Keep an eye out for The Centric Archives that will soon be appearing on our Product Page. It will feature hundreds of images from our private collection of historical illustrations, Centric Fonts and some of our Photoshop Brushes, free for you to use in your creative projects. The cost for a 1 year subscription to The Centric Archives will be $20.
The Chicago Conspiracy is a documentary three years in the making. The project was filmed in Chile, and the story extends into the Mapuche indigenous lands of Wallmapu. The concept for the film was born with the death of a former military dictator. We celebrated in the streets of Santiago with thousands of people after hearing the news: General Augusto Pinochet was dead. His regime murdered thousands and tortured tens of thousands after the military coup on September 11, 1973. We celebrated both his death and the implication that the political and economic system which put him in power might itself be mortal. We began this documentary with the death of a dictator, but we continue with the legacy of a dictatorship.
You can see the trailer and read more about "The Chicago Conspiracy" HERE.
Congress passed the Insurrection Act in 1807 to severely restrict the president’s ability to deploy the military within the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 tightened these restrictions, imposing a two-year prison sentence on anyone who used the military within the U.S. without the express permission of Congress. But there is a loophole: Posse Comitatus is waived if the president invokes the Insurrection Act.
Section 1076 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 changed the name of the key provision in the statute book from "Insurrection Act" to "Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order Act." The Insurrection Act of 1807 stated that the president could deploy troops within the United States only "to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy." The new law expands the list to include “natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition" — and such "condition" is not defined or limited.
As hectic as it has been around here we have managed to work in a few prints between skateboards and t-shirts. Our latest prints for our upcoming show with the Firecracker Press at Subterranean Books are my favorite to date. The backgrounds of these 4-6 color prints are made up of overlapping patterns and hand applied ink. Once the background layers were dryed a 2 color print served as the cherry on top. I have included a detail from one of them, but if you want to see the rest of it you will just have to check it out November 14th at Subterranean Books (6275 Delmar / St Louis, Mo). This show is still in the works. We will keep you posted with more info regarding the opening in the future.
Two years ago we started making very limited edition runs of clothing under the JOLLY ROGER BRAND label. The goal was to simply produce clothing that we wanted to wear, which was basically anything that can not be found in the malls and chainstores of America. You know...something original, experimental and produced on a small scale. Besides our website, a couple of boutiques and art shows, we never pursued marketing the brand.
Over the last couple of months we have been working on expanding the JOLLY ROGER BRAND line to include skateboards. What kind of skateboards? Skateboards that are designed by us and produced right here in the USA with 100% North American Maple. And since skateboarding has been in our blood since 1984, we won't just be offering the run of the mill standard shape. We will also have a limited edition pool shape and we couldn't call ourselves hardcore without a coffin shaped deck. Our shopping cart is in the works now so be on the lookout for the next Jolly Roger post for ordering info.
We are a screen-printing and graphic design studio that also provides various graphic resources for artists, such as: fonts, photoshop brushes and vector art.
