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Hugh Michael Jackman the 32 year old Australian actor and producer received facial injuries and a hurt back after traveling to fast on a flying fox during the Sydney Oprah Winfrey Show, crashing near the lighting rig and having to be lowered to the stage where he was treated by four paramedics. Jackman admitted later that he hadn’t adequately used the braking device, having been distracted and waving to his dad and kids, then went to apply the brake but in the excitement it was too late. He later returned to the stage with a bandage under his eye. Jackman intended making a dramatic entrance swooping through the air from the top of the Opera House down to the stage.

Inspired by Mark Joyella at Mediaite http://ow.ly/3rsh1

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Michael Fry a Professor and a cyber security expert has cautioned people assisting the cyber group Anonymous with their operation ‘Payback’, in their use of the software called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC to attack and bring down the Visa Mastercard and Paypal websites, are getting involved in a guerrilla warfare where their identities are easily traced if not covered up. The LOIC inundates the target server with huge numbers of requests for data which in turn effectively shuts down the websites ability to respond. Fry claims the people who took part are becoming commodities who could have broken laws about abuse of computer facilities, and it wouldn’t be too difficult to establish evidence they were knowingly doing so.

Inspired by Timothy McDonald at ABC news http://ow.ly/3rrXk

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Gerry Adams the 62 year old Irish republican politician and president of Sinn Féin one of the largest political parties in Northern Ireland has denied being an IRA leader and having advance knowledge of the Northern Bank £26.5 million robbery in Belfast. Adams claims Taoiseach Bertie Ahern the former Irish Premier and leader of the Fianna Fail party made public the allegations for political purposes as an attack on Sinn Fein the party’s electoral rival. Adams denies any historical membership of the IRA Irish Republican Army, stating the claims were not new allegations as he had denied them all before, despite the Irish government allegedly having “rock solid evidence”.

Inspired by Steven McCaffery and David Young at The Independent http://ow.ly/3rrxk

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Sir Michael Somare the 74 year old prime minister of Papua New Guinea has voluntarily stepped down over allegations relating to personal financial statements with a leadership tribunal set up to evaluate the official misconduct allegations against him. Political turmoil had intensified within the Papua New Guinea government following several key events in recent days, culminating from the country’s supreme court ruling that the governor-general’s election was invalid, and a cabinet reshuffle that ousted Somare’s deputy Don Polye. Polye and his followers are now tipped to join the opposition in a no-confidence motion likely to topple the government at a time when there is no valid governor general.

Inspired by Liam Fox at ABC News http://ow.ly/3rq0s

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Richard Holbrooke the 69 year old US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan and former ambassador to the United Nations has died after extensive surgery following a torn aorta. Holbrooke spent the majority of his life in public service and credited for the Dayton Peace Accords which ended the war in Bosnia that had caused the deaths of 200,000 people. During the dark diplomatic period of the Bush years, Holbrooke turned his skill to providing leadership to the Global Business Coalition on Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIV/AIDS. Returning to the diplomatic world stage with the demise of the Neocons Holbrooke dynamically applied his skill to his greatest challenge, an attempt to bring peace to the mess created by the Neocons in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Inspired by Jake Tapper at ABC News http://ow.ly/3rpjz and Michael Elliott at Time http://ow.ly/3rpjp

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Taymour Abdulwahab the 29 year old Swedish suicide bomber emigrated to Sweden in the early 90’s and obtained citizenship, however he lived a separate life in England, living mostly with his wife and young children in Luton England. Abdulwahab’s bomb belt exploded prematurely as he was heading to his attack destination, believed to be either a rail station or shopping centre, with a larger bomb in his backpack which did not explode. Luton has a significant Muslim community and was at the center of the July05 London MET suicide bombers operation. Abdulwahab apparently became estranged from his local community and mosque when he expressed radical extremist views and was confronted by the mosque committee.

Inspired by Patrick Lannin and Niklas Pollard at Reuters http://ow.ly/3roYk

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Nazario Moreno González the 40 year old leader of La Familia (The Family) drug cartel in Mexico was shot and killed by security forces in a firefight. González nicknamed ‘The Craziest One’ is the second drug lord to be killed in just over a month, having had a $US2.4 million bounty on his head in the USA. He was renowned for preaching Christian scripture to his gang members and to be delusional in claiming to be the protector of the local community. González built a cult like following among the Mexican gangs with a unique mystique built on slogans and violence. The firefight took place in the Apatzingan area of the Presidents home state of Michoacan, a La Familia dominated stronghold.

