U.fo's stole my wallet and my critical thunkin'.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/revealed-tony-blairs-secret-oil-links-to-middle-east-6703888.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/8999890/Tony-Blair-and-the-8million-tax-mystery.html

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-people-believe-in-conspiracies


'The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and vice versa ' Donald Rumsfeld 2002.
I am interested in conspiracy theories and how they require very little in the way of actual evidence, it almost acts like faith. The murky and corrupt nature of our leaders rarely gets the same level of our scrutiny as does the Zapruder footage of a man being shot in the head by a crazed loner. Of course crazed loners do not murder famous people...or is that what they want you to think?.

Conspiracy is big business as is disaster, the 9/11 market is millions of dollars, as thousands of people share their take on the terrorist attack...for a small fee of course.  The footage of JFK being shot in the head is shocking, but of course we can all watch it, rewind it, make him live , make him die.
Shock and awe is ironic, since it is not, for us, the viewer shocking at all. How many Americans and British citizens even broke their sleep cycle to watch Cluster bombs rain down on the 65 thousand Iraqi citizens who died from indiscriminate bombing?.

Im interested in how the leaders paraphrase and select information as much as the conspiracy theorists do, and are often just as out of touch with reality.

Critical thinking, as ever saves the day.

Marla Olmstead: Child Prodigy?.

Anyone who watched 'My kid could paint that' in 2007 was intrigued by the story of four year old abstract painter Marla Olmstead whose colourful paintings sold for extravagent prices. Hailed as a child prodigy, she soon attracted the attentions of the press who questioned the claims of her father Mark that she painted them unassisted.

This is Marla painting, she is a gorgeous child and is great fun to watch lay paint down, you can see, left to her own devices she paints like a four year old would. Tactile and engaging with the paint as a material like clay she just enjoys the play.
A documentary crew was allowed to follow the family for a year, which proved controversial with the father caught in a series of fibs. At first saying her had no knowledge of art, while on the dvd extras boasting of being an artist of some merit as a young man. He was also spotted by the camera coaching his daughter and grinning when an art critic said the paintings showed masterful talent.

Just who was painting these abstracts?.
. Asked to paint on camera by the producer, Mark sets up a canvas for his daughter, who wastes no time making a giant mud pie on it. Then saying to him ' you finish this daddy' and ' you help like before'.

Marla herself seems very happy and one can tell the parents love her very much and she seems to enjoy making art.But with the paintings selling for thousands of dollars, is dishonesty important?.
Do the buyers purchase less so the art, but the story, and if they get something out of the work does it matter that the father painted, or touched up his daughters work?.
Her work still sells, though less than before, after the expose.

Brief interview with the producer , director of the doc.

http://vimeo.com/6515653

The vimoe is to the full doc. Well worth a watch.

Here is a 2009 video i found of Maria Olmstead she would be 9 here. And as we can see this wonderful little girl having fun with paint is not showing any sophistication of idea, palette or design. I leave it up to the visitor to decide if she painted the ones shown in the documentary.

On a side note since she is 13 now (d.o.b 2000) i wonder if she will be as interested in being in front of the cameras, according to her website 'her' paintings still sell to the gullible, or not, depending on your view.

She looks like this now, she is still making art.
 (edit-14/6/13)
I thought it might be interesting to juxtopose four paintings associated with Marla,  the first two were made by her during the filming of the documentary when she was 3 years old and the other two were made 'off camera'.

And now the two attributed to her, but made off camera.

Notes on the child prodigy.

Critic Clement Greenberg had this to say on the issue of child prodigies in the area of painting/drawing and sculpture-what we refer to as 'art', though cultural output is art, so technically musicians, writers themselves are artists. But...onward to the quote.
"In visual arts, prodigies don't count. In music and literature, yes, but not in art''.

Greenberg meant that the work prodigies display in painting and drawing, while outstanding
considering their age, lose their status as the creator gets older. Whereas   writing produced at a young age  by prodigies in literature(Rimbaud) and music (Mozart) hold their own, when placed alongside work produced by mature recognised masters. Interesting to note Mozart and Baudelaire died young .

 Symphony number1 -written when Mozart was 8 years old.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/242790
Link to the full poem written when Rimbaud was 17.
The Drunken Boat is a very famous symbolist poem and established Rimbaud as a boy genius.

Below i will list two 'prodigies' in painting, whose work has brought them fame and money at a very young age. While looking at their work, ask if the art would be astonishing, rather than just 'talented' if it were produced by a twenty five year old. Think of it in comparison to adults artists (living or dead) who we consider to have achieved the pinnacle in their fields, how does the prodigy art stand in comparison.
I'm not asking you to think how their work will improve in ten years, but how their work now, as a prodigy, stands in comparison.

