Regarding the 640 x 480 images:
Please make sure the text is in TAHOMA font, in black and no larger than pt 14. The background of it can be white, or grey, as long as its readable. You obviously going to use images of whatever the event is, so I don't see the need for any other colour, but it's up to you really. Just as long as it's not too loud and blends in well. We want to have some kind of continuity.
Also, Please please double check your spelling and facts, because they'll be images, we won't be able to edit them so it is important that they are correct!
Hope that's ok for everyone.
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Sunday 30 November 2008
Funk/ Disco 1974-78
Dino Fekaris' I Just Want To Celebrate (1971), War, the old group founded in Los Angeles by British vocalist Eric Burdon, with Spill The Wine (1970) and The World Is A Ghetto (1972), and the Jackson Five (featuring the young Michael Jackson), with I Want You Back (1970), ABC (1970), The Love You Save (1970) and Berry Gordy's I'll Be There (1970). The Bee Gees (Staying Alive and Night Fever, In 1977 the film "Saturday Night Fever", by promoting disco-music, launched the disco fever around the world. http://www.scaruffi.com/history/cpt34.html
MUSIC
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/artd/amg/music/bio/434802_gbh_200x200.jpg
Music 1970-1980
Punk
“From 1970-1980, punk saw a massive explosion with an over whelming offering of punk music. Those years saw the bands New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Generation X, Crass, Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, The Clash, Ramones, along with every other punk band of those early years, trying to make a statement about one thing or another. Trying to embrace a "we don't care" attitude.”
http://www.helium.com/items/740725-punk-music-past-present-and-future
Saturday 29 November 2008
1900-1910 War, peace and politics Research
New Imperialism
New Imperialism refers to the colonial expansion adopted by Europe's powers and, later, Japan and the United States, during the 19th and early 20th centuries; approximately from the Franco-Prussian War to World War I (c. 1871–1914). The period is distinguished by an unprecedented pursuit of what has been termed "empire for empire's sake," aggressive competition for overseas territorial acquisitions and the emergence in colonizing countries of doctrines of racial superiority which denied the fitness of subjugated peoples for self-government.
The Second Boer War (1902)
The Second Boer War (Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Tweede Boereoorlog), commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War (outside of South Africa), the Anglo-Boer War (among most South Africans) and in Afrikaans as the Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog ("Second War of Liberation"), was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902, between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic).
The Philippine–American War (1902)
The Philippine–American War (1899 - 1902) was an armed military conflict between the United States and the Philippines, which arose from the First Philippine Republic struggle against U.S. annexation of the Islands. This conflict is also known as the Philippine Insurrection.
The war officially ended on July 4, 1902. However, remnants of the Philippine Army, and other resistance groups continued hostilities against American rule until 1913.
The 1905 Russian Revolution (1905)
The 1905 Russian Revolution also known as the Failed Russian Revolution of 1905 was an empire-wide struggle of violence, both anti-government and undirected, that swept through vast areas of the Russian Empire. It was not controlled or managed, and ion of decades of unrest and dissatisfaction stemming from the autocratic rule of the Romanov dynasty and the slow pace of reform in Russian society as well as calls for national liberation by non-Russians within the Empire. The direct cause was the abject failure of the Tsar's military forces in the initially-popular Russo-Japanese War, which set off a series of revolutionary activities, sometimes by mutinous soldiers and at other times by revolutionary societies.
Although it was put down with a blend of accommodation and savagery, the Revolution did increase the pace of reform in Russia, but not enough to prevent the second revolution which overturned the Romanovs in 1917. The Revolution of 1905 was often looked back on by the Bolsheviks as an initial popular antecedent to their own revolution.
New Imperialism
New Imperialism refers to the colonial expansion adopted by Europe's powers and, later, Japan and the United States, during the 19th and early 20th centuries; approximately from the Franco-Prussian War to World War I (c. 1871–1914). The period is distinguished by an unprecedented pursuit of what has been termed "empire for empire's sake," aggressive competition for overseas territorial acquisitions and the emergence in colonizing countries of doctrines of racial superiority which denied the fitness of subjugated peoples for self-government.
The Second Boer War (1902)
The Second Boer War (Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Tweede Boereoorlog), commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War (outside of South Africa), the Anglo-Boer War (among most South Africans) and in Afrikaans as the Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog ("Second War of Liberation"), was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902, between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic).
The Philippine–American War (1902)
The Philippine–American War (1899 - 1902) was an armed military conflict between the United States and the Philippines, which arose from the First Philippine Republic struggle against U.S. annexation of the Islands. This conflict is also known as the Philippine Insurrection.
The war officially ended on July 4, 1902. However, remnants of the Philippine Army, and other resistance groups continued hostilities against American rule until 1913.
The 1905 Russian Revolution (1905)
The 1905 Russian Revolution also known as the Failed Russian Revolution of 1905 was an empire-wide struggle of violence, both anti-government and undirected, that swept through vast areas of the Russian Empire. It was not controlled or managed, and ion of decades of unrest and dissatisfaction stemming from the autocratic rule of the Romanov dynasty and the slow pace of reform in Russian society as well as calls for national liberation by non-Russians within the Empire. The direct cause was the abject failure of the Tsar's military forces in the initially-popular Russo-Japanese War, which set off a series of revolutionary activities, sometimes by mutinous soldiers and at other times by revolutionary societies.
Although it was put down with a blend of accommodation and savagery, the Revolution did increase the pace of reform in Russia, but not enough to prevent the second revolution which overturned the Romanovs in 1917. The Revolution of 1905 was often looked back on by the Bolsheviks as an initial popular antecedent to their own revolution.
Artefact Research (chris)
1900-1910 Artefacts Research
Pablo Picasso- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) is a large oil painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts five prostitutes in a brothel from Avinyó street (Barcelona). The eye-catching painting is one of Picasso's most famous, widely considered to be a seminal work in the early development of Cubism.
It has been argued that the painting was a reaction to Henri Matisse's paintings Le bonheur de vivre and Blue Nude. Its resemblance to Cezanne's Les Grandes Baigneuses and El Greco's Opening of the Fifth Seal was discussed by later commentators.
Picasso created over seven hundred sketches and studies in preparation for this work. He made the painting in Paris and stopped working on it in the summer of 1907.
Fauvism (1900)
Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only three years, 1905–1907, and had three exhibitions. The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.
Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.[1] His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.
The Dance (second version) (La Danse), is a painting from 1910 by Henri Matisse.
Monday 24 November 2008
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