oilpocalypse day 64

64 days after the deepwater horizon rig blew up in the gulf of mexico,the oil continues to gush. people all over the world,and especially in southern louisiana,continue to feel helpless,and even those who are doing their best to fight the good fight feel like they are in a losing battle.

let’s revisit that oil spill ticker i posted early on in this crisis:

divide that number of gallons by 42 and you get the number of barrels per day that have leaked into our beautiful gulf. and that’s just an average of all the best-guesses of how much is leaking out every day. i find this beyond comprehension.

i personally continue to feel like there is little i can do,save for spend a few hours every day posting articles and photographs and reports from grassroots groups on the ground to my facebook profile in a desperate attempt to keep others far and wide in my social circle informed and enraged. i have a few-day break from the census (the phase i was hired for is now over,but the next phase that i’m getting rehired for starts next week),but have to condense everything i’ve been wanting to do for the past two months into a few days. plus i have to get ready for the craft mafia’s 5th year anniversary party on thursday. and fae leaves for michfest work in a week,so we have to get all our ducks in a row for my eventual departure later in july as well.

it’s all a whirlwind to me.

so i guess i’ll just continue to do what i’ve been doing here on the blog,which is highlight some of the visual creativity that’s come out of this horrendous nightmare,in an attempt to both vent our collective anger and/or also help raise funds for some of the grassroots groups and first responders to the situation.

today,i’d like to point your attention to sticker robot,a silkscreen sticker company out in california. some of you may remember back when i was stenciling-for-obama,sticker robot kindly donated a huge whack of stickers of my obama stencil design for me to give out,to help the campaign. zoltron and sticker robot are good people,and here they go again,donating their brilliant work to the cause:

click the picture to get all the details. basically,you just have to send them a self-addressed,stamped LEGAL-SIZED envelope and they will send you a free sticker. i personally think this is one of the best graphics i’ve seen come out of the creative community in response to the disaster,and i can’t wait to get one onto my car. (maybe i’ll get lucky and get 2 in the mail so i can put one on the scooter too!)

a fresh batch of oil disaster response t-shirts coming soon. stay tuned.