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There are people who don’t know how to distinguish the truth from the lie. Some ancient philosophers though, used to believe that there is not trouth or lie in reality. The world is not the way we see it and everything is subjective. There is a truth in all these even though these theories connot be proved. Everyone sees the world through his own eyes and this is beautiful and weird in the same time. There are people who can lie very easily and others who can’t lie at all. It’s all about character and the way that someone has used to think. Sweet Little Lies Though some lies produce interpersonal friction, others may actually serve as a kind of harmless social lubricant. “They make it easier for people to get along,” says DePaulo, noting that in the diary study one in every four of the participants’ lies were told solely for the benefit of another person. In fact, “fake positive” lies—those in which people pretend to like someone or something more than they actually do (“Your muffins are the best ever”)—are about 10 to 20 times more common than “false negative” lies in which people pretend to like someone or something less (“That two-faced rat will never get my vote”). Certain cultures may place special importance on these “kind” lies. A survey of residents at 31 senior citizen centers in Los Angeles recently revealed that only about half of elderly Korean Americans believe that patients diagnosed with life-threatening metastatic cancer should be told the truth about their condition. In contrast, nearly 90 percent of Americans of European or African descent felt that the terminally ill should be confronted with the truth. The story of humanity is based on lies. If we think what we were learning at school in the subject of History and what has really happened, we will be surprised enough. There is also a psychological illness that pushes people in lying. It is called ‘mythomania’ and the scientists base its origins on low confidence. The market lies. Everything around us lies a lot. That’s why we have to be careful when we decide to trust someone or something. We live in a society based on lies. When everyone tells lies about himself because they don’t want the others to know about his problems, when we try to show a diferent face to the others, then we are victims of this lying society, too.
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About
Potato
The logo is based on Andy Warhol’s tomato soup
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The potato movement The potato movement has been developped by the producers of potato in Greece (particulary in Nevrokopi) in order to reduce the costs of the market mediators.
Ioannis Kapodistrias, in an effort to raise the living standards of the population, introduced the cultivation of the potato into Greece.
A documentary took place in BBC entitled; “Greeks ditch middleman to embrace ‘potato revolution’
Potato Revolution consists of a comedy duo from Melbourne, Australia. It consists of Andy Mai, and Mog Thistlethwaite.
The middleman exploits us by buying our products at low prices. We want to help the consumer in these difficult times.This sends a message that a few people can’t profit at the expense of all of us.
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Contemporary art in London
The Potato Revolution reveals that the potato is as rich in content as it is in vitamins and minerals.
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What really inspired me in this case was that the potato revolution has to do with the mass, which is relative to the popular culture. So I used the style of the most famous artist in pop culture, Andy Warhol.
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About
Brainwash
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Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, mind abuse, menticide, thought control, or thought reform) refers to a process in which a group or individual “systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated”. The term has been applied to any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individual’s sense of control over their own thinking, behavior, emotions or decision making. In Propaganda: The Formation
of Men’s Attitudes, Jacques Ellul maintains that the “principal aims of these psychological methods is to destroy a man’s habitual patterns, space, hours, milieu, and so on. Theories of brainwashing and of mind control were originally developed to explain how totalitarian regimes appeared to succeed in systematically indoctrinating prisoners of war through propaganda and torture techniques. These theories were later expanded and modified to explain a wider range of phenomena, especially conversions to new religious movements (NRMs).
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel of the same name. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick. It features disturbing, violent images, facilitating its social commentary on psychiatry, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian, future Britain.
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DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! “Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
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The media are the easiest and more efficient way of mind control.
Reverend James Warren “Jim” Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip. Over 200 children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of whom were forcibly made to ingest cyanide by the elite Temple members.
It’s How We’re Wired You don’t have to be a full member of a suicide cult to be manipulated. Mind control techniques are used every day: in the news, in commercials, in political speeches, on billboards, on the radio, in forwarded emails, and in conversations. Even abusive relationships practice the same manipulative methods.
