Feeling negative
Just playing around with sending cameraphone photos to blog via MMS and flickr.
Sketch effect with original photo
This photo was not edited after shooting. Rather, the effect was laid on the shot as it was taken. This is to see how large the photo turns out when sent to flickr and blogger.
My other camera is grown up
It generally behaves more responsibly than the mobile phone. It takes clearer, better-defined photos, but does not have any mobile communication. The mobile is very low fi, but I can email photos directly to the internet via mms. I can also include up to 1000 characters in this part of each picture's post, and there is a Sydney number I can call to do live audio recording down the phone line that gets sent to the blog as well. I only pay my usual rates for that - 10 c per minute. And this is only just over 500 characters.
MELBOURNE PATRIOT CAUGHT TAKING BRISBANE COMMIE HELP
Pro-Labor 'Patriot' Andrew Landeryou's rather nasty Melbourne-based, scandal-happy, but sometimes-well-informed political blog The Other Cheek, needed to make a crude distortion of Juanita Wheeler for a story about a hotly-contested Queensland Greens preselection. So he turned to the photo above, taken by me. It's under Creative Commons, so you're free to use it, but you're supposed to give credit, and Landeryou didn't.
We're not surprised known patriot Landeryou didn't credit the photo as he should have. The patriot would be unlikely to give any credit to Let's Take Over, the far-left blog that's a big part of this photostream.
And he's already bankrupt, so you can't sue even if you could prove money damage, which you couldn't, so it would be a waste of time. And the whole idea of Creative Commons is to spread your work, so I guess I should just write a witty comment or something.
But we are surprised that a right-winger(1) like Landeryou would have to turn to a commie photostream like this one. Maybe I should take more photos of politicians and spread the word that they are here.
(1) "he's so right-wing, he votes Labor" - David Williamson once said in a play about someone else entirely
The photo is from the story 'How Pakistan Tortured my Brother', where Les Thomas spoke. He's brother of Jack Thomas ('Jihad Jack'), who says he was tortured while under arrest by political police in Pakistan.
The story features photos of the rally and march, acerbic yet progressive commentary, audio recordings of the speeches (including the good one by Les Thomas) and maps of the route of the march.
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Discussion: Where Public Holidays Come From and Why That's Important, at Larvatus Prodeo.
There's a good discussion going on at Larvatus Prodeo about a recent essay at Online Opinion, called "The Postmodern Left" by Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler, authors of The War On Democracy.
The general tone of the discussion started off harsh, in part because of a very unsatisfactory performance IMAO by some pro-postmodernist people in this long discussion a month or so ago. The essay by Lucy and Mickler is not very clearly written and provides no clear 'call to action'.
However, Adam Gall turned the discussion in a useful direction when he explained, better and more clearly than Lucy and Mickler themselves, why he liked their work.
There was some discussion of class politics and how you would best make it popular, and Adam Gall seems to want to make some T-Shirts that prod people into understanding that even things like public holidays are only won because organised workers are powerful enough to win them. Or at least along those lines.
Worth a read. If you'd like to try a simple way to get all new stories from Let's Take Over (and many other sites) sent to one place, click here for info on the Let's Take Over 'news feed' (sometimes called an 'RSS feed' or 'XML') If you have a fast connection, use this feed instead - it takes longer, but you can read the full stories in your newsreader
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