Know Any Teens That Thrill Seek
The following story was on the news today (27 Oct 2011) in Australia …
“Teen dies after playing deadly game”
A 15-year-old Gold Coast girl has been found dead in her bedroom after playing a “choking game”. The girl, Abigail Corthals, was found with a belt around her neck after playing the deadly game popular among teens in the US.
Dozens have been killed by playing th…
Pleasant Surprise and A Thanks
I know only a few folks will read this, but no matter, I just wanted to say-out-loud a BIG thanks to the person who recently bought a Print of the image Beyond The Veil
To whomever the buyer be, I trust the image is worthy of their interest, investment and visual pleasure. Thank you.
Renown Multi Media Art"thief" exposed
There is a major storm brewing over on deviantart.com, see here http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/art/MASSIVE-COPY... and numerous other Members have posted supporting Journals and outrage …. a guy called Chad Love Lieberman, owner/co-founder of Art4Love.com since 2006, also supposed pop/rapper singer, and record company owner Evol Record label/company has been “…
Today's News -- Redbubble Needs to get Its Act sorted out!
Yahoo (Aust) News Homepage, Sat 11 June 2011 (Aust)
An Australian firm is under fire for selling baby clothes with pictures of Hitler and Osama bin Laden on them.
Pictures of the serial killers Ivan Milat, Ted Bundy and Charles Manson also feature on garments for children from three months to the age of 12.
Slogans such as “Serial Killer in Training” accompany the images.
According to ne…
Storm Dreamer Storming
Since posting my tribute image Storm Dreamer on Rb, it has received the following attention and accolades:-
- 2066 viewings
- Favoured by 146 people. (and recently given the Red Heart Award for receiving >100 favourites.
- Featured in 11 Groups, and
- Home Page 26 January 2010, Australia Day
- 8 Sales, inc. 1 large Poster size, now residing in an office in Taiwan!
- Sold 1-off right to use, to an international
A More than Just Interesting Point of Experience
In the 21st Century modernised, Western world I live in, I have had to struggle hard to maintain, protect and defend my Aboriginality, of this be no doubt … I, according to professional labels, am a Counsellor, educated, trained & experienced, and paid (livelihood) to provide assistance and guidance to those who have struggles and conflicts, blocks and confusions in their lives and rela…
UN slams Australia's Aboriginal policies
By Julian Drape, AAP, 27 August, 2009, 8:24 pm
A UN expert on indigenous rights says the ongoing intervention into remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory is overtly discriminatory and Australia must tackle its “entrenched” racism.
The critical comments by the UN’s special rapporteur on indigenous rights, James Anaya, came just hours after a proposed new indigeno…
This scourge of artistic apartheid
If Stonehenge were bulldozed for a McDonald’s, or the collections of the British Library were burnt to heat the Hilton, there would be a furore in the press. But a site of equivalent spiritual, intellectual and artistic importance to Aboriginal people – referred to as an ancient university, part of their ritual, sacred culture and songlines – is under similar threat, and the chances are you…
David Rockefeller says Thank You
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.”
He went on to explain:
“It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.…
The future of art in an age of crisis
Following are excerpts from a lecture The future of art in an age of crisis by WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh
“Aleksandr Voronsky, the Soviet critic and opponent of Stalin, pointed out 70 years ago, in his essay “The Art of Seeing the World” (1928), that it was very difficult for the artist to discover and genuinely accept the world, to see the world as it is, independently of us, inherently…