Abigtreehugger

I hope everybody has at least remembered about the women who have made sacrifices and added to the collective achievments of women around the world. It doesn't matter how large or small a contribution is it should be acknowledged.

My personnel Heroine is Dr Rosalind Franklin without whose work, perloined by Watson and Crick, the structure of DNA would never have been discovered. The person who was not named when the Noble Prize was given to Watson and Crick.

Here is an article on six female scientists whose shoulders male scientists stood to grasp the brss ring.

I frequently get into arguments with people because I have an intense dislike for Winston Churchill and peoples blind belief that he is the greatest Britain. Recently there was a program on the BBC in which they were searching for the iconic person of the 20th C. So many people in Britain believe that Churchill won WWII which is an insult to all them millions of people who died in that conflict.

This Gentleman one of my personal heros, insulted and disabused by the country he did so much to help save the many who in fact did so much more to reduce the lose of life in that war. A man abused by the state because of his sexual orientation and more importantly turned into a crimnal by that same state because of his sexual orientation. Alan Turing in possible the most important person to the 21st C.

An interesting prefound comment made by Chris Pacham, after get all the members of the audience to take their mobile phones out was:-

“In each of your hands you hold a little bit of Alan Turing.

“He’s with us when we wake up, he’s with us when we go to bed at night and he’s with us when we talk to our loved ones.

“He’s beautiful isn’t he? Glistening in our darkest hour. Alan Turing’s legacy hasn’t passed. It’s not a relic of the 20th century. His gift to us is our future.”

                        

I am sure a lot of people realise that London is the Grafitti capital. There is some amazing graffiti in London and to be honest it is the only reason some areas of London look in anyway cheerful.

Just over  ten years ago in 2008, the, I won't say infamous, the famous grafitti artist Banksy organised a huge event called the Cans festival and it was incredibly successful. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/…

But you know something, nothing has changed the establishment still treat graffiti as criminals as talentless vandals, or do they www.theguardian.com/artanddesi… It seems that graffiti artists become much more the flavour of the week when the establishment find a way to buy and sell them.

Art has always been about selfexpression and because of that it has always attracted the seditcious elements. The establishment will always want to control and essentialy own them and one stamp of ownership is the ability to buy and sell it. We have seen Comics become less lowbrow and tattoos, the reason is not that the work has become more acomplished, the establishment has found a way to own, buy and sell these to forms. You now see people in the establishment buying and selling orignal tattoo artists flash, you see them buying and selling original panel drawings for comics and comic strips. Now they have found new and inventive ways of buying and selling graffiti. Will graffiti leave the world, of as they sweetly put it, of the low brow artist. The members of the elite and monied classes will always look for a way to own the outsider. Any different to slavery, it is still a way of owning an element of another person.

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