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Upward Looking Fallen Angel. Portrait of a male angel holding his broken wings up behind his back. He has fallen, becoming mortal, and looks upward innocently feigning his previous divinity. Extreme alternative photographic mixed medium processed image.
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Autobiographic piece. About falling inner kingdoms. Photomanipulation and some painting.
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a stab at the root of all evil in this country
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She has found me hiding in plain sight / Persuasive melodies seduced me into the night / Her alluring aroma floats within the breeze / Steadily emerging as a placid whimper, / A touch, maybe a tickle or just a tease. / In her eyes a banshee’s cry / Is reduced to a submissive spirit. / Her magic is strong, her splendor vast, / If only I was wise enough to fear it. /
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And you thought your vote counted / Your choice: Poverty, Corruption or Death
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Roll on Mad Bob / Your job is almost done. / Those who could have stopped you, did nothing. / Those who couldn’t, but tried…died. / What will they write on your gravestone, Bob? / What will they write on ours? I copied the following report from a South African online newspaper / IOL / on 21 April 08 By Peta Thornycroft Harare – Details of a widespread brutal campaign by the military to keep President Robert Mugabe in power have been revealed to The Sunday Independent. Central to the plot are hundreds of “command centres”, led by war veterans and youths in police uniform, which are being established across Zimbabwe to wage a national terror campaign. Zimbabwe’s top military authority, the Joint Operational Command, made up of service chiefs, has established a chain of command to ensure that Mugabe and Zanu-PF remain in office even though they both lost the elections three weeks ago. The command centres are waging a campaign of intimidation, violence and ballot rigging. In this way, the regime plans to guarantee victory for Mugabe in a second round of presidential elections. The network will probably not cover the cities, all strongholds of Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader. Instead, they will be concentrated in the rural areas where 70 percent of Zimbabweans live. Three weeks after the poll’s first round, no official results have been announced, but the regime has publicly acknowledged that Mugabe fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a run-off. A senior army officer and a police chief described the president’s re-election plan to The Sunday Independent. They attended a meeting in a rural province on Monday morning. It included traditional chiefs and local politicians and was addressed by two senior members of Mugabe’s regime. They said each command centre would consist of three police officers, a soldier and a war veteran who would be in charge. They would dispatch militias, comprising war veterans and members of the Zanu-PF’s youth wing, to assault and torture known opposition supporters. They would also control the local police to ensure that the militias were immune from arrest. The generals have called on the four security services – army, police, intelligence and prisons – to ensure that people are terrorised into voting for Mugabe in the expected re-run of the presidential poll. The results of that poll have still not been released, arousing suspicions of vote-rigging and provoking growing domestic and international pressure on Zimbabwe’s authorities. The victor has to win 50 percent plus one vote of the votes cast or face a re-run. The result, when it is finally announced, cannot be recounted, according to the Electoral Act. The Sunday Independent has heard evidence that the announcement of the results has been postponed deliberately to allow Mugabe’s government to falsify votes to close the gap between him and Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai is widely believed to have won the election with about 49 to 51 percent of the vote, against Mugabe’s 42 or 43 percent. Independent candidate Simba Makoni won the rest. Mugabe’s strategy appears to be to close the gap so that his rigged victory in the expected run-off election will be more credible. Apart from doctoring the presidential votes, Mugabe’s officials have also needed the delay to replace votes cast for MDC candidates in the parliamentary poll on the same day to try to ensure that the rigging cannot not be detected, according to sources. All the results for the four elections – parliamentary, senate, local government and presidential – that took place on March 29 were posted outside more than 8 000 polling stations by midnight April 1. Zanu-PF narrowly lost its parliamentary majority to the MDC and the presidential results had to be transferred to Harare for collation. Generals who report directly to the Joint Operational Command have explained in a series of closed meetings how people will be terrorised and beaten into voting for Mugabe in a re-run. The details released by our two informants were from one of the planning sessions. They rushed to Harare from a remote rural area this week to reveal the plan. They disclosed the names, ranks and even the cellphone numbers of those people from one province who have been ordered to join the campaign. Wilfred Mhanda, one of Mugabe’s senior commanders from the 1970s war