Concept T shirts Reviews

We add our blog to the call for anyone who has influence to work to freeing Alan Johnston

A thousand years ago

a password meant you mattered, belonged, were trusted.

You kept it locked in your mind and its importance made it impossible to forget.

Today, we have hundreds. Boring, stupid passwords for

boring, stupid tasks. And we forget them all and panic.

Where did I write that down?

And what’s my username?

That was never a worry in 1066.

Twitter is the current internet buzz, but for once it is not all hype. Twitter sounds - and is - incredibly simple.  It allows people to send 140 character messages that everyone can see. This is an immediate means of disseminating information around the web.  It is in real time, it does not involve anyone visiting your site to get the information.

In the past people have read novels to help see the world from other perspectives and experience life through other people’s eyes. Twitter allows this to happen immediately, and through the eyes of hundreds of people. Using Twitter I can learn what everyday life is like for people in China, New Zealand, Poland…This is a completely new possibility and one that may become extremely important as means of instant, global person-person contact.

If you want to follow my life (a UK artist!) Sign up for Twitter and add artistx as a friend!

I admit it, I’m not up on Armenian cinema. Here though is a great film set in post-Soviet Armenia. The landscapes are cold, snowy and inspiring - the poverty is brutal and unremitting. The extreme temperatures exacerbate the horrors that the people have to endure, yet the film is lyrical and upbeat. What happens?  Not a lot - this is not for action movie fans. Two pensioners realise they can be happier with each other than their memories of former partners.
As their hearts change so the snow that covers everything starts to melt.  We leave with a sense of success, that people can make a difference and can change for the better. As a snapshot of a different, almost unimaginable life this is well-worth seeing. Almost documentary in its photography, Vodka Lemon deserves all the plaudits it has received.

Enjoy!