The chapbook that started it all, © Sunflower Skins 2010
A tiny pamphlet educating about eating disorders, celebrating ocean life, and encouraging creative art and action.
A silly joke that should be taken way too far, past political correctness and copywrite rights, in so many directions and into so many dimensions.
A mirror held to western culture and an opportunity to challenge it, to change it—through oneself, one self at a time.
Plush Whales
Hand-pressed Buttons
Hand-coloured and mass-distributed for free through libraries, universities, new & used bookstores, record shops, fair-trade stores, tattoo parlours, and midnight movie screenings; guerrilla-distributed through menus, newspaper stands, grocery stores, walk-in clinics—swiftly hiding one in your purse or unattended notebook, leaving a few behind with your tip, tucking one under your windshield wiper—anywhere and to anyone that needs one, the strangers I won’t ever meet who find them. It’s a fun game, really. I believe in free press and I believe that art should be pleasurable, even absurd. “The Future of Bulimic Beluga Whales” has been sent across Canada and the United States, donated to dozens of university and zine libraries, as well as the People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street (both before and after the November 15th raid). As of December 2011 the whales have flown to Chicago, swum overseas to Turkey, and infiltrated 5 major airports—Pearson, O’Hare, Munich, Frankfurt, and Ataturk International. Help spread the blub across Europe and the rest of the world! If you’re interested in distributing whale books around your city, please get in touch and I’ll send you some.
Join the Feed the Whales FaceBook page for updates and to add your own photos of found bulimic belugas and ocean-related comics!
FTW t-shirts, photos courtesy of Sonny Baker and Sweater Eyes
