Sue, Richard and Nick - three of the Digital Arts MA students, from left - pretend to be working on their final exhibition (February, 2005), between actually working on it, and lunch.
It’s, no doubt, going to be a great show. The piece we’re looking at is a prototype for an installation that will use the sweat from participants’ palms in order to trigger waves in a beautiful, multiply displayed, tank of water.
Thanks to my pop for this article: The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Voting Without the Facts
I think a case could be made that ignorance played at least as big a role in the election’s outcome as values. A recent survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland found that nearly 70 percent of President Bush’s supporters believe the U.S. has come up with “clear evidence” that Saddam Hussein was working closely with Al Qaeda. A third of the president’s supporters believe weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. And more than a third believe that a substantial majority of world opinion supported the U.S.-led invasion.
This is scary. How do you make a rational political pitch to people who have put that part of their brain on hold? No wonder Bush won.
The article goes on from there, talking about the media’s take: all values, all the time. No wonder people are making sites like sorryeverybody.com….
