so the police finally got me on the telephone on the 2nd of january, and i agreed to go in for an interview that afternoon at melbourne west police station, where i was charged with criminal damage. apparently the cops had been calling me since shortly after the event, they Read more…
the first train load of coal to come out of a new coal mine, especially one that travels out along a specially constructed railway, is something that coal barons generally love to celebrate. they might even like to wheel out one of the corrupt politicians who spruiked their idiotic project Read more…
this was the second coal port that myself and juliet lamont shut down (one year ago today), to coincide with the COP 21 summit in glasgow. we intended to get footage out from inside the port, but security was a bit tight, they had two workers with flashlights positioned on Read more…
this action was carried out in the lead up to COP 26 climate talks in glasgow. both myself and juliet were released on bail the same afternoon, after shutting down the coal port for half a day.
i’ve got a bit of catching up to do with my posts of the anti-coal protests i did while covid restrictions were making big-city life and activism unbearable/impossible. this will be the first of a few that will cover the whole queensland anti-coal period, and then i plan to return Read more…
i spent the first covid lockdown of 2020 in melbourne (march/april/may). after being disappointed that the 2020 subvertisers’ international week of action was cancelled, and i didn’t get to paint another big video advertising screen. as soon as covid travel restrictions were relaxed at the start of june, i came Read more…
so after my court case for the events of 22/03/19 was delayed a number of times (all “non-essential” cases being adjourned due to covid-19 restrictions), the cops have called me up mid-september 2020 to ask if i would consent to them dropping the charges against me. very strange attitude to Read more…
so bernie has withdrawn, corbyn got smashed, all around the world horrible capo idiots are trumping their less-shit opponents, and tbh, i am not in the slightest bit surprised. the game is fkn rigged duh, the stinking-rich integrated-world-capitalism cunts control the media, and pretty much everything else, wtf u expek? Read more…
wrote a thing for portuguese anarchist journal a batalha. here’s some pictures and the (poorly edited) english text: Revolutionary Reform of Global Media Systems The richest 1% of the population now owns more than 50% of the world’s wealth, and they are projected to own 2/3rds by 2030. The global Read more…
Finally received a brief of charges from 6 months ago, when I sprayed over the video advertising screens at melbourne central station. here is a copy of the brief: I have been charged with “marking graffiti”, a summary offence under the graffiti prevention act 2007. This is the first time Read more…
for the 2019 subvertisers international week of action (19-25 march) i took a fire extinguisher full of paint to some of the most obnoxious advertising in melbourne: the video screens that play ads, with audio, on the platforms at melbourne central train station. the screens used to play advertising interspersed Read more…
subvertisers international (SI) is having it’s 3rd annual #subvertthecity week of action. it runs from tuesday 19th of march until monday the 25th. here is a link to the SI post about it with all the details: Call Out: Subvert the City 2019 so if you feel like taking action Read more…
tldr: i was convicted on all charges and fined a total of $4500 dollars. my necessity defence was declared “but a furphy” because there is no imminent threat to anything. here is the recording of the hearing: here is the recording of the the verdict and sentencing (after an Read more…
this wednesday, the 11th of april 2018, three seperate charges are being heard together at the melbourne magistrates court. the three ‘incidents’ being heard are: — the 4th of december 2015 — the 5th of may 2016 (the day all the journalists were arrested) — the 22nd of march 2017 Read more…
23rd to 25th of march 2018 is subvertisers international’s (SI’s) “subvert the city” global action weekend. here is the call out with details: SI_march_action_2018_ENGLISH_SML get involved, tell your friends, etc. and remember: “creating beauty is the simple yet painstaking task of removing all which is ugly” – some person everyone Read more…
i was in canberra recently and was happy to be able to met with two members of the group ad free canberra, deb and tim. ad free canberra emerged as a group in 2017, responding to the calling of a parliamentary committee looking into the billboard ban that has existed Read more…
this is the day when all the journalists recording my actions were arrested, handcuffed, taken back to the station, interviewed and finally released without their memory cards, which were taken for “evidence”. (earlier post about this day here) the sergeant bowen was the one behind all this — he’d encountered me Read more…
tramclean are a melbourne group who protest against for-profit advertising in public space by pulling it from public trams and tram shelters. their motivations are best explained by them, on their website: tramclean.wordpress.com it’s great to see more people taking action, encouraging others to get involved, and challenging the advertising Read more…
