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Category Archive: Art & Craft

Here are all the SuperVegan blog posts categorized under Art & Craft. XML

1. The Poop: Animal News

   by Roseann Marulli Rodriguez

   April 2, 2008 6:56 am

   Filed under: Activism Animal Products Animal Rights Animal Testing & Vivisection Art & Craft Canada Events Farmed Animals Film, TV, & Video Food Germany Hunting & Fishing Stupid The Netherlands Wildlife

   

   • Friday on Oprah: Taking a cue from HSUS, Lisa Ling uses a hidden camera to investigate the cruelty of puppy mills. (When did Ling become the reporter of all things freegan and animal-related?)
   • The San Francisco Art Institute has taken down an exhibit that featured videos of six animals being bludgeoned to death. Unfortunately, it did so before the public forum was held because of death threats to its staffers. Go hypocrisy!
   • The Canadian seal hunt began earlier this week.
   • The Rotterdam Zoo is making all of its animals go veg, for health reasons. Even the carnivores…?
   • Meanwhile, in Germany, apparently ”zoo” is synonymous with “factory farm.”
   • In another giant step for I don’t know what, scientists are hoping to train fish to “catch” themselves. Because why do the harvesting, too, when you can confine your actions to killing and consuming? (At least then maybe there’d be no call for shows like this.)
   • And because I can’t handle any more depressing stuff today: Enter your film, poem, needlepoint, etc., in NAVS’ 19th Annual Art for Animals Classic. If your piece wins, it will grace National Anti-Vivisection Society materials (plus you’ll get some cash). Click here for the PDF entry form and rules, or call 800-888-NAVS (6287). The deadline is May 2.

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2. She Wore Blue Velvet…Birthday Cake?

   by Roseann Marulli Rodriguez

   March 27, 2008 10:07 pm

   Filed under: Art & Craft Food Humor & Comedy Recipes & Cooking Sweets

   

   I thought I was making a big effort because I’m baking the Triple Threat Chocolate “Cheese” Cake from My Sweet Vegan for my cousin’s birthday (review TK). Well, when it comes to cake, “effort” has just been redefined.

   Someone on the Post Punk Kitchen message boards wanted to do something special for her boyfriend, who’s a huge David Lynch fan, so she put it out to the forum: How should I decorate his vegan birthday cake? How about a Blue Velvet cake with severed ear on top? Van Gogh would be so proud.

   Meanwhile, my birthday’s next week, and I don’t expect anything remotely as artistic. Anyway, what would it look like given that one of my all-time favorite movies is Harold and Maude? Have you ever baked anything this creative? We’d love to see pictures!

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3. More Cruelty as Art, This Time in San Fran

   by Roseann Marulli Rodriguez

   March 25, 2008 3:05 pm

   Filed under: Activism Art & Craft California Film, TV, & Video

   

   First a dog was starved to death in a gallery in Costa Rica. Now the San Francisco Art Institute is displaying “Don’t Trust Me,” a video installation in which six animals are shown being bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer by the “artist.”

   What else is there to say? In Defense of Animals has created a petition asking the SFAI to remove the exhibit and to refrain from featuring such horrific acts of cruelty in the future. Sign it!

   UPDATE: The SFAI has temporarily suspended the exhibit, and it’s holding a public meeting on Monday. Be there and speak your piece, if you can.
   What: Public forum to discuss art and ethics and whether killing animals can ever be considered art
   When: Monday, March 31 at noon
   Where: San Francisco Art Institute Main Campus (in the lecture hall), 800 Chestnut Street

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4. The SV Digest: Focaccia with Olives and Onions

   by Jason Das

   March 12, 2008 1:55 pm

   Filed under: Activism Art & Craft Farmed Animals Food Philadelphia Wildlife

   

   I was all excited about this test lab bunny doll, but it’s made of wool and alpaca. Boo!

   • The Philadelphia City Paper published a nice rundown of Vegan Takes on Classic Sandwiches in their city. A nice companion to Your Daughter’s Tied Up In a Brooklyn Basement, a comprehensive guide to (what else?) vegetarian cheesesteaks in Philly.
   • Remember when alpha-asshole superchef Anthony Bourdain described vegans as a “Hezbollah-like splinter faction” of vegetarianism? Well, Hezbollah Tofu has taken him at his word and is on a mission to veganize Bourdain recipes. The public is encouraged to contribute recipes and ideas.
   • There’s a neat piece in the New York Times today about the Humane Society and PETA’s use of hidden cameras to document horrific –and, on a more practically relevant level, illegal– goings-ons at slaughterhouses, and how the videos are able to reach a wide audience in the age of YouTube.
   • In interspecies cooperation news, Moko the dolphin rescued a couple of stranded whales in New Zealand after humans proved powerless to help.

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5. Vegan Art in Williamsburg

   by Roseann Marulli Rodriguez

   February 18, 2008 11:41 am

   Filed under: Animal Products Art & Craft Brooklyn Events

   

   Part of Julie McConnell’s Animals in Mind installation

   An exhibit called Enantiomorphic Chamber opened Friday at the NURTUREart Gallery in Williamsburg. I can’t even begin to explain the theme, but it has something to do with humans’ “two-eyed nature” and the metaphysical. What I do know is that it features a fantastic vegan photographer, Julie McConnell.

   A friend turned me on to Julie’s work last year, and I saw her Animals in Mind show at the Ceres Gallery in Chelsea. Using human hair and silhouettes of combined animal bodies, Julie explores the interspecies bond and the way we separate ourselves from animals in order to exploit them. Her work is disturbing, but in a good way. And I love that an entire page of her website is dedicated to vegan links.

   There are a bunch of other artists in the show, but I don’t know much about contemporary art, so I have no idea if they’re any good. But it’s worth the trip just to see Julie’s stuff. And if you want to find out what an enantiomorphic chamber is, the curators are giving a talk on Sun., March 9. Call 718-782-7755 for details.

   Where: NURTUREArt Gallery, 910 Grand St., Brooklyn
   When: Through March 23; Fri., Sat. & Sun. from noon to 6 and by appointment
   How: Take the L to Grand St. On Grand, walk a block east of Bushwick Ave. (past a school); the gallery is right past the traffic light at Waterbury St.

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