by emma | Mar 5, 2007 | Photography
This is a project/exhibition happening in Musée de l’Elysée, Switzerland now. It’s an experiement in “the rapid mutation of amateur photography in the digital age”… they want to put your work up on their gallery walls! You can upload your photographs via the web and if selected, they’ll email you a photograph of your work on display in the gallery.
This is the blurb from their website:
Everything is changing…
… how we take photographs, manipulate them, share them, store them — even how we pose for them. Our tools are mutating quickly, promising ever faster, clearer, brighter and cheaper pictures. Meanwhile telephones become cameras, desktop printers morph into mini-printing labs, and high-definition screens threaten to dislodge the venerable photographic print from gallery walls. And the eyes of the whole world are only a click away on the computer keyboard.
It’s a fun experiement for sure! I sent in some of my images, and will most likely be sending some more in. Here are the pictures they emailed me of my images being shown:
[Portstewart Walk :: On Flickr]
[Lightbulbs :: On Flickr]
[Beauty :: On Flickr]
[Graffiti :: On Flickr]
It’s a pretty cool feeling to see your work displayed in a museum, even if only for a short time! The dates of the exhibition ‘All photographers now!’ are from February 8th, 2007 to May 20th, 2007. Get involved here.
by emma | Mar 4, 2007 | Photography
That’s what the sky looked like here tonight. Beautiful.
by emma | Mar 2, 2007 | Books
I read Jesus & Non-Violence this afternoon, a relatively short but highly informative book! Found this much easier to get into than Brimlow’s What About Hitler?, but then again, this is a substantially shorter book!
Wink starts off by looking at the social/cultural context of Matthew 5:38-41, and then goes on to expand on this.
Some stuff I liked:
“Reduction of conflict by means of a phony “peace” is not a Christian goal. Justice is the goal, and that may require an acceleration of conflict as a necessary stage.”
This is helping me greatly… I went through a stage were I was very much anti-war, at all costs… I think I am slowly coming back around to realising that in a perfect world, violence at all costs is wrong, but we unfortunately live in a fallen world and though we strive for perfection, we do not attain it.
“Gandhi continually reiterated that if a person could not act nonviolently in a situation, violence was preferable to submission.”
“Nonviolent revolution is not a program for seizing power. It is, says Gandhi, a program for transforming relationships.”
“We have no right to hope to harvest what we have not sown.”
(Miguel D’Escoto)
This reminded me of Micah 4:3 actually, about how “nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war.” Why do we expect to have a peaceful and stable world if we continue to use force in an attempt to bring peace into existence?
“…to die with clean hands and a dirty heart.“
by emma | Feb 28, 2007 | Everything Else
In my ‘office’ this afternoon… can’t believe I only discovered this place recently!!
Loving the free wifi, great staff, and fun atmosphere. They’ve got a great exhibition space downstairs too.
by emma | Feb 27, 2007 | Faith, Poverty
“We are angry with the people who are doing this. We have made no contribution, but suffer the highest impact… the global nation states must take action. If not, we’ll be calling it climatic genocide.”
[Dr Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh]
Last night I went to this meeting. Ricardo Navarro from El Salvador gave his perspective on how climate change is affecting poor communities around the world. I liked that it took a development slant more than an environmental slant on it.
We were addressed by a man from the Transport & General workers union, then by Kirstie Shirra who works for WDM, and finally by Ricardo Navarro, before the floor was opened for questions.
Some thoughts:
– It’s not just that climate change is happening, but climate change is killing – in huge numbers too.
– If the glaciers disappear, 1/6 of the worlds population will lose their water supply.
– Reducing poverty can’t be done without addressing climate change.
– CO2 emission is the result of consumption, which is the result of production.
– The solution is relatively simple – reducing emissions reduces climate change. But the CO2 already in the atmosphere has an inertia – it will continue to affect us for 50-100 years, even if we completely stop emissions now.
– Trade means more consumption/production. Governments are pushing for free-trade agreements, but they are pushed by big corporations.
– Trade as such isn’t bad – but it is promoted at the expense of social and environmental concerns.
– Countries are made poor through a process. The process of impoverishment and enrichment are the same side of a coin – for example, you can’t look at the wealth of Shell without looking at the poverty of Nigeria.
– The most effective weapon of mass destruction is poverty – it kills the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb every 2 days.
– We have to be conscious about the problem – that means looking at the whole process.
– We have to be committed – it’s a 24/7 thing.
– We need to convince others – discuss what to do in your local context.
– We have to stop it by acting at every level – economic, social, religious, etc.
by emma | Feb 25, 2007 | Photography
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
[ Galations 5:1 ]
by emma | Feb 23, 2007 | Africa
“Riskless warfare in pursuit of human rights is a moral contradiction. The concept of human rights assumes that all human life is of equal value. Risk-free warfare presumes that our lives matter more than those we are intervening to save.”
Michael Ignatieff
by emma | Feb 22, 2007 | Africa, Books
I’m still reading Shake Hands With The Devil… haven’t had a lot of time to read lately as I’ve been so busy, plus this is a fairly heavy book to read… heartbreaking is more the word maybe. I was reading a passage from it this morning, when I came across these words, which cut me to the bone…
“As to the value of the 800,000 lives in the balance books of Washington, during those last weeks we received a shocking call from an American staffer, whose name I have long forgotten. He was engaged in some sort of planning exercise and wanted to know how many Rwandans had died, how many were refugees, and how many were internally displaced. He told me that his estimates indicated that it would take the deaths of 85,000 Rwandans to justify the risking of the life of one American soldier.“
I don’t even know what to say in response to that. I’m not American, and I don’t want to pick on America, because the UK and other developed nations were no better… but what???! Why should an American (or British or Irish or whatever) life be worth more than an African life? We have a lot to answer for. I have a lot to answer for. In what ways do we still perpetuate this idea that African lives are worth less than ours? How do we overcome it?
by emma | Feb 21, 2007 | Words
I want out of this machine
It doesn’t feel like freedom
This ain’t my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I’m tired of fighting for just me
This ain’t my American dream
[American Dream – Switchfoot]
by emma | Feb 20, 2007 | Faith, Photography
My baptism last night was so amazing. Baptism as a symbol of my faith in Jesus and my love for Jesus is powerful in itself, but to celebrate it with my family there and so many of the people I’ve grown to love here in Glasgow. There are no words. I had some coffee with my parents, my wee brother and my aunt afterwards, then headed back to the flat where a few friends came round to celebrate… such a lovely lovely evening…
I’ve waited all my life to be here face to face.
I never knew that I could feel this kind of grace.
The way You show me that Your blood has washed me clean,
Could never be erased; it lives inside of me…
I stand here in this place,
See the Glory on Your Face,
Taken by the wonder of Your name.
I’m desperate for Your touch,
Never needed it so much,
Cause all I want is You.
[All I Want Is You – Planetshakers]
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