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A wounded soldier is being patched up be a medic. Meanwhile, an insurgent approaches their hiding spot.
I built this to show the constant struggle going on in the Middle East.
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The wars that we battle from within.
This location had a really cool stack of black rocks(probably pigmented by the dirt) and I was really inspired to use the powdered paint that I had with me and though that it would really look nice against the dark rocks and really pop out. And while I was preparing everything I was thinking of a good pose to do for the concept and decided to go for imitating the rocks being static and then added some tension to my body.
PS. I was not completely naked during the shooting of this photo.
PPS. There were a few people enjoying the view of me while shooting this photo and from over the rocks and probably took some BTS photos without me knowing. You know who you are! lol
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These artwork conflicts at times with our ideas of how art should look like; of how it meets the observer' s expectations. Clearly this art does not respond to the sciences of the Art Academies, does not imitate the real world, nor does it use conventional perspectives.
Mirit Ben-Nun transmits her inner world and its sounds, giving rise to an infinite number of artistic compositions, springs of dreams, an assortment of realities and perhaps her 'Unreality.
Her art is connected to her life and the real world, it is a back and forth between herself and the spectator. Her thoughts are expressed in a unique style and approach.
Mirit Ben-Nun's art usually exists independently of reality, she even dares to move it away. Her aggressiveness in the use of primary colors along with bright tones, reveal Her autonomy in relation to shapes. The lines, the points and the forms do not try to imitate reality but rather give each work a unique importance showing the emotional charge of the artist.The artist has a spirit of rebellion, new ideas, trying to overcome without seeking perfection, just looking for expression. Through her work she explores personal identity trying to redefine the art itself. Its purpose is to describe and illustrate or to reproduce the world and the nature of human civilization, focusing primarily on the dominant exposure of the expressive function.His art is made by an artist that reflects the complex problems that shape our diverse, global and rapidly changing world, trying to redefine art.
Dora Woda
15th July 2015 - A different view of the statue of Captain Johnnie Walker (Sub Hunter) forever looking out upon the Western Approaches.
The following is taken from the Liverpool Echo website:
IT was long, agonising, bloody and the only conflict of World War II which prime minister Winston Churchill said kept him awake at night.
But even so, that must have accounted for an awful lot of sleepless nights as the Battle of the Atlantic raged – or simply ground on relentlessly – for the entire span of the war from September 3,1939, to May 8, 1945.
Yet without the extreme courage, dedication and ingenuity of Capt Johnnie Walker both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war itself would have been much shorter with Britain forced to surrender to Germany.
As an island nation dependent on imports, our merchant fleet could have been crushed by Kriegsmarine and the country starved into early submission to Hitler’s Nazi regime.
Winning the Battle of the Atlantic to keep the supply lines open from North America and the West Indies was as important to this nation's survival as had been the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Thankfully for all of us, it was a case of “cometh the hour, cometh the man”. Ironically, in spite of his later phenomenal wartime success and nicknamed U-boat Killer Number One, Walker was not always perceived to be a navy high flyer.
Born in 1896, Frederic John Walker joined the Royal Navy as a 13-year-old. He passed out top of his class at Dartmouth and received the King's Medal.
He fought in World War I and, aged just 21, became involved in the battle against U-boats that was to dominate his career.
Walker was one of the first volunteers to study on specialist courses at the newly-formed anti-submarine school at Portland, in Dorset.
By 1926, he was Fleet Anti-Submarine Officer in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets. But his field of expertise was not then fashionable, with a trend towards bigger and better surface ships with huge artillery firepower.
Yet while the land battle barely started in the first year, a period dubbed the ‘phoney war’, it began at sea within 12 hours and Liverpool was in the front-line.
The passenger liner SS Athenia was torpedoed and sunk, out-bound from Liverpool to Canada with the loss of 117 lives.
However this was merely a curtain-raiser as Britain and its Allies announced a naval blockade of Germany the day after the declaration of war and Germany responded in kind.
In less than a year of Athenia’s loss, the Battle of the Atlantic was at its height in mid-1940. Britain was swept into a deadly struggle for food and freedom, and it made Liverpool central to the Allies' defiance of Nazi Germany.
