Category: culture

Support a fledgling artist for Christmas

So…

Was looking at my favorite websites and discovered this.patreon_site

Support new industries, enterprises and artists.

Yes, if you feel like you have a few quid in your pocket, you can become a benefactor.
All in need of cash, the reward could be a link of their website to offering to write a song for you (that would be nice).

As us in the creative industry know, funding is often a problem to organise and to make consistent.

Choose anything

For $1 per month, you can offer your support.

They have a large database of projects and artists.

I am currently supporting one of my favorite website where the advertisers have pulled out.

You can have a look here http://www.patreon.com/chinasmack.

Christmas is coming

As Christmas is coming up, this may be a new and creative way of sourcing that gift that shows u care (aww).

If you wish to support this site, you can do so here http://www.patreon.com/michaeltyler

Knock off gear – China – Knock off Diary

OK. So those not been to China, will not know: the nation’s idea of innovation is looking at other peoples ideas and copying them… Being from the Shanghai area, as you can imagine, it’s more of a way of life…

Coming and looking around the markets and stalls, you’ll think you’ve found a bounty of Western goods! With the same standards, and finish quality, same functionality etc.

Dream on

I’ve bought several items now in varying degrees of ‘knock-off’ ness.

For the Chinese, there is no line between ‘knock-off’ and genuine.
Knock-off is the genuine, so you got to be careful about what you do and where you spend your money…

I’m going to be keeping a kind of ‘knock-off’ diary. Browse at your leisure… (If you need anything, shoot me an email and I can sort u out!)

Here’s a list of the current ‘knock-off’ goods, their failure level and the prices paid.

Mandela quotes

My favs

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living,”
“Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.”
“If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

 

Did Tony Blair kill democracy?

Tony Blair

We all know he has blood on his hands.

Are you not a Blairite? – Leading us all where the vision took us. Blurring the boundaries between black and white, rich and poor, right and wrong, etc. etc.

Looking back at it, all Blairism has left us with is a legacy of one party politics. Crossing the boundaries. No left no right.

I can only see that his great legacy and departure from traditional labour values and adoption of ‘new‘ values has been the destruction of democracy itself.

Touting himself as a great leader.

Not really. Continue reading “Did Tony Blair kill democracy?”