Archive For The “Culture” Category
To get into the spirit of May Day, slow-news-day.net looked up some fizzy May Day posters. Here’s some of the cool stuff found online.
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- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • art • May Day • poster
What does the Internet mean for the kids who have grown up with it? Why the struggles for democracy are so intertwined with the fight for internet freedom? Slow-news-day.net would like to present a piece, which attempts to explain what and why. The original essay is called My, dzieci sieci and it’s written by Piotr Czerski, a Polish poet [...]
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- Tagged as: freedom • freedom of speech • Internet • Piotr Czerski • pro-democracy • web 2.0
![Blu: Ponte Stalingrado, Bologna, 2001. Pic By Stefano.questioli [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.](http://slow-news-day.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/512px-Stalingrado-150x86.jpg "512px-Stalingrado")
Some of the great names in street art such as Dolk, Blu and Invader are creating works in Pori during the spring. The Street Art – The New Generation exhibition and urban art project showcases works in the galleries of the Pori Art Museum and public outdoor spaces. Norwegian artist Dolk will create an outdoor [...]
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- Tagged as: art • Blu • Dolk • Finland • Invader • Pori • Pori Art Museum • street art
Remember the Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed and all the commotion they stirred? It started in the Fall of 2005. In Finland there was a little side episode in connection to the caricatures. The Finnish Government, headed by prime minister Matti Vanhanen, apologised to the Islamic world for the caricatures published by the Danish newspaper [...]
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- Tagged as: art • caricature • cartoonist • comic • Denmark • Finland • Finns (party) • freedom of artistic expression • freedom of speech • Islam • Jussi Vilkuna • Jyllands-Posten • Kaltio • Matti Vanhanen • Mohammed • True Finns • Ville Ranta
Facebook and Twitter are still the mainstream of social networking. Diaspora is the independent alternative gathering pace. I have used Diaspora actively for couple of weeks now, and I’m quite excited about it. Diaspora combines neatly the best half of basic functions from both Facebook and Twitter. Google+ has in turn borrowed quite a lot [...]
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- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • Diaspora • Facebook • Google+ • Occupy Wall Street • open source • social media • social network • Twitter
Although it doesn’t look as much, London’s museum ship Cutty Sark is to be opened to public in spring 2012. That’s at least what the Cutty Sark Trust promises. The pictures by slow-news-day.net were taken from behind the fence in Greenwich London on the 7th of August. You can check out the better views from [...]
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- Tagged as: clipper • Cutty Sark • Greenwich • historic ship • London • museum • ship
The image displayed here is a huge mind map canvas made by artist Ward Shelley. It depicts the history of science fiction from its roots in mythology to the present day movie epics. Can you find Herman Melville, Alfred Bester, Johnny Mnemonic and Terminator from this picture? There are several sites that mirror and marvel [...]
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- Tagged as: art • history • mind map • science fiction