Convoys gathered largely in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, to make the perilous voyage across the U-boat infested North Atlantic to Liverpool. Although convoys were the best system to protect merchant vessels, losses of ships and crews were horrendous.
As the Battle of the Atlantic spun out of Allied control, in a period dubbed “happy time” by the U-boat crews, Walker came to the attention of Commander-in-Chief of the Western Approaches, Admiral Sir Percy Noble, and in 1941 was given command of the sloop HMS Stork as senior officer of the 36th Escort Group.
While Walker and his family moved into Grassendale Park, Aigburth, on the banks of the Mersey, his escort group’s home was Bootle's Gladstone Dock and its first success came in December 1941 with the protection of convoy HG-76.
This was Walker’s chance to prove his theory that the battle should be taken to the enemy, with the offensive use of air and sea forces giving the best chance of doing maximum damage to U-boats while continuing to protect convoys.
Yet in 1942 alone, 1,664 Allied ships totalling almost eight million tons were lost, the great majority due to U-boat attacks. While Britain and the Allies were being pummelled on this scale, the invasion of Europe could not be contemplated.
Because of this, the gentlemanly Noble was replaced by the tougher Sir Max Horton, who took over as C-in-C at the Western Approaches command bunker, beneath Derby House, Liverpool.
Admiral Horton was a World War I submarine commander and his knowledge of this particular warfare led to a new strategy. More destroyers and frigates were needed to chase, harry and destroy the U-boats.
In June 1942 Walker was appointed as Captain (D), Liverpool, but he badgered the Admiralty to let him “stop sailing a desk” and go back to sea.
As a superlative sailor, Walker was the ideal man to carry out Horton’s advanced strategy and turn the hunters into the hunted.
February 1943 saw Walker get his wish with command of the newly-built HMS Starling. Half of his old crew from HMS Stork joined him.
The 46-year-old took overall command of the 2nd Support Group comprising escort warships HMSs Wild Goose, Wren, Kite, Cygnet and Woodpecker.
The basic theory was to send the escort warships ahead of their convoys and force the U-boat wolf-packs underwater so they could not torpedo the merchant ships, but could be depth-charged.
The success of this strategy made his name synonymous with the spirit that helped win the Battle of the Atlantic. He hunted down 25 U-boats and urged his 2nd Support Group.escort group on to other "kills", often through a loudspeaker on his flag ships.
In one dramatic offensive, when three U-boats were destroyed, Walker hoisted the historic signal “General Chase”, which had been used only twice before: once by Sir Francis Drake when he sighted the Spanish Armada.
He often hunted his victims well away from the merchant ship convoys. On one trip two U-boats were sunk 40 miles away from the convoy. On another occasion, he hunted U-202 to exhaustion over 14 hours.
But it was also the increasingly exhausted Walker who faced a premature end as his battle against the U-boats came at a heavy cost.
He died on July 7, 1944, two days after collapsing from a stroke during a visit with his wife Eileen to a Liverpool cinema. He was just 47.
He had a naval record second to none, with 25 1/2 U-boat kills credited to him, the half being shared by the RAF. His legacy is brilliant, far-seeing concepts for anti-submarine training.
Such was his renown that the Admiralty went so far as to state: “Captain Frederic John Walker more than any other won the Battle of the Atlantic.
“His methods had amazing success and, more than any other factor, gave the Royal Navy supremacy. No tribute could be too high for the work he carried out.”
Captain Johnnie Walker is profoundly deserving of this statue at Liverpool Pier Head, unveiled by Prince Philip, who himself was based at Western Approaches.