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Through this image collage I am trying to show how people are living alone, closed to themselves and with a little effort they can be open to the world and the others. In the first part (before) there is a negative sense of the life in the city, mostly grey and dark colors are used, there are notions of pessimism and depression. In the second part(after) there is a sense of reaction. It is the middle situation, the time of making things happen. The happy end comes when the second part is successful and manages to bring love and friendship in our lives, making us happy living in the city.
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Media Cannibalism About
The logo is a tooth with a newspaper texture on it.
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Media cannibalism appears in a great range of media. Apparently TV is the easiest and the most capable means in promoting media cannibalism. There are cases everyday, others important and others not so much.
Face it, the Press are cannibals
This game of cannibalism happens mostly in order to prove who is the strongest. It happens also to benefit the media and to make them stronger.
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Princess Diana was a media cannibalism victim after her death.
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This collage is far symbolic. It shows that the media must fight for the truth than fighting for augmenting their power all the time.
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About
Athletics
The logo is a TV based on the shape that exists on a football
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Greek ancient Olympic Games
Athens 2004
The Olympic Games (French: les Jeux olympiques) (JO),is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered to be the world’s foremost sports competition and more than 200 nations participate. Kenteris was one of the black spots in the world of athletics. he won the gold metal in Sidney 2004 but afterwards it was proved that he used doping substances.
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Argentine Diego Maradona was a myth in football fields.
Nowadays athletics is often a victim of our capitilistic system and the excess profit gaining.
Sarah Reinertsen, the 1st female leg amputee to complete the Ironman.
Woman fighting for her rights.
indonesian hendra setiawan celebrates his and markis kido win over south korea jung jae-sung and lee yong-dae in their men doubles semi-final badminton match at the 16th asian cup.
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If we tried to be really involved in athletics with our body and soul, like the ancient Greeks it would be really great!
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Haircut
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Haircut is called nowadays the reduction of govermenr’s expenses through the cut off of the citizens’ salaries.
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Μισθοί means ‘salaries’ in greek.
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20 years greek lifestyle
The logo is a cocktail glass from above and in the inside there is a spiral like the one of a black hole.
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Greek lifestyle has been for decades a myth. Islands, richness, entertainment. Nowadays all this glamourous range has fallen off.
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Vlla Mercedes is the most famous club in Athens.
Julia Alexandratou was once a star Hellas and afterwards a victim of publicity.
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‘Bouzoukia’ is the most common way of nightlife entertaining in Greece of lifestyle. Petros Kostopoulos is a famous businessman who is into the showbiz and he was hit by the economic crisis.
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It’s nice having fun, but we have to keep a balance between this way of living and what really matters in life. The synthesis shows that a glass of alcohol can lead us to the bottom but if we are concious of ourselves it can lead us to real hapiness with friends.
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People have to think positive. They have to live every day until the end, they have to give their best. The rebirth of positiveness is a new age, where everyone can be positive if he wants to, no matter what happens in politics or on the news. Positive thinking is called also Optimism. Optimism is a mental attitude that interprets situations and events as being best (optimized), meaning that in some way for factors that may not be fully comprehended, the present moment is in an optimum state. The concept is typically extended to include the attitude of hope for future conditions unfolding as optimal as well. The more broad concept of optimism is the understanding that all of nature, past, present and future, operates by laws of optimization along the lines of Hamilton’s principle of optimization in the realm of physics. This understanding, although criticized by counter views such as pessimism, idealism and realism, leads to a state of mind that believes everything is as it should be, and that the future will be as well. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass with water at the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full, but the pessimist sees the glass as half empty. This theory is a little passed over now but there are people who tend to believe this. To be an optimist you have, first of all to love yourself. You can’t give happiness to the world if first you haven’t given it to yourself. Only then you’ll be able to spread it out of your soul. Optimism is one of these concepts and has been shown to explain between 5–10% of the variation in the likelihood of developing some health conditions like cancer. Furthermore, optimists have been shown to live healthier lifestyles which may influence disease. For example, optimists smoke less, are more physically active, consume more fruit, vegetables and whole-grain bread, and consume more moderate amounts of alcohol. Through difficult situations, the rebirth of positiveness is something we really need. We have each other, we have to keep close to each other every day and we should never forget about that. Real optimism never get down. They always try for the best. There are many examples of people who succeded many things because this mental statement they were/are in. And remember; failure is an equipment to success.
