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Last week the FBI shot down Megaupload, one of the most popular file sharing services, where millions of people had access to all kind of cultural products such as movies, TV series or music. The FBI charged the site’s founders and five others with running “an international organized criminal enterprise” responsible for “massive online piracy.” It was a controversial operation that one more time opened the debate about the limitations of Internet, and the anti piracy laws, like the SOPA in the USA. Considering that some of these laws are too hard,  last week Wikipedia went black, and Anoymous a group of activists of the web, and a decentralized online community that acts anonymously in a coordinated manner, hacked some pages, and published some links to download music and movies from the web. What is your opinion, must antipiracy laws like SOPA censor all pages of file sharing or on the contrary is it necessary to fight under censorship to defend the free circulation of culture on the Internet?

For Anonymous this Guy Fawkes masque- popularized by the comic book Vendetta-that you can see in the fridge magnet above, has become a symbol of freedom.  Which could be yours? Customize a fridge magnet with it on Camaloon and build a space of freedom at your home.

Each month for the 29 some Argentinean restaurants offer gnocchi, a delicious in its daily menu. But… what is gnocchi is? This little potato dumplings that are turned into pasta in fact are one of the dishes that Italians brought to Argentina in one of the migratory waves that spread all kind of European traditions into South America. But, why each month a great number of Argentineans, eat gnocchi putting money under the plates?

By Lady Giocon

The word graffiti comes from an Italian word, graffiato (“scratched”). It refers not only to that underground culture, those designs that perhaps you have seen in some streets of your city… The graffiti art history starts in Rome- referred to the inscriptions found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins as the Catacombs of Rome or Pompeii- and also in Greece. In our modern times the English poet Lord Byron will scratch his name in the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sunion in Greece, like the actual graffiti artists leave their signature on the walls of our cities. After 70’s graffiti will be part of pop culture and will become a discipline into contemporary art…

Ancient Pompeii graffito caricature of a politician

In Graffiti Badges a group of graffiti artists have designed some amazing fridge magnets inspired in the art they spread across the streets of the cities where they live: Barcelona, Bristol, London, Berlin…

Look at that Owl grafitti inspiration magnet designed by the artist 45rpm!

Dessigned by 45rpm

Today I want to introduce Robert Crumb to you, a legendary cartoonist, one of the founders of underground comics during the 60’s and 70’s that nowadays continues creating his critical and satirical- and sometimes controversial- comic strips. Recently, Crumb has published his collection of record covers of all kind of music groups designed by him. A friend of mine offered this wonderful book for Christmas to me and I am still enjoying it:

The complete record cover collection by R. Crumb

Crumb is also the father of one funny character; Mr. Supernatural who has inspired this fridge-magnet:

By Robert Crumb

Some days ago I shared with you a canvas made by Andy Warhol inspired in a can of Campbell Soup. Like Warhol, Arman is another contemporary artist who has explored the possibilities of preexisting industrial objects, or even rubish, to become an artistic object. Look at that sculpture that Arman made with hundred of bottle caps!

And now it’s our turn to become artists!

 Accumulation Carlsberg by Arman