found this article while looking for something else the other day: this is the full text of the article: “A PUSH to bring more digital advertisements to Melbourne’s tram stops has been blocked over concerns moving signs will distract drivers and cause traffic accidents in peak hour. The Victorian Civil Read more…
in 2014 a short documentary film (on what i do and why i do it) was made by jessica hutchison, as an assessment piece for jess’ course at the victorian college of the arts. it’s called “no measure of health”, and it can be viewed here: http://thoughtmaybe.com/no-measure-of-health/ jess had heard Read more…
after magistrate bezzani disqualified herself in november 2016, the six charges of posting bills/wilful damage were heard by magistrate gwynn on the 1st of march 2017. with the first subvertisers international global action coming up on the 22nd-25th march, i was planning to immediately appeal if i received a jail Read more…
details about this day’s action posted on the subvertisers international website: http://subvertisers-international.net/video-ad-screens-wiped-out-melbourne-australia/ there you can see posts of other actions around the world for the SI week of action. here are some photos from the day:
a new international alliance, called subvertisers international, has been formed to join forces in resistance to the global onslaught of for-profit advertising in our public spaces and media system — and anyone who wants to be a part of it, is encouraged to be (yes that means you, please join Read more…
being a modern urban man, i saw this news article on an app on my phone the other day: Australian economy shrinks 0.5pc in September quarter, worst fall since global financial crisis of course i was immediately alarmed by this alarming headline — because even a slight stutter in growth Read more…
the hearing on monday the 28th of november (of 6 seperate charge sheets) started without me — a warrant was issued for my arrest because i was “late”. i was down the mornington pennisula over the weekend to celebrate my mum’s sixtieth — so rather than getting my whole family up early Read more…
i’ve just completed a booklet that attempts to explain what i’m on about by addressing the common questions/comments/criticisms i have received since starting out. here it is: what the f*#k do you do that for? i’ve just sent it off to the printers, i’m getting 500 copies of the 80-page Read more…
going to the melbourne magistrates court on monday the 28th of november for the hearing of 6 separate charge sheets from six separate informants (cops who lay the charge). i’m going to be arriving around 11am, so if anyone would like to attend, you are encouraged, and your support will Read more…
“anti-advertising activists” from all over the world have finally come together to organise getting organised into some kind of organisation — this unarguably ‘new!’ and ‘revolutionary!’ association of political actors has not yet been named, but the first meeting was held in europe this year, and the first international actions are Read more…
i went out postering in the city on the 2nd of may 2016, ten days after the angry adshel guy incident. i’d done a bunch of panels at a couple of different locations, then as i was walking down elizabeth street towards bourke street to find a new location, a Read more…
the university of illinois in springfield (u.s.a.) has held an event entitled “public/private subversions” on the night of october 3rd as part of the ecce (engaged citizenship common experience) speaker series. more here: http://events.uis.edu/2016/09/uis-speaker-series-presents-screening.html the event is being put on by associate professor of political science richard gilman-opalsky, ph.d., who Read more…
didn’t expect this to happen… at first i wasn’t going to publish this video at all, not wanting to make mutual understanding between me and the advertising industry (lol) even less likely — or at least not wanting to amp up the antagonism. then after a few weeks i thought maybe Read more…
another largely boring-as-batshit video, in the spirit of fully documenting this thing in all its tedious and subtly-apocalyptic splendour. here’s my highlights: i didn’t test the 24-hour ban from attending all tram stops, because i’d had enough for the day :(
i’ve changed the name of this website to democraticmediaplease.net, to be more clearly descriptive of what i am pushing for, and to avoid the term “liberal”, which just seems to upset and confuse many people these days. i also dropped the word ‘global’ because it’s hardly necessary to remind people Read more…
turned out the office of public prosecutions were too busy to give a shit about me getting my “will not damage property” condition removed from my bail agreement from 18th december 2015. all my lawyer had to do was say the one word, “essentially” (to confirm the prosecution had fairly Read more…
so when i was in the police cells after interview on the 18th of december last year, after initially refusing to sign police bail, i began to imagine what was going to happen — i’d be fronting a magistrate without representation, saying i refused to sign bail because i wouldn’t Read more…
