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This is how we sometimes work. Side by side on our bed. Note that the Powerbook is not recommended to rest on a pillow or soft sheets for very long, as the air vents may be obstructed and the computer may overheat. I had it back on my lap after the photo was taken.
To see more of my work, please go to my web site
DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS
ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER
On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.
Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”
Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.
Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”
With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”
In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.
In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.
The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.
If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.
Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.
Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.
Protest against FCC chairman Ajit Pai's plan to repeal Net Neutrality protections, endangering the open internet for all. San Luis Obispo, CA.
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Photo-a-Day: Year 9, Day 341 - Total Days: 3,263
The work is my expression in photography and video art, through the improvisational dance moves and voice of performance artist Vicki Tansey.
My concerns are in the ambiguity and imperfection of language and the complexity of communication. Words that have been the accepted tool for expression either spoken or written, have often fallen short when it came to understanding between individuals or groups. Differences in culture, religion, social status or even gender, have contributed to misunderstanding and often causing conflict.
The photographs deliver a complex message that is not so much from the head as it is from the gut. Images that are left to the viewer’s interpretation,
they are the result of combining deliberate camera shake to continuous and expressive dance moves. With minimal direction, Vicki improvises dance to the sound of her own recorded voice.
As does dance, so my visual dictionary of body language transcends spoken or written word. It traverses intellectual boundaries.
This is a selection of photographs, which is the result of extensive editing from several hundred images.
Along with the material of this package, I propose to include a short video film (not yet produced). This will be my creation with the collaboration of Vicki, whereby I will film her as she dances to one of her own, improvised musical recordings. This will further investigate the expression in movement and sound. It will be a montage of imagery with Vicki at the center, as she gestures expressively in her improvised dance. The film will take place at a selection of locations that will be chosen for their personal significance in her life.
In my mind I conjure up images from post holocaust documentary films of the death camps taken by the allied forces. Bodies piled up one on top of the other, as the bulldozers would shovel them into the massive graves. Trees symbolize life. Cut down gives me an ominous feeling that foreshadows an end of humanity.
These photographs were taken in Canada where the lumber industry is well regulated to maintain the forests. As the grown trees are cut down there are young ones planted to keep replenishing the tree population. Nevertheless the feeling of sadness and doom is ever present.
Google was a strong supporter of Net Neutrality
arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/a-paper-trail-of-bet...
until they made an announcement with Verizon
arstechnica.com/telecom/guides/2010/08/googleverizon-we-d...
arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/google-net-neutralit...
He'll be covering the rally
arstechnica.com/author/matthew-lasar/
Public policy groups rallied online & gathered 300.000 signatures
savetheinternet.com/blog/10/08/13/google-can-you-hear-us-now
www.colorofchange.org/opennet/
which were delivered to Google's DC office and today to their headquarters in Mountain View
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367814,00.asp
thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/114253-googl...
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/Protesters-Lash-Out-at-Googl...
www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2010/08/13/129176208/you-ve-g...
Google said people should comment on their public policy blog
googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-prop...
googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/facts-about-our-n...
The Raging Grannies sang
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O4hI1kiCP4
Google don't be evil chant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQu7zl0xczA
Internet is under attack chant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyBCxL_KRc
I'll be uploading more video (to YouTube of course as well as here)
These photographs are about my relationship with the Earth, whereby I am representing humanity. But in my work as a photographer I can only speak for myself. I am celebrating the majesty and grandeur of nature and how we fit into it. In the photographs showing distant vast landscapes, I show evidence of humans through cars and electric towers all dwarfed by the awesome storm clouds and mountains. This beauty of nature is also evident in the more intimate views of the farms and country roads, again, showing our relationship with Earth and man’s harnessing of it for his own use.
Mine is a positive, optimistic point of view, because the scenes are beautiful and that implies that the beauty, even beyond or in spite of man’s tampering will always be there.
I use contrasting points of view. The macrocosm and microcosm. From very distant vistas, to closer images of rural scenes, down to close-up views of earth, moss and clovers, tree trunks, bark and root.
I strip them all of colour to present a raw image that allows the viewer to respond emotionally to shape, texture and contrast. I use techniques such as selective focus, lens vignette and rather large print size to draw the viewer in. The soft focus on the edge, gives a dream like effect and a “vintage photography” feeling from a time before we knew we were destroying our environment with harmful technology.
