artistafrica

teacher tease tence and the road to developement?

2009-03-28T12:46:00.001-07:00

Mwalimu wetu hapendi keleleee,anapenda nyimbo na vigelegele,akivaa khanga inamsumbuaakivaa tenge mawingu ya mvua!
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=900&c=123

all the numbers of the numbers

2009-03-28T03:02:00.000-07:00

You have a mysterious and determined personality. You like listening to and supporting others. You have a compelling character, although not apparent at first hand. You like working with others and seconding them. Solitary action isn't your thing. You're very good at making people feel welcome. Your understanding of other people makes you very popular amongst your friends and family. Patient and benevolent, you have a gift for creating continuity, so follow things up...

slumdog millionaire

2009-03-26T01:16:00.000-07:00

If you saw Slumdog Millionaire, you know the story for many children on the streets of Mumbai.We have partnered with some wonderful people and projects who rescue, care for and rehabilitate children from the red light district, of Mumbai, India.

Children Rescued From The Brothels of Mumbai
Deveraj and his team, literally rescue children from brothels and give them a new home and way of life away from the commercial child sex industry and slavery. They are nurtured in a safe and caring environment and given a new identity as a "very loved and precious child" with hope. Many go on to university, or go through further education and all are given the opportunity to pursue careers and a life and empowered to pursue their potential in life.
http://www.globalangels.org/pages/3005/Projects.htm?gclid=CPGIzOiTwJkCFd0B4wodNnCFvw

spoonerism in africa

2009-03-24T02:10:00.000-07:00

Half Warmed fish = Half Formed wish

Well Boiled Icicle = Well oiled bicycle

Upright walking in africa

2009-03-07T09:34:00.000-08:00

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/world_cultures/africa/africa_arts_and_cultures.aspx

Humans first evolved in Africa, walking upright about five million years ago, and making the first tools about two and a half million years ago using the opposable thumb. The British Museum collection includes objects dating from this time, but also represents historic and contemporary societies across the continent.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/visiting_with_children.aspx

Some good details about visiting with children, first is the invitation to eat and drink and after everyone is satisfied then onto the galleries. Our lot always get a bit chotic at feeding time as our foster children are convinced that if they are not sitting down they can't eat, and ofter the tables are already busy. It is forbidden to eat in the gallery so hubby came up with brilliant solution....it worked.

winding radio and stuff

2009-03-03T10:14:00.000-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996583811@N01/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/runningwithscissors/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/techfever/

investingateing

2009-02-19T00:35:00.000-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick-smith-photography/

indians to lose forest

2009-02-19T00:25:00.000-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canuck01/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pikiemeatsu/

the indian tribe have tried negotions and still the loggers/oils chop down their homelands with an alarming speed. this will cause a shortage of medicine and will mean no air to breathe. Note to self comepare how thses indian people control their growth with the way its done in africa.

http://http//www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/110.html

welcome boy in london/won't come home

2009-02-14T00:22:00.000-08:00

in comparison with countries such as Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana, the general quality of safari in Kenya is really rather poor. This is due to poor grass and no connections. Why?
http://www.africatravelresource.com/T1/africa/kenya/0/intro/?gclid=CKKS6f3L25gCFYR_3godDUBocA

dyes seeds pigments

2009-02-14T00:20:00.000-08:00

http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/seeds-of-trade/page.dsml?cat_ref=&origPage=&origTimeID=&origTimePoint=&origTpTitle=&page=wild_relatives&ref=dyes&region_ID=&section=crops&time_ref=

Indigofera arrecta Hochst. ex A. Rich. is a native of Ethiopia and commonly cultivated in tropical Africa; it has red-violet flowers and rounded pods. This species is often called 'Java indigo' as it was formerly extensively cultivated on Java.
Indigofera suffruticosa Miller is a native of tropical America and has been introduced into Asia and tropical West Africa; this species has yellowish flowers and straight pods.
Indigofera argentea Burm.f. is a native of Eygpt and north Africa and is extensively cultivated in that region. It is a very hairy plant with orange-yellow flowers.

Pots of destruction

2009-02-13T23:45:00.000-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbaku/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition#Rejection_of_tradition

Customs and traditions

Destruction is part of nature according to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche claims that entities that reinterpret the world again and again are strong. That way sorrow and loss which is linked to trying to keep tradition can be avoided. Nietzsche wants his readers to open up and accept nature as it is in all its manyfold appearances. In order to be able to interpret nature it is mandatory to imagine. It is weak to claim that your imagination is the only truth. That could get you destroyed. A strong person is someone who is ready to change in order to avoid self-destruction.

