New Post 9/4/11
Saturday 9 April 2011
Friday 8 April 2011
Thursday 7 April 2011
A pixel-portrait
A bitmap photograph of me!
Taking some inspiration from the artist Julian Opie (Click to view website) and his work for Blurs "the best of" album cover.
Similar to the method used by Google to alter it's persona everyday I thought how my facial expressions and colours could be changed daily.
Alternative facial expressions can be changed to add character and to the image.
Wednesday 6 April 2011
A film you must see (to open your eyes)
In an extraordinary alliance of TV and cinema, John Pilger's new film, 'The War You Don't See', opened in the UK mid-December. Having premiered at The Barbican on Tuesday 7 December 2010, the first Pilger film since 2007 started its UK run at Curzon Soho in London on Sunday 12 December. On Tuesday 14 December, ITV1 broadcast 'The War You Don't See' at 10.35pm. The film is now available to buy on DVD in the UK. It can also be viewed online at the brilliant documentary website Top Documentary Films (Click to visit) which I visit on a regular basis to watch about contemporary issues.The new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?
John Pilger says in the film: "We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power."
Tuesday 5 April 2011
Monday 4 April 2011
Sunday 3 April 2011
Great talk from John Pilger's Website
http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/breaking-australias-silence-wikileaks-and-freedom
(Click on link or image above)
Chaired by Mary Kostakidis, it featured speeches by John Pilger, Andrew Wilkie MP (the only serving Western intelligence officer to expose the truth about the Iraq invasion) and Julian Burnside QC, defender of universal human rights under the law.
Attendance: 2500
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