Something, Something, Liberty, Something (Pepper Spray Cop)

Something, Something, Liberty, Something

One of four versions I made of the 'Pepper Spray Cop'. Although I'm busy with a portrait (24/7) I took a little while off last night to make a few of these photoshop montages. It hadn't dawned on me that it was a meme, I'd seen one picture online that showed this twit in action in a different context, but by the time I'd finished the first picture (Counter Culture) several people had posted their versions online. It had dawned on me as I was working, but it was only after I saw the range of images in the 'meme' that I went and began the other three images. I could go on, I have another in mind, but I think I've contributed enough to this idea. You can see the other montages I have made at my 'once in a while, every so often' political cartoon blog here. 

When I saw the versions all collected online I was surprised to see that some ideas I'd considered had been done already, such as an image of 'Lassie' and one or two others I thought were too obscure to be considered by anyone else. Indeed more than one Michelangelo has been press-ganged for this cause, but I would think 'God and Adam' an obvious target for fun.

It was an abusive, stupid, heavy-handed, thing to do to the U.C. Davis students and deserves all the ridicule it gets. It's great to see so many people reacting with humour and technology to make a point. Many of the contributions remind me of the brilliant animation art of Terry Gilliam created for Monty Python.

In my version above Pepper Spray Cop has abseiled down the face of Libertas herself to spray straight into her eyes...she remains unmoved (of course) by what is, after all, just a silly, fat, little man.

Anyway...back to painting now.