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Trevor Blake: Time Machine (after The Invisibles by Grant Morrison).  June 2011.  Model: Danny Chaoflux.

Benchmarks for the next two issues of OVO have been accomplished this week.

Primary research for OVO 19 PORTLAND has been completed. This is a book-length record of every memorial in downtown Portland Oregon. As of this week, after three years, I will have walked every street and made note of every address and location. I will have a manuscript in hand by October 2011.

The material for OVO 20 has been compiled. This will be a human-readable anthology of thirty years of my writing and art, as differentiated from the rat’s nest of ovo127.com. OVO 20 will be published simultaneously with OVO 19 PORTLAND.

Acoustic Amplifier for MP3 Player. Prototype. Plastic bottles, foamcore, glue, mp3 player, headphones. Works better than nothing.

This article by Michael Byrne uses (with my consent) a photograph I took in July 2009 regarding a home-made swamp cooler I blogged about in August 2009.

“I came here from the United States of America to stand for freedom, with all free people, against the forces of oppression and darkness that you all are representing. I came here in order to stand with the people who are fighting for the freedoms that make it possible for you to do what you are doing today. Not the violence and hatred, but to stand in dissent. But you can’t stand to have any kind of rational discussion. You can’t stand any dissent. You have to try to throw bottles, and drown us out, because you are cowards. Because you know that you stand on nothing except oppression and darkness and hatred. And that is why you are there, and that is why I am here.

You are fronting for the most radically intolerant and hateful ideology on the planet. Everywhere in the world where there are Muslims and non-Muslims there is conflict because the Muslims attack the non-Muslims. The Quran teaches to make war against the unbelievers and to subjugate them. And you are already subjugated. You are already their useful idiots. You are already their tools. You are out here in their service, and you think you’re fighting for freedom, and you are fighting for your own slavery. You are fighting for your own enslavement.

And it will come, it will come to you. You are fighting for an ideology that denies the freedom of speech. And one day you will wish you had the freedom of speech that you are trying to fight against today. ”

Links added by OVO. Watch the rest on youtube.

Robert Spencer: Spencer Versus the Leftist/Islamic Alliance, Stuttgart, Germany, June 2

Thursday afternoon I spoke in Stuttgart, Germany at the invitation of the human rights group Pax Europa. The event was well advertised, and so the thuggish Leftist/Islamic supremacist alliance mobilized and was out in full force.

About 1000 Antifa protesters showed up, banging drums, holding signs with the usual accusations of racism and “Islamophobia,” blowing whistles, and menacing people who came out for the Pax Europa event. There were also about 500 German police on hand in riot gear. The Pax Europa organizers told me, “This is all for you” — because they had publicized that I would be there. One young man came up to me as I was standing right in front of a line of German police and said, “You’re lucky there are so many police here today.” [...]

It was an incredible din. We had loudspeakers that appeared to be able to reach the considerable crowd behind the protesters, but the Antifa thugs did all they could to drown us out: the drums got louder, the vuvuzelas came out, they were blowing whistles, and of course they were screaming and yelling.

They started throwing things: bottles, eggs, excrement and more. One bottle narrowly missed the Coptic activist’s head and crashed onto the stage — other bottles crashed at our feet. Several speakers were hit with eggs. The manure they threw was all over the stage floor.

I stood right in front (they missed me; I dodged a few projectiles) and watched them as they screamed and gestured and threw things — it was like looking into the pit of hell. Here were young people passionately committed to their cause and believing it to be that of justice and freedom, and they are eager and willing useful idiots for the most radically intolerant ideology on the planet. So when my turn came to speak, I addressed them, and told them just that. I told them they wouldn’t like what happened to them when their friends took power, but by then it would be too late.

And it may be already, for Europe. But I was glad to be there yesterday, and to stand against what was so obviously a force for oppression, hatred, and evil.

Robert Spencer: Ugliness and Beauty in Germany

This morning I had the great honor of meeting with Susanne Zeller-Hirzel, one of the last surviving members of the White Rose, the nonviolent resistance movement that worked against Hitler’s regime in Nazi Germany in 1942 and 1943. We discussed numerous parallels between the Nazi era in Germany and the advance of Islamic supremacism today — as we saw in Stuttgart Thursday, Nazis and Islamic supremacists are remarkably similar in their taste for violent intimidation.