against white Rhodesia, said yesterday: “The report you have shown me is true. What is explained in the report is typical of what is already happening in various parts of the country, and those who know Zanu-PF as I do will not be surprised. What worries me is there seems to be no way out of where we are going.” The scores of names in the report – several familiar to many Zimbabweans who have been victimised for their political beliefs – and the province where the meeting took place cannot be identified to protect the identity of the two men. A senior politician told security personnel at one provincial meeting: “You have to defend the revolution. If you don’t and [it] is sold through the ballot, we will go back to the bush and fight. Is that what you want? I don’t think so.” Select groups have been told how victory for Mugabe will be achieved in the run-off and in the recount of 23 constituencies, which the partisan Zimbabwe Election Commission began on Saturday. State media said the results on the recount were expected in a few days. According to reliable sources, sealed ballot boxes have been opened and new seals have been forged. Votes for the MDC have been taken out and replaced by votes for Zanu-PF. It has been done so carefully that no one will be able to detect the fraud – the bogus votes have the same numbers as those issued to voters on polling day and the number of votes in each box has been carefully reproduced. Also new pale-blue forms, V11, which were posted outside polling stations with results of the four elections, have been recreated with forged signatures of the polling agents and different tallies, favouring both Zanu-PF in the parliamentary contest and Mugabe in the presidential poll. Chiara Carter reports that the campaign of terror was verified yesterday in a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation, which said Zanu-PF was using a network of informal detention centres to beat, torture and intimidate opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans. A statement issued on Saturday provided a chilling account of systematic intimidation and violence, including the abduction and savage beating of opposition supporters in several areas. In the past two days, researchers interviewed more than 30 people who had been tortured and, because of it, sustained serious injuries, including broken limbs. Human Rights Watch, a respected non-governmental group that monitors human rights across the globe, called on the African Union to step in immediately to address the crisis and protect civilians. The organisation said its researchers had heard from victims and eyewitnesses that, in the wake of last month’s election, Zanu-PF had set up detention centres in the opposition constituencies of Mutoko North, Mutoko South and Mudzi in the province of Mashonaland East, and in Bikita West in Masvingo. Opposition supporters were being tortured at these camps. The organisation said Zanu-PF officials were calling the crackdown Operation Makavhoterapapi (“Where did you put your cross?”). The aim appeared to be twofold: to punish people for having voted for the MDC, and to intimidate them to vote for Zanu-PF in the event of a presidential run-off. One victim told Human Rights Watch: “They told me, ‘next time you will vote wisely; now you know what we can do’.” – Foreign Service
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Roll on Mad Bob / Your job is almost done. / Those who could have stopped you, did nothing. / Those who couldn’t, but tried…died. / What will they write on your gravestone, Bob? / What will they write on ours? I copied the following report from a South African online newspaper / IOL / on 21 April 08 By Peta Thornycroft Harare – Details of a widespread brutal campaign by the military to keep President Robert Mugabe in power have been revealed to The Sunday Independent. Central to the plot are hundreds of “command centres”, led by war veterans and youths in police uniform, which are being established across Zimbabwe to wage a national terror campaign. Zimbabwe’s top military authority, the Joint Operational Command, made up of service chiefs, has established a chain of command to ensure that Mugabe and Zanu-PF remain in office even though they both lost the elections three weeks ago. The command centres are waging a campaign of intimidation, violence and ballot rigging. In this way, the regime plans to guarantee victory for Mugabe in a second round of presidential elections. The network will probably not cover the cities, all strongholds of Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader. Instead, they will be concentrated in the rural areas where 70 percent of Zimbabweans live. Three weeks after the poll’s first round, no official results have been announced, but the regime has publicly acknowledged that Mugabe fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a run-off. A senior army officer and a police chief described the president’s re-election plan to The Sunday Independent. They attended a meeting in a rural province on Monday morning. It included traditional chiefs and local politicians and was addressed by two senior members of Mugabe’s regime. They said each command centre would consist of three police officers, a soldier and a war veteran who would be in charge. They would dispatch militias, comprising war veterans and members of the Zanu-PF’s youth wing, to assault and torture known opposition supporters. They would also control the local police to ensure that the militias were immune from