This drawing was originally inspired by a discussion between Lawrence Weschler, Errol Morris, Dr. Kanan Makiya, and W.J.T. Mitchell as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. The subject was the iconography of war and how people live with and process the myriad tragic and frightening images that have become a part of our everyday experience. It occurred to me that these iconic images fail us, or more that we fail them, in that we continually allow new atrocities to bloom, that we author many or most of these great calamities ourselves, and that we allow history to repeat itself over and over, only with more technological savvy as each new conflict arises so that we are further removed from the killing than we were the last time. When i see photos of depravity, of war, of suffering, of humiliation and dehumanization, such as the photos from Abu Ghraib that so many of us have seen, i want to believe that the images are powerful and profound enough to shock us into action, into some kind of patient and benevolent revolution to actually make the world better, to accept and respect all the differences in cultures and histories and ideologies and live amicably if not peacefully. Clearly i’m either too optimistic or too naive, because we fight, maim, lie and kill in the name of empire, religion, oil, just as we always have and likely always will. And many of us believe what we are told about the righteousness of our crimes and the trueness of our aim with little or no question because it is simply what we are told by those we expect to be in the know.
So the drawing at its inception was a collage of iconic images of war and struggle, a superimposed collection of calamity. It was my hope that the volume of sadness and destruction in this drawing would serve as a reminder for myself, an alarm to help me wake from my own apathy and disillusionment in the face of the grinding and monstrous engine of modern government and the political machine that can apparently function on nothing but the blackest crude, a reminder that i need to let history inform every decision and choice that i make so i’m not simply stumbling and blind as i move through the world, that if i am going to be a part of any change, it should be positive change.
The drawing has changed, however, and is no longer based solely in the literal, in the photo realism of our recent past, but for me it has also begun to acquire a symbolism and metaphorical nature that feels relative to our future. This piece has taken on its own life, separate from me, and i don’t feel like i control it anymore, neither the direction of the imagery used nor the execution of each individual piece of imagery, but rather that i’m slowly opening and receiving what comes in. It feels akin to the process of pollination. Foreign bodies have entered and have had a profound effect, life-changing even, and in realizing that effect, those foreign bodies become familiar and essential.
i’ve rewritten these lines a dozen times and i’m never satisfied with what appears on the page. It could be that for me there is no satisfaction in talking about my own failures as a person living today, or maybe i don’t want to sermonize what i see as the collective failures of everyone. It’s also possible that instead of all this writing and talking, all i can really do is draw a picture and let you do with it what you will.
It was not my goal to make a drawing of ruin, but when i consider where we seem to be going and how desperately we seem to want to get there, i don’t know that i could avoid it. At least, not this time.
3-24-08
Since the 19th of March, when Chicago held its 5 year anniversary rally/march/protest for the invasion of Iraq, a great deal of information has come my way that is causing me a great deal of concern. And fear. And anger. And i don't know if anyone else out there who might intentionally or accidentally stumble upon these paragraphs knows more or less than i do, but my knowledge is only starting to expand regarding where we are as a country and as a society, and even in my peripheral knowledge of the kind of insidious and deep running corruption we're living with and in, i find myself in a state of shock because so few people are responding to this information...which is available, it's definitely out there...and i know so few people who have any sense of outrage at all, who feel that their rights are being taken from them and are not anything more than sarcastic about it. As if they simply expected it and are willing to accept it because, well, what can one person do?
Habeas Corpus is gone. None of the current politicians are talking about that. This scares me. This essential right, now taken away, is one of the major dividing lines between a free society and a police state. And there's so much to say that i can't do it here. There is so so much to talk about. Habeas Corpus is just the literal tip of a vast and murky iceberg that i fear is about to sink our titanic self-image and our possibly vague and misguided ideas about what America is. And i don't want to sink.
