Posts Tagged “art”

May Day Poster Parade

By | April 30, 2012

Unplug for May Day

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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Street Art Arises in Pori, Finland

By | February 6, 2012

Blu: Ponte Stalingrado, Bologna, 2001. Pic By Stefano.questioli [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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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Comic commenting the Mohammed caricature controversy restored

By | December 30, 2011

Excerpt from the comic Mohammed, Fear and Freedom of Speech by Ville Ranta.

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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Science fiction mind mapped

By | March 26, 2011

History of Science Fiction by Ward Shelley

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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True Finns speed up as the Finnish parliamentary election approaches

By | March 6, 2011

The populist True Finns party (Finnish: Perussuomalaiset) has stirred up debate with their manifesto for the upcoming Finnish parliamentary election in April. Especially True Finns’ take on culture and patriotanism has generated a strong opposition in social media. People have cited echoes of totalitarian regimes in the views of True Finns. “Cultural aid money granted [...]

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