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Today, June 25, is George Orwell’s birthday!

 

 

 

To mark the occasion, here are some awesome Ralph Steadman illustrations of Orwell’s anti-totalitarian Continue reading

Animal Farm: Watch the Animated Adaptation of Orwell’s Novel Funded by the CIA (1954)

in Animation, Film, History | June 5th, 2014
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In the middle of the twentieth century, America’s Central Intelligence Agency saw art and culture as a weapon: they secretly funded not just abstract expressionist Continue reading