8-5-08
Since i last made an entry here, not much has changed. The telecoms have been granted retroactive immunity, which in short means that our channels of communication can be monitored, and done so with no repercussions to those doing the monitoring. Which means we should probably fear that anything critical we have to say about the society we live in could be used against us, but not in a court of law. A closed society, a police state, requires no court of law. Barack Obama supported this retroactive immunity, which elicited a long thin sigh of disappointment from myself and many others. The young people canvassing the streets to raise money for his campaign didn’t have much to say about that, at least not here in Chicago. Some of them didn’t seem to know what i was talking about, to be honest. He may have had his reasons. There may have been other items tacked on to this particular legislation that he wanted to see get “through the system.” But could those reasons really outweigh our civil liberties, our small comfort in thinking we can speak freely? i still think Obama is the only candidate running for president. But i also think he has only used his offices to get to bigger and better offices. He hasn’t done much for Illinois since he’s been Senator because he immediately started running for president. i hope that once he wins that office he’ll be able to get something done, anything, as long as it’s in the opposite direction our current administration has been taking us. Clearly it is the most unsuccessful administration in the history of our young country. The most insensitive, the most rash and unthinking, the most ignorant and arrogant. i’m happy i was around to see it. Witnessing this kind of colossal failure offers an infinitely important challenge to mankind: The chance to fix things. Our fuck-ups have been on a global scale, and we need to make global amends. Coming out of this fog of war and corruption, we have an opportunity. It isn’t the first time we’ve had this opportunity, and if it’s the last then we won’t be here to consider it.
Also:
How about we stop being so silly? The New Yorker cover? It’s satire. We of all people should know what satire is. And it’s ironic that so many of us, including the Obama’s, were so offended by this illustration. We call ourselves the land of the free, yet our country was founded on genocide. Is that not irony? Are we not a satire of what we claim to be? Liberators? Come on. i know it's hard to have a sense of humor in these dark ages, but if we fail to see the absurdity in such situations and responses to those situations it will only add to the already frightening pile of things we've failed at.
More very soon, if you care...
9-22-08
And now, a word from my paramour, Cassandra:
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This is a bit long, but the financial cluster-f#@$ we're in is complicated and it seems the Bush administration would just like Congress to sign off on the bailout, no questions asked, no strings attached. So, if you can't slog through this whole text, could you, would you, please, skip to the end, call your elected officials and tell them you're not okay with signing off on a trillion dollar bailout without knowing the details or that only assists the companies that got us into this mess? And then, feel free to whittle it down, but could you pass it on? In email and/or phone calls to the folks you know that haven't yet crossed the digital divide? Yes, you know them; some of your parents, neighbors, etc. They don't really care for the world wide web, but they still believe in democracy and hopefully, the telephone. It's an awful lot of money that we're being asked to pony up. Wait! We're not being asked! That's why you have to call your Senator!
We've been told that in order to avert a major financial catastrophe, the bailout is necessary and needs to happen immediately. And that may be true, but it seems like we're not being told enough. Will the executives that run these companies that are crashing and burning, still receive their multi-million dollar pay and bonus packages while employees lose jobs, health benefits and retirement funds? Will there be any relief (of course we won't bail out your average working stiff, I'm not THAT naive) for the person who's losing their house, their business, their pension? Where is the money coming from? Where exactly are we borrowing $700 billion to a trillion from? What is the plan after? What will prevent this from happening again in a couple of months? We're going to be on the hook for this money (on top of the crushing debt we're already under) for a long, long, long, long time. Or is this another preemptive strike with no exit strategy? This feels a bit familiar, no? A dangerous set of circumstances that requires swift and bold (shock and awe) tactics to keep us all safe? Calling for nearly unfettered powers, (this time to the Treasury secretary)? "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." Intense pressure on Congress to pass a rescue measure quickly?
online.wsj.com/article/SB122200573768460503.html
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/20/...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/no-deal/
Even this guy doesn't like the idea:
www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/trillion_dollar_bailou...
Does anyone remember the S&L crisis? Which cost American tax payers, some estimate, $1.4 trillion dollars? Sound familiar? Some highlights: During the senior George Bush administration, Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million dollar real estate loan, paid $500,000 back, the $4million balance was paid of by... um... you, the taxpayer. Neil Bush became director of Silverado Savings and Loan in 1985. Three years later the institution was belly up at a cost of $1.6 billion to... you again! The taxpayer bailed them out!
A more thorough account here:
www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/4386...
A 1989 Time Magazine article here:
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957083,00.html
(Note that Bush Sr. asked Congress to act within 45 days to prevent financial meltdown. Bush Jr. wants this passed tomorrow, Monday Sept 22, 2008. So, please don't wait to phone your elected officials.)
