Looking Back

Earlier today I heard Terry Gross on Fresh Air interview Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower and author of Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America; click here to listen to that interview, access the transcript, and purchase the book if you’re so inclined. Wylie outlines how in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election in the United States Cambridge Analytica, Steve Bannon, teams of well-financed social scientists, and some sophisticated Facebook algorithms targeted and harnessed the residual power of an interesting demographic, i.e., straight white men who felt humiliated and emasculated by marginalizing forces well beyond their control. They were manipulated and promised a return to an imaginary golden era that fortunately never existed. I’m considering getting the book. The title says it all! The interview prompted this:

an iPad drawing using Sketch Club and iColorama

Day #190 of the Fiasco

Nothing to say; except that I wish education had a greater impact than propaganda.

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Blah Blah Blah

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Paper 53 and final tweaking in iColorama

cancelation

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Nostaglia

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Attention Surplus Syndrome

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Paper by Fifty Three, iColorama

Forecast

shit storm

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BEHIND THE SCENES: For weeks now, an evasive idea has been trying to form itself on my cognitive drawing board, having to do with depictions of absurd, segregated services reserved for conservatives or liberals. At first I thought of separate traffic lights at any given intersection, one set of red lights for the conservatives and another for the liberals. Then I realized how unlikely it would be, in such an imagined reality, that conservatives and liberals would even share the same roads. If nothing else, there would have to be fancy toll roads for conservatives only and old, beat up, public roads for the liberals. So I scratched that.

Then notions of segregated meteorological services for conservatives and liberals began appearing on my internal drawing board. I imagined a conservative weatherperson standing in the pouring rain with a mic in one hand and an umbrella in the other outlining the counter factuals: sunny, low humidity, time for a picnic. You know, “fake weather.” But then a staff researcher found the YouTube video below, published way back in 2012. Damn it! That’s when I decided to go with the simple shit storm forecast.

Anyone Up For Some Counterextinctive Alternatives?

counterextinction anyone?

“Common Ground?”

Half-baked doodle in Sketch Club

Temporarily Functional

This is a bit misleading. The system is already broken. I should have entitled this Barely Functional.

temporarily functional

temporarily functional

Tayasui Sketches, Procreate, iColorama, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil,

Practically Tactical

My brother-in-law Bob shared a link to this article that inspired me to draw this:
Practically Tactical

 

(…doesn’t even lift up the seat…)