9/11 The Last Judgement

At april 8, Easter sunday, bishop Hurkmans blessed this new stained glass window in the St. Jan’s Cathedral Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Nothing special at first sight. 

The painting journalist

This is what you may call social conscious painting or as Ashley Cecil, the artists who make this, describes: the marriage of painting and social activism. 

Show your talent

Merriment

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Don’t speak with your mouth

The real thing

Speaking hands, hearing eyes

I had no plans for doing something special for christmas. December is non-profit fundraising month because it’s do-gooder time. That’s not Houtlust style. Every day of the year is do-gooder day.
But I just received this video from Schattensprache®. Silent night, holy night in sign-language.
That’s a good one for Christmas.

State of emergency

Nice artwork for État d’Urgence, a festival held in Montréal, Canada.
État d’Urgence is an interdisciplinary “manifestival” with and for street people organized since 1998 by the Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable, or ATSA. The 2006 edition has as its themes nomadism, promiscuity, and the scar seen as a promise of rebuilding.

Hikikomori

From the website of Francesco Jodice: The film explores some aspects of japanese young peolple social behaviours.
Feeling of unease and lack of communication lead to different kind of reaction (skaters; harajuku-kids) or no-action (Otaku; Hikikomori) or annihilation (suicide pact).