Entries Tagged as 'Classical World, Art'

April 30, 2008

‘Avatars’ of Awagne 1944, Belgium

The hard decision of Mr Willy Kelner in 1944.  General Patton’s tanks where not far from the Commognes.   Willy and Marie Antoinette Kelner persuaded the Wehrmacht soldiers to laid down their arms and reassembled them near the church to give them food and tea. In the evening the Waffen SS Soldiers evacuated the Wehrmacht and take their place, After a [...]

April 26, 2008

Nazi Propaganda in Misleading Paris Occupation Photos

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Via my Internet subscription to the french newspaper “Le Figaro” I found an article named “Cette exposition est tout à fait légitime”. Seeking an English written article on the same subject I found one on “FRANCE24″ named “German occupation photo exhibit causes scandal” . The opening lines describes in a few words what it’s all about [...]

April 8, 2008

Visual Lies in Tibet the Gaza Strip and Salvador Dali

Fake photos are the holy grail for reshaping the world. If we use them in their naive ordinary context we are inclined to think that they represent real events. But today it is harder to believe that a photo is an authentic document reporting an event witnessed by an impartial photographer. A photo has lost his property of evidence, because in some [...]

April 2, 2008

Earth, a Black Hole’s ‘Meal of the Day’

 ”Doomsday: Mankind Has An Expiration Day”,  the name of a new movie and ”How unlikely is a doomsday catastrophe? ”, a physics paper, are two  good headers  affirming and refuting Doomsday, see here and here respectively. Now let’s see the actual story of the controversy..
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  I live in a kibbutz (Israel), in the Jordan Valley, a part of the rift [...]

March 27, 2008

Phishing and the FBI, find the Differences

 Reading today (March 26, 2008) the Hebrew edition of the Israeli “Yediot Aharonot” newspaper, I found that the FBI, to trap possible pedophiles, is applying some sort of ‘phishing techniques’, here are the same news from English source.

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“FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects”

I quote the article verbatim:
“The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that [...]

March 18, 2008

German Chancellor Merkel in Israel

 
I publish on my blog a page of comics drawings called “The DailyComics Dream“, where I tell in short graphical episodes what happens to me under the Nazi occupation of Belgium in WW2 . With this context in my mind, I see the today  visit, in Israel, of the German chancellor Merkel accompanied by seven ministers from her cabinet, as a surrealistic historical [...]

March 9, 2008

Avatar, Photoshop and Warp Tool

I used Digibody’s Caricature Maker (see here) to make this picture., opened here in Photoshop  cs2.

Open a A4 page with 120 pixel/inch and drag in. Scale to a greater size.

Select the head with the square selection tool and now use the warp tool.

I ‘warped’ to get the above result. You do the same untill you see what you [...]

February 29, 2008

‘Please censor the Internet to protect my children from Evil’?

  
   (Gluyas Williams “The Censor”)
AN OPINION.
  There are  people, convinced that they know, on the ground of their own morality and beliefs, what is nefaste for me when I visit sex, porno, violence sado-maso sites on the Internet. And if so, why should I not benefit from their gratuitous intervention by passing for me a censorship bill , to [...]