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Felice Leonardo “Leo” Buscaglia Ph.D. (31 March 1924 – 12 June 1998), also known as “Dr Love,” was an author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince) first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944, Mort pour la France). The novella is both the most read and most translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. Translated into more than 250 languages and dialects,selling over a million copies per year with sales totaling over 200 million copies worldwide, it has become one of the bestselling books ever published.
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Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BCE and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated in the Roman Empire. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects, including political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, biology, rhetoric, and aesthetics.
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. As a cultural movement, it encompassed innovative flowering of Latin and vernacular literatures, beginning with the 14th-century resurgence of learning based on classical sources, which contemporaries credited to Petrarch, the development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more natural reality in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform
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Stop thinking, stop feeling, stop wondering, stop hoping, stop believing, stop smelling, stop seeing, stop tasting, stop touching. Stop LIVING. My mind is on a blackout. I can think of anything, anything good, or bad. ANYTHING. Sometimes I hate this world, I don’t know why exactly I have been brought here. I ‘m sure I didn’t ask to. Sometimes I feel that nothing good happens. My mind stops. And everything takes a particular form. Like I have never seen them before. Everything around gets black and me, totally afraid, I stare the unseen. I tree to bring images in my mind. I don’t want to. I tree to shout. I can’t. At school, when the teachers asked me to do something, I was always on a blackout. I don’t like to be pressed. I feel uncomfortable. Our mind is under blackout in certain circumstances. Especially when we are drunk or we want to forget something bad that happened to us. Or both. Psychologists say that the most of the times it is impossible to remember, not even when you are sober. I believe blackouts can be the most efficient thing in the world if someone knows to use them well. We all have set our mind into blackout, because we don’t want to think about the mess of our society. We are moving zombies without consciousness. We are bugs, annoying each other because of our silence. Anyone? Black+out. This is the etymology of the word. Very simple. Indeed, people don’t understand the importance of the situation. The whole humanity is on a blackout. All together and everyone separately. We are looking for someone to save us. But we know that he will never come. The real power is in us and in one another. The mind blocks traumatic experiences so that you can deal with them little by little because it is too much to deal with all at once. Little by little you will remember the experience and deal with that part of it until all of it has been worked out in your mind and your heart. It is the mind’s way of preserving your emotional and mental stability. So, that’s why we are on a blackout. Our society is very cruel, the information are far too much. Our mind has to protect us. Especially to protect our heart.
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A blackout is a phenomenon caused by the intake of alcohol or other substance in which long term memory creation is impaired or there is a complete inability to recall the past. Blackouts are frequently described as having effects similar to that of anterograde amnesia, in which the subject cannot create memories after the event that caused amnesia.
Syncope, the medical term for fainting, is precisely defined as a transient loss of consciousness and postural tone characterized by rapid onset, short duration, and spontaneous recovery due to global cerebral hypoperfusion that most often results from hypotension.
Blackout was a theatre play that was first performed in 2002 by “Drasis� team.
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City from July 13, 1977 to July 14, 1977. The only neighborhoods in New York City that were not affected were in southern Queens, and neighborhoods of the Rockaways, which are part of the Long Island Lighting Company system.
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In telecommunications, communications blackouts are a cessation of communications or communications capability, caused by a lack of power to a communications facility or to communications equipment. a total lack of radio communications capability, caused by ionospheric anomalies, e.g., during strong auroral activity or during re-entry of a spacecraft into the Earth’s atmosphere.
In broadcasting, the term blackout refers to the nonairing of television or radio programming in a certain media market. It is particularly prevalent in the broadcasting of sports events, although other television or radio programs may be blacked out as well. A similar term, known as preemption (or pre-emption), often refers to stations blacking out a program for other than regulatory or governmental reasons, such as when a local station preempts a television network program for local news (an example of a regular preemption) or a special program (an example of a one-time preemption).
Blackout is the name of two fictional characters, both supervillains, in the Marvel Comics universe.
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