Without the state

links for 2009-10-23

• Colour management consultancy and training in Leicester
  (tags: color colour printing colourmanagement)

War artists in Afghanistan and Iraq

I've just found two slide shows on the BBC web site showing work by two British war artists in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Matthew Cook - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8321463.stm

Arabella Dorman - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8044225.stm

Even without considering the circumstances in which this work was done, they would be excellent, but the context makes them even more important. To see why look at the portrait about 55 secs into Arabella Dorman's slide show.

links for 2009-10-13

• Tools for the Etsy Community - cr8tivity.com
  (tags: etsy socialmedia tools)

links for 2009-10-06

• Andy on Full Disclosure, World Printmakers - prinmaking ethics
  (tags: printing printmaking fineart)
• Full Disclosure - printmaking ethics
  (tags: printing printmaking fineart)
• Dear Debbie:
  (tags: printing printmaking fineart)

Reality

Pterygopalatine Fossanation.

When someone says that a movie is too violent, they usually mean that it made them feel uncomfortable because it portrayed violence too explicitly, and when I hear it, it makes angry, because they are asking for censorship. They want to deny themselves the only truly valuable depiction of violence on film: the reminder of exactly what it is that we do to each other every day, through wars, crimes, and stupid, preventable car accidents!