Specifically the Human Rights Action Center.

So! Here's the deal: The poster is now up on eBay and will be for 10 days. Whether or not you actually bid on it doesn't matter, just help spread the word so that we can find a nice philanthropist. Or, just bid a couple bucks.

I have no monatary goals for this poster and what I can donate to HRAC; if we even got this up to $20 I'd be overjoyed. Anything helps."

I am attaching a picture of this poster, and you can see details about his e-bay auction here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260334226609

Thank you all for your help and support!

Love,
Anca

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i just woke up. in 5 minutes i get to read 3 different blog posts about 'how to behave on twitter'. so i get pissed off, as @mirkohumbert would've expected. Why, you might wonder...

BECAUSE TWITTETIQUETTE IS FUCKING RETARDED! that's why!

I haven't seen anywhere in the twitter terms that you must behave while on twitter, except the common sense rules, as in do not  abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users. Nowhere does it say "do not @ to new followers" or "do not post more than 1 tweet in 15 minutes".

Where the fuck did all this shit started, man? who was the self-centered ass who thought it would be useful to the world if he would make everyone on twitter act according to his personal preference on how twitterers should act? Well, that person must be a angry, retarded, grumpy person, who thinks he's the center of the world, and his rules on behaviour must be known and followed by everyone who wants to be followed by said person.

In case you read this, you first person who wrote the first twittetiquette post, take a step forward. I would love to chat with you and piss the hell out of you, as you did me with this stupid retarded bullshit behaviour list of yours.

And then, for some odd reason, everybody considered it's ok to do it. Let's all fucking make lists with rules and boundaries on how and what to write in 140 char. messages. And then make a religion for us all on twitter to obey to. And then start throwing rocks at people that do not act according to our centralized system of @ beliefs.

What the fuck, man? Seriously, if you guys really feel like making a list on how people should act to not be unfollowed, at least have the decency to call the list "my twitting pet peeves" or something like that...do NOT make it into a general post on rules for how other people should act, that only makes you look like a self-centered bastard who tell other people how to be online. Who the fuck put you in charge with making rules for Twitter? What are you, Twitter police? And what are you going to do, throw me in Twiter jail for not complying to your stupid twittetiquette? HA!

In case you twittmilitary people haven't got to this page yet, here is the "How does it work?" page about Twitter:

"How does it work?

With Twitter, you can stay hyper–connected to your friends and always know what they’re doing. Or, you can stop following them any time. You can even set quiet times on Twitter so you’re not interrupted.

Twitter puts you in control and becomes a modern antidote to information overload."

SIMPLE ENOUGH FOR YA?

There's nowhere on there any fucking rule about how to reply to others or how often you have to tweet. IS IT??? So shut the fuck up with your stupid etiquette, and unfollow me if you don't like the fact that i have 5500 tweets in a month. News flash: I don't care one bit if you like me or not! You are the one that clicked the follow button to read about my life and see my personality. You didn't have to. So don't go and tell me how to act, ok? Just fucking unfollow and stay in your righteous little world, because honestly i don't want to know about your existence.

Love,

Anca

 

 

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For a couple of years I have been working for the Human Rights Action Center (HRAC), a non-profit organization involved in ....doh! human rights work.

This year, on December 10, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , written by Eleanor Roosevelt. Only 5% of the planet's population have read this document, and most of the people that have heard of human rights, don't know them. That is the reason why we need to promote this document, and make everybody aware of its existence.

The HRAC started a campaign for this, the goal being to publish the UDHR in everybody's passports. We have a petition online, and there are volunteers going on campuses and getting everybody to sign it on paper. If we gather a big amount of signatures, then Jack Healey , the HRAC director, will have the means to get the US government to publish it. 

We will also need people to write their senators, governers, country officials, send them emails requiring to print the UDHR in passports. We are still working on this part, getting a sample letter ready and all.

OneDayforHumanRights.com   (don't click on it yet, there's nothing there! :) )

I got the idea for a blog from Blog Action Day : it is a brilliant idea, and it is pretty incredible the outcome that they had! People like to help other people, and it's so easy to do so sometimes. Therefore, my blog will be the means for people to do something for human rights.

How it'll work:  we make a blog that will plead to bloggers to blog about the UDHR on December 10, and backlink to us and the petition.

The goal: to get as many people to sign the petition, sent the letters and possibly donate to HRAC.

Depending on the outcome, Jack can take the petition to government officials and start pushing the UDHR publication in passports.

What I need help with is more than anything promoting the blog and for people to get involved, but before that I need to get it going. I will set it up tonight and tomorrow, and then implement the design and content. 

I have only implemented one WP blog before, so it is not my best strength.  I can do designs, but can't adapt it to WP. I am not even sure on how to set up ads on there (would like to link to Blog Action Day, HRAC, US Campaign for Burma). So any advice would be more than welcome! On anything...if you have sugestions on how i could improve it, etc! Hopefully my server will be able to handle this if it will be successful. :)

The bottom line is that I need all the help I can get. This, however, is a non-profit project - no money involved whatsoever. I don't want to get payed for it, don't want to put payed ads on the blog, and don't want people to ask me for money for their help. This is about way more than money! If you can't figure out why, please don't offer your help. :)

In case you are interested to help me, with WP advice, coding, implementation...anything, please let me know:

email:  anca@visualdexterity.com

skype: visualdexterity

twitter: http://twitter.com/anca_foster

Also, We Design Change is gonna back me up, and you are more than welcome to register there and contribute. That is another awesome idea, coming from Alex: twitter.com/alexlinebrink   and we'll probably have contests going, having you create art for the universal declaration of human rights. we're still processing that part. hehe!

