This month, Afghanistan held parliamentary elections with nearly 2,500 candidates for 249 seats. Turnout was very light under threat of violence from the Taliban, and accusations of fraud are widespread. Afghan President Karzai announced the formation of a 70-member peace council, a step towards formal discussions with the Taliban.

And American and Afghan troops have now begun active combat in an offensive to drive the Taliban out of their strongholds surrounding the city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. With 51 more coalition troops killed this month, the total number of deaths for coalition troops in 2010 reached 541 compared with 521 for all of 2009.

Collected here are images of the country and conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing monthly series on Afghanistan.

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De Somalische groepering Al-Shabab zegt twee meisjes te hebben geëxecuteerd omdat zij hadden gespioneerd voor de door de Verenigde Naties gesteunde regering. De meisjes, respectievelijk 15 en 18 jaar oud, werden woensdag schuldig bevonden door een rechter die is aangesteld door de aan Al-Qaida gelieerde extremistische moslimgroepering. Gezegd werd dat ze werk hadden verricht voor de regeringssoldaten die het stadje Belet Weyne, in het westen van Somalië, proberen te bevrijden van Al-Shabab strijders. Al-Shabab is heer en meester in het zuiden van Somalië, maar probeert ook elders in het land vaste voet aan de grond te krijgen. De twee werden na hun veroordeling onmiddellijk door een vuurpeloton geëxecuteerd. De meisjes riepen 'Allah is groot' toen het schieten begon, zei een ooggetuige, die uit angst voor represailles anoniem wilde blijven.

Schrik niet. == Hier ook niet van, het is 2010 ! == En in Afghanistan wordt het ook niet beter.

We are an illustration and graphic design creative studio. Two independent and creative minds. One, a true graphics artist with roots in comics, fine arts and fashion. The other is a designer with passion for the printed media and type.

Together they have been they creative force behind NUYO Clothing and the VS. project. As well as being involved in Art Directing magazines and creating a multitude of graphics in the fashion industry.

Tiltviewer hier.

Laatste projecten hier = ook tilted.

Richard Mosse was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1980 and grew up in County Kilkenny. Following a BA in English Literature and a Masters in Cultural Studies from the London Consortium, Mosse pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Goldsmiths before finally earning an MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Akademie der Kunst, The Aperture Foundation, Barbican Art Gallery, Houston’s Fotofest 2010 Biennial, Kunsthalle Munich, and Tate Modern. It has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Art Review, Frieze and Source.

Tomer Hanuka is an illustrator and a cartoonist based in New York City. He works on a range of projects for magazines, book publishers, ad agencies and film studios. His Clients include The New Yorker, D.C comics, Nike and Microsoft. He has won multiple gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication designers, and was showcased in Print magazine and American Illustration.

In 2008 a book cover he created won the British Design Museum award as part of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions. Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary for which Tomer contributed art, was nominated for an Oscar in 2009, and won the Golden Globe that same year. Currently he teaches at the School of Visual Arts and is working on a graphic novel with his twin brother Asaf and wirter Boaz Lavie.

HEAD Magazine is an online publication designed to showcase the creative talents of established and emerging visual artists from all over the world.

HEAD Magazine was founded in 2003 by Steve Kraitt and Nicolene Hannan, and provides an editorial and advertising-free platform for exhibiting the work of photographers, artists, illustrators and designers. From the outset, the central ethos and conceptual objective of HEAD Magazine has been to provide artists with a global platform of the "purest" form.

It was the primary intention of Steven and Nicolene to create a publication that concerned itself entirely and exclusively with the presentation of visual art, without any of the influence or distraction that editorial association can often apply.

HEAD strives to present only the work itself and nothing more; no biographical information regarding the creator/s of the work, no review or assessment of the work, and no other form of written content that could influence or inform the reader further than the immediate emotional response that the work itself prompts. This lack of editorial is one of the primary attractions of Head Magazine, and the reason so many of our readers find our concept so fresh and appealing.

Cirque de Pepin's

This is the website of Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk, painter, illustrator and sculptor. The Cirque de Pepin studio is located in Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands. If you have any comments or suggestions, or if you want to know more about the availability of the artworks, Pepijn loves to hear from you! You can contact him by email: cirquedepepin@planet.nl or call the studio.