so the police were finally able to “catch” me twice in one day. excellent work by the journalists who called the bluff of the police and kept their cameras, sd cards and phones. also excellent work by the most over-zealous yarra trams guy i have ever encountered — i mean Read more…
some good reactions from people this outing. a couple of stressed and defensive tram people, but no cops. after i ran out of paste and went to refill i ended up calling it a day, wasn’t up for it anymore — it was all cloudy and drizzly, and my mental Read more…
thanks to m.p. fikaris for thinking what i’m doing is alright and making a comic zine about it. he illustrated the the big-arse clumsy-arse text that existed on the about page of this website for a while. here’s a pdf version of it: G.L.M.P you can get a physical copy Read more…
by this point i’d decided that because the police are so adamant that i must not “continue the offence” on the same day, that must be what i should do. over the last 10 years i’ve been told innumerable times by police, magistrates and judges that i have no right Read more…
a nice lady gave me $5 to go towards my fine this day, that was nice, but she got away before i could explain i don’t pay fines — so instead of saying thankyou for her nice gesture i was just kind of yelling at her as she walked away, Read more…
no tram cops, or cops cops, just citizens pulling off the posters. it’s a shame people aren’t as willing to pull down for-profit advertising as they are the political expression of a concerned citizen. i’d love to interview/survey the people who pull off the posters, was disappointed that none of Read more…
this day didn’t feel good, i don’t normally participate in talk of “energy”, but the energy was nasty and the day’s interactions were in line with this “energy”. wondered whether we should include every dickhead that wants to go off at me because they are miserable under capitalism, but then Read more…
so after two outings with minimal bad attitude and no interruption by tram staff or police, this time there was all three. when the guy who called me an arsehole (just as he made his getaway on a tram) and the plain clothes tram cops where all clammering to question Read more…
vox pop day — more interesting than traffic noise. so much to say about the things said that i’m going to say nothing instead.
a story about what i’m doing was published on free speech radio news (fsrn): http://fsrn.org/2015/12/paint-it-black-anti-advertising-activist-doing-time-in-australia/ fsrn is a non-profit, non-commercial media company (the only kind i’ll speak to) based in the united states. the story was also included in the fsrn weekly edition, which is podcast and goes out Read more…
this was the first time i went out postering after getting out of the lock-up on the 6th of october, and giving my not-so-key-note presentation on the 16th. i used all my paste covering 9 ad panels at three different stops, but the cops didn’t come, which was somewhat unusual Read more…
here is the video of the presentation i did for the local lives, global matters conference in castlemaine, victoria, 16th of october 2015: download (889 mb) it was the first formal ‘presentation’ of what i’m doing that i have ever done (outside the courtroom), and i did a pretty half-arsed Read more…
the local lives global matters conference organisers dobbed me in to the morning show on abc bendigo — i got a phone call one afternoon asking if i’d do a live radio interview the next morning. as it was the abc (australian broadcasting company), a public service broadcaster (not one Read more…
had court on the 30th of september for the events of the 27th of february. here’s the audio recording of the court proceedings: (the tedious, fumbling prosecution evidence of the ‘offending’ i freely admitted to actually took an hour (i could have done it in less than 2 minutes) — Read more…
just got out of jail last week, was sentenced to 7 days jail on the 30th of september for some postering charges, but i’ll post about that when i have the court audio. right now i’m preparing a presentation for a conference in castlemaine called local lives, global matters. i’m Read more…
i’ve decided i will no longer play the tedious game of reducing my motivations into a legally recognised defence — all the jumping through legal hoops and being respectful of the process and processors only made me feel like an absolute sap when i was (totally predictably, in line with Read more…
pasted for about an hour before the police showed up this time (cut lots out obviously). for your viewing tedium i’ve included the full 20 minutes it took several police officers to get this convicted criminal into a divi van and off the streets (for a couple of hours). unfortunately Read more…
had magistrate collins for the hearing on the 6th of february, which is apparently a good draw, here’s the super exciting recording: the recording messed up for the first two parts of hearing, so i was only given the recording for the after lunch session, when i was convicted Read more…
