2008 Digital Art Exhibition

Wellington, 2200AD. This image is from my first solo gallery exhibition in 2008.
It depicts the gutted crumbling remains of Parliament and the Beehive sinking back into a swamp after earthquakes and a rising water table have made Wellington uninhabitable.

The theme of the exhibition was mainly an environmental statement - recreating what NZ looked like before and after people lived here.

This was the most popular picture in that exhibition and I sold three copies. I donate a fourth one to the Labour Party which they sold at a 2008 campaign fundraiser auction.

2008 Exclusive Brethren scandal

During the 2008 NZ Election the Exclusive Brethren Church was stupid enough to get caught out actively campaigning on behalf of the National Party, and the Green Party asked me informally to do a picture about it for their website.
I noticed that The Brethren's press conference photo bore a remarkable resemblance to Dali's Last Supper.
The puppet head on a string belongs to Peter Dunne. The puppet master is the (then) National Party's Don Brash, who has always denied that he was behind this stunt.

I can't stand extremist fringe religions, the perverts they attract, and the assholes that kill in their names.

2008 and 2011 Election Campaigns

I made this for my pal and fellow McGillicuddy Serious Party alumnus/ Green Party Campaigner Mark Servian.
This rip-off is not endorsed in any way by the NZ Green party and is just an image I made based on their successful 2008 campaign imagery.

The earth will survive, no matter what we do to it. It's just that we may not be around to see it, and it will be entirely our fault.

On that, at least, and the need to preserve our vanishing wildlife, the Green Party and I are in complete agreement. We disagree completely on genetic engineering and nuclear power.

Miscellaneous Green Party Propaganda

I ran my own viral campaign on behalf of the Green Party during the 2008 campaign. I made a whole lot of viral ads like this one and salted them around the internet.

Miscellaneous Labour Party Propaganda

I actively supported and did all the graphics for Denise McKenzie's two election bids for the Labour Party, because she was a teacher like me and because she was much smarter than her opponent.

This ad was a ripoff of a movie trailer and it played in the local picture theaters before the curtain went up. It was crafted to look and sound like a movie trailer, with a lot of subliminal techniques woven into it.

Hiding subliminal imagery in ads is one of my pastimes.

American Democratic Party Propaganda

Speaking of subliminal: This image was created for a Photoshop Competition. (My on-line alias is Brian O'Blivion)

Kennedy allegedly drowned his assistant Mary Jo Kopechne in a drunk driving car accident, (hence the prominent letters DWI in the by-line) effectively scuppering any shot he had at the US presidency.

When it won it was promptly swiped and reproduced without copyright permission by the website of American radio show host Neal Boortz. Not that I care. Boortz is a bit of a wanker but at least he had the decency to re-host it.

[EDIT ] I see he's taken his copy down now, but the link to the competition is still there.

The Neal Boortz Show airs throughout the United States. It is ranked seventh in overall listeners, with 4.25+ million per week. The content of the show centers on politics, current events, social issues and miscellaneous topics of interest, so this one got millions of views, and even more when it was re-swiped by various other Kennedy-hating neo-con websites.

Subliminal Republican Party Propaganda

Another image relying on concealed subliminal imagery. I don't like the US Republican party much. It starts too many wars and relies too heavily on short term band aid fixes for long term problems that it created. It then looks for scapegoats to blame.

I particularly can't stand its illiterate, simplistic and ignorant right wing fringe, The Tea Party.

The subliminal Republican Party logo at the left won another on-line Photoshop competition.

None of the right, even-more-right / lunatic right parties squabbling over the corpse of the American economy in Washington can fix it during a single term in office.
It will take a generation to fix the current mess, but all that Americans will do instead is vote for the next jackass down the pike who promises then their old superpower way of life back, regardless of the cost or consequences for the rest of the planet.

I fear the worst for them.

Derailing disinformation campaigns

I can't stand Fox News. Here is an example I `shopped up showing the kind of disingenuous logic tactics they and their fellow travelers try and pass off as received fact on the largely ignorant public.