Looking forward to hearing from you!

"All that is needed for evil to succeed, is that decent human beings do nothing" - Edmund Burke

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Usually when I am air traveling, I never pay attention to the airlines catalogs. The things they sell are expensive and not that special compared to what's in the real world. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. :)

One time though, flying from Bucharest to Vienna, after I reread the security booklet (I always read that, even though it's always the same. And never get up from my seatbelted chair during flight..), I flipped through their catalog, and I stopped breathing! I started jumping in my chair, clapping my hands in excitement. "When we get to Vienna, we need to go to this store and buy one of these bracelets!!!" "Sure!" says Mr. Mine.

I am not a 'jewelry" type of girl, really. I go through phases, but doesn't last me long. But what I saw in that catalog was impressive: the best designed bracelets I have ever seen in my life! The colors, the motifs, the shapes and color schemes, the originality of creativity...they all gave me a combination of feelings dominated by the "all fuzzy inside" one.

Turns out that these wonderful bracelets are made by FREY WILLE - a Viennese enamel jewellery manufacturer that was founded in 1951 and is world-renowned for producing unique enamel jewellery with focus on absolute art-historical authenticity.

Frey Wille's trendy and colorful collections are inspired by different historic periods of art, from ancient Greece to Egypt, and some of their designs represent an homage to famous artists, like Claude Monet, Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klint, the presently featured one being inspired by one of the greatest Austrian artists of the 20th century: the painter, architect and philosopher Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Each of the collections, besides being very attractive visually, have different meanings behind their creation. For example, the  Sphinx is "the embodiment of mankind's dream: to possess the power and graceful majesty of the lion and to be able to fly like an eagle, while having human intellect. For FREY WILLE it symbolizes creativity and the power to realize this creativity in developing unique pieces of jewelry".

Of course there has to be a downside to my story! We found the store. The jewelry were breathtaking, so beautifully designed and crafted. And then I saw the prices! Being handmade and unique, their prices are justified, but I couldn't afford at the time to get one. My favorite ones are the super-wide "Diva" bangles , and they are priced around $1,000.00. I would and pay that price, because the design is worth it, but maybe a little later, after I grow up! I am sure I will never stop wanting one.

I go back to their site regularly, and study their designs for a long time. I always find their color combination and motifs to be very inspiring. Definitely one of the few best designs I have seen so far.

Curious enough? Check out a few pictures, or go to the FREY WILLE website for a price shock! :)

This post was written as a part of Designer Daily's Design you Love group writing project.

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Here's a list of an awesome designer, that gives great feedback to fellow designers and web designers, that every designer needs to follow:

http://twitter.com/anca_foster

Hope this list is detailed enough and you'll enjoy following these people.

:D

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Easter by Bill Hicks   (1639 KB)
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Gideons by Bill Hicks   (1380 KB)
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even a new 30 lbs trash can can be cool!

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Once upon a time, there was a beast that was watching TV all the time. Not because the movies were interesting or the news were intriguing. He, in fact, hated television. He thought it is a waste of time, as it is sleep. But he had nothing better to do. He didn't have anyone to share his life with, and that is what turned him into a beast in the first place.

One night, while watching a re-run of Rambo IV, during a commercial break, he went outside on the balcony and he thought to himself: "I have had enough of this TV nonsense. I am going to find someone to share my life with and together we will make the world a better place!"

It took him a long time to find his apartment keys, that's how long it's been since he hadn't left his apartment. Eventually he found them buried behind all the guitars he had but didn't play in forever. It was that one war that made him lose hope that music can make people better. It can't, it's a waste of time.

"Hope is stupid", he started thinking while driving around the ugly streets. He hasn't been talking to anyone in 147 years, because he didn't like explaining himself. They would always ask "what do you mean?" and that drove him crazy! Is it that hard to understand? "I will never find someone to love me and for me to love back." But, against his negative feelings, he had this desire to keep looking.

"Maybe in a club! That's where people socialize, right? I will have a drink, and that should do it! I'm sure the drunken people here won't even notice that I am a beast. They'll see me as one of them. Surroundings are what makes a person, right?" He stood in front of the club for 3 hours that night. He just couldn't walk in. NO! No! no… not like this. He decided he's not going to take that path. Depravation was just not his thing. Too shallow for his style…

So he got in his car, dreaming of his soul mate. He was sure there's gotta be someone out there!!! But…but…NO! Stop it! There's gotta be someone! Only 1 person in 6 billion! Somewhere out there in this fucked up world, full of war, sex, depravation, drugs and wrong moral systems, abuse, crime, lies…one person who can make him have hope again! Hope that good and love are not just a myth.

When he got home, he went straight to bed. He hated going to bed. He hated the city, the apartment keys, the TV, Rambo, the club and the cars, people and hope. His last thought before he fell asleep was "I bet I'll die without ever have loved someone!" He hugged his other half of his heart and fell asleep.

He dreamed, first time in 326 years. He dreamed that 'the other half' of his heart turned into a beast. THE beast of his dreams. Literally? He woke up laughing, while someone was kissing his beastly nose…

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