Scariest Sticker contest

For real.  Submissions are being accepted now, and judging begins on October 1st.  The winner will be announced on October 31st and will get all kinds of sticker prizes and 15 mins of fame.

Stromausfall

I’ve had this sticker on my desk for weeks, and only today did I put 2+2 together to see what is being represented: guys (I assume) in hoodies.  All of a sudden, I realized they look like some of the punks I see on other antifa stickers.  I found the translation for stromausfall to be “blackout.”  Major DUH on my part, but the sticker is superb.  (It is especially Duh since the reproduction here below is so obvious!)  Oh well. 

Update

WordPress is acting up.  Two minutes ago, I can’t type.  Now I can.

I’m overwhelmed by how much work I need to do with the Posse database and Stickerkitty blog.  Lately, I’ve been wondering what will be my Life’s Oeuvre (har-de-har) and alas, it sure won’t be Guernica.  Aside from my super-fantastic job at SLU, which I L-O-V-E, it will be the Posse digital collection.  As far as I can tell, it is unique.  Yay.

Matt Siren

Oh wow.  I am going to meet Matt Siren next week for an interview/chat.  La la la!!!!

Catching up.

My blog stats are jumping.  I think I had 8-10 hits this past week.

Anyway, I am finally starting to buckle down and work on the Stickerkitty has a Posse database, with help from Kevin, Tsewang, and Nathan–the crack team from last summer.  May drag Caleb into this, too.  I have a few hundred new stickers from Berlin to add.

Here is a photo of the entrance to the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin.  Right next door is an amazing bookstore and gallery called Neurotitan.  I bought one of the We Dream of Meat plushes there.  Turns out they are more difficult to find than I expected.

oBey eBay

More of the same on eBay.  Resistance meets capitalism = capitalism.

Stickerzzzzz tomorrow in the city that never sleeps…

Research

I spent a good deal of time yesterday doing research on the Berlin stickers.  In so doing, I’ve come across a new topic regarding the politics of football in Germany and other European countries.  Some of the stickers I gathered refer to football teams that oppose the nationalist politics of the sport and to audiences that promote racist and fascist politics.  I think I’ve got that right.  There is quite a lot of information on the Web at anarchistsoccer.org and other sites.

Antifa stickers in Berlin

I saw a lot more antifa stickers on this trip than ever before, as well as stickers about capitalism, consumerism, GM, AIG, NATO, Afghanistan, and a sticker that said Stasi 2.0.  Plenty of research to do after this trip.

Berlin stickers, preface.

Stickering in Berlin last week was so fine that it will take days and weeks to sort through everything.  By pure luck and serendipity, I was able to meet Ollie and Nada at the Hatch Kingdom.