Reason's Brian Doherty Interviews Artist Chris "Coop" Cooper

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Reason's Brian Doherty Interviews Artist Chris "Coop" Cooper

Reason's Brian Doherty sat down with internationally renowned underground artist Chris "Coop" Cooper at Reason's LA studios to discuss everything from intellectual property and censorship to the inspiration for Coop's radical art project. Coop, who provided the cover illustration to the December 2012 issue of Reason, is one of the most prolific and provocative designers and artists working today. For more information, visit www.theartofcoop.com. Doherty is the author of This is Burning Man and, most recently, The Ron Paul rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired. 

Approx. 25 minutes

Produced by Zach Weissmueller.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

That cover illustration wasn't very Christmasy.

[Raston Bot]

FYI- his artwork as displayed on his blog and gallery is classy, awesome, and gorgeous.. yet NSFW.

[heller]

Classy? I think he is purposely avoiding classiness.

[Raston Bot]

i am classless so what do i know.

[Warren]

Copyright is tyranny.

[jester]

I laughed when I saw his 'pill' version of Mickey Mouse.

[yonemoto]

copyheart.org

[yonemoto]

I copyheart *everything* now.

[yonemoto]

slightly more intellectual content:

http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011.....rivalrous/

and

http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011.....a-commons/

I think it really does the tough question of asking "what is property". Which should be a topic of interest to libertarians. I really rethought a lot of ideas after reading these.

[JeremyR]

Did he do an album cover for Lords of Acid?

[Mongo]

Yes.

[Guy Laguy]

because driveway weeds are worse than Hitler

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Who is the most mocked politician:
Dan Quayle or George W Bush?

[C. Anacreon]

I choose Bush. Everyone ridiculed Quayle but nobody took him seriously, he had no role nor impact, and no one ever thought he would actually end up POTUS. Bush was actually president, and so people really hated him. I always got a kick at work when the janitors would call Bush a "fucking moron."

[C. Anacreon]

Those of us in CA are tooled by the diurnal rhythms of H&R -- and at the mercy of the East Coast people. We aren't even awake when you've added 400 comments to AM links; PM links usually hits right in the midst of an important afternoon meeting, and by the time you get home from work, most posters are long gone. Then the wife and kids go to bed and you finally have a few moments to sit on the intertubes, and H&R is completely dead.

Too bad about Groovus' disappearance, at least he was usually up by now behind the former Iron Curtain.

[Paul.]

Great interview, Brian. Love it when Reason does stuff like this.

[Michael]

His Herzog t-shirt kind of made me chuckle in this context.

[Eduard van Haalen]

"You call that a beard, Doherty? My artist-beard makes your beard look pathetic!"

[Eduard van Haalen]

"My beard is like the full, fat butt of one of my female figures - your beard is like the tiny flat butt of a literature professor!"

[Ranter]

Saw this posted over @ Boingboing, which seems to have a love/hate relationship with Reason.

And as usual, the typical tools over there have already devolved it into a "KOCH-TOPUS" strawman, moron-based argument about Reason.
Jesus Christ, do they ever get tired of being hypocritical assholes? They'll proudly rally for Obama and then rant about Bush and gun control for 6 hours while ignoring Obama's awful record on drones, whistleblowers, spying, etc, etc, ad infinitum...

And for an "open minded" site, they're quick as hell to ban anyone who doesn't drone along with the groupthink.

Ugh.