this post concerns the the reasons why my freedom of expression/human rights defence will go no further, which basically comes down to the way the word “success” is understood. i had to go to justice connect (formely the public interest law clearing house) to get pro bono assistance to take Read more…
got magistrates’ court tomorrow morn, friday 6 february 2015, and as the title of this post suggests, i’m running a new line of defence. i have to run a new argument now the human rights argument has been thoroughly quashed and “the lawyers” won’t help me take it any further Read more…
this morning i had the county court appeal of two separate decisions made in the magistrates’ court last year. i had applied for leave to appeal both conviction and sentence in both cases, but following the supreme court appeal decision (which makes impossible any human rights defence), i decided to Read more…
on the 16th of december justice ginnane handed down his decision in the case of magee v wallace — he didn’t say anything about it in court, just said the appeal was dismissed, handed out the written decision and then awarded costs against me (after my half-arsed attempt to explain Read more…
a while back, a friend of my sister’s that i’d never met emailed me — she asked if she could make a short film about what i do, so she could enter it into something called ‘memefest’ as part of her uni assessment. she said it was a university organised Read more…
i appeared in the magistrates’ court on the 16th of october, in front of magistrate hardy — the matter was heard and i was sentenced the same day to 70 days jail, suspended for 2 years, for one charge of posting bills arising from the single panel of advertising i Read more…
some awesome police stupidity here — handcuff the guy with the camera, of course, that is the only reasonable thing to do, after all, he was filming in a public place which is a serious offence, no time for talking, the public is at risk. apologies to jore for inadvertently Read more…
so i had the appeal hearing in the supreme court on august 7 — it went okay. i felt a little under-prepared because i had to move ‘houses’ a week beforehand and didn’t spend as much time getting my legal ducks in a row as i should of — but Read more…
postering on collins street, near the intersection with swanston street, nearly a year and a half ago. cops never fail to set the spirit soaring — well one was alright really, the other however…. too much to say, video says it all.
the age — melbourne newspaper and middle-class-liberal cream of the for-profit media swill — ran an article this monday regarding a “highly unconventional entry in the prestigious Archibald prize”: a portrait of my dumb head, sprayed onto a soon-to-be-garbage advertising poster by street artist cdh. here is a link to Read more…
richards v magee heard in front of magistrate chambers — behold the resultant audio recordings in all their glory first day, 22-04-14: my evidence starts at 44 minutes if you want to go to the slightly more interesting bit — but it’s all intensely boring in my opinion, actually Read more…
the brandalism project has recently completed a new run of ad-takeovers in the united kingdom — see their website: www.brandalism.org.uk — 365 street level ads replaced by volunteers with the artwork of 40 different artists, over 2 days, across 10 cities — examples: it is really good that so many Read more…
no surprises here, found guilty following the dictum of supreme justice kyrou. here is a pdf of magistrate chambers’ written decision. after the decision was read out, i was told that i thought i was ‘above the law’ — something highly offensive it seemed. i told the learned magistrate that Read more…
had a case go before the melbourne magistrates’ court today, one charge of posting bills covering over 100 ‘incidents’ between 03/10/2012 and 31/03/13. here are my submissions: richards v magee magistrates submissions 22-04-14 i don’t know the name of the magistrate presiding, as she, like all magistrates, didn’t introduce herself Read more…
on friday the 28th of march i filed (gave to the supreme court registry) and served (gave to the prosecution) my outline of submissions for the appeal in the case of magee v wallace, being heard in the supreme court on the 7th of august 2014. here is a pdf Read more…
the way this film is edited makes it appear the police handled the ‘incident’ more efficiently than they did — a whole lot of boring shit has been cut out, including the police taking the names of everyone filming on the suspicion that an offence may have been committed, after Read more…
i was advised late december that a date has been fixed for the supreme court appeal hearing: 7th of august 2014, starting at 10:30 for an estimated hearing of one day. an email i received from the o.p.p. today suggests the timetable will likely stretch out to make use of Read more…
early december i received a summons to appear before the costs court in the supreme court of victoria on the 11th of february 2014. the proceeding was initiated by the victorian government solicitors office (vgso), on behalf of the attorney-general’s office, for taxation of costs thrown away by reason of Read more…
