MINI BOARD FIXER UPPER
MARCH 4 OUR LIVES
Some tags are impossible to read if you don’t know any of the artists. According to BoredPanda.com “Mathieu Tremblin is a French artist who decided to fix this. He paints over the ugly graffiti and makes them legible.” It could be Bored Panda is looking to generate comments... According to other sources, Tremblin’s work lives in the valley where the digital and real worlds meet. He once painted “gettyimages” on a car park wall to look like a watermark in any photos taken there. Translating tags into Helvetica is part of a project to turn the tags into word clouds. —MV
After a gunman murdered more kids in a school shooting, marches were organized to say enough. I took Kal to the one in Coney Island because I’ve sat through at least two active shooter drills at his school. It’s gross that parents will argue children shouldn’t do fire drills without their coats but background checks are extreme. —MV
THE MARCH CONTINUES Tell your Senator you support S.42 if you want to help the organization inspired by Stoneman Douglas High School students. The bill introduced to the Senate on January 8, 2019, “establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties.” March For Our Lives also seeks to raise the federal age of gun ownership and possession to 21, restore the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and ban the sale of high-capacity magazines and bump stocks in the United States. According to marchforourlives.com, “we will stay loud until this bill becomes a law.”
TINY GOOD-BYE Even though the boys and I were pulling apart old electronics for fun in the summer of 2017, we didn’t think to dismantle our old rear projection TV, affectionately named Tiny. More than once, I had replaced the lamp inside this beast of a television after we paid too much to have a repair shop take it away the first time the lamp burnt out. But in 2017, the electronics seemed to be beyond repair and there were too many cheap flat screens on the market to justify ordering another lamp. Tiny was too big to put in the car to take to a recycling center and the city would never haul him. Finally, I realized I could turn him into more manageable pieces with a screwdriver. We bid adieu. —MV
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Art Department Weekly • Conventions 2018
