Prosthetic Conscience

Beehive Collective

Last night, members of the Beehive Design Collective spoke at the Green Quad at USC, and Lori and I were there to hear them and see their artwork. If you haven’t seen any of their work, they create fantastically detailled black-and-white drawings that tell the stories of world injustices and the movments resisting them, all in terms of animals, especially insects. I first saw their work at my friend Heather’s house; she has a poster they did for the mobilization against the FTAA.

They presented a poster about Plan Colombia, and explained all the details of their graphic. A lot of it was stuff that we were already familiar with, thanks in large part to our friend Amanda, who worked in Colombia with Witness for Peace. But it was still good to hear more about it from such earnest young people (who make me feel very old).

The bees are in need of a techie bee to run their webserver and make their backups. Lori suggested it to me, and I was seriously considering it. I think they need a penguin rather than a bee to maintain their technology. However, while penguins can survive in the cold of downeast Maine, sea turtles cannot, and would freeze to death in a beehive heated only by the buzzing of wings. If you are a penguin who would like to help the bees make their honey, please contact them through their website.

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