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31 March 2010

#84 Draw today's news on a large sheet of paper

I usually avoid the news. It makes me uneasy. Tabloids and newspapers aren’t so quick to bring up positive news. See Engla. See the tsunami. See macabre journalists wallowing in creating dramatic stories to sell issues. 

I understand that there may be a danger in avoiding the news altogether. But it's nice to escape. In the world of news everything feels so fucking hopeless.

I’ll make one more try to grasp today's news. But I can’t be bothered to rewrite it. I'm trying to visualize the stories, to make it easier to get a grasp on what has happened today. I’ll make a poster about it. I’m trying to put the things that have happened in a context. An overseeable list of what has happened. Then I look at it and try to understand. Maybe I'll put the poster and post it downtown. Like a cartoon headline. From me to you.

Required time: 
One hour to read and to select 10 to 15 news. An hour to put them on a piece of paper together. Fifteen minutes to go into town or where you live and put it somewhere where it’s allowed. Or in your staircase or your on parents' refrigerator.
Cost: 
Free if you have paper and pencils. A larger sheet of paper costs about 2 euro.
Cons: 
You might be even more pessimistic when you see the world, jotted down and collected.
Pros: 
You may get a better understanding of our abstract and crazy world as it appears in the images that you've drawn.
Taggar: news. pessism, drawing, contemporary

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