Friday 11 November 2011
New Project Burley
Over the next few weeks I will working on my new project Burley . I ask the local people just one Question and ask what would they like to see in Burley. Asking this question I have been walking around and talking to locals and even the local counciler , in the next few weeks I will be going around with him to see the good spart and the bad parts and see if we end up with the same list. I will post photo's of how I get on .
Monday 11 April 2011
Not in my back yard
WASHINGTON -- Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) hasadmitted regret over ordering his Department of Labor to remove a mural depicting the state's labor history from its lobby. Since its removal, protesters have threatened to form a human chain, the federal government has stepped in.
And inadvertently, the move also made the mural larger than life -- literally. Late at night on April 2, a group of three artists calling themselves "BrokeFix" visited Maine's capitol building in Augusta. Running a projector out of their car, they projected a large image of the mural onto the capitol's edifice for roughly two hours.
A video of their stunt went viral, even making its way to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who called it a "brilliant idea," a "giant fantastic slideshow right on the outside of the people's house."
The Huffington Post obtained the first interview with the members of BrokeFix on the condition that their identities not be revealed. That interview took place on Friday -- like much of the group's work, late at night.
"The beauty of what we are doing is in the DIY [do-it-yourself] mentality that fuels the project," the BrokeFix members said. "The methods we use to achieve our projects are crude, and we, very much so, are making this all up as we go along. We are hoping that this video acts as something of a springboard for more people to get out there and produce something. Anything."
The artists said they had been experimenting with photo-bombing -- a type of non-destructive graffiti and street art -- and used the mural controversy as a test case. The biggest question, they said, was whether they could properly and safely get the technical pieces right.
Like most appliances, the lamp used to project the mural runs on alternating current. In order to project from the road, the artists had to derive some sort of power source.
"We used a car battery because the projector requires great amount of power and the car battery can also be run in conjunction with a car, using the alternator to maintain the charge," the BrokeFix members said. "So our main challenge was to change DC power to AC using an inverter to run the projector."
The trio recently became even more mobile, creating what they call a "photon pack" -- which somewhat resembles the "proton pack" of the "Ghostbusters" franchise -- connecting the inverter directly to the car battery rather than the vehicle itself. They used this method during their most recent photo-bombing in Portland, Maine, which featured the mural along with comments they've received about their artwork from around the web.
Toward the end of the Augusta video, a capitol security officer approached and asked the artists what they were doing. "Putting the mural back up," one replied. The officer said that if that were the case, the Augusta Police Department would be forced to intervene.
While many online commenters vilified the officer for sending BrokeFix packing, the stunt's principals said the officer was actually "pretty cool" about the whole thing, "though we did ask what rules we were breaking, and we've yet to find any."
The BrokeFix members said they will likely photo-bomb more locations around Maine, but they are also scrambling for funding for their next project. Meanwhile, a local gallery offered to set up a similar projection of the labor mural on its grounds, and the artists said they were eager to accept.
"We would enjoy an event where a narrator told the story and history of these events depicted in the Maine labor mural and explained the significance of how those events of the past have fed into the present situation to give us many of the rights we currently take for granted," the group said.
The artists criticized the partisan and ideological divides in politics, but also took a strong stance against the notion that labor unions bear responsibility for U.S. economic problems. "Even if the most severe of allegations against the labor unions were true, the money cost to the taxpayers is negligible when compared to the taxpayer cost of supporting the true parasites of our social, political and economic systems," they argued.
Pointing to recent union protests in Maine and Wisconsin, among others, and the uprisings in the Middle East, the group added: "The weight of futility that our society places upon the individual is a meaningless illusion that disappears as soon as you realize that your own two hands can lift it away. Power exists within you as soon as you choose to use it."
Sunday 10 April 2011
Chinese Scientists create GM milk for babies
The GM milk reasearh has the backing od a major bioetechnology company ( I wish they would say which one it was) Scientists in China have created gentically modified (GM) cattle pruduce the equivalent of human milk, it has been revealed. The scientists successfully introduced human gene 300 dairy cows pruduce milk the same properties as human breast milk Alternative Scientists at the State Key laboratories for Agrobiotechnology in China, said they believe milk from herds of GM cows could provide an alternative to human breast milk and formula milk for babies and aim to commercialise research in this area with in three years. However, it will be at least 10 years before the products can be sold to consumers, Prof Ning Li the science who led the research is quoted as saying. He said GM milk would be safe to drink as milk from ordinary dairy cows. The researcher used cloning technology to introduce human genes into the DNA of Holstein dairy cows before the GM embryos were implanted into surrogate cows. They said this enabled them to create cows that produced milk containing a human protein called lysozyme,which helps to protect infants from bacterial infections during their early days of life. GM critics and animal welfare groups criticised the research, questioning the safety of the milk and the effect of the technique on the cattle health ans welfare.
DNA Testing introduced after evidence of TB fraud
How long has this been going on the link was noted in the 1950 in Switzerland. To cut a very long story short farmer have been able to change the ear tags around and cow that do not have such a high yield of mike and be sent to sluttier and the TB cow stays in the food supply chain.
When the cow are first test the should be sprayed it take 6 weeks / 8 weeks simple , for the dye to come off they can a photo of the cows front sides and back and top and underside image kept my the government and a copy sent to the Slater houses and tick of when processed and conformed with the government. DNA taken at the time of testing and DNA at the the sluttier house. The police on this has been very lacks.
When a dog has to put down that it of very high rick two vet's are needed to make shaw the dog is but sleep this is what they should do with these cows. must less chance of fraud.
The link I have suppyied is a very long and in depth.
Saturday 9 April 2011
AIR
AIR watched with dismay as Arts Council England unveiled the new landscape for visual arts funding on 30 March 2011.
The new National Portfolio Organisations settlement has hit visual artists hard. 24.8% of the current RFOs cut were visual arts organisations, compared to only 8.3% in dance and 18.4% in theatre.
A "balanced portfolio" has largely been interpreted as "supporting lottery-funded galleries and institutions" at the expense of support for grassroots artist-led initiatives.
AIR calls for funded galleries to budget for fees at professional rates for artists to undertake commissions, exhibitions and other arts employment. AIR also urges arts institutions to play a greater role in supporting the critical mass of artists by actively offering professional development opportunities and critique to more artists in their regions.
This kind of collaboration is imperative in a time of austerity. Such support of the critical mass of artists will guarantee that quality visual arts will emerge in the future, for the benefit of all. For without artists, there would be no contemporary art.
Read AIR's Full Response »
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