this was the second posting bills charge to go to the magistrates court — this time regarding an ‘incident’ where i covered over three video advertisement panels inside flinders street station in the middle of the day, i have previously included pictures of this ‘incident’ in this post. i was Read more…
another single incident charge is being heard at the melbourne magistrates court this thursday the 14th of november 2013 — starting from 10am in court room 1, from where i will be allocated to another court room with a different magistrate sitting in it. this time the charge concerns postering Read more…
on november the 4th (the 28th day (last day to appeal) after the decision was made on the 7th of october) i submitted my appeal to the supreme court registry. i had to prepare three documents, and take them in to the supreme court registry in quadruplicate (a copy for Read more…
was interviewed recently on 3cr by some friends doing the squatters and unwaged workers airwaves show — here is the link to the podcast: http://www.3cr.org.au/suwa/podcast/suwa-11102013 actually that podcast will expire one day probably, so here it is here: 3cr is an awesome actual real community radio station, meaning it Read more…
so i had the second day of hearing on the 18th of september and then came back for judgement on the 7th of october, magistrate capell delivered his decision orally, i was found guilty of posting bills and fined $400. i have been convicted of the indictable offence of criminal Read more…
drew magistrate capel (not sure i spelt that right, i only found out the name of the magistrate by asking the prosecutor before the magistrate appeared out of the magic wardrobe). magistrate capel was good, in that he wasn’t bad — wasn’t rude, short-tempered, dismissive or any other of the Read more…
here are the submissions i’m going to submit tommorrow at the melbourne magistrates court: magistrates submissions for 20-08-2013 hopefully i don’t pull a magistrate that makes me wish i didn’t exist with particular intensity – the odds are stacked against me.
i had a contest mention on the 19th of july in the magistrates court. i went up and told the clerk i was there, even though i wasn’t sure i had to do that, she gave me some small attitude for not being a professional, which is to be stupid. Read more…
first mention of the posting bills charge today was just about me entering my ‘plea’ of not guilty and getting another date for a contest hearing — i’m representing myself now (reasons being: my legal aid lawyer james anderson moved away, legal aid will not run appeals for my case Read more…
i received this charge-sheet and summons a while back, it is just for one charge relating to how i ‘did post a document on a structure namely advertising board’ inside southern cross station on the 14th of february 2013. all the other charges are being compiled into one big thing Read more…
an article was brought to my attention recently that talks about the ethical problems of advertising, it is a british collaboration between the public interest research centre (PIRC) and WWF-UK entitled think of me as evil? opening the ethical debates in advertising, published in 2011. as george monbiot puts it: Read more…
well i’ve been a bit fucking slack really (that’s depression for you), but after taking much time off over the ‘festive season’, i’m starting again with a new approach: i’m going out in the middle of the day with the ambitious aim of being ‘caught’ every time — i’ll bore Read more…
i’ve always thought that acting in the way that i do is an implicit recommendation of others choosing to behave in a similar way, but just to make it explicit: i believe many people, as many people as are willing, should protest against corporate/capitalist domination of our public space/media, starting Read more…
here is a bunch of sewn together photos of ‘this is how i’m fucked’ — what i did for an exhibition back in august 2011: (it is probably best to download the image (by right clicking and selecting ‘save link as’ — depending on your browser/OS), then view it in Read more…
an article in the herald sun (also appeared online at news.com and on the australian’s website) has blamed the chronic under-funding of legal aid on legal aid itself. the title of the article is: lawyers fear the innocent could go to jail with victoria legal aid facing budget blowout. if Read more…
here are some scenic snaps i have taken on my early morning sorties. as all the pictures of the covered advertising panels are of the same, quite uninteresting thing, and i do not wish to show before photos of the advertisements covered, i figured the only interest (and there is Read more…
i had an interview with s/c brookes and his partner on monday october 29th, they said i’d be charged with posting bills and that i would get a summons and a brief of the charges soon. the ad company is claiming the cleaning bill for the two panels out the Read more…
another article on where the media is headed has totally fucked me off – this time it is the article published in overland (‘progressive culture since 1954’) entitled ‘the end of a world, an elegy for the newspaper’ by jonathan green. the online version is here: http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-208/feature-jonathan-green/ i had to Read more…
