deviantART: Watching the bombs falling by ~sergiofx

Posted on August 4, 2006 by bunty
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Watching the Bombs Falling – sergiofx


From the page: Another image inspired by recent events in my country. I was watching a local TV station the other day, and they had a camera fixed on the city of Beirut, airing live. It was about 3am. I was lost in my thoughts, when suddenly, I saw a bomb falling on Beirut (through the TV), and it just flashed. Three seconds later, I actually heard the shockwave arriving to my house, which was really loud..

And it was then when it hit me… I am actually watching my city falling… Live…

Trust me, if you’re not living it, its a heartbreaker… So i just had to create something to express the sadness I am feeling right now…

and here it is… a kid watching the bombs falling on his favorite city…

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3 days work, 10-11 hours
Photoshop Cs 2 – Genius tablet
100% from scratch

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Ramzis Blah Blah

Posted on August 3, 2006 by bunty
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From the page: The famous Beirut theater, Masrah Al Madina, is producing a show called “Laughter under fire” (my translation) that is a comedy based on improvisation and audience participation.

It will be held on Thursday and Friday 6th and 7th of this month. 7.30 pm. Free Entrance.

Seems I’m not the only one trying to smile through this.

posted by Ramzi at Thursday, August 03, 2006

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David Byrne Journal: 8.2.06: American Madrassas

Posted on August 3, 2006 by bunty
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American Madrassas by David Byrne

Saw a screening of a documentary called Jesus Camp. It focuses on a woman preacher (Becky Fischer) who indoctrinates children in a summer camp in North Dakota. Right wing political agendas and slogans are mixed with born again rituals that end with most of the kids in tears. Tears of release and joy, they would claim — the children are not physically abused. The kids are around 9 or 10 years old, recruited from various churches, and are pliant willing receptacles. They are instructed that evolution is being forced upon us by evil Godless secular humanists, that abortion must be stopped at all costs, that we must form an “army” to defeat the Godless influences, that we must band together to insure that the right judges and politicians get into the courts and office and that global warming is a lie. (This last one is a puzzle — how did accepting the evidence for climate change and global warming become anti-Jesus? Did someone simply conflate all corporate agendas with Jesus and God and these folks accept that? Would Jesus drive an SUV? Is every conclusion responsible scientists make now suspect?)

Awareness of the rest of the world is curtailed — one can only view or read that which agrees with the agenda.

Naturally, the kids being so young, there is no questioning of any kind — they simply accept what grownups Fischer and the others say — they get pumped up, agitated, they memorize right wing and Jesus slogans and shout them back obediently. They become part of a support group — a warm, safe, comfortable feeling for anyone, for any social animal, for you and me. No one strays or gets out of line even the slightest bit. (More on peer pressure later.)

There were some perfect sound bites — at one point Pastor Fischer instructs the little ones that they should be willing to die for Christ, and the little ones obediently agree. She may even use the word martyr, which has a shocking echo in the Middle East. I can see future suicide bombers for Jesus — the next step will be learning to fly planes into buildings. Of course, the grownups would say, “Oh no, we’re not like them” — but they admit that the principal difference is simply that “We’re right.”

Continued…

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Comics by Charles – Penguins

Posted on August 1, 2006 by bunty
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Free your mind

Posted on August 1, 2006 by bunty
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Free your mind…

…and your ass will follow.


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Fairground #3 by Magdalena

Posted on July 28, 2006 by bunty
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…if only we could see, what the ducks see…

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Starfishit by leilani techaira [Leilani]

Posted on July 28, 2006 by bunty
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i saw a shooting star last night
dive through the darkness, shimmering, bright.
it traced a line of fast-fading light
at an angle ’bout 82 degrees anti-clockwise from the direction of the isle of white
although it’s hard to say with any real degree of accuracy due to parallax errors.

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Bunty would like to apologise

Posted on July 28, 2006 by bunty
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Bunty would like to apologise in advance for the next post made by Bunty. Bunty has been snorting the coffee grounds again. This always makes Bunty a little ornery. Bad Bunty, Bad! Bunty would also like to make perfectly clear that all characters portrayed in the post are entirely fictional. Any alleged similarities to persons either living or dead are entirely co-incidental and most probably some joke of cosmic proportions committed by the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Who art in soupy-heaven, blessed be, parmesany!). However, if the hat fits, please feel free to wear it. Tee hee!
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till finally it becomes too

Posted on July 28, 2006 by bunty
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till finally it becomes too much….


(writhing hideously, face twitching, body spasming. Shrieking:
“booyah! BooYah! BOOYAH!“),

…sallying forth the bile stenching and putrid pus that is the only emission their sallow hate filled and hate fetishizing carcasses can produce anymore, mopping it up with standard issue flag patterned tissues…

That’s always an option, the easy option. Really, it’s up to you dear reader. Nasty bitter red pills aren’t for everyone, and admittedly, the video is rather long, and it is hard to find the time, and well… none of us have the attention span we used to.

ENTER EXIT

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Relief Lebanon | Hope to the Lebanese Civilians – Donate to Lebanon

Posted on July 26, 2006 by bunty
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(pic by Joseph Matar)

Lebanese expatriates throughout the world are gravely concerned about the humanitarian and economic crisis in Lebanon demand that the bloodshed of Lebanese civilians, destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure, and suffering of its people end immediately, allowing for a rapid recovery operation aided by the international community.

All Lebanese and concerned friends and organizations around the world are called to strongly support much-needed relief efforts in Lebanon by donating whatever funds they can afford to donate through the special website created to support the relief activities in Lebanon of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ,UNICEF and Mercy Corps.

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