If I were to give my body of work a title, it would be, "Propaganda for the Soul". The motivation behind my work is a need to find a position. I want to set up the viewer and hold them. I do this by simplifying my imagery, distilling it, and then consider the best way to spark my audience`s interest and self-reflection.

This "Position", whether it be physical, social, historical, spiritual etc... seems to manifest itself when I produce moments that bear witness. Realistic representation is my vehicle that best suits my aims, however these are fabricated moments of acute clarity of mind not necessarily clarity of sight. Through open narratives, my aim is to make the viewer feel absolutely present. "They are images before the car chase or just after the crash, however banal or earth shaking; these are the moments when the most important decisions are made."

Life in a Day is een initiatief van YouTube om de grenzen van muziek, beeldende kunst en nu ook het medium film te verleggen. Het YouTube Symphony Orchestra en de recent aangekondigde YouTube Play-samenwerking met het Guggenheim-museum zijn voorbeelden van initiatieven die online video’s en traditionele kunst met elkaar verenigen.

Met Life in a Day past YouTube deze doelstelling toe op het domein van de filmkunst. LG Electronics treedt op als sponsor van Life in a Day. Dit sponsorschap vormt een strategisch onderdeel van LG's Life’s Good-campagne en is daarnaast bedoeld ter ondersteuning van hoogwaardige online content die door iedereen kan worden gedeeld en waarvan iedereen kan genieten.

Alleen klikken als je snel internet hebt, draadloos kan ook nog wel.

I stopped and turned to look behind me. The slope twisted palely down toward the town like the tracks of some gigantic insect. I looked up at the sky then, under the moonlight, and glanced at my palm. With a rush of understanding I knew this wasn’t my hand anymore.

I can’t explain it. But at a glance I knew. My hand was no longer my hand, my legs no longer my legs. Bathed in the pallid moonlight, my body, like some plaster puppet, had lost all living warmth. As if a voodoo magician had put a spell on me, blowing my transient life into this lump of clay. The spark of life had vanished. My real life had fallen asleep somewhere, and a faceless someone was stuffing it in a suitcase, about to leave. An awful chill swept through me and I felt choked. Someone had rearranged my cells, untied the threads that held my mind together. I couldn’t think straight. All I was able to do was retreat as fast as I could to my usual place of refuge. I took a huge breath, sinking in the sea of consciousness to the very bottom. Pushing aside the heavy water I plunged down quickly and grabbed a huge rock there with both arms.

I love art. I love looking at it, I love talking about it and I certainly love making it, so it’s really no surprise that art would be my chosen profession. From early on there really wasn’t any doubt that a career in art was the direction I was headed. I was hardly interested in anything else and a lion’s share of my childhood was spent with my head in the clouds, doodling a veritable army of dinosaurs, space ships, demons and imps.

Even much of my later schooling was spent failing other useful but mundane subjects like chemistry, math and english while art was the one area that I excelled at. College was hardly different, I spent six years finding myself and taking a lot of classes before graduating with a BFA. Documented and dedicated to my chosen profession I set out to make my veritable mark on the world. Since then I’ve held all sorts of jobs, from graphic designer to 3D modeler, photo-retoucher to illustrator. I’ve studied, learned, grown and spent a lot of time as a professional artist making a decent living doing art, but in all that time and through all those jobs I’ve learned one all important thing.

It was the time I spent, like the kid at the kitchen table, creating art for no other reason than sheer wonder of it all, that I was happiest. No matter the piece or the end result it’s the art that we do for ourselves that wholly reflects us as people. It is that art which is purest, it is that art which holds the most magic, it is that art which connects on the deepest level and it is that art that this site is all about. So, on that note, take a look around, see what I have to offer and hopefully something in here pops, something connects you to that little boy, drawing spaceships and dinosaurs, and leaves you with a sense of wonder all your own.

According to the account of the earlier incident in the leaked logs, the insurgents had jumped out of their truck after it came under fire from the Apache. "They came out wanting to surrender," Crazyhorse 18 signalled. Clearance to kill came back from an unnamed lawyer at the nearby Taji airbase. "Lawyer states they can not surrender to aircraft and are still valid targets," the log entry says.

