Did you catch PBS’s Now last night, and the astonishing images of dissent that have been collected by Bosnian-born Mirko Ilic, one of the leading designers in the world?
DESCRIPTION of IMAGE LEFT: “This parody of an advertising campaign for iPod uses a horrifying image of torture from the military prison in Abu Ghraib to protest the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The designer posted these confrontational posters among the iPod posters resulting in a surprising and powerful effect.
“iRaq,” Copper Greene, in THE DESIGN OF DISSENT, ©Rockport Publishers, 2005″
At Now‘s site, you can click through a slide show. You can view more images at the School of Visual Arts exhibit site.
And forget to get your Fourth of July flags here. There’s one more image below the fold:
NOW is the only show I watc, but when I sat down to it another show was in its place.
It has disappeared without a notice here.
I dunno what you did, but the page formatting is all messed up for me. The CSS doesn’t like something about the images, maybe? Anywho… you may want to edit to see if you can fix it.
the flag is cut in half. Using Safari on OS X.3.9.
on 10.3.9. Same thing with the flag cut in half and the first comment is squished way over to the right in a tiny column.
It could be a Safari problem. A new version of WebCore is supposed to fix a lot of the Safari CSS problems, but you can’t use it unless you have 10.4 Tiger.
and I’m on Firefox 1.0.4, under Mac OS X 10.4.1 (Tiger).
Hadn’t heard about CSS problems under Tiger…
operating systems. It is broken everywhere.
Incidentally the scroll-text box on the front page is black with faint gray lettering in Explorer 5 for OS X. I hate those things, in any case because you can’t drag and select.
Cheers
I cannot figure out why it’s doing that! I’ve tried all kinds of things.
Got it. I’d put in an hspace tag to keep the image from aligning flush left. Dunno why it’d do that since it never has before. Oh well. Fixed now!
(We went to see relatives so I just got back and found this.)
More images here:
Peace
Enjoy
in Montreal. I created it with conte crayons. Now it symbolizes for me, America’s fallen reputation because of Iraq, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. But the eagle is not dead, it can recover.
I caught that too, on pretty late at night. It was around midnight or later.
I found it interesting, and the guy that was being interviewed was great! Makes me want one of those buttons, what was it… Dissent is Democracy or something like that.
I don’t watch NOW nearly often enough, I am going to try harder. I get most of my news from Free Speech TV, but since the problems lately with the Republicans trying to control PBS, I am thinking some time watching the more liberal shows may be a good thing.
I am assuming that because I have a dish they know exactly what I am watching. 😀
By the way, the formatting is messed up for me too, running Firefox.
I remember reading some weeks back that a Federal Court judge had ruled that hundreds of as yet unseen Gitmo photos had to be made public… but since then I haven’t heard anything about it. Did I miss something?
This sure would be a good time to put them out there, especially if Bush is considering nominating Gonzalez.
Does anyone know what happened to those photos? Does anyone know about the actual mechanics of how they are to be made public?
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GREAT IMAGES!
fyi – formatting is screwed on
IE6.0 and AOL9.0
Excuse my language, but the images…thank you for alerting us to this.
Where does the flag with the logos come from?
Also, ought you to repost your diary on the 4th of July action alert tomorrow and Monday itself? Thanks for all of it.
from the slide show:
if that helps…
I watched it last night. Great show!
Btw.. i think the broken formatting has to do with the second pic.. just a hunch