arrest. The generals have called on the four security services – army, police, intelligence and prisons – to ensure that people are terrorised into voting for Mugabe in the expected re-run of the presidential poll. The results of that poll have still not been released, arousing suspicions of vote-rigging and provoking growing domestic and international pressure on Zimbabwe’s authorities. The victor has to win 50 percent plus one vote of the votes cast or face a re-run. The result, when it is finally announced, cannot be recounted, according to the Electoral Act. The Sunday Independent has heard evidence that the announcement of the results has been postponed deliberately to allow Mugabe’s government to falsify votes to close the gap between him and Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai is widely believed to have won the election with about 49 to 51 percent of the vote, against Mugabe’s 42 or 43 percent. Independent candidate Simba Makoni won the rest. Mugabe’s strategy appears to be to close the gap so that his rigged victory in the expected run-off election will be more credible. Apart from doctoring the presidential votes, Mugabe’s officials have also needed the delay to replace votes cast for MDC candidates in the parliamentary poll on the same day to try to ensure that the rigging cannot not be detected, according to sources. All the results for the four elections – parliamentary, senate, local government and presidential – that took place on March 29 were posted outside more than 8 000 polling stations by midnight April 1. Zanu-PF narrowly lost its parliamentary majority to the MDC and the presidential results had to be transferred to Harare for collation. Generals who report directly to the Joint Operational Command have explained in a series of closed meetings how people will be terrorised and beaten into voting for Mugabe in a re-run. The details released by our two informants were from one of the planning sessions. They rushed to Harare from a remote rural area this week to reveal the plan. They disclosed the names, ranks and even the cellphone numbers of those people from one province who have been ordered to join the campaign. Wilfred Mhanda, one of Mugabe’s senior commanders from the 1970s war against white Rhodesia, said yesterday: “The report you have shown me is true. What is explained in the report is typical of what is already happening in various parts of the country, and those who know Zanu-PF as I do will not be surprised. What worries me is there seems to be no way out of where we are going.” The scores of names in the report – several familiar to many Zimbabweans who have been victimised for their political beliefs – and the province where the meeting took place cannot be identified to protect the identity of the two men. A senior politician told security personnel at one provincial meeting: “You have to defend the revolution. If you don’t and [it] is sold through the ballot, we will go back to the bush and fight. Is that what you want? I don’t think so.” Select groups have been told how victory for Mugabe will be achieved in the run-off and in the recount of 23 constituencies, which the partisan Zimbabwe Election Commission began on Saturday. State media said the results on the recount were expected in a few days. According to reliable sources, sealed ballot boxes have been opened and new seals have been forged. Votes for the MDC have been taken out and replaced by votes for Zanu-PF. It has been done so carefully that no one will be able to detect the fraud – the bogus votes have the same numbers as those issued to voters on polling day and the number of votes in each box has been carefully reproduced. Also new pale-blue forms, V11, which were posted outside polling stations with results of the four elections, have been recreated with forged signatures of the polling agents and different tallies, favouring both Zanu-PF in the parliamentary contest and Mugabe in the presidential poll. Chiara Carter reports that the campaign of terror was verified yesterday in a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation, which said Zanu-PF was using a network of informal detention centres to beat, torture and intimidate opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans. A statement issued on Saturday provided a chilling account of systematic intimidation and violence, including the abduction and savage beating of opposition supporters in several areas. In the past two days, researchers interviewed more than 30 people who had been tortured and, because of it, sustained serious injuries, including broken limbs. Human Rights Watch, a respected non-governmental group that monitors human rights across the globe, called on the African Union to step in immediately to address the crisis and protect civilians. The organisation said its researchers had heard from victims and eyewitnesses that, in the wake of last month’s election, Zanu-PF had set up detention centres in the opposition constituencies of Mutoko North, Mutoko South and Mudzi in the province of Mashonaland East, and in Bikita West in Masvingo. Opposition supporters were being tortured at these camps. The organisation said Zanu-PF officials were calling the crackdown Operation Makavhoterapapi (“Where did you put your cross?”). The aim appeared to be twofold: to punish people for having voted for the MDC, and to intimidate them to vote for Zanu-PF in the event of a presidential run-off. One victim told Human Rights Watch: “They told me, ‘next time you will vote wisely; now you know what we can do’.” – Foreign Service
