From Rockets to Roses to Shelters....

From Rockets

Over 12,000 rockets have been fired into southern Israel in the last 8 years, deliberately targeting Israeli civilians, causing chaos, destruction and death. An entire generation of children has been traumatized by the terror of ongoing rocket attacks. Yet the Goldstone Report claims that Israel is the aggressor.
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to roses

Hand sculpted roses created from actual Kassam rockets that landed in Israel. Living symbols of Israel’s perseverance in the face of terror. Yaron Bob, an Israeli artist living in the shadow of terror, has found his way of transforming objects of destruction into expressions of peace and hope for the future. A magnificent rose with a mission.

to shelters

Nearly one million residents of Israel are within striking range of rockets from Gaza. With only 15 seconds to find cover, lives are in jeopardy. Israel desparately needs more shelters to protect its citizens. A minimum of $50 from each rose purchased will be donated to Operation Lifeshield to build more shelters.

Check it out...

(thanks to sshender @ Elderofziyon.com)

Poet masks Israeli ID to win Arab prize

One name sticks out from the list of winners in the prestigious El Hizjra poetry competition intended for Dutch Arabs, which was announced last week -Tuvit Shlomi, press officer for Holland's largest Zionist group.
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Although the competition is intended for Arabs, it is open to anyone. Past winners include renowned Dutch authors such as Abdelkader Benali, Mohammed Benzakour, and Rashid Novaire.
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She is the daughter of a Jewish-Dutch mother and an Israeli father who immigrated to Holland. Her parents met in Israel after her mother immigrated here. The couple then moved to Holland to study and ended up staying. "Winning the competition is an opportunity for me to show that I'ma rooted in the Middle East just as much as the other applicants. That Israel is for me what Morocco is for them," said Shlomi, who had lived in Israel for a year, frequently visits the country and speaks fluent Hebrew.
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The pseudonym which Shlomi selected was Wallada bint al-Mustaqfi, an opinionated 11th century Arab-Andalucian poetess and proto-feminist who spurned the hijab, kept multiple lovers and embroidered fragments of her poetry onto her clothes. "Her message is something well-worth remembering, especially today," Shlomi said.

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Movies in 5 seconds

No time to visit the cinema or watch a movie at home in front of the tv or monitor?
I found the solution! Movies in 5 seconds. Enjoy! Especially Amadeus is a ROFLMAO.

Popular site Europeana crashed - will reopen mid-December

On November 20th when Europe's digital library, museum and archive Europeana was launched, its server crashed due to a huge use of its server with 10 million hits an hour (!). They are promising that they will reopen the site in a more robust version and for now you can only see the project development site. The site will bring you digitised books, films, paintings, newspapers, sounds and archives from Europe's greatest collections. Worth to check it out again once they'll get back on-line, which should be mid-December.

For now, a taste of what's on the real Europeana site:

Li Xiaofeng's dresses

Talking about art. Li Xiaofeng made some beautiful porcelain (!) dresses:


Though I highly doubt that they are comfortable wearing...

Check out her website for more porcelain dresses.

Bon appetit!

"Who are these people?" you might wonder. Well, these faces represent death-row inmates who got executed in the United States. In case your further questions touch the subject of what they had eaten as their last meal, now there is a way to find out. In Canada. Downtown Toronto.

Artist Paul Kneale set up a last meals delivery service which provides clients with a replica of the last meal consumed by someone executed in the United States. It'll cost you 20 dollars which is the standard budget allocated by the state for the meal.

Go to the artist's website.

Perhaps you end up eating John Waynes Gacy's last meal replica. Not sure if the family and friends of the 33 victims of this serial killer are happy with this lugrubious piece of art.