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My chosen text is the First Things First manifesto first written by british graphic designer Ken Garland in 1967 where he informs and want fellow designer to take a stanch agains the un critical view and the wast of talent on trivial advertisement. Its a call for action to using the talent on more constructive us of talent. He determine the abolition-meant of advertisement fully is not feasible but that the “favoring of the more useful and lasting forms of communication” (Ken Garland) is needed.

Art Object

Reborn sounds of childhood dreams 1 by sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi. Is a painting that Ibrahim painted while he was a teacher in Sudan. The picture shows a group of dark figures standing and look at you.

Popular Media

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissu is a movie directed by Wes Anderson in 2004. The story is about the world explorer Steve Zissu that goes on a adventure to hunt down a giant shark that killed his friend in a early adventure. Along the adventure he encounter is long lost son that goes on the adventure with him and on the way discovers more about himself and where he is in life. The realization that he is not immortal and there is bigger things in life than his own ego.

See: Lives Aquatic: Mediterranean Cinema and an Ethics of Underwater Existence by Elena Past