User:Victorgrigas
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Victor Grigas is a Candlemaker and a 3rd year film student at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois, U$A. He has been involved with the MSR Group, Cohaagen, Room 101, the Chicago Coalition for Change and Progress, Modemhead and Terry Plumming. He enjoys photography & the motion image and uploading images and edits to Wikipedia. In summer 2005 he traveled to Krakow, Poland and Berlin, Germany. He recommends that if you can, you should go, as there are no more fascists left there, something happened to them.
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Treptower Park In Berlin |
The UN |
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An Orwellian Reference. Here is a possible source of the Stencil and on flickr |
A Sign at Checkpoint Charlie |
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Real Free range Chickens in Poland |
Ancient Anthropomorphism |
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Killing Two Birds With One Stone |
Restored Texan Pioneer House |
A Windmill at the National Ranching Heritage Center |
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a Cactus |
A Civilized Response to the 2nd Amendment in Lubbock, Texas |
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2nd Amendment in NYC |
Victor's Neighborhood: Old Town, Chicago |
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A building in Old Town built in the 1920s |
Home of a 19th century network engineer |
The Midwest Buddhist Temple [1], with St. Michaels visible in the upper right |
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A Plaque about Carl Street Studios on the Building itself]] |
Genocide in Chicago [2] |
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A take on traffic signals |
A Pac-Man Sticker utilizing the T-mobile/Deutsche Telekom Logo |
The Laughing Man from Ghost in the shell as Sticker art |
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an example of Woodblock Graffiti |
an example of Woodblock Graffiti |
An image of woodblock graffiti that had been painted over by the chicago Graffiti Blasters and then covered with sticker art. |
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an example of Woodblock Graffiti |
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Woodblock Graffiti depicting a Squirrel |
Support Daley Graffiti Blasters |
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Chicago Graffiti |
Mayor Daley's real goal |
What the Graffiti Blasters are all about |
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Election Propaganda |
The monument to Haymarket |
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Another angle of the monument to Haymarket |
A view into the pedestal in Treptower Park |
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The Weltzeituhr at Alexanderplatz |
thumb|The Berlin wall has become a Mecca for graffiti writers. Featured here is an image of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker making out. The words at the top read "God! help me stay alive"; and continue at the bottom "Among this deadly love." |
The Döner stand outside of modern-day Gneisenaustraße |
A Surprising and Offensive Name for English Speakers |
A memorial to the those who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall |
A banner from Looptopia |
A Policeman blocking entrance to Millenium Park at Looptopia |
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A Corporate marker in Millennium Park |
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Emma Goldmans grave in German Waldheim Cemetery |
Stencil Graffiti of Rosa Luxemburg on a portion of the Berlin Wall on display in Potsdamer Platzin Berlin. |
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The Biograph Theater redressed for the film Public Enemies. |
The alley where John Dillinger was killed, redressed for the film Public Enemies. |
[edit] TECHNO
This Space is currently about Open Source and Massively Distributed Collaboration.
code for later use:
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[edit] Personal
- to divide humanity by race is to do humanity an injustice.
- Wikipedia is Invincible.
- The SOUL is that idea of the thing that is greater than the sum of the parts of another thing; usually a lifeform.
- Conformists allow themselves to only believe in things that other people communicate to them.
- Which do you think was invented first - Weddings or funerals?
- Ditto, ditto, ditto - business or religion?
- Talking to onesself in privacy is a skill that should be honed.
- When finding a suitable mate, one should find another who has a similar concept of normal as onesself.
- Once something is a symbol, then it has a soul.
- The kinds of things that are in bank vaults are never very big.
- The safest place to store something is in public.
- Artists, philosophers, and scientists are all in the idea-expressing business.
- Journalists are in the fact-reporting business. Good journalists are successful in the opinion-reporting business.
- If Lance Ito attended a Mosque, would he be a mosquito?
- When all else fails when cooking, add salt.
[edit] Others
- John Dryden: Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, Did all the matchless Monuments deface (1694).
- "Here may lie the most important effect of mass communication, its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."
Shaw & McCombs, The Emergence of American Political Issues, 1977
[edit] LINKO
- Planet 1516
- modemhead
- The Chicago Coalition for Change and Progress
- Chicago Reader Article about Victor
- Victor's MySpace page
- Mayor Daley on Uncyclopedia
- Open Source classroom information
- 4 dimensional rubics cube
- Chicago Punk Wiki
[edit] INTERNETO
Category:User-created public domain images
Category:Lists of unsolved problems
Category:Uncracked codes and ciphers
Category:Festivals in Chicago
[edit] FAVORITO
everything below here is very much a work in progress, so please accept the unfinished look
[edit] Top Films
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Koyannisqatsi
- 25th Hour
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- When the Levees Broke
- The Big Lebowski
- Animal House
- Scratch
- The Corporation
- The Godfather Part II
- 24 Hour Party People
- The Insider
- Der Untergang
- Why We Fight
- 攻殻機動隊
- Children of Men
- No End In Sight
- La Haine
- Barry Lyndon
- Amadeus
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
- Mean Girls
- Autofocus
[edit] Top Ten Comedic Films
[edit] Top Ten Romantic / Comedic Films
[edit] Top Ten Television Productions
[edit] Top Ten Film Directors
- Stanley Kubrick
- Spike Lee
- Terry Gilliam
- Francois Trauffou
- Paul Verhoeven
- Bob Zemeckis
- George Lucas
- David Fincher
- Akira Korasawa
- Michael Moore
- Errol Morris
- Sidney Lumet
[edit] Top Ten Film Editors
[edit] Top Ten Albums
[edit] Top Ten Novels
[edit] Top Ten Acts of Propaganda
- Livy
- Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
- Big Lie
- google thing china
- Rationale for the Iraq War
- Tokyo Rose
[edit] Top Ten Acts of Censorship
- Main Administration for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press
- Secret Museum, Naples
- Joseph Goebbels
- Censorship in the People's Republic of China
[edit] Top Ten Paintings
[edit] Top Ten World Leaders
[edit] Top Ten Inventions
[edit] Top Ten Actors
[edit] Top Ten Sculptures
[edit] Top Ten Video Games
- Tetris
- The Legend Of Zelda
- Pac Man
- Grand Theft Auto
[edit] Top Ten Perodicals
[edit] Top Ten Websites
[edit] Gallery of Political Graffiti
Independentist graffiti in Catalonia. |
The Berlin wall has become a Mecca for graffiti writers. Featured here is an image of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker making out. The words at the top read "God! help me stay alive." Image taken in 2005. |
The plaque on Mary Brogger's Haymarket memorial in Chicago. Note the seal of the City of Chicago has been painted over with Anarchist symbols. |
The Haymarket memorial in Forest Park, Illinois, vandalized with Anarchist messages. |
The Rabin memorial in Rabin Square. The inscription says: "At this place Yitzhak Rabin was murdered in the struggle for Peace. The largest graffito reads: "(we are) sorry" |
Emma Goldmans vandalized grave in German Waldheim Cemetery. |
Graffiti inside the ruins of the Reichstag after World War 2. |
Engraving of the graffito "Kilroy" on the WWII Memorial in Washington DC. Kilroy was a popular graffito among American G.I.s during the Second World War. |
Graffiti presumably inscribed by Viking mercenaries on the second floor of the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. |
Stencil Graffiti of Rosa Luxemburg on a portion of the Berlin Wall on display in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. |
western graffiti at persopolis |