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Nicole

Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. -Bertolt Brecht

About Me

"Anarcho-Gothic" artist- if there IS such a thing- political cartoonist, illustrator, connoisseur of cats and bizarre inanimate objects- and not to mention one of the editors of the infamous World War 3 Illustrated and "Wobblies! A Graphic History". My Portfolio

My Etsy Shop



My Interests

Art, activism & anarchism. Editing the collectively run political comics zine World War 3 Illustrated, now in its 25th year. Helping the campaign to organize the IWW Starbucks Workers Union.

I'd like to meet:

Artists, writers, musicians, anarchists, wobblies, activists, and anyone who has a new world in their hearts.I am VERY pleased with the art gallery we have going on down in my comments section. There are some amazing artists out there...

Music:

Angels of Light (and anything Gira), Jarboe, Bonfire Madigan, David Bowie, Tom Waits, DethKlok(!), Danzig, Misfits, Motorhead, Cocteau Twins, Coil, Cat Power, Cramps, Dead Kennedys, X, Crass, Skinny Puppy, ohGr, Download, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Bauhaus, Sparklehorse, Radiohead, Will Oldham, Swans, Nick Cave, Einsturzende Neubauten, P. J. Harvey, old REM, Ernst Reijseger, Yo La Tengo, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, 16 Horsepower, Gillian Welsh, Morphine, Iron & Wine, M. Ward, Pixies, Sarah Vaughn, Interpol etc .

Movies:

In no particular order: Blade Runner (both versions), Dead Man, Innocence, Orson Welles' The Trial, Company of Wolves, Element of Crime, Princess Mononoke, Matewan, Bound for Glory, Naked Lunch, V for Vendetta, Battle of Algiers, Wages of Fear, Morvern Callar & Ratcatcher (Dir. Lynn Ramsay), Underground, Tale of Two Sisters (korean), Werckmeister Harmonies,The Third Man, The Tenant, the Excorcist, Ghost in the Shell, the ORIGINAL Wickerman (Christopher Lee in Drag!!!) all Brothers Quay, Fallen Angels, 8 1/2, Godard's Week End, Jan Svankmajer's Faust, Suicide Club, Throne of Blood, American Astronaut, The Man Who Fell to Earth and anything by the magnificent Werner Herzog.

Television:

Drug of the nation...

Books:

"The Dispossessed" & "The Left Hand of Darkness"- Ursula K. Le Guin "Burning Your Boats" Short Stories by Angela Carter (particularly the "Bloody Chamber" series) "Rebel Voices" Joyce Kornbluth on the I.W.W.- world's greated Union!And the following writers: Kakfa, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn, Ian Banks, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, Haruki Marakami, Amy Goodman, the Project Censored Reports, Umberto Eco, Neil Gaiman etc.

Heroes:

Many of the writers above, Chomsky, Ursula, Angela Carter, Arundhati, Amy Goodman :)AND all the Industrial Workers of the World - and anarcho-syndicalist union for all the workers (because we are ALL wage slaves).The martyrs: Frank H. Little, Joe Hill, Weseley Everest, Judi Bari, Brad Will, MLK, Ken Saro Wiwa and all the ones whose names we do not know.The fighters: Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, the radical artist Ralph Chaplin, the late Carlos Cortez, the very brave Daniel McGowan & Jeffrey Luers.All my fellow artists and comrades at WW3 and in the activist community.

My Blog

Trade Unionists’ Death Toll On The Rise

New ITUC Worldwide Report Reveals Catalogue of Murder, Violence andIntimidation Against Trade UnionistsSeptember 18, 2007An appalling total of 144 trade unionists were murdered for defending workers' ...
Posted by Nicole on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:04:00 PST

WE WANT TO GO HOME Poster

This is an image I designed for the up coming World War 3 Illustrated (November release). It's inspired by a colleague of ours who has worked with Iraqi refugees in Jordan, and is in contact with US V...
Posted by Nicole on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:29:00 PST

NOT ONE MORE DEATH- My First Mural Project

How to make a very long story short....On February 13th 2007, 4 year old James Rice was killed while crossing the street with his 18 year old aunt. His aunt survived, and the Hummer that ran them over...
Posted by Nicole on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:09:00 PST

The Magician

I'm working on a deck of major arcana based on themes in my work. Here's the first:...
Posted by Nicole on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:12:00 PST

OBVIOUSLY SUBTLE- The Movie

FINALLY available to the public is the new trailer for OBVIOUSLY SUBTLE- a surrealistic film by my husband Dustin Chang. After years of post-production struggles it's come together with a original sco...
Posted by Nicole on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:11:00 PST

ADOPT A WOLF!

Well, more like sponsor a Wolf. Wolf Haven International is a sanctuary for abused or neglected wolves rescued from zoos or private ownership. They're based in Washington State and have a breeding pro...
Posted by Nicole on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:40:00 PST