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Trick or Treat by °chanelqueen17 1 month 1 week ago

Trick or Treat by °chanelqueen17 1 month 1 week ago

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After months of work, chanelqueen17 has created a gorgeous scene of Alice and Oz from Pandora Hearts, using scans that didn't even feature both characters together. Even after spending so much time on matching the details of the characters to their new looks, chanelqueen17 didn't stop there and went all out on the background too! This wallpaper definitely needs to be seen!

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Art is Resistance preview
© 2009 θBeckor
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This wallpaper was last updated 3 months 1 week ago (3rd revision)
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θBeckor
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~Lord of Simplicity~
35 wallpapers
3 months 2 weeks ago

Note: some of you might be to young to grasp this wallpaper and its vision behind it, dont feel insulted/dumb/whatever, hopefully you will understand ore get encouraged to try to understand it and share a part of my vision

I Will not tell you guys the world is a unfair place because of this and that

I Want to encourage you to become aware of situations in our world. There are always stories becoming accesible to the public in a way of documentaries, news items and much more. Some are gruesome some just deal about the enviroment.
Most of us live in a peacefull and happy world with not much to complain about besides that you need to clean up, do groceries ore walk the dog, the usual stuff.
But when you see something that conflicts with youre world I would like you to take a look at it, maybe even it is just for a second. Get Aware

I made this wallpaper to help getting people aware and maybe do something one day that helps out others ore helps other people get aware. Maybe you will hold a speech one day ore maybe enter a debate ore maybe just like me make a piece of art. Art is resistance and a way to let youre voice be heard.


Speak the truth and you shall be heard



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inspired by:
Sheppard Fairly - Obey Giant
Rage against the machine
Aung san su kyi
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/420258277_ea089ba386.jpg
and many others
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thanks for all the comments and favourites, i added a widescreen version

User Comments!

°yago-san
Community Waller
Yes we!... what?
Comments: 223
3 months 2 weeks ago
The message it's great, we now days need to do something about evrything.
Great wall by the way.
~FlatCat
Member
Shit, am I beautiful or what?
Comments: 51
3 months 2 weeks ago

Simply beautiful! What a great impact!

Love it < 3 This is just my type of wall.

Keep this shit up ;D
Smex. Le Chemin.
~Ned-suki
Member
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
Comments: 445
3 months 2 weeks ago
Great !
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$gloomfox
Donating Member
Comments: 59
3 months 2 weeks ago
I can tell a great deal of thought and work went into this piece. The text where art is resistance you use a grey backdrop, but personally I think you don't need it Transparent would have worked fine.

Also the rest of the text under art is resistance seems unnecessary and even cliche. The colors you use give me the impression you favor communism, I hope that is the case.

This is an excellent wall, if you don't have a portfolio of your work, you should start one and put a printed copy of this in there. You have a high degree of art design.
~Tapsilogg
Member
Comments: 76
3 months 2 weeks ago
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE reference! <3 emoticon I really truly like this one. Beautiful wall as I love the message being carried. I only have one problem with it though, grammatical error with the word "THEN," I think what you meant to use was "THAN." So other than that, it would be awesome! Please if you can fix the grammar mistakes, it would be much appreciated.
I want a place to hang out where record player's playing and there's a thousand movies rented for a thousand nights with her.
$Serge87
Donating Member
Comments: 131
3 months 2 weeks ago
I LOVE this wall its going right on to the desktop and i hope everyone gets the message cause its a good one
~bluelion
Member
Comments: 2433
3 months 2 weeks ago
Their poses and suits are filled with strong spirits of resistance. Marking hiding their faces is very interesting.
°dalarty
Community Waller
∞ + ∞
Comments: 882
3 months 2 weeks ago
Ahh, the motto of my life (well... next to "Magneto was right" har har har). What an amazing wall. Probably one of the best messages/themes for a wall I've seen on this site to this day. I'm fascinated to know more about your views because of this wall~ I'm sure we'd have lovely conversations.

Anyway, great wall and I'm glad you posted it. ^^
$GoldenApe
Donating Member
Lazy Monkey
Comments: 313
3 months 2 weeks ago
Hell of a comeback, Beck, long time no see.
Are you here to stay, or is this just to satisfy people like me, who've been drowned in the filthy river of unoriginal and mediocre walls that AP has been supplying over the past week(s)?

