Thursday

Forgetting To Sleep -- Nick Hall



c3 contemporary art space
The Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers St. Abbotsford VIC 3067 Australia

“ Eco Paralysis: The sense that our problems are insurmountable. Most of us know that changing our light bulbs isn’t adequate to address the scale of what is taking place and this manifests itself as apathy, complacency and disengagement”
(Adbusters Magazine, 2010)

The works in this exhibition attempt to explore the concept of apathy and inaction being manifestations of guilt and anxiety experienced in response to knowledge of environmental issues.

Suckerpunch

Monday

Drab Art in the City

Drewery Lane, City

Drab Is a long time mate of mine from the good old nz days and spotting him while sneaking through a side alley to avoid the late arvo mid-town madness was a pleasant surprise to say the least. The bulk of his work is illustrative and focusses on scale and the photographic image . You'll see it predominantly in paste up form but his most recent addition to the 6 shooter calibre is fine art gallery showings. To see more of this fine young lad's Work , miander over to www.drab-art.com

Xx lurid

Medical Research Budget Cut Protest-- City Library

300Million in cuts over 3 years, how will a massive research budget cut effect Australia's progress? Can you really put a stop on curing cancer? and how would you feel if your life depended on the research being done now?

Sharks

France's new ban on wearing full-face niqab veils in public




The Insert below is from News.com.au,

It highlights the start of what will surely be a harrowing battle of exacerbated proportions. Should we really discriminate against any religion? And is freedom of expression not at the root of this very debate? I agree that religion should not play part in education or the workplace but to bring law to the public and openly stop a sect of religion in a European nation from expressing their beliefs cannot be the way forward. I do not agree with a woman veiling herself but i do disagree with the government taking away a persons right to believe and express belief.


"PARIS police have arrested two veiled women and several other people protesting in front of Notre Dame cathedral against France's new ban on wearing full-face niqab veils in public.
An Agence France-Presse journalist at the scene said the arrests came after police moved in to break up the protest which had not been authorised.
"Today was not about arresting people because of wearing the veil. It was for not having respected the requirement to declare a demonstration," said police spokesman Alexis Marsan.
Two women in niqabs, a woman wearing an Islamic headscarf that does not cover the face and a demonstration organiser were arrested, Marsan said.
In another protest, Rachid Nekkaz from the Don't Touch My Constitution activist group and "a female friend wearing the niqab" were arrested by police in front of President Nicolas Sarkozy's Elysee Palace, he said."

The Daily Telegraph, 9 Dec 2010

"We wanted to be fined for wearing the niqab, but the police didn't want to issue a fine," Nekkaz said by telephone.
On Saturday police arrested 59 people, including 19 veiled women, who turned up for a banned protest in Paris against the new law, the first of its kind to be enforced in Europe.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/paris-police-arrest-veiled-women-after-ban/story-e6frfku0-1226037445886#ixzz1JDGediBU

Sunday

Elderly woman single-handedly shuts down Armenian internet



" A 75-year-old Georgian woman shut down the Internet in neighboring Armenia for more than 12 hours last month when she sliced through a fiber optic cable while looking for scrap metal, according to Georgian officials.
Nearly all of Armenia was without Internet access on March 28 and customers of one of the largest Georgian Internet service providers, Caucasus Online, also lost access for nearly five hours, according to Bloomberg.
The woman was arrested by Georgian authorities and charged with property damage, the news agency reported Wednesday. She was “temporarily released due to her old age” on the day of the incident, Bloomberg quoted Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Zurab Gvenetadze as saying.
She has confessed to damaging a cable belonging to Georgian Railway Telecom while looking for copper near the Georgian village of Ksani, according to Azerbaijan’s News.az.
How the woman managed to find an Internet cable that provides 90 percent of Armenia’s Internet access was a mystery, a Georgian Railway Telecom spokesman told Bloomberg."

text thanks to http://blogs.ktk985.com/category/today-on-storm-chris/

Saturday

CARBON

The question is, are you going? x

Mask

Saturday

Matti and Pirjo Sanaksenaho: St. Henry's ecumenical art chapel, 2005

I visited Finland a few years ago and recently stumbled upon these images i had taken while in Turku visiting this Church with my father who lives and breathes everything Architecture. It was a beautiful expression of the Finnish use of wood, and the building itself settled surprisingly snugly into the natural landscape. xx