Inspired by Damien Cave at NYTimes http://ow.ly/3rc4E

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Eugene Delgaudio a bizarre homophobe Republican Loudoun County lawmaker and the president of the conservative nonprofit Public Advocate of the United States, claims the (TSA) Transportation Security Administration’s new airport security pat downs are part of a wide scale homosexual agenda given that the TSA does not discriminate in its hiring policy, “That means the next TSA official that gives you an enhanced pat-down could be a practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from your submission”. He claims the homosexual agenda in the USA Congress that promotes same-sex marriages will lead to “men hand-in-hand skipping down to adoption centers to ‘pick out’ a little boy for themselves.”

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Thabo Mbeki the 69 year old former South African President travelled to the west African nation of Ivory Coast under the auspice of the African Union to attempt a reconciliation between the two presidential candidates both of whom claim to be the new president of the nation. Initially the Independent Electoral Commission announced Alassane Ouattara the victor with a 54% vote count, however the Constitutional Council later declared the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo the winner with 51% of the vote after invalidating the earlier results by eliminating votes from Ouattara’s northern region strongholds considered to be fraudulent.  The UN special envoy’s review of the results favored Ouattara, however the incumbent has defied international appeals to step aside.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Ban Ki-moon the 66 year old UN Secretary-General urged progress at the Cancun Caribbean beach resort in Mexico toward raising the $100 billion a year aid pledge promised by 140 nations at the Copenhagen talks last year. The objective of the Copenhagen deal was to provide funding to assist the combat of global warming by poorer nations. The implementation of the deal has struck an impasse between rich and poor nations commitment to emissions cuts, each claiming the other should do more.  The differences are likely to increase with the demise of the USA as a power house and the emergence of Asian countries particularly China as world leaders in the coming decades.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi the 68 year old de facto leader of Libya since the 1969 coup caused a nuclear scare when he delayed the return of radioactive material to Russia for a month following a diplomatic tantrum.  Seven casks with 5.2 kilograms of highly enriched uranium was left on the tarmac at the Tajoura nuclear facility with only a single guard left to secure the weapons grade material. The Russian transport plane was forced to leave without the material after Gaddafi took offence during a visit to the UN in NYC where he felt humiliated when prohibited from pitching his signature Bedouin tent. Hillary Clinton resolved the crisis after reassuring Gaddafi of the USA’s commitment to Libya.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Norman Hetherington has died at the age of 89 after a career spanning 70 years as a cartoonist and puppeteer.  Best known for his character Mr Squiggle, a popular children’s television moon dwelling astronaut puppet, that had a pencil as a nose.  The television program tantalized the imaginations of many generations of children over its 40 year duration along with Bill the Steam Shovel, Gus the Snail and the grumpy Blackboard. Hetherington worked his puppet Mr Squiggle from above holding onto the cone cap to draw pictures with Mr Squiggle’s pencil nose onto the ‘squiggles’ sent in by viewers. Mr Squiggle would say “upside down, upside down” to his assistant, turning the picture around to reveal the drawing.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Michael Thomas Hancock the 60 year old Liberal Democrat MP in the British House of Commons and member of the defense select committee denied that one of his researchers for the past three years is a Russian spy.  