Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Once more this not serious blog is participating in Blog Action Day, because I enjoy the occasional pouring on of social commentary.

Even if they can't count these guys make a strong case about drinking water being good. So, I think we can all agree that drinking water is important. Really though the site leading this is kinda wrong a lot.

If one billion people out of out 6.8 Billion people on earth don't have clean water... that isn't one in eight. I don't know if that first number's accurate but it certainly isn't the same as their ratio.(That would be about one in seven)

According to them the United States was opposed to clean Water and sanitation being a human right, but according to the link they provided the motion passed 122 to 0. Maybe we were opposed but we weren't that opposed.

But that site being a mess isn't really the point. And do these people realize what would need to be done to actually provide clean water to everyone in the world? They just assume that because I have something to say in their program that I'm on their side. I am to an extent but that sort of thing is expensive and given the current economic situation of the world that sort of project isn't going to be easy to pull off.

When we're all prospering we can help the poor and downtrodden, but when we're slipping and might become the poor and downtrodden we need to buckle down.

And of course here is a polluted version of the Experimental Water Chicken. He was one of my first, so even though he's not looking so great I can always pull him back for a bit of screen time. The chicken hasn't changed much(though he is dirty and crying now) but his surroundings were horribly polluted.

The 3 Rs

Honestly... I don't care that much about the Environment. I just do things when they're convenient but I throw piles of stuff in the trash. And I'll refill soda bottles with water for a week or the such. All in all I can't say I'm good for it. But it's good to recycle when you can, even if you don't at every chance. You don't need to be that Green, but a bit helps.

Oh, and don't give me any "Protecting the Earth" nonsense. The Earth will be fine even if we 'ruin it.' We might not be too happy if humanity can't do things like get food or breath though.

Also I can't remember the 3rd R. Reuse, Recycle... Oh yeah Reduce.

Cut Away Letters

Here's a chicken with a stencil of the word chicken over it. At least that's how I've been vaguely thinking of it. I can imagine it being in some variety of cartoon theme song. So yeah. You can see the chicken that it there through the hole that is the letters. And what is that hole if not the filters we put of people when we look at him. You can only see him through the filter of chicken.

Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change

Okay, first off I don't think this is all our fault. The world just gets hotter sometimes. I mean if we have Ice Ages why wouldn't we have hot ages. Now mind you that's not to say that it isn't at least partially our fault. Still some of the things that we've tried to do to stop it, like not let India have cars, are just rude. The United States is practically the only major country, population-wise, that even cares. While other countries are trying to improve their lives we're chastising them for things we are doing worse. If out country wants to fix the environment then they shouldn't ask others to do things that they cannot. Increasing Environmental constraints on companies is one of the things that we do, though honestly I think we should just stop complaining.

As for the picture. Well that's what this entire blog is about. I'm pretty sure we abandoned the idea that this was going to somehow cause an ice age. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to flood everything now. Still the image had stuck with me from from movies and such, like The Day After Tomorrow, which I know are wrong but that's not important. And if we want to avoid whatever it is we're plummeting toward we're going to have to go against it with a burning passion.



This post was made as part of Blog Action Day 2009

The Zed Word

Here's my Zombie. I received a request and I didn't see any good reason why I didn't have one.

So okay man. Let's see here. Firstly I made him that pale green color I seem to recall zombies being for some reason, then I of course had to use pale for the beak and comb too, so it didn't look like crap. Crescent moon is there because they're more stylish.

Of course the eye not being in the socket is there to represent his rage being blind. The Zombie isn't a racist or a sexist. It's more than willing to kill and eat you no matter who you are.  And, yes. That is a symbolism, because the Zombie represents the government or something to that effect. I guess that's more of a Social Commentary, though I did say I probably wouldn't be doing those. And this all relies on an absurd metaphor anyways.

Loser-Face

This chicken... Well, he's a loser. You can tell from those loserly eyes he's got. But despite that he's got his own personal passion and he shows that it's alright to be yourself! Because even if he's not some fancy-made chicken he has still got a place here. You don't need to be what you aren't. [<-Symbolism]

Something something something. Non-conformist.[<-Social Commentary]

Consumerism

This is a piece of social commentary. Consumerism tends to take anything and feel like it can just stamp it on anything. Of course on its face this is simply a mockery of Tony Hawk's various product lines. The meaning however can be derived from that. Just because people like chickens doesn't mean that they want it plastered on their shirt or skateboard.

P.S. Don't ever expect any other social commentary from me. Oh, and click the picture to see the un-shrunken version