Accountability? Not much. We paid their bad debt and they went on their merry way. No indictments, no jail time, not even garnishments or freezing of assets to re-coup the embezzled money. Jeb even got to keep the building he took out the loan to buy! Bush Sr. wasn't re-elected, but Jeb was later elected Governor of Florida! (Schwing Vote!) An office he held during the Florida Supreme Court ruling that stopped the recount of the 2000 election his brother, W, "won". (Holy Serendipity!) Hey! Here's another interesting side note: did you know that this time last year August 30, 2007 Lehman Bros hired Jeb as an advisor?! Me neither! It's funny how these things go mostly unreported. Wonder why Lehman didn't get in on the bailout deal? Sibling rivalry? If you think your head won't explode, you should go here for Jeb's breathtaking resume:
www.atlargely.com/2008/09/what-is-jeb-bus.html
So, this is just one (eerily familiar) example of how the Bush family and their friends have been fleecing us for generations and we, the voters, the taxpayers, the people that our government is supposed to be "of, by, and for" are letting them have their very greedy way with us. Over and over and over again. They do it, frankly, because they can. We keep letting them fleece us (or another word that begins with "F") and we shrug, or rant, sometimes we take to the streets, but not often. But we don't act. We feel overwhelmed and totally hopeless, so we turn on the television or fire up the internets or find some other, any other diversion not to think about how overwhelming and hopeless it feels. But I am imploring you to call your elected officials, the ones who you took the time to vote into office, the ones you elected to represent you, call them and ask that they do what you elected them to do: Represent you. It's redundant, I know, but I think we forget that they work for US. (Even the ones you didn't vote for, still work for you.) Make them work. Tell them what you think. It'll take minutes. Minutes out of your day to use your voice to not allow our government to spend our money without accountability. Again. And if nothing happens, if we don't manage to start a movement today, that's okay. Because we did move. We stood. We didn't just sit idly by while we got filched. Or another word that starts with "F"...
Find your State Representative: forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml
Find your Senator: www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.c...
Patriotically yours,
Cassandra
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9-28-08
A New Delhi-based journalist who has worked with The Guardian and BBC invited me to contribute this image to a brief story about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on a news-gathering website called NowPublic. Their motto is "Crowd Powered Media," which could be good or bad, depending on the crowd. To be honest, i think the crowd is ok, so i was happy to be invited. Here it is: www.nowpublic.com/world/un-investigate-bhutto-killing
It's small, but it's something. If one person wants to see it, i want them to see it. So thank you, Mr. Jha.
10-28-08
People! If you're still reading this far, please look at this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdNgMKPV9xQ&eurl=http://gobnf...
We can't ignore it. We can't sit back and watch. We need to be active. Informed. Right now. We need to use our power and we need to remake our government, our country, our world.
11-04-08
Let us hope that this is the beginning of a new American era.
Marker on watercolor paper.
Late 2007 – Early 2008
30 x 22
Whatever you think this looks like, you're probably right. Let's just say Cal's got some conflicting feelings going on here.
Caligula is a Volks Williams
Atticus is a Soom Bix
...coming to terms with the abstract............
A little Guarani girl embraces a dead rat in her own innocent way.
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Can't tag -Noble Six or Ryan's Bricks because flickr is stupid, but I came up with some troop ideas with the stuff that I have already... Tell me what you think.
Have you ever had one of those moments when all of a sudden you begin to think that you may just be a little off script. Guess I just love wearing mini's.
A sunset turns the skies over Crater Lake National Park in Oregon a dazzling array of colors while a nearby thunderstorm drops rainbows and lightning all at once.
Photographer/Illustrator: Fred H. Politinsky
Subject: Outside the Box Photography
"Don't ask what it means or what it refers to. Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does."
---- Eva Hesse, an American Master
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This is a screenshot of the Real Ego Maniacs graffiti of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un on a westbound autorack train as it was passing through Tyler, Texas on Union Pacific Railroad's Corsicana Subdivision on Thursday, January 18, 2018.
This is a screenshot from a video on the ''Cotton Belt Depot Museum Tyler, Texas'' YouTube channel.