First is Russian American girl Akiane, she has appeared on Oprah Winfrey and numerous other television shows, her works sell for thousand of dollars and she represents herself as a prodigy (or her parents do).

Next is English schoolboy Kieron Williamson, who specialises in watercolour. He is hailed and sold as a prodigy. He has appeared on many t.v shows and many newspaper articles as a prodigy.

Marla herself is sold as a prodigy, regardless of who painted her work, does it stand in comparison to recognised masters of abstract art?
If Marla were in her twenties, how would her work stand up?


(i shall keep adding to this post , since it seems to be popular, perhaps i can get an interview with her for this blog, would anyone be interested if i contacted her ?)

Please leave your comments, thoughts and opinions. This is my most popular post and its fantastic to see so many people have opinions on this topic. Thanks for viewing and commenting.

Poke her hontas detail.

Washington the warrior protects poker-her- hontas while the carnival carrys on.

This collage of images came from my Tumblr live draw event, in which several artists drew according to chosen words.
http://illdrawanyone.tumblr.com/
Some of these images are familiar throughout my work, i have used the tumescent fox as a representation of that testosterone type of yellow journalism. Which seeks to elicit an emotional reaction and not provide facts with solutions. George Washington as a caricature of masculinity interests me, since he is feted as a liberal and an all American male , when he was a rapist of his slaves, and made the children work as slaves. He also promoted genocide against the Native Americans. Representing that and cultural theft is the created character 'poke-her- hontas', with her porn actress name and girls gone wild lifestyle and pseudo spiritual tattoo in a language and culture she does not understand. Donald Duck dives in to the World Trade Towers singing the famous Rapping Ronnie song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAQeys_7V7c
. I like linking the idea of flags and symbols with advertising, all designed to sell us things we might not buy otherwise.
tThe ciggerette package imitates this lack of critical thinking.
The Trade Towers are at the centre of both conspiracy theorys which destroy critical thinking and distract from the real issues and also highlight the bigotry at the centre of the ensuing invasions. Above Donald is the Bin Ladens private jet, that was the only plane allowed to fly out of America after the attacks.
Above the towers a Menorah and a parody of the Danish Mohammed cartoons fight it out to see which can destroy the towers first, both cultures and religions being blamed and targeted.
The title 'circus' comes from Caligula's famous speech on how to control the population in times of dictatorship 'Give them bread and circuses'.

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Czech casting porn transcript.

To start with please tell me your name

My name is Sandra

Sandra how old are you?

19 on the 1^st of August

1is of August, then it is soon.

Yes

Ok Sandra, are you from Prague or not, where are you from tell me.

I’m from Prague, I was born and raised here I’ve been here all my life.

Living all life in Prague, Born in here?

Yup

No immigrant, pure original, perfect good.

Tell me Sandra. Are you working or studying, what do you do?

I’ve just finished high school and I’ve graduated. And next year I’m going to University.

Economical school.

Economical? Do you like Economy?

Yeah, quite a lot and languages I’d like to study international business.

Nice goals, I wanted to study international diplomacy, but they accept very few people. so I decided for international business, Now , tell me about your hobbies.

Hobbies, well this is a bit complicated. Lately I had not time for hobbies.

Lately I used to compete in jumps for springboard.

Yeah that’s unusual.

But I had to stop doing that, not only cos' of school.

Health issues?

Yup, caused of my knee, I had torn a chord in my knee, and that was it. Since then all I can do is running, time to time. And I like hanging out in a pub with friends.

In a pub? Nice hobby for an 18 years old.

Well, you know I also like watching movies and going to the cinema.

Since them in living kinda' lazy life.

Well, you’re still young so why not?

Do you already have any aims in life?

Well for example, what do you mean by aims?

Like, whether you already have something in your life you would like to achieve.

What’s important for you so much that you’re willing to do something for it?

Well, I’d definitely like to… Dunno' have a happy life, and so on.

What does it mean a happy life? For everyone it means many different things.

Well, I dunno', I’d like to be financially independent. But I don’t need to be filthy rich and famous. I just, you know… I’d like to buy what I want without thinking about the price.

Financial independence, that is nice, that is exactly what it means.

(Sandra is now nude)

Let’s continue, stay like this, this is nice

Stick your ass out a little

Sorry?

Stick it out al little

Like this exactly, stay like this, your head toward the wall, wonderful ass, stick it out... We have to do something with it.

Do you have a boyfriend?

Nope.

Soon you’ll have one, now hands behind the chair.

One of my boyfriends was 45 years old.

How did you meet him?

Via photographing.

And it was…

How long have you been with him?

About six weeks, it’s not very long I know.