i received this email on friday the 19th of october: Subject: Fly posting on bus shelter in Brunswick Dear Kyle, I received a report from a member of the public regarding unsightly fly posting on one of our bus shelters in Brunswick. One of our employees has removed the offending Read more…
some photos of what i did in the wee hours of monday and tuesday this week. this is on the corner of elgin and swanston, near melbourne uni: that advertisement was for alcohol (spirits). this one, the corner of swanston and latrobe, that’s the state library in the background (the Read more…
this morning i was spotted by a team of ad company maintenance staff covering a car advertisement on elizabeth street (near the intersection with flemington road) at about 4am in the morning. there were two vehicles that pulled up on the tram tracks alongside me, only the driver in the Read more…
this morning i covered over the ads in one of our “super-stops” on swanston street (just below grattan street). there are six panels facing in to the platforms and six facing out to the street. originally i planned to just do the six facing inwards, but when i had done Read more…
the photos are down the bottom, you can click on them to see them bigger. i went out this morning (wednesday) for the 8th time to the tram shelter on william/lonsdale. i arrived there about 6:30am because the previous morning i had finished covering the ads at 6:15am and when Read more…
i went out to cover the william/lonsdale ads again this morning at about 6:45 (this was the fifth time i’d covered it recently). i went later in the night (so late as to be clearly ‘the morning’) because yesterday morning i covered the ads at about 4:30am and then they Read more…
here is the text that i’ve been sticking up over the top of the ad-blocking papier-mache. each paragraph is a different poster, some a4, some a3. this unsolicited and fundamentally offensive corporate intrusion into public space and your mind (corporate advertisement) has been covered-over (papier-mache style) as a protest against Read more…
i’m back covering the same advertisements housed in the tram shelter on the corner of william and lonsdale, out the front of the magistrates, county and supreme courts (i guess because it’ll be clear who is responsible as i’ve been there before, and i am challenging law that allows and Read more…
it is extremely unfortunate that the non-government organisations that provide us with the products and services we need to live comfortably tend to be profit-crazed psychopaths that would eat their own children for a profit if they were able to have sex and bear children. of course, advocates for the Read more…
there were corporate newspaper and television people at both the day of the trial and at the judgement (the quasi-corporate/public australian broadcasting corporation was there too). none of the television news people ran a story, perhaps partially because i don’t talk to corporate media, as i informed them all (and Read more…
the supreme court appeal trial on the 23rd of august went along alright, our argument and responses to criticisms were presented as well as they could have been by saul and james (who did a fantastic job for which i am very grateful). justice kyrou seemed a decent man in Read more…
i don’t want to say much on this subject, generally i think it is best for me to keep my mouth shut — i just want to offer my opinion on what it would really mean for ‘australians’ to apologise to indigenous ‘australians’ (i don’t see opinions similar to mine Read more…
first, here are the submissions from the haters (the prosecution and the attorney-general): prosecution/police submissions attorney-general submissions (our submissions have been posted previously, in the post ‘supreme date and our submissions’) the equal opportunity and human rights commission didn’t end up intervening, not sure why, perhaps because they thought it Read more…
the idea of unbiased news media is idiotic, everything about the phenomenon of presented news is a product of the defining ideology of the news service, arguments against this view are many and varied, but all outrageously stupid, so i’m not going to waste time dismissing them as hypotheticals. what Read more…
we’ve got a new date for the supreme appeal, the 23rd of august (we’ve had it for a long time, i just hadn’t posted it). here are our submissions: supremesubmissions2012 (i say ‘our’ submissions but i really did nothing to produce them, that was all james and saul, i do, Read more…
observing the conversation in our public sphere (as carried forth by the respectable and credible professionalistical expertisiests within our mainstream media), it seems everyone is okay with the corporate/capitalist media/advertising farce as long it it subject to two restrictions: (1) no media company shall break the law during the assemblage Read more…
thanks to susan and david for thinking what i’m doing (and what i bang on about) actually has something to it. the article speaks for itself. here is the link: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SCULawRw/2011/12.pdf
