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Design Against Fur

For the Design Against Fur International Animation Competition (that's a large name, makes it sound important), Daphne and I created the following. The drawings were made in illustrator then animated in After Effects. Music is done by me, apart from the silly scream, taken from some sample library of the BBC. The regulations said to upload the video as a video response on YouTube and I must admit the participants in the competition are very few. But I suppose no one needs an animation to advertise against the wearing of fur when one has got all those aesthetically pleasing Peta ads satisfying so much the male gaze.

simulacra

Elvis is not dead . He is video projected.

Fear of facebook

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Unavoidable. I am now part of the facebook community. I would like to know if there is a psychological explanation for agoraphobia in the digital world? Being antisocial in a social network community? The paradox of joining something you are completely against? If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?

rather silly

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"A new system has been created to keep the public informed about the level of threat to the UK from terrorism. The system also helps the police and other law enforcement agencies determine how they should respond to, and prepare for a terrorist incident. The threat levels are: critical - an attack is expected imminently severe - an attack is highly likely substantial - an attack is a strong possibility moderate - an attack is possible but not likely low - an attack is unlikely The current terrorism threat level is Severe. The threat level is Severe. Our message is for people to be alert but not alarmed ." Of the total 1228 arrested: 132 charged with terrorism legislation offences only 109 charged with terrorism legislation offences and other criminal offences 195 charged under other legislation including...
Right you are...and I come from the Turkish island of Cyprus.

Control Versial

parental advisory: the following text should not be read by anyone fuck those who became tutors due to their failure as artists. fuck them for sacrificing their dream to become the (b)moulders of future generations in the irony of their own image. fuck new age revolutions attempting to change the system by doing performance art and peaceful protests. Fuck Kant, Adorno, Burger, Nietzsche and self-proclaimed marxists for ruining ideology; fuck ideology. fuck fascists, capitalist pigs, murderers, annihilators of everything sacred, commodifying life transforming it into a pile of puke. Fuck 'shameless prerogative' titles and the mish-mash's of industrialized culture - mixing japanese anime styles with egyptian symbolism and americanized super heroes. Fuck Freud and his cocaine-induced sexual theories on everything. On that note, fuck the academics who sacrificed 'a theory of everything' over a theory of everything based on their own fetishistic, primordial, animalistic ...