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Berkeley artist Suzanne Rachel Forbes aka slurkgirl on Etsy has her ‘Defending the Electronic Frontier’ print on sale over there for $22 USD, half of which goes to benefit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco liberties group defending our rights in the digital world. The prints are a limited edition of only 2,800, professionally printed with soy-based inks on 8.5×11 100# gloss cover stock, individually signed by Suzanne, numbered and dated.

Suzanne wrote on Steam punk Workshop:

Miss Eva G posed for me in her SOMA loft, dressed in her own fabulous steampunk finery, with an antique crossbow she brought back from China. The painting took several sittings with Miss E and then many hours of work painting in the detailed background. She is defending early implements of the computer revolution, Jacquard punch cards and IBM cards, a CDV of Ada Byron, and Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2. An apple core represents Turing, eaten up by the intolerance of his era. Also prominently displayed are some wonderful modern creations- The Steampunk Laptop by Datamancer and the Steampunk Flatpanel and Keyboard by Jake Von Slatt- who were kind enough to allow me use their work in the painting. The packet-sniffing rat under the desk is a nod to the EFF’s most recent victory; the EFF logo appears among the luggage stickers on the trunk. I added the bullet shells at the last minute when I learned that Miss E. is a crack shot.

[via steampunkworkshop]