vendredi 24 janvier 2014

Flowers in my Head

Flowers in my Head
November 2013
Original photo taken in August 2013

Reverse Psychology

Reverse Psychology
September 2013

Building Aïcha

Building Aïcha
July 2013

dimanche 5 août 2012

samedi 21 juillet 2012

mardi 17 janvier 2012

The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator

(legendary speech)



written by Sir Charles Chaplin


"I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair". The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty. In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written: "the kingdom of God is within man ". Not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you. You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"

dimanche 8 janvier 2012

Créateurs de la Destruction

Le fait qu’ils soient sous le même ciel ne les empêche pas de se battre. Pourquoi demandez-vous une justice ? Car enfin, la justice n’est qu’injustice pour certains : ne pas profiter de sa force est une injustice en soi.

Les humains ne se trompent peut être pas. Ils voudraient peut être faire de ce monde un Enfer car c’est ainsi que ceux qui vivent au Paradis peuvent s’en rendre compte. Créateurs de la destruction !

La tentation de la souffrance est trop grande pour que les hommes puissent y résister. Et pour qu’ils souffrent, ils doivent survivre. Pour survivre, ils doivent s’entretuer.

La fin du monde n’a aucun sens, puisque chacun a son monde et que chacun est le centre de son monde, seule sa propre fin est la fin de son monde.

Pour les créatures de ténèbres, le monde est différent : il n’y a point de batailles inutiles. C’est probablement pour ceci qu’ils appartiennent à un rang plus élevé. L’humain est si naturellement insensé, qu’il serait juste par un autre tour de folie de penser à le sauver…


(2006)

samedi 31 décembre 2011

iCloud

iCloud
(Tunis, November 29, 2011)

vendredi 23 décembre 2011

Eyes of Grey

Eyes of Grey
(one is looking to the past, the other is looking to the future)