Anyhow, your wall is, well, a piece of art indeed. I've been looking for the right words to descibe it for 20 minutes now, but can't think of anything that sums up the message and the artwork without using silly Top Gear-terms like 'fantastic' and 'brilliant'. I mean, it's not a brilliant wall, it's 'just' an expression of a statement that is already shared and supported by many people, including me. The way you did it though, reminds me of those typical anti-communistic graffiti paintings and Che Guevara logo (which you now find on every t-shirt, baseball cap, wallet, lighter, etc <_<). And I love that style, plus it truly supports the message behind it. It's also something I can look at for a long time and find inspiration in.
Thanks for that.
Just like you I hope more wallers will be inspired by this wall. Not just by it's style, but more importantly by it's message. Thought behind art is definitely something I value above all else. Art is freedom, so you need to take that chance to express yourself.

Faved.
~SailorPokemon
Member
Rabid fangirl that's full of epic win, yo.
Comments: 166
3 months 2 weeks ago
Everything about this wall is wonderful and the message is inspiring. Definitely faving this. :D

Great job~

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`metalmallow
Senior Member
extremely bored and severely confused
Comments: 767
3 months 2 weeks ago
Art in and of itself isn't enough to "resist". It can be juxtaposed with the Latin proverb "Acta non verba" which means, "Action, not words". Don't get me wrong, art can definitely inspire and open eyes, but there is nothing that substitutes action. True revolutionaries like Che Guevara and Karl Marx understood that time shouldn't be completely wasted on just talking about change.

As for the wallpaper itself; it's decent. I really like the symbol. My only gripe for that is the obviousness of a texture, because of the 90º line of contrast between it and the white background.

It has some design flaws; the text doesn't flow and is probably too plain for this kind of wallpaper. I really like the black stripes on their eyes with words. That's really clever. =]

And I'm glad you like Rage Against the Machine. They had a concert nearby last year and I didn't know till the day it happened. It pissed be off because they hardly even tour. -_-

Anton Chekhov
Brevity is the sister of talent.
~Tapsilogg
Member
Comments: 76
3 months 2 weeks ago
I want a place to hang out where record player's playing and there's a thousand movies rented for a thousand nights with her.
~satoushigeki
Member
~NanDeYaNen!~
Comments: 92
3 months 2 weeks ago
Your wall is great
the star symbol remind me of mind, power, and change concept
"We need Mind and Power to Change" < 3

+fav it


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~FourthEspada
Member
In a maze without end, why do we still breath?
Comments: 203
3 months 2 weeks ago
The truth, the beauty in the ugliness in this wall, it brings tears into my eyes. I value nothing higher than art and artists themselves, art is a passive way to change the world, an honest way to change things. The fearful fact still is though, those who don't understand, don't listen.

No one sees the world in the same way, but you can group people for similarities in how they see the world. Artists, true artists (not those pitiful ones who have a truckload of talent and no message) can appreciate true art unlike anyone else in the world. If the world held nothing but true artists, maybe we wouldn't be in such a chaotic world with arrogant and profoundly useless people as world leaders. If only others would listen. But it's arrogant of us to dream that way, don't you think?

Faved.

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~bloodshadows92
Member
Used Felony
Comments: 95
3 months 2 weeks ago
A very interesting perspective that you are coming from. I understand what you are saying, but in some ways I don't get it logically. You're "wise words" make a lot of sense, but I would have not guessed that otherwise unless you would have said so. The wall in my opinion gives me the sense of revolting or rebelling, because of the style you presented. Again though, the text changes that and confuses me, but maybe that is a good thing. How? Well, now there is something for the viewer to ponder. And weather they come up with the right answer or not, they will take action in that.

Very nice wall I must say, and awesome reference to Rage Against The Machine. Those lyrics are probably some of the most intriguing words, and makes your skin crawl if you're thinking too hard about it. Good work.
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`Sashinka
Senior Member
Eu estarei sempre com voce ♥
Comments: 629
3 months 2 weeks ago
I love how you made the idea! everything is well made!
thanks for the sharing! =D
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~utams
Member
Comments: 782
3 months 2 weeks ago
Art seems to have turned into a hipster these days. Art will grow out of that phase when it's older though.
Go team!
~eviltanger
Member
Comments: 17
3 months 2 weeks ago
I love your msg..
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`lifeissimple
Senior Member
Comments: 146
3 months 2 weeks ago
This wall really caught my eye because the message, although seen a lot elsewhere, it isn't seen a lot on walls and such, since it is so heavy. I like that you are using your talent to make people aware of what's going on around them. I agree with what metalmallow said about art not being a substitute for action and all, although expressing your views through art is an action. I also think that the point of art like this is to inspire people into taking action (as was mentioned in your box), but although art itself is passive, whether the resulting action is violent or not depends:/ At least, that's my opinion.

About the design:
There's a line between the image and the rest of the wall which I think you should get rid of.
And I wish the symbol was the same darker colored red as the text and the red in the image.
That's about it. Nice job ~
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~xRyuzakix
Member
Comments: 22
3 months 2 weeks ago
NICE!