Peter's ramblings, plus clips, scraps & pics from the internet that interest me...
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Henry Fuseli
Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head
1793
The American sculptor Kris Kuksi embodies the result of the thanatic coupling of God and War.
wehadfacesthen: Alice’s Wild West Show (1924)
Andrew McGibbon
ex libris of Édouard Manet.
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Marko Velk, Royaume, charcoal and dry pastel on paper
Sanna Dullaway an artist has beautifully colorised a load of famous B and W photos link to some of the image below…
The studio system was a means of film production and distribution dominant in Hollywood from the early 1920s through the early 1960s. The period stretching from the introduction of sound to the court ruling and the beginning of the studio breakups, 1927/29–1948/49, is commonly known as the Golden Age of Hollywood.
In 1954, the last of the operational links between a major production studio and theater chain was broken and the era of the studio system was officially over.
exactly what I was looking for. except y’all are missing Universal! good thing I made this:
Above is a picture of Omar Khadr, abducted at 15, now 25 years old, he has spent a third of his life at Guantánamo Bay for a crime he never committed.
“Khadr is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in 2002 and conspiring with Al Qaeda. There is no credible evidence to substantiate the charges, some of which date to when he was 11 years old. Charges were not even brought against him until 2007. If convicted, the Obama administration will seek a life sentence for Khadr, prosecutor David Iglesias indicated.
Army Col. Pat Parrish, the tribunal’s presiding judge, on Monday denied defense appeals to bar confessions Khadr made under torture. In hearings held in May an unnamed U.S. military officer admitted that his interrogation unit threatened to gang rape and kill Khadr if he did not cooperate with an interrogation session at Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram air base in 2002.
A U.S. military psychiatrist has said that Khadr, who has now spent a third of his life at Guantánamo, is under extreme psychological stress after years of living through torture, abuse and appalling conditions. He has been subjected to stress positions, beatings, humiliations—including being used as a “human mop” to clean up urine, threatened attack with dogs, long periods of extreme isolation and sensory as well as sleep deprivation. (Read more here)How come we barely hear about cases like these in the news? If it happend to a white christian male, we would constantly hear about it, but when it happens to a muslim from Afghanistan, silence.
Omar Khadr has himself said:
Khadr wrote to his Canadian attorney Dennis Edney, on May 27. “And if the world doesn’t see all this, to what world am I being released to? A world of hate … and discrimination.”
Lt. Col. Frakt has said:
“It is appalling that the Obama administration is allowing charges to go forward in the military commissions against Omar Khadr. Clearly, Omar Khadr, as a juvenile of 15 at the time of his alleged offences, could not be tried as an adult in federal court, so they are allowing him to be tried as an adult in the military commissions, potentially making him the first child soldier to be tried and convicted as a war criminal in world history.” (Read more here)
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A Seated Scribe
1479-80
Attributed to Gentile Bellini, Italian, 1429–1507
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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On the Upside has just appeared in the Aesthetica Film Festival. AestheticaFilmFest was hosted by Aesthetica Magazine in the historic city of York from 3rd to 6th November and took place across 14 diverse locations in the city.
Great News - Crowfeathers has its first festival screening at The London Short Film Festival in January 2012! As part of the New Shorts 9: Landscapes programme, on Sunday 8th January, 2012 at 16:15 at the ICA.
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