The
taste of freedom! After several hectic months I finally got the
chance to be free of all responsibilities.
I
feel like a bird.............
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Analysis of Two Postmodern Art Pieces
Sands and Shapes of Karlskrona
An analysis of two postmodern art pieces dabbed “Sands
and Shapes of Karlskrona” The analysis points out some of the postmodern point
of views in our everyday life as cultured people that we barely consciously
recognize, In a postmodern work of art one of the most important elements are
the thoughts behind the art, since we already live in a postmodern era, we are
surrounded by postmodern ways of doing thing though we might not be conscious
of them, therefore in my analysis am going to focus on the art pieces but
dominantly on the thoughts behind the art works themselves.
A postmodern art exhibition work by Yuka and Emma, Yuka
worked with sand, paint, paper and a photograph of a landscape while Emma
worked with digitally printed maps on paper, drawing pen, and glue. In the two works of art there were clear
differences in material and style though they both belong to the same
genre. One can say that they both
incorporated deep thoughts into their work, making it unique of a kind and
gives the viewer a lot of windows to think through.
Yuka's Art
According to Yuka, her work of art is a sand painting
which is based on a photo taken in Karlskrona. Although it is a painting of a coastal
landscape in Karlskrona, it can be seen as a view of any small port town or
even a nonexistent place which questions our ways of representing the world.
Sand used for her painting were gathered from the shore in Karlskrona. Denotatively
her art peace is an bstract image of a previous photograph that has been
appropriated into an abstract form, this raise a question about the material
used, for instance the sand though it was collected from Karlskrona who knows
where it really came from and how long it has been there. Photos surrounding
the painting shows the stages of material use during the painting process this connotes
the era of modernism and the final work, is abstract and postmodern. Her work
connotes a sense of time not being defined and the materials used cannot be
linked to a specific place because the sand that was used in her work could be
from hundred different locations though she collected it from one location It
might have been washed offshore from several locations around the world and has
gathered there at the locations she collected it from. The paint she used in
the same way might have been made through gathering of resources all over the
world to put it together as paint and the finish product the paint is linked to
one country which is not right neither is it wrong. Considering the process of creating the art
piece she did incorporated a sense of not having a define objective of what her
work will look like, it just happened by
chance that she ended up with a work that was abstract and also a parody of the original image she build on.
Emma's ArtEmma in the other hand also had a very interesting pieces of art, consisting of three maps of Karlskrona, which have been painted on and then shaped into three different shapes, according to Emma, “each shape creates different messages of how Karlskrona can be viewed. Looking at the pieces from a postmodern perspective it holds a very subjective concept of pastiche. It also combines digital and analogous art which is then displayed as a sculpture. The paint on the maps or sculptures represent emotions or places connected to the intended meanings of the shapes and her inspiration was from the modern way of looking at everyday life”. Considering Emma´s work the material she used which it the printed map and then painted on it and sculptured it into shapes shows the mixing of three different media putting together as one (draw, print and sculpt), the mixing is a kind of bricolage and can be termed postmodern because it includes digital, analog, and hand crafted art. Also the shapes, orbit, cube and house shows deep thought because it indicate that firstly a map doesn’t have to be only an orbit or flat form but can also be in the shape of a square , house or other shapes and still be a map . For instance if you use a particular house as a landmark and also use it to find your way around, that house is your map as well, maps are everywhere and the episteme of map being flat is being critiqued by his work, maps don’t have to be flat or in a particular way to be termed maps these thoughts make the art work postmodern. We could as well explain further that the colors she incorporated in her work, doesn’t necessarily have to be connected to emotions but rather connected to the map, that various places can be connected to some specific colors due to the kind of people that live there or the profession of the people that live there considering Sweden’s less use of color connecting people and places with very bright colors could create a parody for the locations, i.e. mimic the dislike for colors in Karlskrona society.
Cultures ways
of defining what truth or right is, is, something that has many negotiations,
the notion of truth or right doesn’t have a clear directions or purpose as
culture or modernity possess it to be.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Teenagers and Economics
A pilot project to evaluate how teenagers react to issues of economics
and comedy in a virtual space.
The video is not clear enough for the text to show I will try and fix it. To give you a little insight, there is a text conversation going on in the video, its about the worlds economy.
Compiled by By Cynthia and Yuka
Images and voices by habbo Hotel, Prank call YouTube and..........
US Debt
United
States of America Debt (US Debt)
The United States of America is heavily
indebted up to the tune of five trillion USD in foreign holdings. Lately politicians
openly talk about the next generation of Americans being the first generation
that will be worse off than the current generation for the first time in
American history, due to economic constrains such as high national debts, high
unemployment rate and low incomes. Looking at indications, a nation as powerful
as US being heavily indebted to BRICS countries was an unimaginable phenomenon
in the past. The debt is extremely high and continues to increase in an alarming pace, the focus of US is not on paying off the debt but rather on creating more jobs, as they recently launched QE3 which is an economical stimulant program from Federal Reserve.
