Smoking is Bad....

Final project... Smoking is Bad, but so Enjoyeble...digital story

with ideas from http://ds106.us/2011/01/25/cinema-verite/

DS106 Project 2 complete

Originally this digital story was supposed to be only audio version. In compliance with DS106 assignment http://ds106.us/2011/02/19/radio-dramas/

However it wasn’t possible to reproduce true meaning without using original writers voice and music…

So I decided to include sub-titles, on original video.

Translation and sub-titles by Evgeny Latypov

Original Text Evgeny Grishkovec

Someones Game: Fallen Art

What is the reason being at war… governments have they reasons soldiers is just a pawn in the game. Great art work of the polish director Tomek Baginski

"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out ... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man'—with his mouth." — Mark Twain

http://www.fallen-art.com/

Call From the Past

Yesterday I received a call from friends from my past.

From past geography and time

I could fake happiness

I lied that I wanted to call myself but lost the number

-          Are you still in the city?- they asked me

-          Of course, where else can I be?!- I told them

They told me that someone is missing

Someone, finally, got married, and someone died

I found some words to reply, I was trying to talk quickly, I was busy

But today I looked at the sky

To dry my eyes or to wait for the rain

This city always has some news

It appears that most important events happen in this city

Why it appears so?

Why?

So many people gone and disappeared

And there is no news from them

Or maybe it’s me who disappeared? And where is my news?

I often want to call people who I think I know

And I often imagine that every voice and loud noise is addressed to someone

Who am I looking for in this city?

This city knows : those who arrived are definatly right

Those who stayed- even more right

I completely confused

You can not highlight me from those who burn here

Where someone is waiting for me?

Where someone is happy to see me?

Where someone will sincerely and strongly hug me?

And why do I so much care about this city's sky?

And would this sky hug me, the sky where I never was…

Original text by Evgeny Grishkovec, translated by Evgeny Latypov

Text Messaging hidden emotions

Text messaging, or texting, refers to the exchange of brief written text messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network.

But has anyone thought what is hidden behind each text message?!

Think about it…. It might change your attitude towards messages…

You are writing a text message
Do you know what is going happen next? You sent it

Yes, and you received notification that the message is sent.

The message was received!

What is going to happen now? And now THE worst part, you are starting to wait for a reply.

Reply from who? Of course from HER!

But you are smart, you finished your message with the question mark, you wanted her to reply immediately, because it is impossible wait for reply. How is it possible wait for HER reply?

Even in the noisiest nightclub, or during interesting movie, or even when you sleep you will notice the move and light of the screen of your phone with incoming message.

Message from who? From HER. In the darkness the phone is shining as the shiniest star. It's HER!

And now you know, now you know for sure, why people need long fingers: for pressing buttons on your phone! You are pressing buttons that becomes letters, and letter become words and those words flies directly to the space.

Flies where? To HER!

"Hi, smile :).

I'm thinking about you smile :).

When can we see each other? Ten times smile :)))

And kiss xxx as many kisses as possible to fit in one message...

…..Smile"

Text messages are not as simple as they look like, each message you receive or send has hidden story, feeling and emotions to tell and sshow…. It is my next digital story topic... share your experiences... agree or disagree…but you can not deny the fact "texting is much more pressing buttons"

Projects That Gave Hope To People

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth had no form. It was empty, covered with darkness and water. Then the Spirit of God hovered over the water, and God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good…

Then God said, “Let the water under the heaven be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear,” and it happened.

And God called the dry land “earth”; and the gathering together of the waters He called “seas”: and God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the earth produce grass, and herbs, and fruit trees, all yielding after their own kind,” and it happened; And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let the earth be filled with living creatures.” So He made the animals on the earth, the cattle, and every thing that crawls upon the earth—all producing after their kinds; and God saw that it was good.

…with time animals called humans started to form communities, then societies, then nations. Then nations were divided by different values, cultures, believes. In many cases those values were materialistic; cultures, in many cases, based on humiliation and imposed rule on weaker; and believes are weak and can be sold. God saw that it was NOT good.

…on March 11 2011 God sent on earth two disasters earth quake and tsunami. And God said “let those survive learn a lesson and reconsider their lives” but human were ahead and made third disaster to happen: nuclear threat. And God said “I let you be” and God left…

…disaster left many people homeless, died, or missing. Number of people still suffering and can not help themselves they were left by elected leaders and no one wants to help them. People in need are not afraid they believe God will come back to them and help them…

http://www.inms.umn.edu/elements/media.php?title=Media
http://www.prairienet.org/op/stories/technology/adding-video-images-and-audio/

Song that raised attention and awareness of what happening in South Africa

Today, I am going to introduce a song that raised attention and awareness of what were happening in South Africa.

"Biko" is a protest song by British rock musician Peter Gabriel. It is about Steve Biko, a noted black South African anti-apartheid activist. Biko had been arrested by the South African police in late August 1977. After being held in custody for several days, he was interrogated in room 619 of the Walmer Street prison in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Following the interrogation, during which he sustained serious head injuries, Biko was transferred to a prison in Pretoria, where he died shortly afterwards, on 12 September 1977.