Shankill Area Mural

Shankill Area Mural


Image by Elizabeth Thomsen
Hopewell Crescent
Shankill Road area
Belfast, Northern Ireland

The strange politics of disgust – David Pizarro

What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation betwe…

Rick Mercer: Political Satire and Election 41

Writers William Shakespeare and Jonathan Swift perfected the art of political satire. Canadian politics seems ripe for mockery. How does Rick Mercer intend t…
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Political Ad “Fiscal Responsibility” by Vision Media

One in a four-spot television ad package produced for incumbent Mayor Tom Truex during his 2009 re-election campaign. Call Vision Media today at 877.877.2047…
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Sleeping Where No Shadows Fall

Sleeping Where No Shadows Fall


Image by Elizabeth Thomsen
In proud and loving memory
Stevie Topgun McKeag
Military Commander
2nd Batt C-Coy
West Belfast Brigade
Born 01-04-1970
Died 24-09-2000

Sleeping where no shadows fall

New Media and the Middle East: Agent of political change?

This video documentary will present a detailed look at the use of new social media in the Middle East, and its ability to democratize the region. Social medi…

What are some advantages of fine art classes?

Question by Claire: What are some advantages of fine art classes?
I’m writing an essay and I need some ideas on why fine art classes are beneficial. I’ve never really been the artistic person who takes all the music classes and all the jazz so can you please just give me some ideas to get me started? Thanks

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Answer by Debonair
You didn’t distinguish between studio classes (making art) or lecture (art history)classes on art. My use of the word “art” here is inclusive of all art forms,visual,music,theatrical,literature. Well from the stand point of an appreciation or history classes in an art topic it will allow you to understand the development of the art form throughout history, essentially how one thing lead to another so to speak. And shows the connecting common thread that runs through the various cultures of our world and the impact/influence that each have had upon one another.. It will also give insight to the different historical periods of a culture since art does reflect or comment on the period in which it was produced. Especially since artist will use their medium to comment on the social,political, economical and aesthetic values of their day. Art can be reactionary some times as well as being supportive of various issues. My comments made here are more from a viewpoint base in European and American art and are not meant to lump all of the worlds cultures in this statement. However the studying the subject of the arts,I believe. can be and is a means to a greater understanding our world as a whole.

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Media Bias and Political Campaigns III

Frank Foer, author of a new book on Roger Ailes and Fox News, and Reason magazine editor Matt Welch. The audience are mainly junior and middling Beltway esta…
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Phil Page & Lindsay Tanner at Mosman Library

Phil Page & Lindsay Tanner at Mosman Library


Image by Mosman Library
The former MP and Federal Minister for Finance talks about the interaction of media coverage and political activity. The sideshow syndrome, he says, is a direct threat to the nation’s well-being.

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Justice v. Greed

Justice v. Greed


Image by writRHET
A detail from the mural painted on the north wall of El Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores,
a nonprofit that defends the human rights of day laborers.