Photo of the Day: Things That Are Probably Not True
Jul 26 2007 | Comment 1
Signs in Selfridges in Birmingham
[photo by MarkHillary]
liz | 1:33 PM | Uncategorized
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Signs in Selfridges in Birmingham
[photo by MarkHillary]
liz | 1:33 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
The Mark Hillary flickr page doesn’t say this, but these signs are definitely by the great artist Barbara Kruger. (Er, if they’re not made by her then they’re most definitely knock-offs.) She’s all about feminism and critiqueing our consumer culture. Here’s some linkies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kruger
http://www.barbarakruger.com/
If you follow the wikipedia link you’ll see the “I shop therefore I am” work right at the top.
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