For the trees of the forest

2009-02-11T22:56:00.000-08:00

For centuries, the Aguaruna people living in the Peruvian Amazon have used natural forest medicines as a cure for diseases and illnesses. Historically, one of the most important medicinal plants in Peru is the Cinchona, commonly known as quina or cascarilla, which has been used since pre-hispanic times as a cure for different illnesses. Jesuit Missionaries introduced this natural medicine into Europe around 1640 as a cure for malaria and it became one of the most important export products in the Peruvian Amazon between 1880 and 1990. Nevertheless, the Peruvian presence in the market decreased as competitors appeared in the market and quinina started to be processed in laboratories. Quina trees
started to lose importance and the old forests that produced the famous bark were used as coffee or cocoa cultivation sites. Today, in Peru the quina species is almost extinct.
Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), an international development agency, is working with the Aguaruna people on a micro enterprise scheme to encourage a revival in the use of medicinal forest plants without harming the forest and repeating the fate of the Quina.

http://www.tve.org/ho/series2/outoftheforest.html

fun working in Kenya

2009-02-11T22:52:00.000-08:00

http://onlinefast.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=9

The sun

2009-02-11T22:48:00.000-08:00

http://www.tve.org/ho/series2/powertothepeople.html#g

Glowstar - Kenya In many parts of the developing world people who live in rural areas have no access to electricity (around two billion people). As a result, most families are forced to rely on candles or kerosene lamps to provide basic lighting in their homes. In Kenya, for example, 96% of householders rely upon kerosene lighting lamps, and 70% supplement this lighting with battery powered torches. Kerosene lamps are potentially hazardous and the running costs are high, with rural households spending about £5 per month on fuel and batteries. This recurrent cost every month eats up valuable financial resources that could otherwise be directed towards children's education or family health. For many people, the provision of light in their homes can compete directly with other household essentials.
Energy from the sun is freely available and many countries in the developing world have it in plentiful supply. As a result there has been a growing interest in the use of Photo-Voltaics (the technology used to convert the sun's energy into electricity) as a renewable and environmentally friendly source with which to provide low cost light and power in rural communities. Unfortunately, the cost of installing even a modest Solar Home System puts it out of the reach of most rural families in the developing world.

where does all the power come from

2009-02-11T22:45:00.000-08:00

http://www.un-kenya.org/defaultp.asp

The Kenya Country Committee is comprised of the representatives of agencies, which have country representation. Those United Nations organizations with no country representative are linked to the Kenya Country Committee through the Resident Representative of UNDP, also the Resident Coordinator. The representatives of the Breton Woods institutions also participate in the Kenya Country Committee on issues of mutual interest and concern, at Kenya Country Committee retreats, and in United Nations Theme Groups, ensuring linkages with the World Bank's Country Assistance Strategy (CAS).

Peace Keeping

2009-02-11T22:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/03/16/kenya-justice-vital-stability

The new coalition government should bring to justice individuals responsible for recent and past episodes of political violence, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The new coalition government can help stabilize the country by bringing to justice the organizers of violence on all sides.

never been there

2009-02-10T10:11:00.001-08:00

i haven't got a clue

energy

2009-02-07T00:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.designmatrix.com/pl/ecopl/index.ht

http://blog.newint.org/gaza/2009/01/22/my-friend-mohammed-is-a-hero/
My friend Mohammed lives in Il Tufa district in northeastern Gaza City. Il Tufa was scarred and crumbling at the edges even before the Israelis bombed most of it to pieces during their 22-day 'war' against the people of Gaza. During the Israeli onslaught Palestinian families fled Il Tufa en masse, seeking refuge with relatives in safer parts of Gaza City, or UN-run schools. But Mohammed and his family stayed put.

It is not popular to say My friend the hero who is looking out for Israelis!

Media distortions abound

get em started

2009-02-04T15:56:00.000-08:00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/getsquiggling/fun/

http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/hjdrewal/aesthetics.html

http://artistafrica.blogspot.com/

http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/hjdrewal/PersonalArt.html

outside the animation

2009-02-03T09:52:00.000-08:00

Think outside the animation
Character animator Tom Baker walks you through creating a traditional cel animation-style movie, from concept to post-production
With budgets tightening and marketing managers less eager to spend money, there’s an opportunity for the freelance all-round filmmaker to clean up. Why pay an agency to create a movie when an individual with the right kit can do the same for less?
document.write('');

In my transition from working as a character animator within a team to creating entire movies myself, I’ve often become unstuck on the bits ‘around’ the animation.