Hancock’s 25 year old researcher Katia Zatuliveter is to be deported to Russia after the British MI5 security agency suspected she is involved in espionage. A former KGB defector alleges Russia has many Russian agents working in the British parliament targeting MPs in sensitive positions. Hancock’s office has recently been questioning various Whitehall departments relating to defense issues including details of the nuclear weapons arsenal and the locations of all submarine bases.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Hermila Garcia Quinones the 38 year old female police chief of Meoqui a town in northern Mexico has been assassinated by drug traffickers while traveling to her work place. Gunmen approached her unguarded vehicle in a convoy of vehicles shooting her dead. Quinones who overseered a 90 person police force, had only been appointed to the police chief position for less than two months in the town that has endured 40 drug related deaths over the past 12 months, in a country decimated by violence that’s resulted in 30,000 deaths in the past 5 years including journalists, officials, and community leaders. Her predecessor also assassinated had his decapitated head left outside the police station as a message to future appointees.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Leslie Nielsen the 84 year old veteran actor died of pneumonia complications. Canadian born Neilson a former air force gunner and radio DJ got his first big break in the 1950s going onto star in many movies including Flying High and the Naked Gun trilogy. The first half of his 60 year career, he worked in various TV shows including ‘Peyton Place’ building his reputation in playing authority figures such as the 1972 feature movie ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ as the captain of the cruise ship. However he is best remembered for his later work in the deadpan delivery of comedy stretches that kept on doing ‘dumb and stupid’.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Ramin Mehmanparast the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman condemned the recent attack which killed an Iranian academic and injured another as a terrorist action linked to Israel’s spy agency Mossad, stating it was a vain attempt to obstruct Iran’s path as it progresses towards knowledge and development. Bombs were detonated in the vehicles at separate locations of Professor Fereydoun Abbasi and Dr. Majid Shahriari of the Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. Shahriari was in charge of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency and is the second Iranian nuclear scientist killed this year. Motorcycle riders attached bombs to their cars as they made their way to work from different parts of the city.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Samuel Perez, Filo Filo, and Edward Nasau aged 14-15 years found alive after 50 days adrift in an aluminum dinghy in the South Pacific.  The three Tokelauans boys had set off in their small vessel with only a couple of coconuts on board and no water.  The vessel drifted 1400 kilometers across the Pacific until located by tuna boat.  The boys had survived on little rain water and a seagull they had managed to catch, but without further rainwater had resorted to drinking seawater and only days away from tragedy.  The three had lost weight but otherwise were in physically good health. Family and villagers had held a memorial service for the boys thought lost forever to the sea following an extensive aerial search.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Mike Huckabee the 55 year old former Governor of Arkansas and Republican presidential candidate claims the New York Times in reference to the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website release of US diplomatic documents has shown an utter reckless disregard for any responsible journalism by printing something that has been inappropriately obtained. Huckabee goes further with the person or persons who leaked the information, stating anyone who had access to that level of information knew what the rules were, would have signed under oath a commitment not violate, and as such is guilty of treason with anything less than execution would be too kind a penalty.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