We were very different, he liked me as a model, and then he invited me out for a lunch. we didn’t sleep together much, it wasn’t based on sex. He didn’t need that, Dunno’ why, in the beginning he liked to buy me clothes and all. He promised to be buying me a car and all that. That I’ll get an iPhone for my graduation and so on. Then it ended, I had enough of him because…

Because of what?

Cause every time I said opinion on something…like my personal opinion, I know I was 18 all my opinions weren’t great or ideal…they weren’t flawless. For every single opinion of mine…he didn’t say stupid or so. He tried to push me his opinion, like if his opinion was better. And he used to say I have limited perspective. So that was that…

Interesting.

Dunno’’..

That’s a good reason for a break up

Well the money isn’t everything.

It’s nice you realise this.

I need to see some materials of yours, so I need to see you’re at work. It should be three or four positions and a blow job, can you do that?

And now play with me.

Do it gently, gently, suck it gently, amazing, use your hands as well, you’re looking in my eyes?

Sometimes

Lick my balls, get lower, all the way down, and now lick my balls, don’t just suck, lick.

Now wet it properly and your hand too.

Amazing blonde. now let me see you from behind, bend your back properly.

Does it feel good?

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I have always been interested in pornography and how it operates, particularly now we have the digital media. With porn companies becoming blue chip business and the internet allowing almost unrestricted access to any type of fetish or pornography , i thought it would be interesting to investigate this aspect of life that no one talks about.

The woman in the transcript is a model fromCzechoslovakia, she is hoping to go on to Uni, she is very  young, has done some modelling and wants to make some fast money from the porn industry. These casting sessions do not pay the model from my research. It is a fraud, they use her body and face and sell those images promising the model that she will get work, through the advertising of the dvd.

It comes as no suprise that pornography makes its money from the bodies of women, womens sexuality has always been, until recently controlled by men and social pressure.

While a few women have made a fortune and a business in pornography, the majority do not. The excecutives, and producers are uniformly men who use young, naive women for a short period to make lots of money. A woman can earn a fairly high amount, if she works regularly up to 50-100, 000 a year, but those amounts are rare and being ripped off is common. As is the abuse, physical and psychological on set.

Everyone makes money from pornography, mainstream business certainly do

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/business/mainstream.html

 And we do not have to look far to see ex porn peformers saying that the industry damaged and ruined their life.

Interesting that a lot of them ally themselves to the Christian right wing, who seek to control womens bodies as much as the porn industry do.

http://www.shelleylubben.com/ex-male-porn-star-trent-roe-story

(safe website). Lubbens interview about he expereinces are certainly disturbing and tally with what i have read about the industry.

So, should we be against the pornographic industry?.

It certainly treats women badly, both in their re numeration and the wider issue of self image for themselves and society as a whole. In an age in which the right wing are trying to take apart womens advances should we then offer the same attack for the porn industry. Does it damage women as much as the right wing mysoginists?.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/20/us-abortion-idaho-ultrasound-idUSBRE82J01O20120320

I am not against sexuality or the expression of it in film book or art or music. Im just interested in peoples view of this largely unregulated industry that makes it's money from womens bodies and is run by men.

I'd love your thoughts on this, if you have opinions i will always reply.

Leave anonymously if you want.

Bacho Bazi summer deal special.

Bacho Bazi is the Afghanistan practice of taking young boys from deprived circumstances and training and dressing them to be dancers. They wear traditional feminine clothes, make up and dance suggestivly. They are also sex slaves, child prostitution is rife in deprived countries. More so the trade of young boys in countries where there is  a separation of the sexes.
Dyncorp is a multi national corporation that operates in these countries, it is a government contracted company, working with the American military. It claims to aid the army in development in the municipal area, agriculture, supporting and training local police, aid work and education. In short it is a mini government, something these corporations are becoming more and more.
Dyncorp like Blackwater, like Knightrider and many other military contractors are rife with abuse, fraud and corruption against both the American government and the population and country they operate in.
Twice now Dyncorp have been fined and charged with procuring child prostitutes for local government, police officers, and politicians in Afghanisat, Bosnia and Latin America.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/foreign-contractors-hired-dancing-boys
On top of being child prostitute pimps Dyncorp are also drug dealers
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_dyncorp_responds.php

While child prostitution is not unkown in the West and, indeed happens at the top of society along with all the other dirty, filthy corruption our social , religious and political leaders engage in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/13/pope-crimes-humanity-victims-abuse?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Ex British Prime Minister Tony Blairs links to Middle Eastern Oil companies.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/revealed-tony-blairs-secret-oil-links-to-middle-east-6703888.html
 Rape in the modelling industry right at the top
http://jezebel.com/5855370/model-carre-otis-was-raped-and-shes-naming-names
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=5293003&page=1