Archive octobre 2013: The Tony Blair ’selfie’ Photo Op will have a place in history
►https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/15/tony-blair-selfie-photo-op-imperial-war-museum
Archive octobre 2013: The Tony Blair ’selfie’ Photo Op will have a place in history
►https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/15/tony-blair-selfie-photo-op-imperial-war-museum
Je suis surpris qu’il n’existe pas toute une bibliothèque de mêmes avec la même photo de Blair, Tony Blair en selfie devant la pendaison de Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair devant une exécution au sabre etc...
@nidal Je viens de le remarquer, tes deux derniers signalement, celui du faux selfie de Blair et celui du rapport Chilcot, l’un à la suite de l’autre, ont, malgré tout, un potentiel comique.
Les mères cachées des photographies victoriennes
The main problem was the length of the exposure. However bright the photographer’s studio, it took up to half a minute for an image to register on wet collodion. Getting an adult to sit completely still for half a minute is a challenge, but getting a wakeful baby to do so is near-impossible. The photographer could position anyone old enough to sit on a chair by placing an electric chair-style head clamp behind them, but the only way of photographing a baby was for the mother to hold it (or dope it with enough laudanum to keep a grown man rigid for a week).
The results were often extraordinary – as a new collection of these photographs, called The Hidden Mother, shows. Though there are plenty of Victorian studio portraits of family groups, there are also many in which the mothers are concealed: they’re holding babies in place while impersonating chairs, couches or studio backdrops. They wanted a picture of just the baby, and this was the best way to achieve it. Sometimes, the figures are obvious, standing by the side of a chair and waiting to be cropped out later; sometimes, they really do appear as a pair of curtains or as disembodied hands. To a 21st-century viewer, the images look bizarre – all these unsmiling children strangled by smocking and framed by what appears to be a black-draped Grim Reaper, or by an endless succession of figures in carpets and chintz burqas.
▻http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/dec/02/hidden-mothers-victorian-photography
▻http://hyperallergic.com/101979/victorian-photo-tricks-from-hidden-mothers-to-eyes-on-the-dead
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature: the rise of glitch art | Art and design | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/25/rise-of-glitch-art
Since July, puzzled commuters on platform one at Bristol Temple Meads train station have been able to see a lone figure of a young school girl in the distance. On closer inspection, the girl fractures and turns into blocks. She is the work of Luke Jerram, a colour-blind artist who creates work on and researches optical illusions and visual perception. The young girl is based on a scan of Jerram’s daughter, Maya, which is also the name of the sculpture.
Maya was scanned using an X-box Kinect and equipment at Machine Vision Laboratory in Bristol. The scan was then pixelated into squares called voxels. Precision-cut aluminium formed the bulk of the sculpture, with more than 5,000 square stickers, measuring 12mm each, carefully applied to the aluminium to create the finished piece.
The Tony Blair ’selfie’ Photo Op will have a place in history
►http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/15/tony-blair-selfie-photo-op-imperial-war-museum
الوهّابية تدمر آخر معالم نشأة الإسلام | الأخبار
►http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/174122
Les wahhabites saoudiens vont commencer dans les prochains jours la construction de « la plus grande mosquée du monde ». Pour cela ils vont détruire la tombe du prophète et trois mosquées datant des premiers califes et qui sont considérées comme les plus vieilles du monde.
Ces trois mosquées sont les derniers vestiges de la naissance de l’islam. Ainsi les wahhabites auront atteint leur but qui est de complètement remodeler l’islam selon leurs idéologie malade.
As the Hajj begins, the destruction of Mecca’s heritage continues
▻http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/14/as-the-hajj-begins-the-destruction-of-meccas-heritage-continues
“The authorities are trying to destroy anything in Mecca that is associated with the prophet’s life,” says Irfan al-Alawi, director of the UK-based Islamic Heritage Research Foundation, who recently returned from a trip to the city. “They have already bulldozed the house of his wife, his grandson and his companion – and now they are coming for his birthplace. And for what? Yet more seven-star hotels.”
Saudis risk new Muslim division with proposal to move Mohamed’s tomb
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudis-risk-new-muslim-division-with-proposal-to-move-mohameds-tomb-9
The Prophet is venerated by both branches of Islam, Sunni and Shia. The strict Wahhabi sect is a branch of the Sunni faith, however, and removing the Prophet could further inflame tensions between the two groups.