anne elizabeth moore's blog

Ummm, an interest in eliminating the corporate world from the spheres of art, politics, and culture:

http://wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=4853

p.s. also total hotness.

I'm starting a new weekly column at the Anti-Advertising Agency. I'll be ferreting out advertising's presence and impact on culture, and presenting resistance strategies. I'll be posting on Fridays.

My first column went up yesterday, with exciting news! The Great Facebook Ad Debate of November 2007's been resolved! Lookery, the company behind the legal sticky-wicket, racked up its billionth impression weeks early. It seems they've failed to monetize social networks after all. But that doesn't mean they ain't still breakin' the law . . .

Read it here: www.antiadvertisingagency.com and bookmark the column here: http://antiadvertisingagency.com/author/anne.

My Chicago associate here Wafaa Bilal's been doing a residency at RPI. As an Iraqi-born political artist, his work attracts a fair amount of attention. But his most recent project, a videogame called Virtual Jihad, was shut down TWICE (the second time got our friends at the Sancutary for Independent Media cited for specious code violations, that you can hear if you visit their site.; they've also had a hand in a wiki which gives a fairly balanced account of how things have been going.)

What was possibly most confusing in Phnom Penh, besides my lack of language comprehension and the fact that every single thing is different there, is that the city gets abbreviated to PP, and then there is a biweekly newspaper there called the Phnom Penh Post, which gets abbreviated to PPP. Every single time, I thought: that's too many P's—oh wait. I'm in Cambodia. No one here has even heard of Punk Planet.

Anyway, the inimitable Cat Barton over there published an interview with me: "Back in the girls’ dorm at 37," scroll down the left at: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/. (Do forgive the occasional error, journalism's a bit of a different gig over there.)

I'm coming to hang out with you.

On March 8, I'll be doing a quick reading at Bluestockings from Unmarketable, and also show off some fun new stuff from my recent project, teaching self-publishing to girls in Cambodia.

I'm also willing to: answer questions, sign books, and give free but unhelpful advice about that hairstyle of yours. I've been thinking about it a lot lately, and I'm just not sure it's you.

I hope to see you here:

7 p.m. Saturday, March 8
Bluestockings Radical Books
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington: 212.777.6028

heart,
aem

Kerry Miller of BUSINESSWEEK recently interviewed me for this story, and I thought the questions were really interesting. They are posted here unedited by Miller, and conducted only as informal background research, but nonetheless, I liked them. Which means: you get to read them.

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A painter turns one of his large-scale works into a series of wallets/tote bags/greeting cards/etc. He's happy that that more people are being exposed to his work and that he now has money to buy groceries, but he still feels a slight twinge of guilt. Should he?

well hello, punk planeteers,

I have some places I am going to go when I get back to the states, which I sort of do not want to do and sort of want nothing more than to do at all. here are the places I will go, and while I am there I will talk about the book of Unmarketable, which apparently is a book that I wrote even though I'm not sure I can remember a thing about it after two months of learning Khmer and living in a college dormitory for young Cambodian women who are inventing feminism for the first time.

more details as I emerge from the haze of rice and silk and dust, but for now here is what I can tell you:

This makes my brain hurt, but as it isn't in Khmer, I can't be bothered with it right now:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/business/Blog-it-but-dont-flog.3616...

(oooh, link sent via steve at the antiadvertisingagency.com!)

p.s. More on consumerism in Cambodia—particularly its most celebrated holiday, Christmas—here: http://camblogdia.blogspot.com/2007/12/i-will-tell-you-about-christmas-n... and here: http://camblogdia.blogspot.com/2007/12/cheung-eck-happy-merry-christmas.....

In case you missed it, over at the NYT Rob Walker's written up practically the entire craft movement in one single story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16Crafts-t.html?pagewanted=1&...

He touches on all the things that are awesome about crafts: they're cool, they feel good to buy, they're usually better quality products, mostly made by ladies, they're unique; but also touches on the things that make me uncomfortable about craftrepeneurs: their unflagging devotion to making it big and "taking over" the market, their one-way relationship with consumers--or more specifically consumers' money.

I was accused recently of not properly cataloging my various things, so here is an interview the really rad Irina Ivanova conducted with me over at the Indypendent.

I'm blogging from the offices of the Cambodian/French comic-book publisher Our Books, by the way, where we're busy preparing to release Flower of Battambang. Order your English-language version today! Or distros: order some to sell!

Tell John I sent ya.