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The Corruption of the Dragons Dragons are known for their greed, their hoarding of treasure and their insatiable need to keep others from having as much as they. But this wasn’t always the case… In the early days of the world the sentient races sought out the dragons to drink of their wisdom, and to grow stronger from their vast knowledge. But not all were pleased by this arrangement. One in particular, a drow known as Lord W’rath, a trickster by nature, was especially displeased with the great strides humans, dwarves, gnomes and the wretched halflings had made in light of the knowledge the dragons had given them. Though powerful, W’rath could not destroy the dragons, and it did not please him to do so anyway as the spread of chaos was much more amusing than outright destruction. Lord W’rath was a clever fellow, even for a drow, and he had noticed over the years the similarities between the birds of the forest and the massive dragons. Others missed entirely the commonalities of the two creatures, but W’rath had observed that they shared similar bone structures. Many of the dragons flew and even a few sported feathers. They laid eggs and cared for their young in much the same way as the predatory birds of the high steppes. And all of these things started the drow to wondering what else they had in common. One day, while leading some gnomes on a merry chase with their stolen jewels, a gem slipped loose from the bag W’rath carried and fell to the ground. As the drow watched, a bird spotted the glittering gem and snatched it up and stashed it in its nest. And just like that W’rath knew how he could put an end to the alliance between the humanoids and the dragons. W’rath searched through the bag he’d stolen and found a particularly impressive specimen. It glowed with a rosy hue and caught every available mote of light on its perfect facets. With a thought he transported himself to the lair of a certain green dragon that he knew of. The great creature rose to meet him and said in a booming voice, “How may I be of service to a son of the elves?” W’rath shook his head and smiled. “This day, noble dragon,” he said, “it is I who is only too pleased to reward you with a gift befitting your superiority over all other beings.” So saying, the drow produced the giant gem and held it before the dragon’s astonished eyes. Never before had the dragon seen such a beautiful sight, and he was instantly captivated by the way the gem seemed to have a life of its own. He was dazzled by its sparkling inner fire. Instantly he desired it more than anything else in all the world. And it occurred to him that the elf was right. For all these great many years the soft creatures of the world had come to him seeking much but offering little in return. THIS… yes, this, was a gift worthy of a being such as himself. W’rath saw that his plan had worked, that he had found the one weakness of the great dragons. He feigned surprise. “Surely, this is not the first such gift you have received?” he said, innocently. “Because of your help the dwarves have evolved to where they pull magical metals from the earth from which they craft glorious items of shining silver and gold. Your knowledge has raised the gnomes from savagery and they now cut fine gems like this and create beautiful jewelery. The humans and halflings, once no better than…” “Enough!” The dragon cut the drow off. For a moment he thought he’d gone to far and the dragon had seen through him, but then the green plucked the gem from his hand and clutched it to its breast, it eyes shining with its newborn avarice. “You have opened my eyes this day, young elf,” he said. “The dwarves, the humans, the gnomes, and even the halflings, they keep these things from us? Learn from us and then hoard this beauty for themselves?” “I-I-I had no idea,” the drow said. “Oh, forgive me for being the unwitting bearer of such hurtful news.” The dragon looked upon the drow with the last vestiges of kindness in his heart. “Do not fret, my child, for you have saved me and others of my kind from this mockery. Go in peace and know that you have done a great service this day.” W’rath bowed, as was befitting a servant to a great being, and took his leave. Oh, how he wanted to tell someone of this, his greatest hoax, but alas there was none he could trust with this knowledge and so he had to settle for watching from afar as his plan burst forth like a wildfire and consumed the dragons. For the green quickly called upon his fellow dragons, and showed them his gem and told them that those they’d loved as they would their own children were laughing at them behind their hands and keeping such beautiful items all to themselves. The other dragons were captivated by the beautiful gem and desired it greatly. As the green’s story ended their hearts were filled with anger and greed, and their eyes turned to all corners of the world where the two-legged people’s of the world lived with their treasures. And so came to pass the the poisoning of the hearts and minds of dragons.
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....a new beginning to then end. Model: Me / Photographer: Me / Photo Editor: Me
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9×12” Arches paper, 140 lb. cold pressed. watercolors and ink. Cheney is the One that Rules Them All. Do your part to make sure we don’t end up with 4 more years of the same failing policies and greed! VOTE! know your rights!
