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East Timor Sept 2000: Widows in a sewing co-operative run by an NGO reflect on their lives since the UN sponsored referendum, and the violence that occurred throughout the country.
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East Timor Sept 2000: A young girl watches the photographer in Suai, East Timor. Suai was the site of a massacre by pro Indonesian malitias after the UN sponsored referendum.
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East Timor Sept 2000: A young boy sells hard boiled eggs to UN staff outside the ‘Hello Mister’ supermarket in Dili, East Timor after the UN sponsored referendum.
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East Timor Sept 2000: Young people collecting shellfish off the beach in Dili, East Timor after the UN sponsored referendum.
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East Timor Sept 2000: An old man and his prize fighting bird in Dili, East Timor watch people pass by. The tiny country was racked with violence by pro Indonesian malitias after the UN sponsored referendum.
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For the Flower Power Project Screensaver ___ All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © 2007 Joyce Dickens: Using my images for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action.
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Reload for the Flower Power Project Screensaver ___ All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without My Permission. My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / © 2007 Joyce Dickens: Using my images for any purpose and in any way, without prior permission, may lead to legal action.
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THEY’VE AXED OUR DEMOCRACY INTO THEIR FASCISM [2007]: Digitization of an original by the great German DaDa master and a socialist-anarchist no other than John Heartfield. The title ought to speak for itself for those who can see deeper thus beyond the lenses of systematic convention and tradition.
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And you thought your vote counted / Your choice: Poverty, Corruption or Death
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On the 12th June, Briain’s Shadow Home Secretary blasted the government and its controversial ‘42 Days’ law – the right to detain without charge people suspected of terrorism, a law which was by many accounts “bullied” through parliament by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Now I have no better solution for what to do in these uncertain times, but I utterly applaud Davis’ convictions in resigning from his position, and forcing a by-election in his electorate. The words of his speech are inspirational, and not wholly transferred onto this shirt. Highlights: This Sunday is the anniversary of Magna Carta, a document that guarantees the fundamental element of British freedom, habeas corpus. The right not to be imprisoned by the state without charge or reason. But yesterday this house allowed the state to lock up potentially innocent citizens for up to six weeks without charge. Because the generic security arguments relied on will never go away – technology, developing complexity and so on – we will next see 56 days, now it’s 70 days, 90 days. 42 days is just one, perhaps the most salient example, of the insidious, surreptitious and relentless erosion of fundamental British freedoms. We will have, shortly, the most intrusive identity card system in the world, a CCTV camera for every 14 citizens, a DNA database bigger than any dictator should have with thousands of innocent children and millions of innocent citizens on it. consider one of the most fundamental issues of our day: the ever intrusive power of the state into our lives, the loss of privacy, the loss of freedom and the steady attrition undermining the rule of law.
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Agent Provocateur Weekend T-Shirt Challenge
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democracy in action
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Think Before You Vote
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taco bell / nikE / Mcdonalds / target / coca Cola / wal maRt / Cnn / Yahoo
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::MEMO:: / google the state of the world / get your bats and clubs / get the zombie yuppy slave mules up side their heads / make yourself a nice cup of coffee Half money humpin’ yuppie, half mindless work mule / ...We are shitting in our own stable :P
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Bubble Essay #1: The Irony Of The Democratization Of Art
by transmuteIt’s been stated many times by the founders of Redbubble that they seek to democratize art by allowing everyone to have a gallery of thei…
It’s been stated many times by the founders of Redbubble that they seek to democratize art by allowing everyone to have a gallery of their work on display for public view, with the ability for it to be purchased in various high quality media. An ongoing debate has been occurring since the nascent days of the site regarding quality, and the large amount of uploads that are perceived as lacking in artistic merit. I used to be concerned about this, but have slowly let go of the idea that this is a site that is about ‘meritorious’ art (despite the flourishing debates), and more to do with the idea of participatory community focused around creative activity. I’d like to address the idea of ‘online community’ and it’s contradictions in a future essay, but for now will acknowledge that this community is the ‘front end’ sustained by the ‘back end’ business of print-on-demand. Not an uncommon contemporary business model; one that links the participatory capabilities of ‘Web 2.0’ with a physical business. I’m not implying that there is a cynicism in doing this however, its just one manifestation of the positive (if problematic) use of capital in the social sphere. One idea that has occurred to me lately, and one that is only too evident as Redbubble grows and evolves, is the great irony of the democratization of art: that universal freedom of expression is important to increase the chances of great art occurring, but it also allows the unskilled, the inarticulate and the unimaginative free reign to express themselves. To some, creative expression is merely the documentation of their surroundings, to others it is as much as possible a subjective interpretation using whatever objective means they have mastered. To put it bluntly, democratization leads at one and the same time to greatness and mediocrity, and the thing that defines greatness is it’s rarity among mediocrity, forcing us to think harder about the nature of art itself. / / I don’t for one moment support the idea of an artistic elite, this is impossible to define, but more the idea that mediocrity is the sea on which greatness floats, and maybe we have to begrudgingly accept that cultural evolution involves a certain volume of mediocrity.
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Antique bronze statue of Justice and reflection of it.
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This is my tribute to Muntazer al-Zaidi. The legendary journalist who threw his shoe at George W Bush during his farewell visit to Iraq. Clearly it is based on Banksy’s “Flower Chucker” stencil which is based on a photo from the 1968 riots in Paris. I’ve tried to keep it faithful to both Banksy and Muntazer by illustrating his head as close as possible to the original press conference image, in the style of “Flower Thrower”. I also illustrated the shoe to fit his hand just nicely and added a bit of definition to the fingers. Love to know what you think. Good riddance George Dubbaya. Muntazer al-Zaid may be the thrower, but you certainly are the tosser. / / / / / / /
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let’s just be clear what we’re fighting for? / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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