The works also evoke a quiet and calm sense of serenity. Although there is evidence of man’s existence in the photographs through the farms, buildings and towers, there are no actual humans in the images, so the lone viewer becomes the only perceived living participant in the scene.
Visual drama created by massive dark clouds has always intrigued me. It is one of the ways for me to understand how small we humans really are in this universe.
To be exhibited at Galerie Image Photo Encadrement, Sutton, Québec, Canada.
Entire month of December, 2005.
33" x 22" digital, Giclée print.
Standing right in the middle of this intersection I am looking to the four ways with each one of these four photographs. North, south, east and west. What stories can be told about this industrial part of the old city. But now it is quiet. Abandoned. Without a sign of life. I am all alone here. It is Sunday and all industry is halted. Imagine an entire part of a city completely abandoned for one full day except the occasional cyclist passing through on the way to the bike path, or photographer like myself, who find solace in the peace of this quiet city.
To all my flicker friends, if you are up in the area of Montreal, Eastern Townships or Northern Vermont, or anywhere in the world, if you are so inclined, you would do me honour to attend my exhibit. If you can't make the vernissage, the show will be up for the entire month of December. Note the dates on the card. (Until mid December, Mondays and Tuesdays the gallery is closed, but will be open seven days a week afterwards until Christmas.)
f you don't view the large size, it will be hard to read the address.
It is:
Galerie image photographie encadrement
20 rue principale nord
Sutton, Quebec
A short video of my concerns. You can view it here.
Washington DC, May 15, 2014. Social justice activists rally in front of the FCC to oppose proposed net neutrality rule changes that would essentially end the free and open internet which has worked miraculously well for almost twenty years now. Shortly after noon the FCC voted in favor of considering the odious changes allowing 'pay for play' fast lanes in the internet (and the implied threat of slower speed diminished service for those who don't pony up...), subject to "public comment" which you know will be a sham exercise leading to an already determined conclusion in favor of the big telecoms. This plan was so evil even Amazon and Microsoft signed off on a letter to the FCC opposing it (Apple was missing in action...) but I'm sure it was not for altruistic reasons. Hopefully 'cable' and TV sets will soon be a thing of the past.
Google was a strong supporter of Net Neutrality
arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/a-paper-trail-of-bet...
until they made an announcement with Verizon
arstechnica.com/telecom/guides/2010/08/googleverizon-we-d...
arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/google-net-neutralit...
He'll be covering the rally
arstechnica.com/author/matthew-lasar/
Public policy groups rallied online & gathered 300.000 signatures
savetheinternet.com/blog/10/08/13/google-can-you-hear-us-now
www.colorofchange.org/opennet/
which were delivered to Google's DC office and today to their headquarters in Mountain View
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367814,00.asp
thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/114253-googl...
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/Protesters-Lash-Out-at-Googl...
www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2010/08/13/129176208/you-ve-g...
Google said people should comment on their public policy blog
googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-prop...
googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/facts-about-our-n...
The Raging Grannies sang
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O4hI1kiCP4
Google don't be evil chant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQu7zl0xczA
Internet is under attack chant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyBCxL_KRc
I'll be uploading more video (to YouTube of course as well as here)
What is it about rust on painted metal that is so provocative and intriguing to me? What emotional nerve does it touch?
Sanctuary!!!
As Quasimodo cried out, upon the storming of Notre Dame Cathedral by the masses to protect himself and Esmeralda from their hysteria, so do I scream out silently as my voice falls on deaf ears in the abandoned, waste of this environmentally unfriendly site where the polluting byproducts of this facility are slowly seeping down and penetrating the soil underneath. Above there seems to be a false serenity that is reminiscent of the sacredness of a place of worship, not unlike the interiors we've been witnessing presented by Eric Dupuis in his "Secrets Well Guarded" series. How deep are the trappings of religion? How sacred? How hidden? How secretive?
This series of photographs is my controversial reflection on the “sanctity” of religion, as it draws a parallel vis-à-vis the secret evils of society.
Abandoned factory in LaChine Quebec, although now completely demolished, was a haven for young graffiti artists where they could express themselves through their art. It was a safe place for them to do so without interference from the police or the law. The space also became a haven for me to capture these images.
November, 2004, group show, Morceaux Choisis (Chosen Pieces) artists of the gallery at Galerie de bouche à oreille, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
To see more of my work, please go to my web site
DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS
ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER
On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.
Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”
Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.
Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”
With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”
In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.
In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.
The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.
If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.
Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.
Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.
re-publica.de/10/event-list/net-neutrality-and-free-speech/
Tim Wu: "When most people think free speech, they think of government censorship. But in fact the architecture of speech can be much more important. In my talk I examine the history of private censorship and the question of Net Neutrality as a speech doctrine for the 21st century."
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If you'd like prints or posters of this graphic recording, check out the info on my blog
DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS
ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER
On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.
Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”
Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.
Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”
With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”
In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.
In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.
The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.
If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.
Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.
Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.
I had the idea of standing in the middle of a city intersection looking down the four directions and capturing the moment. The idea of standing exposed and vulnerable right in the middle where one can get hit by a vehicle is intriguing in itself. We are all conditioned to feel danger in such a place. We have been taught since very young to stay on the sidewalks. But the view is interesting to me, especially looking in all directions and seeing how the light changes from one to the next. The sky and cityscape all changing from each angle.
View the entire set.
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
As frenzied as these gulls were in their flight, so was I on the shutter button. Every second yielded a different composition.
Layered between each other, their reflections in the water and their shadows on the ice made the images even that much more complex and exciting.
Although the angle of view is downward, there is an ambiguity due to the reflection of the sky in the water and the melting ice so that it seems like I am shooting skyward. This makes the walking ducks and sea gulls appear to be walking in the sky.
Consider the contrasting elements of individual compared to group, sky compared to water compared to clouds, in-flight compared to earthbound, up compared to down, heaven compared to earth, big compared to small, reflections compared to shadows, gulls compared to ducks.
The images convey something much deeper than what they appear to be documenting on first glance. Take a moment to meditate upon them. As one views them, one can’t help but notice the visual transparency and fluidity of these images. But more than that, the subtle messages that are conveyed both visually and symbolically, give these images spiritual richness that goes beyond their apparent beauty.
Door to one of the buildings of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
To see more of my work, please go to my web site
DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS
ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER
On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.
Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”
Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.
Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”
With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”
In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.
In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.
The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.
If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.
Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.
Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.
Foreshadowing of an era gone by.
Oil has been depleted and replaced by other forms of energy that are more environmentally sound.
Nature's reclaiming of the Earth is visible everywhere. Ancient structures and relics of abandoned gas stations and vehicles are still littering the soon to be pristine countryside. Humans hiding from view are awaiting clean-up operations, which have been too busy since the Great War.
I have been shooting old, weathered, locked doors for a long time and have found that the textures and colours of the worn paint and rusty tin make the image very dramatic and often evokes emotional reactions that to me are as yet not fully explainable. The only thing I can equate these feelings with is the sense of taste or flavor.
To see more of my work, please go to my web site
The work is my expression in photography and video art, through the improvisational dance moves and voice of performance artist Vicki Tansey.
My concerns are in the ambiguity and imperfection of language and the complexity of communication. Words that have been the accepted tool for expression either spoken or written, have often fallen short when it came to understanding between individuals or groups. Differences in culture, religion, social status or even gender, have contributed to misunderstanding and often causing conflict.
The photographs deliver a complex message that is not so much from the head as it is from the gut. Images that are left to the viewer’s interpretation,
they are the result of combining deliberate camera shake to continuous and expressive dance moves. With minimal direction, Vicki improvises dance to the sound of her own recorded voice.
As does dance, so my visual dictionary of body language transcends spoken or written word. It traverses intellectual boundaries.
This is a selection of photographs, which is the result of extensive editing from several hundred images.
Along with the material of this package, I propose to include a short video film (not yet produced). This will be my creation with the collaboration of Vicki, whereby I will film her as she dances to one of her own, improvised musical recordings. This will further investigate the expression in movement and sound. It will be a montage of imagery with Vicki at the center, as she gestures expressively in her improvised dance. The film will take place at a selection of locations that will be chosen for their personal significance in her life.
Girl in a transe dancing to the beat of the drums at the Montreal Tams
To see more of my work, please go to my web site
Lights and colours. Time Square, Broadway, The Theater District. This town lights up and becomes even more alive than in the day time, if that is possible. People are out in the streets all night long, like a big party.
My friend Eli and I were driving through this spectacle with me sticking my head out the skylight window, even though it was raining, and snapping away with my camera in all directions. There wasn't a bad angle to be found. All were exciting and all were wonderfully colourful and bright.
I have always wondered what is it about this city that makes people feel this way about it. It is legendary and glamorous. Hyped by the media, and especially made popular through film over the years. So many in the visual arts, theater, cinema and music have considered it to be the ultimate place to “make it”.