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I corrupt every thought inside / As you try to flee and hide… Don’t disobey, do not sin / Because I am only perfect within… Do as I say, not as I do / Listen to what I demand of you… If you resist you will perish / These are the rules you must cherish… Let me guide you / Let me have you / Let me heal you / Or I will kill you The eyes…they watch….They are everywhere. / The mouths…they talk….They only speak of fear. We are building a religion. / But you have no say… Model: Me / Photographer: Me / Photo Editor: Me
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I’m one. Are you? :
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Come here and join me…I know what you’re body needs… ...Nobody’s getting any younger. / You cannot escape the hunger. We are the ones who will appreciate. / Tomorrow you will have no sorrow… ..Nowhere to hide, I’m going to get you now. Happy Halloween! Model: Me / Photographer: Me / Photo Editor: Me
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model – cyllan
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The Man, The Crook, The Hair
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Antique bronze statue of Justice and reflection of it.
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Star buy, two for one deal (while oil lasts)
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NOT SINCE THE DAYS OF THE DEPRESSION, BREAD LINES, AND THE DUST BOWL HAS AMERICA BEEN IN SUCH DIRE STRAIGHTS BOTH FINANCIALLY AND MORALE WISE (MORALITY NOT WITHSTANDING) CORPORATE CORRUPTION, POLITICAL CORRUPTION SPECIAL INTEREST BANKING AND WALL STREET CORRUPTION MAKE US WONDER JUST EXACTLY WHEN THE HEART OF SOCIAL MORALS BEGAN TO TEAR AT THE VERY FABRIC OF SOCIETY…. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY WHEN AND WHERE ACCOUNTABILITY WILL SHOW ITS FACE AND HELP TO SOW THE SEEDS THAT HELP TO SEW THE TATTERED SOCIAL FABRIC BACK TOGETHER AGAIN. ALL PHOTOS PUBLIC DOMAIN THIS WORK IS COPYRIGHT PROTECTED BY A 2ND PARTY AND CAN BE TRACKED. ABSOLUTELY NO USE OF IMAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION / / MCN: C78D9-56873-16E71 FEATURED IN THE PATCHWORK / FEATURD IN C.O.R..E. / FEATURED IN POSTCARD STYLE / FEATURED IN LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS / FEATURED IN CALIFORNIA SOUND
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I was debating on putting this up….and finally decided to do so…..I did it a couple of weeks ago. / Its my version of your Brain on Drugs….forget the egg in the skillet….lol / This is whats going on – Your brain slowly decays and is picked away morsel by morsel by Vultures. Numb to the feeling you are, so you take no notice to the damage being done. I try to make pieces like this to stop or prevent the use of drugs….I just want to make a change….... / sincerely…...colorblind Inspired by friend who comes over and I have to kick him out of my room whenever he smokes what he smokes… i hate the smell of cigarettes and other fumes that expell from other drugs….and I don’t want it to seep in my clothes like as if I smoke…I try to help him ..but it seems pointless…I stay by his side but this is a fire he must exstinguish himself ….I’m focus on keeping my love and my siblings from those silent killers THis Is your brain on Drugs….... done in graphite on recycled 8.5×11 recycled paper
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consciousness, concept, contempt, control, coercised, colonial, colonised, construct, contained, categorized, conceptualized, contextualised, conspiracy, contradictory, conscience, con ,collusion, corrupt, contaminated, constitution, contradictory, compensate, courage, continual, connection, culture
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America the land that was build upon corruption….Money hungry America…. Prismacolorpencils on recycled paper Inspired by songs by Immortal Technique / the 4th branch / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFzkxG9G40 of the Gun
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music This is a collage of individual photos my friends and I took for another mate’s birthday present. This was originally 4 photos which were a creative gift of friendship. I wanted to take it one step further. Individually, the 3 friends in this photo and myself are very different. 2 male, 2 female, 2 coloured, 2 white, 2 full blooded, 2 half blooded, 2 older, 2 younger, 2 single, 2 in relationships. Perfectly divided in half, matching on some levels, opposing on others. Remind me again, how are we so different? Imagine a world where we are not governed by what society think of us, where media is not god, where prejudice is laughable, where division is not the main focus of our time and a place where people can live, not exist. Idealistic? Maybe.. but nice to consider. Featured in Core [C.O.R.E] / Featured in Put Out Or Get Out Canon SX100IS Edited 9pm Original photo in negative, layered sections cut from other portraits of 3 friends on top, added colour filter to each slice, contrast increase, added texture to finish. MCN: CVSPP-HDETY-2GLE5
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a disclaimer to let all know that you have your eyes opened to this false and corrupt world
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