Federal Reserve is printing money to be
loaned out to banks at a very low interest rate, consequence this money will be
released into the society which will stimulate and create economic growth that
will lead to job creation. Job creation increases tax revenue to the state,
revenue to the state will help finance the debt. Programs of such nature come
with dangers such as currency collapse i.e. increase in inflation rate which
will weaken the currency, it can also increase spending in the country which
will in return create high demand for consumer products and raw material, in
other words lead to an appreciation in prices of consumer products and raw
materials globally. This will have a great impact on the third world negatively
because they cannot stay immune to the economic turmoil neither can they afford
stimulus programs.
Consider this scenario, a farmer in Brazil
needs to invest in a new tractor for his sugarcane farm, increase in metal
price will increase the price of the tractor, fueling his new tractor also will
be at a high cost because the oil price has appreciated as well, that means
that the end product the sugar will be exported and sold at a much higher market
price thereby affecting the entire world and more specifically developing countries
that cannot afford economic stimulant programs. The diagram below shows that stimulus programs are not solution oriented approach and does not solve the problem in a broader spectrum but rather a temporary fix.
During the period of QE1 and QE2 the graph
indicates a constant drop in unemployment rate but did not necessarily fix the economic
problem.
Recently American Analytic
Company Standard and Poor’s took down its AAA rating on US to an AA+ due to the
debt. The collapse of Lehman Brothers Bank is also a clear indication of a
weakening economy.Reducing the debt should be the focal point of the US and that will entail taking drastic and calculated measures. It is very daring to take such herculean steps because that is not what the public want to hear and going against the masses in a political arena is tantamount to political suicide, staying in power mean the opinions and the ideas of the public which most of the time could be wrong should be strongly considered, majority of the population do not want to cut down on their high expenditure nor pay high taxes, in the same way politician also do not want to compromise their political advantages, even more delicate due to the new era of globalization whereby decision in one country affects the other at the speed of light.
Tactical and rational decisions are very crucial,
making difficult choices takes bravery without necessarily compromising core
values and that is what the politicians should put into practice.
If only the debt could be analyzed on
non-partisan political platform, it may help in taking away the blame game politicians
play and the focus will be on paying off the debt. Some people might argue that
paying off the debt will come with dangers such as collapse of the entire
economy however I believe that with calculated and well strategize measures that
can be avoided entirely.
In a nut shell efforts, intelligence, time
and substantial amount of money that politician put into campaigns should be
geared toward solving the debt problem for the good of the nation and the
future of the next generation of Americans to keep the “American dream”
alive.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Run for Life
Save Life Organization
(SLO) |
RUN FOR LIFE
RUN FOR LIFE
Marathon Race and Breast Screening Exercise to Help
Create Breast Cancer Awareness
As
part of Save Life Organization’s (SLO) ongoing efforts to help curb social
menaces in our societies, we are
organizing a free breast screening and a marathon race called “Run for Life” to help create breast cancer
awareness among women and the
general public.
In view of our active participation in numerous cancer programs, we deem it necessary to help educate, screen and create awareness among the general public about the havocs of breast cancer and what they can do as individual to help curb this menace. It is in this context that SLO is organizing a marathon race and a breast screening program to help create breast cancer awareness, we are therefore inviting the general public and the media to come and participate and support such a worthy course. T-shirts will be distributed to the various participants at the start point.
o Date: Thursday the 25th of October 2012
o Start point: Karlskrona Centrum through Ronneby
o Finish Point: Karlshamn Centrum
o Time: 9.00am prompt
o Coverage Distance: 42.3kilometers race
It will be a memorable experience of a life time, as massive crowd of people of all ages running through the center of the streets aiming at one goal wearing the same T-shirt with bold inscriptions BEWARE OF BREAST CANCER on the front and RUN FOR LIFE on the back will certainly be spectacular and help create the awareness needed.
The first participant to cross the golden line of the race (winner) will be awarded the golden breast cup, followed by the second runner up a silver medal and the third runner up a bronze medal. There will be student volunteers at various points on the road to offer water and other refreshments to participants.
Kindly visit our Facebook and Twitter pages and like us there, encourage friends and families to participate in this commendable breast cancer awareness program.
Come one come all let us run to save lives, let us all run to say no to this menace on women, Let us run to create awareness, let’s run towards this worthy course. Let’s run to protect the gift of womanhood.
Do you know that breast cancer is the principle cause of death from cancer among women worldwide? In the year 2010 alone, 1.5 million people worldwide were diagnosed with breast cancer according to WWBC.
However the world health organization (WHO) records shows that, two components have helped to improve cancer mortality, these are screening programs and education. If breast cancers are detected early and treated this could mean that about 400,000 lives could be saved in a worldwide context. 89% of the western world early detection of breast cancers followed by treatments, are alive five years after detection, this is to say that, early detection gives hope and saves lives so let’s beware of breast cancer.
SLO is a nonprofit making organization with a purpose of helping to deal with social menaces in our societies; the organization has been in existence for the past three years and has been actively involved in various cancer awareness programs worldwide.
Contact Persons:
Angela Nilsson, Molly Anderson,
Save Life Organization (SLO)
Address:
No. 6 Holy Street. Avenue
No. 6 Holy Street. Avenue
Tel:
222 333 0011
Email:
Published By:
Cee Cyndi (Project Manager)
Cee Cyndi (Project Manager)
Disclaimer
Kindly note that this is a school assignment, not a real event its fiction. The information or parts of the information in this blog might be wrong.
Images and video from google and youtube.
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