The Subrosa Blog is now complete
Please be aware that this incarnation of the 'Subrosa Blog' has now ended - why not visit the new Stuart Homfray weblog?.
Of course, that's not to say that the Subrosa blog will never return... I may decide to reincarnate it as a sort of sideblog or something!
If you've arrived here via a search engine results page, you may also wish to consider entering the site via the main entrance, as Subrosa itself has now outlived it's usefulness...
posted by Stuart NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT POSTED VIA BLOGGER!
Monday, October 06, 2003
The Journey of a Writer/Animator...
Just completed a small site for my brother highlighting animations that he's completed for clients such as the Paramount Comedy channel, UKPlay, and Spinon.
The design and layout was his idea ("...it complements the style of the animation..." were amongst the phrases that he uttered) - my job was to implement it "...as quickly as possible!!"
Anyway, if anyone's interested, take a look at David Homfray Animation (my particular favourites are The Idiots Guides).
posted by Stuart 7:30 PM
Friday, October 03, 2003
"I told you so," says Hans...
It turns out that the Iraq Survey Group have been unsuccessful in their quest for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Hans Blix, the man who headed the United Nations weapons inspection team in Iraq before the war, said:
"I don't think there are any surprises. The most important point is that they confirm that they have not found any stocks of weapons of mass destruction of any kind."I suppose we can't blame David Kay's team too much - after all, we all know what it's like if we think that we've lent someone at the office a stapler or a ruler, and then we need to find it again... it's tricky, isn't it? The problems tend to arise when it turns out that they never had it!
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says that the contents of the report actually justified removing Saddam, and Republican chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee Porter Goss said that the reason to go to war was that Saddam Hussein had been doing bad things!
Mr. Straw - the report indicates that Iraq may, at some point in the future, have the potential to commit some pretty nasty acts, but is that a good enough reason to actually invade another country? There are many countries around the globe (including the UK and the US) who would qualify there.
Mr. Goss - that's a wonderful attitude! I take it we'll soon be going into Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China, Israel, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Myanmar, Columbia, El Salvador, Italy, Turkey, etc, etc. It makes a change to hear from a politician with LONG-term plans!!
OK, so if there's no WMD in Iraq, that means that they could not have launched an attack within 45 minutes - so why did we go in, exactly? Stay tuned, keep your ear to the ground, keep watching the skies, and let's see what Tony and George say next!
posted by Stuart 2:01 PM
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Sadly, we can no longer believe...
...that the media is solely interested in serious investigation, as Media Lens point out - even the more left-wing, seemingly socialist press. The latest Media Alert contains the following:
"And yet in more than 10,500 articles on Iraq, its recent history, its problems, its apparently endless suffering, Halliday [former UN humanitarian coordinator, Denis Halliday - responsible for setting up the UN's 'oil for food' programme in Iraq] has been mentioned twice in the Guardian and Observer this year. Chief Unscom weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, who described Iraq 90-95%, or "fundamentally", disarmed of WMD by December 1998, has been mentioned 13 times in these 10,500 articles."I mean, you have to stay loyal to your mates, don'tcha!! Not only that, but newspapers are a business and therefore need to make money. What would you rather read about anyway? Dull, tricky-to-understand stories suggesting that the Weapons of Mass Destruction story may have been a bit, erm, wrong, OR, a story about contestant X of Fame Academy being seen out and about with an England footballer??
The article finishes with a horrendously true quote (that applies both here and in the US) from Noam Chomsky [Google him for more]:
"We're so anti-social that we don't even see the point of supporting popular institutions. Remember, even if you're an activist on the left, what you've constantly been taught from childhood, and what you've still got ingrained in your head is: 'I'm just out for myself, and therefore if I can get the information for nothing, why should I help to build an institution?' Well, that's obviously a very anti-social attitude - but you find it's very hard to break out of: we've just got it."Absolutely... :(
posted by Stuart 6:56 PM
