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About Me Premium Member Varied Artist greyfin29/Female/Germany Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Years
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artworks i consider my personal best or have pushed my development.

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  • Current Residence: southwest germany
  • Favourite movie: wings of desire (wim wenders), hanami, good scifi and historical stuff.
  • Favourite band or musician: arvo pärt, zbigniew preisner.
  • Favourite genre of music: classical, medival, vocal. usually from people long dead.
  • Favourite artist: oh, there are too many...
  • Favourite poet or writer: dante aligheri, oscar wilde, barry b. longyear, michael ende
  • Favourite style of art: anything with considerate use of colour and light.
  • Tools of the Trade: ikea pencil, photoshop, nikon d70s + hoya r72 infrared filter

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Mon Nov 9, 2009, 11:36 AM
  • Mood: Exhilarated
  • Listening to: my fridge
  • Reading: art and money - strategies of a market
  • Watching: ARD/ZDF
  • Drinking: tea
people made history twenty years ago. in the truest sense of the word: they created historic facts.

because that night was not special. nothing like any of the mass demonstrations days beforehand or the desperate mass exodus of thousands to west germany. nothing special was said by günter schabowski, official of the socialist unity party of (eastern) germany. he merely announced the lifting of all travelling rules for citizens of east germany.

which motivated tens of thousands of people to immediately go to the berlin wall and demand their right to cross the border. the vastly outnumbered border guards simply opened the access points and allowed them through - leading to a revolution without a single shot being fired and the biggest spontaneous party berlin had ever seen.

people on the streets created the historical facts that lead to the end of the cold war and the reunification of germany.
that evening was made possible by reforms in eastern europe - namely hungary and poland, especially by people like polish trade union activist lech wałęsa and his solidarność.

lesson from those events?
1. peaceful change is possible.
2. your voice counts. grassroots campaigns can move the world.
3. some warm, rainless autumn nights are always helpful when trying to get people on the streets to demand political participation. ;)



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---------- historical images ----------

regarding the last image: also from 1989. to remember those whose freedom of thought is still oppressed.

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update january 24th, 2009: against elitism
"if i knew what art was, i wouldn't tell anybody." (pablo picasso)
well, there are some people who don't live up to that statement. =TheKnowledge1 is a new community, which aims to share technical knowledge. so if you need or like to offer help, have a look. this group is vastly growing and still in need of mentors - especially if you are bi-/multilingual.
you have got skills? share the love!


television is mostly good for ... 

51%
22 deviants said ... entertaining oneself.
23%
10 deviants said ... anaesthetising the masses.
21%
9 deviants said ... reassuring oneself that most people out there are idiots.
5%
2 deviants said ... other things (please comment).
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No deviants said ... information purposes and education.

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:iconseafoodpunch:
ok. Ich hab dieses programm versucht. I DONT GET IT! I have the 2.09 version. I guess I don't have the patience to learn all the numbers and angles that come with it. I just drag the little triangles around and hope for the best. haha.
:icongreyfin:
pretty similar to what i do. ;)
seriously: you'll get a hang of it pretty fast. certain parameters always influence the same variables, thus resulting in recogniseable changes.

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:iconseafoodpunch:
ok ok. I'll try working on it
:iconmonochromatic-stains:
Did you watch The Waters of Mars?

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#hangintherebaby whore. :meow:
:icongreyfin:
not yet. don't have bbc here in germany. i depend on ... other sources. ;)

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"always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." (oscar wilde)
:iconmonochromatic-stains:
As do I since we don't get it here in Aus until December 6th.
It was really good. The preview for The End of Time was amazing. :eager: Can't wait til Christmas.

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#hangintherebaby whore. :meow:
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Traditional Art > Sculpture > Miscellaneous

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:icongreyfin:
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"always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." (oscar wilde)
:iconisdoo:
i got mistake, i just wanna to say : "Your gallery is awesooommee" :sad:

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:icongreyfin:
:giggle:

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