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I am currently in my final year of foundation Degree Digital Media at Leeds college of art, and I specialize in story-telling using a range of mediums including interactive based content. I would say I am inspired by cartoons and comics, but also the little things that most people don't notice or maybe are not bothered about, like this strange women on the train the other day, I imagined her whole life in 2 minutes! or the way a silverfish freezes up when it feels vibrations in the hope it won't be noticed! OK so I admit I have an overactive imagination, always have, but that is what I like about me and I feel this only helps me in my line of work. My strength as a digital designer definitely lies in my passion for creating a narrative and a mood, I am interested in the visual construction between image and sound and I like to animate using 2D software and my own hand drawings. I want to bring "my world" to life using digital media.....

Thursday 2 September 2010

Just a little rant about the Ukrainian "hammer killers".......

I won't say how bad the video is or how it made me feel etc as many have and I'm sure we all get the point on how disturbing and sick the video is. What is even more alarming is how normal everyday people who would never "dream" of committing such crimes have openly said that they would "love" the opportunity to "do to them, what they did to others". WTF? see how EVIL spreads? no I am not religious, quite the opposite actually, but I do believe in Evil and after reading up on crimes like this and the sheer scale of this evil in the world sinking in, I wish I did have a faith... but I have nothing.
It's not the content of the video in terms of gore that got to me, to be fair the beheading videos and the face split viral, (guy jumps off a cliff and splits his face in half and is still breathing- the one where you can see his tongue flapping around through his open throat??) but the little details, that make this so sad and make it cut right through people's hearts the way it does.

Like the times journalist, Caitlan Moran pointed out:

"it is the man's trousers - grey, slightly worn but ironed; the kind that a poor, proud man would wear if he were going to the bank, say, or visiting more well-to-do friends - that were the most upsetting. He had dressed in great calm, and great order. He was now dying in unimaginable disorder and distress." This upset me more than the gore, and the fact that these boys were laughing, taking it in turns like it were some sort of game, it reminded me of the torture scene in the movie: "Eden Lake" and sickened me all the more because we watch these films and munch popcorn whilst clearly thrilled with the violence on screen, yet it is happening every day, whilst we are taking the kids to school or shopping on the high street, just think, this sort of sick shit is actually taking place somewhere, for real. It seems to me that we are becoming more and more desensitized to gore and death everyday, CHILDREN ARE KILLING PEOPLE! it's horrendous! like one person on here said, it's enough to make her want to just lock herself in her house and block out the outside word, and she was glad to see all the people here who are disgusted... I agree.... except many of them say they want to do the same things to the 2 boys themselves, some even came up with fantasy scenarios in which they would like to see them go through, see what I mean about Evil spreading? already these boys have made normal innocent everyday people desire and fantasize about yet more violence and murder.
I'm sorry for the long speech, but I have to get this out of my mind and go back to living in my bubble, I rarely watch TV or the news etc, only just found out about this now a couple hours ago in fact! I am often criticized for being the way I am, but I am glad of it now, I can forget this awful awful hellish crap and go back into it, although every now and again horrid rancid shite like this comes along to tear a great big hole in it and I fall out of the bubble into this black, cold reality....shudder..... I am going to try and climb back into my own world now that I have written this, hopefully it will help... sorry if I sound crazy, I am an aspiring creative writer so can get carried away! my heart goes out to all the families of the victims of these monsters, a result of living rich spoilt lives, probably only ever shown money instead of love, I doubt the parents care for their children's names to be cleared out of love, it is most probably to do with money and respect, family name etc. they probably don't give a shit about the kids, never have, what loved child could turn out this way?