Entries from November 2007

November 29, 2007

Fake Photos Your ‘New Reality’

   Using Photoshop in my work as a visual artist, I know how far I can get to make fake pictures from the originals one. I can alter them to my own biases and idiosycrasies. The transformation can be done seamlessly. So, when I found the headline “Faked Photos Alter Real Memories” ( November 26, 2007) I was not surprised. If I transform [...]

November 25, 2007

Danger:Your Footprint on the Internet Forever

 
Today (25.11.2007) I found on Google News a post about how  ”Blogs ‘could affect future jobs”. I know from my own experience of writing for my blog and for NowPublic, that the fine grained level of information I can reach, if I persevere to follow a trail, personal or other, is incredible; and this is possible without [...]

November 24, 2007

Israel-Arab Middle East Telenovela

First episode: THE BOMB. (Olmert Netaniahu Ahaminejad.)Source here. (19/11/2007)

From the press.  ..”Iranians to resist till materializing nuclear right - Jannati.” …”Ayatollah Jannati considered ElBaradei’s report as a victory for the Iranian nation, congratulating them on the occasion, adding, “This victory was not achieved easily, since we have paved many perilous paths relying on the wise leadership of [...]

November 21, 2007

“Upper Baghdad”

  
How an architectural experiment, (Jackowski, Nannette, Ostos, Ricardo O.C.de) , beginning in 2004 until today (October 2007),  ‘magnify’ death and violence in Baghdad. [One of their projects]… is “the “Hanging Cemetery of Baghdad”, which they have continuously developed since 2004. In his introduction (to the book, October 2007), Peter Cook says that as an architect, [...]

November 21, 2007

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November 18, 2007

Seattle’s Power Lines Paranoia

 
Since 9/11 taking pictures is a dangerous act. If you take a picture of your girlfriend and in the background there is some electrical infrastructure you are under suspicion of planning a terrorist attack. See what  UW Art professor  Shirley E. Scheier didn’t know.
Professor detained for taking pictures sues. Snohomish police handcuffed her, searched car…”Artist Shirley Scheier drove [...]

November 14, 2007

Identity Imposture on Facebook

 
  On November 12.2007, on channel 10 (Israel), Yaron London, program presenter of  ”London and  Kirschenbaum”, told his audience that an impostor has usurped his name and made him a member of Facebook without his knowledge. His suspicion arouse from the  bizarre question of his friends about his ‘interest in women’ . After a brief [...]

November 12, 2007

Arafat Commemoration day in Gaza turns into a Bloodshed

 The Hamas war  inside the Gaza Strip prove that the Fatah is still alive.
From the “Jerusalem Post”
Hamas carried out ‘heinous crime’ in Gaza (Nov 12, 2007)
..”Hamas’ violent dispersal of a mass Fatah rally in Gaza on Monday was a “heinous crime,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s office said.”…”Hamas security forces on Monday opened fire at a [...]