagers. They have no ideology to speak of — they just want to do whatever pisses off Daddy.

  51. @Buffalo Joe
    @Almost Missouri

    Almost, Well my best friend is my lawyer and he always says..."Free legal advice, you get what you paid for."

    Replies: @bomag, @Stealth

    Personal experience has made me painfully aware of how true that is.

  52. A round of applause for Mr. Harry, ladies and gentleman.

    • Agree: res
  53. @Mr. Anon
    @Hodag


    It would be nice to have the picture with Professor Steiner’s face.
     
    Or Keith Olberman's.

    Replies: @Dennis Dale

    Or the guy on money in idiocracy.
    http://bit.ly/2jq2mGl

    “Hauling ass gettin’ paid” lends itself well to the parody too.

  54. @Harry Baldwin
    @Olorin

    Thank you, I appreciate that. I have great respect for the commenters at iSteve and am glad I am able to contribute in my own way.

    Replies: @vinteuil

    I agree with everybody else – this is great. This should go viral.

    One suggestion for improvement: for “We The New People/Are Greater than You” use an Arabic-look font like “Al-Andalus.”

    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @vinteuil

    Thanks. I don't know that much about fonts. I couldn't match Fairey's but tried to come close.

  55. @27 year old
    @Lot

    How many terrorists from Iran have there actually been? Other than that jews hate Iran, why are they on the list? Why isn't Saudi Arabia on the "terror 7"? Remember them? The country that gave us all of the guys that did 9/11?

    Replies: @Lot

    I don’t care about terrorism that much. I care about reducing African and Muslim immigration. If concern for terrorism is the best pretext politically, happy to go with this.

    Our relationship with Saudi Arabia is awful. You can do something about that right now, today. Go to your Chevy dealer and buy a 110MPG Volt.

    • Replies: @Chrisnonymous
    @Lot

    27 year old is correct to ask about SA. The fact it isn't on Trump's list is a bad portent. It doesn't make any sense--zero. It must be that they have leverage in the administration, but through whom? Via GOPe oil-friendly lawmakers? Tillerson?

    It's a big disappointment. I'd rather see Trump calling for us to invade and steal their oil than see them off the no-go list so we can be chummy with oil suppliers.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Jim Don Bob

  56. Anon • Disclaimer says:

    It’s interesting how ‘anti-racism’ went from an egalitarian ideology to a supremacist ideology.

    There was a time when the US was blatantly discriminatory against non-whites. There was Segregation for blacks and a long history of Indians getting the shaft. And even though Jews had it pretty good, they could still get beat up in school by ‘big dumb Polac*s’ and not be admitted to some country club with superior lemonade.

    Back then, ‘anti-racism’ was indeed a movement to create a more equal society under the law where everyone, regardless of race/creed/color, would be accorded the same protections and rights.

    But ‘anti-racism’ became like Christianity, a religion that got started by calling for justice for the poor but eventually became the Official Faith of kings and noblemen. As long as the elites invoked God and Jesus the Savior, their supreme power was justified over the toiling masses. Christianity became the symbolic justification for monarchic-aristocratic power. The noblemen were not a separate race from their subjects, but since membership was determined by blood, they were a caste, or a class-race, or clace(or rass). Anyway, the noblemen invoked God and Jesus to judge their ‘deplorable’ subjects.

    Today, there is equality under the law for everyone in the US.
    Sure, some people are more equal than others cuz those with more talent and money will always be more privileged. But the law is, more or less, the same for most Americans.

    So, what is the real value of ‘anti-racism’? Its current function is essentially and paradoxically supremacist. It is used by the GLOB to maintain its supremacist status over the masses, especially the white majority.

    [MORE]

    Given that the GLOB is disproportionately made up of Jews and their gentile collaborators, what it fears most is the assertiveness of the white majority. White majority no longer wants special favors or ‘racial supremacism’ over non-whites. But they do want something like proportional representation, which is sorely missing in the US. It isn’t much of an exaggeration to say that Jews, who are 2%, wield more power and influence than white gentiles who make up a much larger percentage of the population. In order for Jews to control and suppress the aspirations of the whites masses, they need a psychological mechanism, and that is cult of guilt that paralyzes and demoralizes and makes the afflicted hanker for redemption. Indeed, given the cult of White Guilt, white pride can ONLY BE earned by redemption, and that means ‘good whites’ dumping on ‘bad whites’. It’s no wonder that so many whites get their moral jollies by dumping on other whites. Look what happened to country girl Ashley Judd after her mind got worked over in Hollywood. So, ‘anti-racism’ is now a tool of tribal supremacism by the GLOB.

