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EDCMOOC WEEK 3 IMAGE ACTIVITY

In week 3 of the E-Learning & Digital Cultures MOOC .  students have been invited to create an image that represents any one of the themes encountered in the course so far.

I’m not entirely sure if cropping my Flickr photos counts as being sufficiently creative but I’ve been going through my past shots of graffiti and street art looking picture that fit this category.

My favourite is this one I took in a side street in Ravenna, Italy which I think serves to counter balance the dystopian notion that machines are taking over our world.

if robots are invested with human characteristics, perhaps they can feel lonely too.

This yellow bot certainly looks isolated and in need of love.

Perhaps the true fear we should address is not  that machines are becoming too powerful but that human beings are too distrustful of the idea that technology can be a force for good.

FAREWELL TO LONDON

Today is the last full day of my mini break in London.

This street art in Brick Lane sums up my mood:

AUSTERITY STRIKE

My parent’s generation had no problem accepting that post war thriftiness was necessary for the rebuilding of post war society. In this day and age with greedy bankers and dishonest bosses creaming off the profits, this notion is a bigger sell for the public at large. This street art in the centre of Bologna sums up the current mood perfectly :

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I can never walk past some good street art (graffiti is too crude a word) without taking a photo and this is one great example from what would otherwise be an nondescript wall in Ravenna, Italy.

See my Flickr link for other shots from the same location.

THE STREETS ARE OURS

“Andy Warhol was replicating images to show they were meaningless, and now, thanks to Mr Brainwash, they’re definitely meaningless.” Banksy

Is Thierry Guetta for real? As Mister Brainwash (MBW) he has mounted a succesful shows in LA (Life Is Beautiful) and NYC (Animal New York) and was commissioned to do the cover art to Madonna’s album Celebration.

Guetta plays the starring role Banksy’s documentary (prankumentary?) Exit Through The Gift Shop billed as ‘the world’s first street art disaster movie’. Continue reading