Thursday, May 31, 2007

Day 247 - Lead The Way

Day 246 - Rotation's logic

Day 246 - Clean Brin

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Day 246 - Eve

Day 245 - Siren

Monday, May 28, 2007

Day 244 - Follow Me

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Day 243 - Lolita 2005

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Day 240 - Winter late afternoon

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Day 238 - Faithfully, yours...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Day 237 - Do you?

Friday, May 18, 2007

Day 234 - Ready

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Day 233 - Woman

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Day 232 - Sunset Hotel

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Day 231 - Other rooms

Monday, May 14, 2007

Day 230 - Lolita 2005

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Day 229 - A cigarette after morning shower

Image censored on Flickr - Digital, 2005

Day 229 - Self


Image censored on Flickr - Digital, 2004

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Day 228 - Summer afternoon light

Day 228 - Modern Art



Thursday, May 10, 2007

Day 226 - Short story



Images censored on Flickr

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Day 225 - FLICKR: Censored images





Day 225 - Censored images

Well, I will post here the images that were previously displayed on FLICKR. Their staff censored all my images, including those that were simple portraits, landscapes or urban wiews. All my images were put to "moderate" and my stream was made visible only for those who already had a Flickr account. So, my stream was suddenly not free anymore. But, more than that, every single image - no matter the subject - was altered with a visual filter. One had to click on it open to see what was that image about. It was like a mad gallerist in an art gallery that is covering artworks with a white blanket, putting every visitor in the situation to lift that blanket in order to see the image.
I was not warned in advance about such a measure. I sent Flickr staff 2 e-mails, but nobody answered. It is very possible that Fickr staff was acting in such a manner because of somebody's complaint. But they never presented me such a complaint. They gave me a 30 days term to moderate my stream, but I didn't do that because I am convinced that my images were not harmful in any way - except for talibans or other kind of "spiritual" terrorists, fanatics or fundamentalists. Of course we are talking about my images with women, not those with kids.
So I will post here all the images with women that were previously on Flickr, just to let anybody see how harmful they are. I will write under every such image: "Image censored by Flickr".
I am not the only artist censored by Flickr - there were many cases.

Day 225 - Shy

Image censored by Flickr

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Day 224 - Actress

Image censored by Flickr

Day 223 - I ACCUSE

TODAY I PERMANENTLY ERASED
MY FLICKR ACCOUNT
DUE TO UNACCEPTABLE CENSORSHIP
PERFORMED BY FLICKR STAFF
AGAINST MY IMAGES.
I ACCUSE THIS MENTALITY
THAT CANNOT DISTINGUISH
BETWEEN ART
AND PORNOGRAPHY OR BAD TASTE.
I ACCUSE THOSE PEOPLE
WHO ARE ATTACKING AND HARRASING
ART AND ARTISTS
ONLY TO DEFEND
FRUSTRATIONS,
NARROW MINDS, PREJUDICES,
STUPIDITY
OR LACK OF CULTURE.
I CONSIDER FROM NOW ON
THAT FLICKR IS NOT A MEAN
OF PROMOTING ARTISTIC FREEDOM
BUT A WAY OF MANIPULATING PEOPLE
TO COMPLY TO A CERTAIN INTERPRETATION
OF FREEDOM.
I OBVIOUSLY CANNOT FIGHT
SUCH A CORPORATE MANIPULATION
THAT BRINGS BILLIONS OF DOLARS
IN SOMEBODY'S POCKET.
BUT, AT LEAST,
I CAN
SPEAK MY POINT OF VIEW HERE.

So, my post from day six - Wednesday, September 27, 2006 -
was a premonition.

Day Six - "One Very Important Thought"

"Now that the show is over and we have jointly exercised our constitutional rights,
we would like to leave you with one very important thought.
Sometime in the future you may have the opportunity
to serve as a juror in censorship cases - or so called obscenity cases.
It would be wise to remember that the same people who stop you from listening
to "Boards Of Canada" may be back next year to complain about a book,
or even a TV programm.
If you could be told what you can see or read,
then it follows that you could be told what to say or think.

Defend your constitutionally protected rights.
No one else would do it for you.
Thank you"

Michael Sandison & Marcus Eoin Sandison
Boards Of Canada




Thursday, May 3, 2007

Day 219 - Relax

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Day 218 - Winter morning