    In the end, it’s not just about power. Sure, the Deep State controls levers of power at the deeper level of government, academia, media, industries, and etc. A web of collusion.

    But there is also the Deep Agenda and Deep Narrative.
    On the surface, ‘anti-racism’ seems like what it says it is: A struggle for equality and more just society. And who can really oppose that Narrative?
    But the Deep Narrative is “Anti-racism is very useful in maintaining our supermacist tribal power.”
    Deep State is about power, but power must serve something, some group, some ideology. And at the deeper level, there is little room for earnest naivete. It is about the cynical grasp of what power is and what it takes to control it. And for ‘my people’ or the for people who will hand out rewards if you serve them right.

  57. @Lot
    @27 year old

    I don't care about terrorism that much. I care about reducing African and Muslim immigration. If concern for terrorism is the best pretext politically, happy to go with this.

    Our relationship with Saudi Arabia is awful. You can do something about that right now, today. Go to your Chevy dealer and buy a 110MPG Volt.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous

    27 year old is correct to ask about SA. The fact it isn’t on Trump’s list is a bad portent. It doesn’t make any sense–zero. It must be that they have leverage in the administration, but through whom? Via GOPe oil-friendly lawmakers? Tillerson?

    It’s a big disappointment. I’d rather see Trump calling for us to invade and steal their oil than see them off the no-go list so we can be chummy with oil suppliers.

    • Replies: @Chrisnonymous
    @Chrisnonymous

    Ie, if forced to choose between Invade and Invite, I would choose Invade.

    , @Jim Don Bob
    @Chrisnonymous

    What would you have DJT (PBUH) do about Saudi Arabia?

  58. @Chrisnonymous
    @Lot

    27 year old is correct to ask about SA. The fact it isn't on Trump's list is a bad portent. It doesn't make any sense--zero. It must be that they have leverage in the administration, but through whom? Via GOPe oil-friendly lawmakers? Tillerson?

    It's a big disappointment. I'd rather see Trump calling for us to invade and steal their oil than see them off the no-go list so we can be chummy with oil suppliers.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Jim Don Bob

    Ie, if forced to choose between Invade and Invite, I would choose Invade.

  59. @Chrisnonymous
    @Lot

    27 year old is correct to ask about SA. The fact it isn't on Trump's list is a bad portent. It doesn't make any sense--zero. It must be that they have leverage in the administration, but through whom? Via GOPe oil-friendly lawmakers? Tillerson?

    It's a big disappointment. I'd rather see Trump calling for us to invade and steal their oil than see them off the no-go list so we can be chummy with oil suppliers.

    Replies: @Chrisnonymous, @Jim Don Bob

    What would you have DJT (PBUH) do about Saudi Arabia?

  60. Nice job, Harry. You’ve got a future ahead of you as a memester, I think.

  61. We’ve had HOPE….so I s’pose this is what NO HOPE looks like.

  62. @Nick Diaz
    Bill Maher on why Democrats lost. Even though Maher identifies as a liberal, he is actualy a very center guy. He has actively condemned Islam as a religion and not only radical Islam as a religion that stimulates violence, and has openly condemned feminism many times.

    https://youtu.be/JaC1-U8LIY0

    Replies: @Jasper Been, @Ragno

    I propose a 12-month ban on well-meaning types insisting Bill Maher’s not that bad!

    We won the damn election and we don’t need any reacharounds from that scuttling bug. Not that we ever did.

  63. @vinteuil
    @Harry Baldwin

    I agree with everybody else - this is great. This should go viral.

    One suggestion for improvement: for "We The New People/Are Greater than You" use an Arabic-look font like "Al-Andalus."

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin

    Thanks. I don’t know that much about fonts. I couldn’t match Fairey’s but tried to come close.

  64. Not only must the New Swedes integrate, but the Old Swedes too.

    The last frame: The New Country laid over a hijabi:

    https://twitter.com/V_of_Europe/status/825467983015399424

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