Toy Man

This photography was taken by wiseacre. To see more photographs go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiseacre/.

The Sad Song

The Sad Song- By Fredi Viola
I think that the graphs and the sound in this video are amazing. I wonder how he was about to use so many frames.

Digital Art

"Metropolis is an exhibition of modern digital art, with it's roots in abstract minimalism and will be on display [...] at La Chameleon."
http://www.la-bistro-chameleon.co.uk/modern-art.html

Little Sister Big Heart

I'd like to tell you a little bit about my little sister Mackenzie. She has the biggest heart that I've ever known. Not only does she have a big heart she also has a big voice, a voice for the people who cannot speak for themselves. When she was younger she would always play with the children that didn't have friends or talk to the person standing alone. With her warm inviting personality it makes her easy to talk to.

Recently she started a group at her high school called Contemplators Anonymous. It’s a group designed to help the people in need. Their latest project was raising money to purchase malaria nets for villages in Africa. She and her fellow Contemplators gained up with my Uncle Russ who frequents Africa. He does to maintain his sister school. He gave Mackenzie the means to help many Africans who would have possibly died from malaria the change to live.

I look up to my little sister. I would have never have thought to have done such a thing at her age. She is truly wise beyond her years with a heart of gold. Now how many big sisters can say that they admire their younger sister and look up to them?

To purchase a net is only five American dollars as opposed to the high cost of medicine needed to cure malaria. To contact Contemplators Anonymous or to donate money just email me at brioc21@yahoo.com. I will relay in information to my sister and get you in contact with her.

Art Event I- Something Like a War

I recently viewed the documentary Something Like a War directed by Deepa Dhanraj. It was indirectly about the population problem in India but focuses primarily on the story of Indian woman. India is trying to decrease the population by offering a number of contraceptives and other methods of birth control including abortion and sterilization. The problem is getting the women to give consent to partake. To an Indian woman children are extremely important. The children take care of them when they’re old and lighten to burden in the fields. Also if a woman is unable to bear a child then the husband can discard her. So the incentive to become sterile is not high.

Indian women are thought as a second class. Women don't want to bear a girl sometimes because it would make their husbans unhappy and would cost the family more money, due to her dowery. It is sad how the Indain society treats it's women. One of the women in the documentary said that there was a servay stating that 30% of the households in India were run by women. She thought that it should be changed to 70%. The men sit playing cards and maybe doing a little bit of work, but for the most part the work around the house and the childcare is done by the woman of the house.

Woman are strong creatures and it is shown universally. The Indian women have to bare most of the work around the house. They also have to endore the pain of childbirth, and now they have to suffer the pain of sterization without being about to show their husband's knowing what pain they are really going through.

As a woman my heart goes out to them. This documentary has moved me and connected me to the women feachered within it. All woman are sisters. We share happiness, sarrow, and pain. This documentary shows the strenght of women. It also shows the need for better hospitals and healthcare in India. Reachout.

Free Hugs

This is a very interesting video that I found on youtube. It pushes the bounderies of the socail norm. I throughly enjoy watching is social norms of socity being pushed. It was even eye opening to me when the policemen were trying to band "free hugs". Why in soictey is it alright to create war but not to give out free hugs. Thankfully the potion showed that people have different views and enjoy a free hug.
The video itself is a piece of artwork. The creative ways that it starts off in black and white and then when the first hug is iniated it becomes colored. This shows empahsis on a hug bringing color into one's life.