i’m going to answer some imagined/experienced criticisms (phrased as questions for my convenience) of this whole globalliberalmediaplease thing (my life), ones i would be very reluctant to answer in person (because of the risk of me becoming extremely emotional/angry and then breaking down crying, maybe saying some really stupid shit Read more…
supreme court decision is still a long way off. the attorney general of victoria, renowned rights-charter-hater robert clark, has decided that he should have his say on the issue (which is allowed for under human rights law). our march 8th date will have to be put back a couple of Read more…
we finally have a date for the supreme court appeal – 8th march 2012. that makes it over two years to get the case heard in the magistrates court and to appeal to the supreme. i stopped painting to give the legal system the benefit of the tiniest doubt, to Read more…
the latest initiative in my ‘broadcast your ills’ project is an ‘art’ exhibition that my friend mister sam wallman invited me to do with him. it is upstairs at brunswick bound (a book shop), 361 sydney road brunswick, saturday 6th of august, 2-4pm, stays up until october 2nd (maybe longer). Read more…
i’ve decided to quit it with the drugs (including alcohol) completely. this is only until humanity has achieved the modest revolutionary goals of abolishing corporate advertising worldwide and establishing a global liberal media system of acceptable brilliance, so not too long at all really. then i may, or may not, Read more…
magistrate mealy called the case of magee, stated he found the charges proven, handed us his decision, then stood the matter down, i guess so we could read the decision, even though there was no point to read it before he proceeded to sentencing because the decision was made and Read more…
the next magistrates court date has been pushed back from 28th of january to february 14th for some unknown reason – possibly just to make it a bit more romantic (feb 14 is valentines day i’ve been informed), which i am glad about whether it was on purpose or not. Read more…
started with a brief cross-examination from the prosecution, which consisted mostly of the prosecutor accusing me of believing everyone has the right to smash shit they don’t like no matter what the circumstances, which i don’t believe. i tried to explain that it was complicated, that in this instance i Read more…
we got a very grumpy, rude magistrate man called mealy. before he came out the clerk called him up and told him that they were ready in the court room and that she had put the chair the way he likes it. the prosecution changed the damage value from $200 Read more…
after a few delays, the date for a contest hearing in the magistrates court has been set for wednesday the 29th of september, 2010. at a preliminary hearing, i think it was a contest mention, my lawyer, james anderson, submitted an application to have the case heard in the supreme Read more…
these are some pictures a friend took of some ads i had painted out at some point or other, except the one that has ‘you don’t have too’ still visible, some friends did that one. i started out painting over the ads methodically and completely from one side to the Read more…
after an extended dalliance with aca-fucking-demia, i have finally decided to stop academiaing 4 eva. the main reason i went back to uni to study arts (after quitting the science/engineering course that i started straight from high school) was because everyone (family, friends, police, lawyers, magistrates, psych -ologists and -iatrists, Read more…
these pictures are of some billboards i painted early in my illustrious career. i got a couple of big tins of mis-tints (fuck ups from the paint shop that they sell cheap) and the sticker on top of the tin said the colour was ‘razzle dazzle’, which i found amusing Read more…
this was recorded when it went to air on 3CR 855 am, in melbourne, at 6pm on may 4 2010: you can also access the recording at http://www.donebylaw.org/2010/05/04/paint-it-white-may-4-2010/
here is the decision of the supreme court regarding my appeal for bail: supreme bail application decision to explain the quite confusing circumstances surrounding this: when i was being a brat, refusing to promise to magistrates that i wouldn’t ‘reoffend’ and breaking any bail conditions that i was given when Read more…
this footage was taken on the morning of the 2nd of february, 2010, at the intersection of william and lonsdale streets, melbourne, victoria, australia. this footage was taken during the production of a film on australian graffiti and street art (not sure why my political protest was included but hey, Read more…
this police interview video demonstrates my infectious enthusiasm and inspiring oration skills. no, it’s actually very dull, but here it is anyway. in it i read the spiel that i had prepared for the police interview which is also posted in text form. my good lawyer informed me that the Read more…
I think that in a sane society, advertising would be considered completely unnecessary and insulting, would be ineffective, and would not be tolerated. As things are today, I believe advertising is generally effective in its creators aims, through perversion of art and abuse of psychology it can succeed in disrupting Read more…
