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Maybe if you knew how I felt
We wouldn't be stuck in this dilemma
They say things will get better
But now it feels like never
And maybe if you knew what you did
You'd realize you tore my world apart
You knew just how you used me
You played me from the start
I've never had the strength to tell you to stop
Or maybe if I did you'd realize I'm not
Just someone you can use, boy how would you know?
'Cause you know that you're selfish, no shame to let it show
Lying, dishonesty and political manipulation are nothing new. In the age of digital mass communication, however, these machinations have become endemic. The war in Ukraine is also a war of mis/information and this war is going on daily across all our media. Some of us may feel helpless when it comes to separating truth from falsehood. But we are not that helpless. Whenever we are confronted with a political message, we can ask one basic question: who is talking and what question is being asked (and, usually) answered? This will help to detect the “agenda” of the message, identify its argument and understand the claim that has been made. If we wish to go deeper into the analysis, we can try to identify also the underlying assumptions of the message, check the evidence that has been quoted and see whether or not the message makes sense. We are not that helpless. We can be skeptical and make distinctions. We can reject what is false and keep what is true.
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“The hour between dog and wolf, that is, dusk, when the two can’t be distinguished from each other, suggests a lot of other things besides the time of day…The hour in which…every being becomes his own shadow, and thus something other than himself. The hour of metamorphoses, when people half hope, half fear that a dog will become a wolf. The hour that comes down to us from at least as far back as the early Middle Ages, when country people believed that transformation might happen at any moment.”
Jean Genet, Prisoner of Love
Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright
mix media photo maniupluation
A digital manipulation of a scan of my parents wedding day photograph. They were married 72 years ago today, September 16, 1950. That's them top center - Mitchell and Agnes. Dad passed away almost 30 years ago now. Mother just celebrated her 95th birthday.
Created for the Hypothetical Awards 5th Annual Urban Abstraction Challenge
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Photos and textures used are my own.
... photo taken near where I live in Nottingham.
Camera: Canon 5D Mk2 with my 24-105mm Canon lens
Software used:
- Lightroom 5
- Topaz Studio - pre-sets: Paint by numbers & then Expressionism, both used partially.
- Photoshop Elements for everything else.
I was thinking about Paul Gauguin's use of colour and Georgia O'Keeffe's exotic flowers while I was editing my photo.
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For WFC manipulation game....Not my picture. Original can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/7503563@N05/583126327/
Created for the Magik Troll Artistry Contest Two of a Kind
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Created for Artistic Manipulation Mixmaster Challenge 43.
➤ Your image must be an open-card-style diptych (not just side-by-side panels … see first two entries below for examples).
➤ Your diptych must portray an illustrated, self-created HAIKU OF EXACTLY 17 SYLLABLES** with the haiku on one side panel and the illustration on the other (though it’s okay if your illustration bleeds onto the haiku side).
➤ Your illustration must include purple and/or blue flower(s).
➤Also one or more black or dark-colored silhouettes (human and/or animal).
➤ NO WATER of any kind.
Diptych template and big dragonfly from Pixabay. Text and small dragonfly from Pics Art. Flowers and haiku are my own.