[Raithy]

DRAWING ATTENTION
30 miles north of Manchester.

Art now needs to assume responsibility.



Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.



Indonesia's rainforests are being destroyed faster than anywhere else on Earth. More than two million hectares are cleared annually. Recent research indicates that much of what is officially classified as forest has already disappeared, and there is doubt over the true extent of the remaining forests.



WANK U ARE
Drive one of these do you?




Gary McInnon is a UK citizen who has been extradited to the USA for hacking into US military computer systems. His main objective was to prove to the world that the US secret government has an energy technology that is based on anti-gravity science that was discovered by the back-engineering of recovered crashed UFO's. Believe it or not, this man now faces 60 years in an American prison.
FreeGary.org.uk/



Pavement banner under CCTV: 2006. It helps to know a camera operative




Foot and Mouth Disease epidemic awareness : 2001



Plotter and Foamex. ILLUSTRATION SOLD TO UK ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AFTER THE FLOODS 2007.







One of two Graphics chosen by Art Not Oil to help disrupt the Shell 'Wildlife Photographer of the Year' exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London in October 2007. Now in its fifth year, Art Not Oil stands for ‘creativity, climate justice and an end to oil industry sponsorship of arts and culture’. It has acted as a beacon for artists worldwide who are committed to using their creativity positively, and is a hub for protest against the oil industry greenwashing its image by appropriating UK cultural institutions. Its 2008 online gallery is now open for submissions: www.artnotoil.org.uk




This was inspired initially by a piece of crude grafitti sprayed on a traffic bollard that I spotted a few weeks ago on the way to pick the wife up from work. It simply said 'UKNOW'. It struck me that it could read as U KNOW or UK NOW!

Last week I went to a friends 40th at the local, and all the blokes wanted to talk about, all night, was how expensive the UK had become and how it was all the fault of immigrants and it left me worried. I'm beginning to realise that these people who were traditionally very moderate, are turning, they are getting incredibly angry at the prospect of their children being unable to house themselves. They talked about immigrants, the benefits society, lack of discipline and civil unrest.

I suddenly saw the sprayed bollard as a direct message to me, and it spoke "YOU KNOW"!

As an artist, all I can do is record what I see, and what i feel. I'm sending this to you for your much valued opinion. For me, the worse thing that can be perceived from this style of dissident design is that it fuels further anger or that it becomes associated with any racist movement. This is not the intention, and most of you who know me personally know I ain't no racist. All that said, I do feel the graphic needs a chance to live.



Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees. They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees.





Fractal CD Snowflake.
2107 CDs on Walkers Hill,
Wiltshire: 2002


Adaptation from a Broadside newsletter about the public burning of witches at Derneburg (Harz),
October 1555.

[Glitter G]

Good work!!

[Raithy]

Fank you so much ;-)