http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials

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art works

2009-02-03T09:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.rapecrisis.org.za/

http://artistafrica.blogspot..com/

By Simon Ottenberg. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. [xv, 216 p. ISBN 0295-97525-3. $35.]
Based on fieldwork undertaken by Simon Ottenberg from 1978 to 1980 and in 1988, Seeing with Music focuses on the life histories and musical performances of three blind musicians from Bafodea Township in Sierra Leone. The three musicians are Sayo Kamara, Muctaru Mansaray, and Marehu Mansaray, and their special instrument is the kututeng, a plucked idiophone known as the "sanza" or "mbira" in other parts of Africa.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-54993941.html

Butterfly Wing

2009-02-03T07:46:00.001-08:00

http://www.weirdomatic.com/butterfly-wing-art.html

Imagination

2009-02-03T07:42:00.000-08:00

http://www.imagination.com/themes/imagination/intro.php

Meaning of Art

2009-02-03T07:40:00.000-08:00

The imagination is our most mysterious aspect. It connects our conscious with our subconscious. It allows us to explore our inner self and fill that urge to understand our ever changing body, mind and universe. It is the most important part of every one of us.

http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/picasso/500/Meaningofart.html

Elements of the African Aesthetic

2009-02-03T07:38:00.000-08:00

Resemblance to a human being:
African artists praise a carved figure by saying that it "looks like a human being." Artists seldom portray particular people, actual animals, or the actual form of invisible spirits. Rather, they aim to portray ideas about reality, spiritual or human, and express these ideas through human or animal images.
Luminosity:
The lustrously smooth surface of most African figural sculpture, often embellished with decorative scarification, indicates beautifully shining, healthy skin. Figures with rough surfaces and deformities are intended to appear ugly and morally flawed.
Self-composure:
The person who is composed behaves in a measured and rational way; he or she is controlled, proud, dignified, and cool.
Youthfulness:
A youthful appearance connotes vigor, productiveness, fertility, and an ability to labor. Illness and deformity are rarely depicted because they are signs of evil.
Clarity of form and detail, complexity of composition, balance and symmetry, smoothness of finish:African artists place a high value on fine workmanship and mastery of the medium.

http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/artsandmedia/artmuseum/africanart/Elements.html

Vibrant Yellow to borrow

2009-02-03T03:46:00.000-08:00

A handcrafted original Candle wax batik, created in Tanzania.
These batiks are created using candle wax and dye. No two are ever the same.
Brighten up your home or someone else’s home with this vibrant candle wax batik. A great gift idea.

http://artistafrica.blogspot.com

http://www.africanartonline.com/collections/frontpage/products/maasai-ladies-br-candle-wax-br-batik

http://artlab-gallery.co.uk/

Empowerment

2009-02-02T12:45:00.000-08:00

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/schomburg04.html

http://www.courtney-clarke.com/Margaret_Courtney_Clarke.htm

Rocks and Art

2009-02-02T12:31:00.000-08:00

Rock paintings and engravings are Africa's oldest continuously practiced art form. Depictions of elegant human figures, richly hued animals, and figures combining human and animal features—called therianthropes and associated with shamanism—continue to inspire admiration for their sophistication, energy, and direct, powerful forms. The apparent universality of these images is deceptive; content and style range widely over the African continent. Nevertheless, African rock art can be divided into three broad geographical zones—southern, central, and northern. The art of each of these zones is distinctive and easily recognizable, even to an untrained eye.
Not all rock art in these three zones is prehistoric; in some areas these arts flourished into the late nineteenth century, while in other areas rock art continues to be made today. In the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, a number of rock paintings depict clashes between San (Bushmen) people and European colonists mounted on horses and armed with rifles. Many of the Drakensberg works use subtle polychrome shading that gives their subjects a hint of three-dimensional presence. The product of many authors, time periods, and cultures, the flowing naturalism and lively sense of movement of the best rock art attests to the conviction of masterful hands and trained eyes.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/art.html

http://artistafrica.blogspot.com

http://www.allposters.co.uk/gallery.asp?aid=252016255&startat=/GetThumb.asp&c=v&DestType=2&Referrer%20=http://www.google.co.uk/search&source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENGB293&q=africa%20arts&btnG=Google%20Search&&lang=100&KWID=57380521&KEYWORD=Afrika%20Prints&FilterType1=1&ItemType=1&search=Afrika&SEM=KWID=57380521

joining up Africa arts

2009-02-02T12:25:00.000-08:00

http://www.artmovesafrica.org/index.php?id=8

http://artistafrica.blogspot.com

Elephant Tasks

2009-02-02T12:19:00.000-08:00

http://www.artnetafrica.com/Paintinglist.asp?cmd=resetall

http://artistafrica.blogspot.com/

$50

2009-02-02T12:14:00.000-08:00

Fantasy TimeOil on Canvas