[SfN] Inkjet democracy!

[Jim Buell]

Here's a neat way to augment that word of mouth that Ralph was talking 
about at last night's Minneapolis super-rally (hope lots of folks saw it on 
CSPAN, live!):

Inkjet democracy!

Several great sites have lots of downloadable Nader/Greens/progressive 
agit-art ready for printing onto posters, t-shirts, etc. Here's a slightly 
annotated and very partial list:

http://www.GreenGrafix.com/ - Our purpose  is to create  a gallery of FREE 
graphics, banners, and animations for web use, to promote a variety of 
Progressive issues and organizations. See the 'banners,' 'buttons,' and 
'links' links at the bottom, too.

http://home.earthlink.net/~orchill/index.html - Walking Billboard Designs. 
Several beautiful multi-color designs to reverse-print onto t-shirt iron-on 
transfers. Great for tabling and leafletting!

http://www.oro.net/~dscanlan/NaderResource.html - Dan Scanlan makes his 
designs available in normal (for posters) and reverse (for t-shirts) and in 
low and high resolutions.

http://www.billionairesforbushorgore.com/materials/posters.html - the ever 
popular Billionaires site has several great poster designs (much seen about 
town, btw) that are suitable both for t-shirts and framing.

Making your own t-shirts is easy and fun. All it takes is an 8.5x11" 
iron-on transfer (available at discount and office stores around town for 
about $10-$12 per 10-pack), an iron, and a new or old t-shirt. White and 
light-color shirts work best. They're even more fun to wear - it's like 
having a cartoon bubble over your head expressing your thoughts all day long!

Posters can easily be photocopied, blown up or even color laser-printed at 
print shops like Kinko's. If anyone knows easy ways to make home grown 
buttons, bumper stickers, pennants, yard signs, etc. (esp. waterproof 
ones), please share these ideas! And let's see your work - wear/display 
this stuff proudly in classes, on the quad, in the grocery store, on your 
door. It's one-to-one alternative media, and it works.

I'd love to hear about other art out there that's ready to use the same 
ways - and about other neat ways to use this stuff.


Go We Go!

Jim