Kester Brewin

Category: News

  • First Pilotless Police CCTV Drone Launches

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    Following up on the recent post about CCTV, I just had to post this story. Am I alone in thinking this is seriously worrying? That we are sleepwalking into a Stasi-style surveillance society? Get your catapults and air guns loaded my friends, the battle starts here. Technorati: BBC | CCTV | Drone | Police |…

  • Oops…

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    How prescient of me. Or not. Falwell is now the most dangerous guy in heaven. Or somewhere. I feel bad. Only this evening I was chatting with my mum about the BBC report in the last post, and quipped I wished he was dead. Oops. Sorry. Technorati: Dead | Falwell

  • Death-Wish | Don’t Demonise Cho

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    The release of Cho’s video all over the media is just another example of technology being used without proper restraint, not unlike the shooting itself. It’s a horrific violation of those suffering. In a previous post, and in the comments that followed, I was trying to probe a link between these killings and the spate…

  • Dangerous Representation ¦ Chocolate Jesus’ Penis ¦ Trickster Art

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    In news rather like that surrounding the furore over Andreas Serrano’s ‘Piss Christ‘, the BBC are reporting ‘outrage’ over a 6 foot chocolate Jesus being displayed in a gallery in Manhattan. The piece, entitled ‘My Sweet Lord’ is by the artist Cosimo Cavallaro has drawn huge fire from the Catholic League, who described the piece…

  • Don’t Renew Trident | Eno/Albarn/Del Naja/Greenpeace

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    For today only you can catch a web-cast of the Anti-Trident performance of ‘5 minutes to Midnight’ on the decks of Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise last night while moored off Westminster on the Thames. The piece was written by Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and Robert del Naja. “I would say that even if Trident was a…

  • Comic Relief | It’s [not] All For Charity

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    Some time ago I wrote a piece on Art vs Justice, which threw about some arguments as to whether art is ethical when people are still dying of hunger. More recently some discussion around that issue came up over on Jonny’s blog as to whether art is ‘vital’ in itself or not. Tonight my niece…