After receiving the lawyer's advice, the pilots reported that the men had by now got back into their truck and were attempting to drive on. The gunship made two attempts to kill the fleeing men, launching a Hellfire missile at the truck. At first the fresh attack failed. "Individuals have run into another shack," the crew signalled. As the Apache hovered high in the sky, a few miles north of Baghdad, the pilots viewed a zoomed-in image of the fleeing pair on their video screen. The crew then received a further specific top-level kill instruction from brigade HQ and made another strafing run, firing bursts from long distance at 300 rounds a minute from the Apache's 30mm cannon. This time, the gunner succeeded in killing both men. At 1.03pm on 22 February, just 24 minutes after receiving legal clearance, the crew filed a log entry: "Crazyhorse 18 reports engaged and destroyed shack with 2X AIF [anti-Iraq forces].

Battle damage assessment is shack/dump truck destroyed." Crazyhorse 18 was part of the US army's 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, normally based at Fort Hood, Texas. Five months after this incident, on 12 July 2007, the crew of an Apache with the same call sign mistakenly killed 22-year-old Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, after opening fire on a group of eight men they believed to be insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and AK47 rifles in a Baghdad suburb.

Two children were badly injured and their father killed when the Apache crew fired armour-piercing shells at a van which arrived on the scene. The account of the February incident recorded in the classified log suggests the Crazyhorse 18 crew were not trigger-happy, but sought immediate advice from their superiors at all stages of the attack.

Lees het Iraqi war log Guardian maar eens. Klik pic of gewoon hier.

Taylor Swift heeft haar CD uit. Lekker luchtig, prettig verteerbaar.

Speak Now is het derde studio-album van Taylor Swift. Swift heeft in totaal twee jaar aan het album gewerkt. Het komt 25 oktober 2010 uit. Het album bevat 14 nummers. Swift heeft alle nummer op het album zelf geschreven, zonder co-writers.


Singles:
* Mine - Mine is de eerste single van het album. Het is een liedje over hoe zij zich de liefde voorstelt. Haar karakter was bang dat ze haar vriend zou kwijtraken omdat dat bij haar ouders gebeurde. De eerste release datum was op 16 augustus, maar omdat de single was uitgelekt op het internet kwam het 4 augustus al uit.

* Innocent - Innocent is een single dat ze in 2009 had geschreven: het is een lied over de rapper Kanye West. Hij stal in 2009 haar microfoon toen ze tijdens de VMA's ( Music Video Awards ) een prijs won voor Beste Vrouwelijke Muziek Video van het jaar voor You Belong With Me. Kanye zei dat Beyonce had moeten winnen en liep daarna weer weg, terwijl een radeloze Taylor achter bleef op het podium. Innocent is geen haat lied maar juist een lied over hij nog steeds onschuldig is en dat hij niet is wat hij had gedaan.

* Speak Now - Speak Now is uitgekomen op 5 oktober 2010. Het gaat over een vriendin van Taylor die verliefd was op een goede vriend, en zij dacht dus dat ze bij elkaar kwamen maar daarna hoorde ze dat hij ging trouwen met iemand anders, oei, dichtbij.

Ik heb hem tweemaal snel en makkelijk:
Makkelijk, mediafire cd1 -- cd2
Snel, multiupload cd1 -- cd2.

Justin Sweet studied art at Cal State Fullerton and later worked for Black Isle studios.

More recently he has been doing freelance work for various game and book publishers, as well as production companies and magazines.

A noted fantasy artist, some of his clients include Disney, National Geographic, Wizards of the Coast, Tor, DelRey and Wandering Star. Justin's work has been featured in Spectrum, from which he received both a gold and silver medal.

Take a look at his site for some examples of his most recent work on Prince Caspian www.justinsweet.com . He lives in southern California with his wife and three children.

Congratulations! You've discovered the official William Stout website! You can find brand new images and read Bill's latest thoughts, news and musings on his recently revamped Journal. Looking for Stout loot? A wide variety of Stout art and merchandise is available for purchase from the William Stout Bazaar.

William Stout is a famously diverse artist of international renown in many fields: themed entertainment and motion picture design (specializing in science fiction/fantasy/horror films), comic book art, book illustration, poster design, CD covers, public murals, and dynamic yet accurate reconstructions of prehistoric life. His endeavors in the fields of movies and comics have gained him a loyal following, making him a popular guest at comic book, science fiction and horror movie conventions around the world. You can explore William Stout's worlds using the navigation bar at the top of the page. If you aren't yet familiar with Stout's work, you may want to begin with his galleries or journal.