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Week 12 [ 16.01 - 22.01] Collage in art

Collage in art. 4 artists you should know about them. Mary Lum Interdisciplinary artist Mary Lum in her collage work combines photographic fragments of urban architecture, architecural elements found in vintage comic books and acrylic print on a paper to creat new spaces suggesting the intertwined facts and fictions of urban experience. Cutting and layering paper is analogous to wandering it the city. In her works we can find fatastic world mixed with our everyday views. Mary has been member in the Visual Arts department of Bennington Collage since 2005. Gordon Magnin Images from high-fashion , body-building and pornography are based choice of the artist. He play with human body in every possible way. Repetition, converting, using geometrical shapes lets him create inimitalbe humans creatures. His art is somehow discomposing and refer to this days cult of the body. Virginia Echeverria As she says she attempts to to make manifest an invisibl...

Week 12 [16.01 - 22.01] The Effects Of Palm Oil

Did You Know That palm oil which most of us use everyday harm orangutans and other wildlife? First of all what is palm oil and where we can find it: Palm oil is the most widely used vegtable oil in the world, Half the packaged food products found on supermarket shelves now contain palm oil. Cookies, bread, potato chips, chocolate and milk are only exaples. Palm oil is also extensively used in cosmetics and toiletries like soaps, shampoos, detergents or toothpaste. Increasingly, palm oil is used as a biofuel.. to sum up I can say that Palm oil is just ubiquitous! What we should know before we buy products with palm oil: Oil palms only grow in the tropics and need much water. Originally native to South America and West Africa, palm oil plantations have now spread throughout the wet tropics to Papua New Guinea, parts of Asia, Kenya, and also back to countries in West Africa and South America where the palms are native. The problem with palm oil is that vast areas of...

Week 12 [16.01-22.01] Finland experiments with universal basic income scheme

Fot.1  http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/590x/Finland-money-624756.jpg Finland's experimental scheme to provide its citizens with a basic income, regardless of employment, launched earlier this week. The two-year pilot scheme will provide 2,000 unemployed Finnish citizens, aged between 25 and 58, with a monthly basic income of 560 euros ($581.48) that will replace their other social benefits. These citizens will continue to receive the basic income even if they find work. Kela, the organization which runs Finland's social security systems and is running the pilot scheme, hopes the basic income experiment will boost employment, because the current system can potentially discourage the unemployed to find work as their earnings reduce the benefits they may receive. "For someone receiving a basic income, there are no repercussions if they work a few days or a couple of weeks," said Marjukka Turunen, head of Kela's Legal Affairs Unit, ...

Week 12 [16.01-22.01] Trends in Superfoods

Probably you met with the term ‘’superfoods”. There’s no official scientific definition of a superfood, but it’s generally accepted that superfoods contain high levels of much-needed vitamins and minerals. They can also be a source of antioxidants, substances that shield our bodies from cell damage and help prevent disease. List of superfoods trends often changes. These superfoods are currently popular are quite exotic products for us. 1. Spirulina source: http://www.well-beingsecrets.com/wp-content/uploads/spirulina-Helps-Manage-HIV-AIDS.jpg This blue-green algae is a freshwater plant. It contains complete protein (up to 60-70%), it has all 8 essential amino acids (exogenous) and 10 other (endogenous), so it’s a great source of protein for vegan and vegetarian. It contains far more protein than beef, chicken or soy. Spirulina has a very distinct taste. You can get it in the form of powder or tablets. 2.  Goji berries source: http://ja...