Cartoons: Triumph of the nerds. IN 1989 Bill Watterson, the writer of “Calvin and Hobbes”, a brilliant comic strip about a six-year-old child and his stuffed tiger, denounced his industry.
In a searing lecture, he attacked bland, predictable comics, churned out by profit-driven syndicates. Cartooning, said Mr Watterson, “will never be more than a cheap, brainless commodity until it is published differently.” In 2012 he is finally getting his way. As the newspaper industry continues its decline, the funnies pages have decoupled from print. Instead of working for huge syndicates, or for censored newspapers with touchy editors, cartoonists are now free to create whatever they want.
This burst of new life comes as cartoons seemed to be in terminal decline. Cartoons go way back before newspapers. But it was the combination of the rotary printing press, mass literacy and capitalism which really created the space for comic art to flourish. Newspapers filled with sensationalist reporting sold millions. Voodoo. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Voodoo may refer to: Religions[edit] See also: Afro-American religion, for a list of related religions, which are sometimes called or mistaken for Vodou/Voodoo.
Aircraft[edit] McDonnell F-101 Voodoo, an American supersonic military fighterMcDonnell CF-101 Voodoo, the F-101 in Canadian serviceMcDonnell XF-88 Voodoo, a prototype jet fighter aircraft, the F-101's predecessor Computing[edit] Music[edit] West African Vodun. Theology and practice[edit] Vodun cosmology centers around the vodun spirits and other elements of divine essence that govern the Earth, a hierarchy that range in power from major deities governing the forces of nature and human society to the spirits of individual streams, trees, and rocks, as well as dozens of ethnic vodun, defenders of a certain clan, tribe, or nation.
The vodun are the centre of religious life, similarly in many ways to doctrines such as the intercession of saints and angels that made Vodun appear compatible with Christianity, especially Catholicism, and produced syncretic religions such as Haitian Vodou. Adherents also emphasize ancestor worship and hold that the spirits of the dead live side by side with the world of the living, each family of spirits having its own female priesthood, sometimes hereditary when is from mother to blood daughter. Juju. An 1873 Victorian illustration of a "Ju-ju house" on the Bight of Benin showing fetishised skulls and bone Juju or Ju-Ju is a word of either West African or French origin[1] used previously by Europeans to describe traditional West African religions.[2] Today it refers specifically to objects, such as amulets, and spells used superstitiously as part of witchcraft in West Africa.[3] Contrary to common belief, Vodun is not related to juju, despite the linguistic and spiritual similarities.
Juju has acquired some karmic attributes in more recent times: good juju can stem from almost any good deed; bad juju can be spread just as easily. These ideas revolve around the luck and fortune portions of juju. The use of juju to describe an object usually involves small items worn or carried; these generally contain medicines produced by witch doctors. Resultado de imágenes de Google para. Togo's Voodoo Market. It is a traditional animalistic religion that relies on the spiritual powers of the elements.
It is popularly known as Voodoo. However, it is known amongst the locals of West Africa as Vodun. The local Ewe people believe that only people with the power of the Earth can heal a person. They think that the power from the earth can be got from a black powder, which is a mixture of roots, leaves and crushed whole animal heads. There are tens of millions of followers for this way of treatment of the diseases in that region. Ghana Photo Album : KatrinaKittle.com. Me at the Temple des Pythons, in Ouida, Benin The village water pump in Tafi Atome, Ghana Kids dancing in the drum circle in Tafi Atome, Ghana Women dancing in the drum circle, Tafi Atome, Ghana.
Heads will Roll Voodoo Markets. In North America or Europe, when most people have an ailment they go to a pharmacy and stock up on whatever brightly packaged synthetic drug is being peddled as the cure.
In fact, pharmaceuticals are so rampant, in American society anyway, that they have lost all pretense of being treatments; case in point, ZzzQuil – **won’t cause dependence, unless you enjoy a cough syrup high**. In many parts of West Africa, a large part of the population goes to the voodoo market when they are feeling ill, depressed, down on their luck or just generally unwell. There, a local practitioner will choose the appropriate remedy from the piles of dried heads, make a few cuts on your ailing body and rub the wound with a powder made of ground animal corpses.
Words and chants accompany this process, and by all accounts it doesn’t sound like something that will be back-door peddled or abused by teenagers. More info about author Meghan More by Meghan.