Stop The Bullets. Kill The Gun

A simple, striking commercial from the UK based Choice FM...



via ID United

Lewis Black on Gun Violence

Comedian Lewis Black has made this short video for the Brady Center which is hosting an anti-gun violence video contest (warning this site has audio when you first open it). Current submissions to the campaign can be seen here.

Retired Weapons

Retired Weapons is an ongoing art project of Japanese designers Yuji Tokuda and Junya Ishikawa which features images of a wide range of "retired" weapons with flowers growing out of them. A recent exhibition in Milan included a life-sized inflatable tank with a flower growing out it's bent gun barrel as well. Their interactive site has downloadable graphics which the artists encourage folks to share.

via Rebel Art

Plant The Piece in Gatherings

Gatherings, a blog for an LA based mission driven event planner, has a nice mention of the Plant The Piece/Swords Into Plowshare art project I worked on.

Seeds of Change in LA Times

The LA Times published a nice mention last week of the Swords Into Plowshares seed guns that I helped create:

Seeds of change

Give this piece a chance. Plant a 9-millimeter gun or seed bomb from artists Christopher Humes and Noah Scalin, and you'll soon see blooming Shasta daisy, European columbine, foxglove, purple coneflower, spurred snapdragon, lupine or black-eyed Susan. Created as part of the traveling anti-violence exhibition "Swords Into Plowshares, Plant the Piece"...

The full article is online here (but requires registration to read). The guns are currently on sale at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Vegetable Weapons

Love these photographs of women holding guns made from the vegetables in their favorite recipes by Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa.

Afterwards the dish is cooked and shared by the artist and subject.

Additional images here, here, here, and here.


via Sum1

Guns

As a Virginia resident I can't begin to explain how upset I am about incident at Virginia Tech. I am also embarrassed and upset by the fact that Virginia just happens to be one of the easiest states in which to obtain a gun. Please consider joining me in making a statement to the president and other elected officials that we need to enforce and strengthen gun laws by signing the petition and sending an email from StopTheNRA.com a project of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.