Swineherds, grammar & social injustice
Here are photos from the second place winner in the Alexia Foundation’s 2010 student competition promoting photojournalism as an agent for change against social injustice.
“Swineherd: the salaried gypsy with a domestic mind” was submitted by Muhammad Murtada, a native of Bangladesh, and a third year photojournalism student at Pathshala, the South Asian Media Academy.
Porkopolis Inspires Artist
This site received a singular honor a few days ago. A work of art was created with the enchantress, Circe, and Porkopolis.org as the inspiration. The artist, Red Queen’s Elf, was included in the Porkopolis Art Museum’s recent exhibition, The Courtiers of Circe, with her work, Circe’s Fandango. After being notified of her inclusion in [...]
Circe in Art and Poetry
A new exhibition of art featuring Circe and pigs has opened in the Porkopolis.org Art Museum and a selection of pig themed poetry also featuring Circe has been added to the Best Loved Pig Poetry section Of the Ziffel Memorial Library.
March 2011 – In and Out Like A Pig
A review of major happenings at Porkopolis.org for March 2011: blog posts on the Lords of Lard, the Reprint Series opens and a major theme upgrade is rolled out.
Lords of Lard, part 2
By the later half of the nineteenth century in the Mid-western United States, huge meatpacking houses had developed a vast infrastructure in Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Chicago. These houses were the creation of the revolutionary Founding Fathers of the modern U.S. meatpacking industry.
Pigs carried on the shoulders of swineherds…
Lovely Day for a Guinness! Join the pigs and me for one… Guinness for strength. Guinness is good for you.
Lords of Lard, part 1
An overview of N.K. Fairbank & Co.’s pig-themed trade card advertising in the late 19th century U.S. The Porkopolis Art Museum recently added some examples of late nineteenth century advertising trade cards to its collection. These cards, advertising lard and featuring pigs, were created for the N.K. Fairbank Co. as advertisements for their household lard [...]
Blicky Leech and the Christmas Pig
“I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,” said the Spirit. ” Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!” — The Ghost of Christmas Present from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Here is a Dickensian name for a Dickens illustrator. The artist John Leech, aka: “Blicky” to his friends, is [...]
Poetry Updates for April 2010
In the Porkopolis.org Library, poetry updates for mid-April include: an eccentric Anglican; a moveable feast; diction adapted to a certain class of readers; lawyers, not pigs in time of famine; hogs and men hunted and penned in an inglorious spot; and lastly, perpetual promises, but to no good ends. The poet Robert Peters discusses Gyp, [...]
Russell, Gregory, Yeats and the Black Pig
A new work of art has been added to the Porkopolis.org Art Museum. For me it is also the point of departure for considering how friends might utilize humor as a tension reliever and a coping mechanism for momentarily dispelling their concerns over the consequential matters that embroiled their days. Here, the humor employed is sarcasm and the implementation is through a humorous drawing of a pig and bit of doggerel.
