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• Charles Chaplin - Prophet
  by Colin Tobin

  So this year I am going be be Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp Character for Halloween. To celebrate, I thought I’d post up this brillia…

  So this year I am going be be Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp Character for Halloween. To celebrate, I thought I’d post up this brilliant speech from Chaplin’s first “talkie” film, The Great Dictator. Even though he wrote this speech with the intention of lampooning Hitler and Mussolini, it is 100% relevant to today’s world. I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible – Jew, Gentile – black man – white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there’s room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls – has barricaded the world with hate – has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man – cries for universal brotherhood – for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world – millions of despairing men, women, and little children – victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say: ‘Do not despair.’ The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes – men who despise you and enslave you – who regiment your lives – tell you what to do – what to think and what to feel! Who drill you – diet you – treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men – machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate, only the unloved hate – the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St Luke, it is written the kingdom of God is within man not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power – the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful – to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy – let us use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world – a decent world that will give men a chance to work – that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world – to do away with national barriers – to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason – a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us unite! Anyone who hasn’t seen this film yet really should. It’s definitly in my top 5 favorites of all time.

• ” My Entry In the PhotoShop Masters Group – Charlie Sedanayasa “
  by Charlie Sedanayasa

  1: Tell me something about the image? This image “rust” is something i created after seeing a friends image on flickr … i was dete…

  1: Tell me something about the image? This image “rust” is something i created after seeing a friends image on flickr … i was deterined to figure out how to transform a face into the texture that was being overlaid onto it … 2: How did you create it? It is two images, one of my eye and one of a rust texture. i Ioverlaid the rust onto the image of my eye and played around with opacity and erased here and added there and voila. i also obviously tweaked the eye … 3: What version of PhotoShop did you use? CS3 4: Any tips or tricks you would like to Share? the biggest tip i learnt doing this (and i learnt alot!!) was to erase the eyebrows from the base image so i got a clean brow … 5: How did you go about learning PhotoShop? I am completely self taught and have only been using photoshop since March this year … if i see something i like i read all the tutes and info i can … i have also learnt alot from other fickr members and will hopefully learn alot in the PhotoShop Masters Group aswell!! interview by SnowDog

• I Watched...
  by Mechellerene

  a portion of an interview with the director of MOMA on Charlie Rose (PBS), late last night. They got into a discussion about “privacey”,...

  a portion of an interview with the director of MOMA on Charlie Rose (PBS), late last night. They got into a discussion about “privacey”, and the different generational needs concerning this hot-button issue. Facebook rocks (!) until that first job interview when a picture of you puking your guts out at a frat party lands on your interviewers desk, lol! I found it interesting… the concept of people being packed like sardines on metro trains yet having a deep sense of lonliness and isolation in the midst of this thronging mass of humanity. Each, in their own little world, with iPods plugged into their ears, or laptops flipped open, books or magazines held up like shields of armor… Then…they get home and are essentially alone in their physical space (or spouse and kids tucked away, sleeping blissfully- whatever the situation) and turn to their social networks and are flooded with a sense of community, well-being, and targeted interation that fits their inclinations of companionship and community. Alone, essentially, but fulfilled, socially. I thought that was amazing! And true. Especially where I’m concerned. In the short, short time I’ve been involved with RB I believe I’ve grown and expanded as a person. I find myself not quite so “alone” or “solitary” in this world. I’ve been on other social networks, but this is different for me. Why? I can’t answer. What’s the elusive “it” factor that makes this “work” so well? I’ve always had, from a very young age, a pervasive sense of lonliness and tendancey to isolate. Although I do tremendously enjoy the company of others, and take full advantage of those times, looking over my life, I’ve found my deepest relationships have begun and lasted through coorespondance rather than constant “face to face” contact. I wonder if familiarity really does breed contempt? But I digress (what does that mean anyway? I just thought it sound appropriate there, LOL!). Anyway… I’m interested in what you all think about this. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Cheers! Mechelle