thanks michael, I'm really glad you think it works. It started out as something else, to be honest. I started making a small comic strip about the greek riots, trying to explain it all in the great scheme of things. I took news snippets and mixed in some analyses I'd read. I started on the first panel of the comic and then it took over and I ended up with this drawing and no comic! You're right about the feeling of a life beyond. I felt it was strange to draw a riot in Athens - such a lovely place, that is somehow above - better than all this, and so I tried to put some nice scenery in the background, and blue skies/ fluffy clouds as a sign of hope. I was also interested in making this a beautiful bright riot scene, in some way, adding bright happy colours to it, rather than having the usual grey black misery thing you'd expect.
thanks again, really appreciated dave On 25 May 2010 16:48, Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave > -once again you've hit the mark. I love this in particular because it is so > intensely & clearly partisan (ie on the side of the oppressed & exploited) > but without being one-dimensional. There's something *touching* about it - it > evokes something more than simply the issue at hand -there's a sense of a > life beyond. Although it's a 'cartoon' it's far from a caricature. There's a > sense of the real life of working class people that is so much there in some > of your more reflective drawings.. > cheers > michael > > --- On Mon, 5/24/10, dave miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: dave miller <[email protected]> >> Subject: [NetBehaviour] greek riots drawing >> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" >> <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 5:08 PM >> http://davemiller.org/drawings/austerity/greek_riots.png >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
