ALA Picnic ’10
So last week hanging with some friends of mine another one told me about this coming up, and I thought this might be fun, cosplayers in the park, just having fun, I’m there.
So last week hanging with some friends of mine another one told me about this coming up, and I thought this might be fun, cosplayers in the park, just having fun, I’m there.
I was kind of a slow day for the protest, 10 people came but at least I scared some sea org off. I was asking one scientologist how he feels about the fact they are in part responsible for the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide back in ’97 after scientology destroyed and took over the Cult Awareness Network. don’t believe me? I found a post made by a member of Heaven Gate praising scientology for it 3 months before they all killed themselves. You can’t take away the fact of that when it is right there. He called me a lair on that.
3 Days of Epic Enturbulation, I was only able to make 2 of them but over all it was exciting and a lot of fun…
the first day started with a Press Conference in Hollywood, we had many news vans parked outside and a number of critics join us. Even someone from Freedom Magazine (a scientology publication) came to record the event, he asked if he can come it and said it was fine as long as he doesn’t cause problems. It turned out he did, he was just trying to record peoples faces in the crowd. He left after we uncovered what he was really doing, and that didn’t take long. Soon after We went to Gold Base and got attacked by a bulldozer, HAHA!
Day 2 was a Tour of Hollywood, many out of Towners came and raided with us and had a lot of fun, it took a while for handers to come out and they all looked pissed. What make it better was the scientology kept telling us where where criminals and such, I pulled out a short list (4 pages) of crimes done by scientologist including that of hubbard himself. They kept saying they are all lies, yes because we never see scientologist do anything wrong
I was unable to make Day 3 due to other plans, but over all it was great…
The new year gives new possibilities, and for scientology more acts of them showing how damaged they are. Just on raid day alone, started off in australia with one of them spitting on a protester, grabbing another and trying to kiss him, and takes the phone out of the hands of another protester. Else where not much seemed to happen other then partying. Here in LA we had a nice group going on, and later that night the handlers finally come out. Its nice to know scientologist view anyone critical of them as nazis, bigots, and like the KKK. What makes that funny is we aren’t the ones that have big theatrical events, think they are better then everyone else, and use intimidation tactics. It is true that you have to be insane if you decide to stand up against them due to very well known and cruel tactics they use on people, but hey someone has to stand up to them.
So I went with some friends of mine and all decided to have a little fun while there, got a nice little handful of photos and played around with some stuff (that they are cool with you playing with). I really need a new system on posting photo galleries on the site without using my picasa page, so I’ll have to try to figure something out on what to do for that.
So sometime really early last year a friend of mine linked me to this site saying “hey this guy is doing a shirt design contest, got something cool?” and of course I did and mine won… massively.
So a few days ago the guy from the site messaged me again asking if I can make a flyer for this event going on in San Francisco and I figured why not, never make a club event flyer before but sure I can pull it off. The purposes of the show is to help rise money in overturning Prop 8 here in California. In which I really don’t think it should have never been voted on, thats just really taking rights away from people. It’s like “oh my god, two dudes or chicks are marring each other, the world is going to end.” I don’t plan on getting married myself ever but if some other couple wants to why should I stop them? It’s something they want to do and I can’t see how its hurting anyone.
But anywho this was an interesting experiment for me, I make a few other things for it but ended up not getting put in the final version because I guess it wasn’t very fitting. oh well, I might post them up later as stand alone images. and now I have other strange ideas to experiment.
UPDATE: had no address to the place so I messaged the guy again, sent me the info and added it in. yay!
uploaded for a contest on deviantart, the idea of this contest is to make your own version of the end of the world. This is mine, where everything is just going backwards. No internet, bad TV and music, and people that are massively upright and intolerance due to stupidly. This would truly be hell.
While flying around Los Angeles, our hero can’t help but to wonder where he is. Few things look familiar and everything just looks strange over all, and it doesn’t take long for him to find out where his is now.
after seeing this he becomes enraged and unintentionally sets the ground around him on fire.
nice little raid that went on, we went to the winder wonderland on hollywood and police made us leave because they said we were loitering in which we were protesting. It’s nice how scientology will do everything they can to stop free speech, they will block signs, attack critics and make a number bogus things. Last year when we protested at the stage they got themselves a film permit just for the reason to keep us from being in front of the display, when in realty nothing was really going on at all.
let me tell you something about cults, it is all about controlling peoples lives, do anything they can to get there way no matter how selfish it is, and are anti-government. After all scientology took part of the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history. How about Tony Alamo? a man in jail for 10 counts of Interstate Transportation of Minors for Illegal Sexual Purposes, Rape, Sexual Assault and Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors. And his followers believe that 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were just government conspiracies. Peoples Temple back in the 70’s, killed a Congressman, and soon after over 900 followers in Jonestown dead… massive suicide. And another one that rigged an election just to get its member into local offices.
I don’t care about other peoples faiths, as long as you are not causing problems and doing crap for your own selfish means. I’m not trying to save the world or anything, I’m just trying to live in it. I’m an artist, I like to crate, adventure, and share my story with the world, and if I can do something that can make a difference then I don’t see way not, just try to have fun on the way and don’t turn it in to work.
now check out my time, Walking in a Winder Wonderland
post, by another protester on our secret message board
There was some interesting moments with balloons. A few of us had prepared white balloons with short messages on them (XENU, DM = SP, etc.) and took them down to the HGB. We tied them around parking meters and handles of power boxes. Not too soon later, Patty comes over and snips several of the balloon lines with scissors.
Then we get word that our old pal John Glass is back at longsign, so an anon takes the bunch of balloons we have left and ties them around his arm. As soon as we get there, however, Patty is ready with her scissors again, and actually cuts the balloons loose while he’s holding them. Now, they get stuck on a pole sticking out from longsign-building’s fire escape. A few minutes later, some scilons go out to the fire escape and free the balloons with another pole.
Later on in the evening, anti is holding the remaining balloon while talking with pedestrians about the cult, when anti-foot-bigotry “Buddy” Richardson comes along and pops anti’s balloon with his cigarette.
So sometime during the week a friend of mine called me and asked if I can join in going to the zoo with her, her brother and another friend of ours for his anthropology class, sounded like fun to me so I decided to join. We didn’t stay long because we got there kind of late but for the time being was fun. Hopefully we can get some time to do it again later on earlier in the day so I can get a lot more photos…