Susanne Zeller-Hirzel is the beauty mentioned in the headline of this post. The ugliness comes from an increasingly dangerous situation here in Germany. I have learned that the fascist Antifa and/or Islamic supremacist thugs have burned the truck belonging to the company that set up the stage for Pax Europa’s Thursday rally. Then last night they found out the hotel that the courageous anti-jihad politician René Stadtkewitz was planning to stay in when he came to Stuttgart to announce the founding of the local branch of his new Freedom Party; they broke the hotel’s windows and painted threatening messages on its walls. Also yesterday, I spoke to a Pax Europa meeting at a location in Stuttgart; Antifa thugs found out the location after the meeting had ended, and stormed and surrounded the place. Thirty-six were arrested.

Fascism is indeed coming back to Europe. But not because of the anti-jihadists.

Anonymous: Lost Dog Reward! This 8.5 x 11 inch photocopy poster was made by someone I knew in the early 1990s in Portland Oregon. The seven-digit phone number on the poster has been obscured.

Trevor Blake: Swamp Flower.  Ink.  May 2011.

Trevor Blake: Everybody Draw Mohammed Day 2011.  May 2011.  Ink drawing.  Public domain.

See also:
Trevor Blake: Everybody Draw Mohammed Day 2010.
Trevor Blake: The New Comics Code Authority.

Trevor Blake: Landscape. Ink. October 2008.

Trevor Blake, Portland Oregon USA. May 2011. Photograph by Kirby Urner.

Surrealist Cigar Bands after René Magritte. Trevor Blake, May 2011, digital image. After La trahison des images (1928–29) by René Magritte. Public Domain.

Wikipedia, Carcassonne: “Carcassonne is a tile-based German-style board game for two to five players, designed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and published in 2000 by Hans im Glück in German and Rio Grande Games in English. It received the Spiel des Jahres and the Deutscher Spiele Preis awards in 2001. It is named after the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne in southern France, famed for its city walls.”

My microcarcassonne is made with magnets, sewing pins, paper and a candy box.  Scale is one half inch per background square.

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From the 1906 book The Outbursts of Everett True by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper. With thanks to Barnacle Press.

Here ends my year-and-one-half weekly republication of The Outbursts of Everett True. There are many more Everett True comics at stwallskull and Barnacle Press.

Trevor Blake: Quit While You Are A Head. Digital image. 1 April 2010.

Trevor Blake: Collage 1988 – 2010
May 2011
Sound Grounds Coffee House
3711 Belmont St, Portland Oregon 97214 United States

Artist’s Statement

My first collages were made in the late 1970s when I was in 8th grade. They were inspired by comic books and advertising, and were meant to be funny. Collage was a way of making a picture that including elements I could not yet draw to my satisfaction. In the 1990s I worked in used book stores. The source material for my collages improved. Collage became a way of making a picture instead of a substitution for drawing. In the 2000s I’ve started learning how to use a computer to make collages.

Collages are evidence that meaning of an image is in the mind of the artist and the viewer, not in the image itself. There is no minimal meaning that is transferred from a source image into a collage. What is seen as the meaning of an image does not reside in the image itself. Therefore laws against hate speech, pornography, and blasphemy are of questionable merit. Projecting meaning onto fragments is how collage works and how the world works. Fortunately, it does work.

Collage is often criminal and immoral, made up of the work of others without credit or compensation. Stating this fact does not excuse it. It may partially cleanse my debt to others that the majority of my works are entered into the public domain.

Collage is enjoyable, inexpensive to produce and encourages design skills. Paper, scissors or a hobby knife, and glue are all that anyone needs.

Choose your meanings and fragments well.

Thank you.

From the 1906 book The Outbursts of Everett True by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper. With thanks to Barnacle Press.

A handsome reward is offered for the Everett True films.

Trevor Blake: Untitled. Portland, Oregon USA. April 2011.

Welcome to the Easter Challenge! Our panel of experts – Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and our Mystery Guest – have two thousand years to give consistent answer to simple questions about the resurrection of Christ. No proof is required, only consistent answers. Our questions are prepared by Dan Baker, author of Losing Faith in Faith.

And now, let’s begin… The Easter Challenge!

from OVO 16 AntiChrist (January 2006)

Trevor Blake: Fiestaware. Oregon. April 2011.

Trevor Blake: I am Not an Oregon Pig. April 2011. Portland, Oregon USA.

Trevor Blake: Remmitron. Silent, color, 46 seconds. Electric razor, screws, wire, glue.