Barren life
Originally uploaded by martijnvreugde.
What is life? We as humans have tried to quantify it over the ages but we have yet to nail it down. If we say life is something that breaths that consumes carbon then fire would have to qualify. If we take the poetic view then life is when someone is living their life to the full and not just killing time till their bored heart falls asleep on the job. Our world is plagued by people who give no value to life, it might be ethnocentric to say this but in my view anyone who takes a life from another simply because they don’t like what they believe in or what they have to say or publish then they are a truly lost human. There has been much debate on the reaction to the Mohammed cartoons, the last I checked somewhere around 22 people have been murdered over these cartoons. I can understand that in their faith it is disrespectful to depict their prophet and I can understand outrage that someone has indirectly disrespected a follower by doing so however it is absolutely unforgivable to take lives of these people for such an offence. There are thousands of depections of God, Jesus, Budda and many others that have been portrayed in a far more mocking and disrespectful ways in which many followers were hurt and outraged but they don’t resort to killing people because of it. These people have no respect for life or understanding how truly precious it is.
6 comments:
Hey, me again :)
You already know that I love your work, but I've been wondering, where do you get your inspiration from? I sometimes get given briefs and my brain feels blank and I struggle to come up with ideas that I haven't seen before. Any tips?
At my college they insist (and I agree) that our ideas must be unique and personal, not mainstream. I find that i can only come up with good ideas once I'm in the right mood and environment - and that only happens with inspiration...
How do you get the ball rolling?
fabulous, as always!
Hey Ibis, I'm happy your enjoying your time at aaa they are an awesome school. To your question on getting inspiration it is different for everyone for me though I usually start by learning as much as I can about the product/service/company I'm advertising then diddo for the market demographic and what relevant trends there are to them ie Victoria Beckham published her "Ten Commandments" on how to dress-to-impress in Britain's Glamour magazine this would be interesting to fashion conscious 15-25 females in middle to upper class but not to 45-60 male CEO's.
what I'm trying to say is the inspiration will come by itself once your brain knows what to play with when you first get the brief your brain won't have anything stored other than what the rest of the world already knows. Therefore it will not be original, give your mind stuff the man on the street doesn't know or realise the ideas will come. Your mind is vastly more busy on the sub conscious level than you can imagine.
hi there!,how u been lately?
Blimey you got some skills mate.
Martin, I gave your blog another vote. Love the images.
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