King Abdullah the 86 year old King of Saudi Arabia has been quoted in the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website release of US diplomatic documents as urging the United States to attack Iran over its nuclear program in a meeting with General David Petraeus to put an end to its potential nuclear weapon capability. Abdullah wanted to roll back as a strategic priority the Iranian influence in Iraq calling for greater international sanctions for Iran that included bank lending restrictions and bans on international travel, with the use of military force against Iran by the US as an option.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Vladimir Putin the 58 year old Russian prime minister has been alleged in the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website release of US diplomatic documents to be the leader of a virtual mafia state dominated by the security forces and unmanageable corruption.  The documents describe Putin as an ‘alpha dog’ in his domination of the President Dmitry Medvedev who plays Robin to Putin’s Batman role. Putin apparently surrounds Medvedev with people he controls and has final say on significant decisions after being forced from the presidential office due to the constitutional two term limit.  Many believe that Putin’s departure from the office is only temporary and will return to the presidency at the next election.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Pierre Le Guennec a 71 year old retired French electrician reveals a 60 million euros collection of 271 previously unknown Pablo Picasso paintings and various works in an attempt to have them authenticated. Le Guennec apparently worked for Picasso during the last years before the artist died in 1973 installing alarm systems into Picasso’s many residences. Picasso’s son Claude the administrator of the late artist’s estate alleges the paintings are stolen goods and has filed a complaint to retrieve the works. Le Guennec claims he was given the works as presents from both the artist and his late wife, but Claude Picasso refutes this claim as completely out of character.  The works including note books have been seized by French authorities.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Kim Taeyong the 61 year old former General and South Korean ROK defense minister has had his resignation accepted by the ROK President Lee Myung-bak in the wake of the North Korean artillery attack on the Island of Yeonpyeong that killed two marines and two civilians. The ROK government faced internal criticism they did not respond severely enough to the attack in not launching an air strike on the artillery positions, only responding with an 80 return artillery barrage.  Taeyong who also received criticism for the earlier torpedo sinking of a naval ship the Cheonan that lost the lives of 46 service sailors, believed an air strike potentially ran the risk of an escalation of the conflict into a war.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger the 83 year old Pope of the Roman Catholic church referred to as Pope Benedict XVI by the 1.2 billion followers of the faith has provided a clarification on the church’s attitude towards the use of condoms, expressing their use as a preventive measure against HIV infection as an act of responsibility with the key point being the consideration to reduce the risk of taking another person’s life.  Ratzinger’s shift on the official policy that had for years been criticized for contributing to the HIV/Aids epidemic does not come in the form of sanctioning sexual promiscuity or a change in the church’s attitude towards homosexuality and contraception.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Tom DeLay the 63 year old former Republican House majority leader renowned for his tight control of the Congressional caucus nicknamed “The Hammer” has been found guilty by a jury of money laundering charges. DeLay was convicted of conspiring to channel corporate campaign donations to Texas candidates where it is illegal to use corporate sponsorship for political campaigns. Delay showing no remorse for his actions faces potentially life imprisonment when he again appears for sentencing, claiming that criminalisation of politics undermines the system expression his disappointed in the outcome. District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg held an alternative view, expressing that public officials elected to represent the people must do so honestly and they will be held accountable if they do not.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Lee Myung-bak the 69 year old President of South Korea responded to the provocative deadly artillery attack from North Korea on the South Korean territory as a direct invasion the first since the armistice that ended the Korean war in 1953. International supporters called for restraint as he declared that an enormous retaliation would be required to stem the provocations from the north. Tensions had mounted following the earlier torpedo sinking of the Cheonan and subsequent naval exercises involving in excess of 50 vessels being conducted between the South and allies the USA. The artillery barrage killed several marines & civilians and caused extensive property damage. Ironically South Korea provides humanitarian aid to the North.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Hun Sen the 59 year old Prime Minister of Cambodia apologized to the nation for the deaths of over 300 people and injury to as many more resulting from a stampede in the capital city Phnom Penh when thousands panicked when several people were electrocuted on a flashing coloured light lined bridge. Most of those killed were women and children from electrocution, trampling, suffocation or drowning as the incident occurred on the last evening of the annual three day water festival. Police apparently created the panic when water cannons were fired onto the bridge to move people along resulting in the electrocutions and ultimate stampede of the terrified victims.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Brian Cowen the 50 year old Irish Prime Minister has sought financial assistance of almost 100billion euros from both the EU and the IMF to support the nations banking system, after publicly declaring for some time that Ireland would not be accepting a bailout of its banking sector. However widespread concern at the extent of the budget deficit has led Cowen to announce his intent to make immediate cuts of 6billion euros to the budget with 15billion euros over four years along with increases to taxation. Additional loans have also been secured from Britain and Sweden to help support the failing Irish economy.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Wesley Snipes the 48 year old Hollywood actor having been convicted of a US felony offence involving taxation has been denied a new trial on appeal resulting in him being sentenced to serve a three year prison term. The taxation charge relates to his failure to submit tax returns and pay taxation on US$38million in revenue over a three year period. Snipes had sought a new trial claiming the jury had been biased by a prosecution witness who had criminal issues.  Snipes made his name when he starred in the role of Blade in the Blade trilogy a series of vampire action movies loosely based on the Marvel comic book character a half-human and half-vampire who protects humans against vampires.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Susan Magdalane Boyle the 49 year old Scottish singer who achieved international public attention with her debut on a reality television program has achieved a popularity status comparable to that of the Beatles and the Monkeys in the 1960s by having a number one album in the U.S. and U.K. simultaneously. Also significant to Boyles achievement is that it is a first for a female performer. Boyle up until recently lived a quite life in Blackburn West Lothian till discovered on the Britain’s Got Talent contest with her stunning performance of the musical Les Misérables ‘I Dreamed a Dream’. Boyle’s latest album ‘The Gift’ follows similar success to her first album released earlier this year.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Donald Trump the 64 year old American business magnate and property tycoon says it could be fun to run for the USA presidency in 2012 and would be prepared to spend US$200m of his own funds to campaign should he decide to run against the other most likely candidate Sarah Palin the former Alaskan Governor for the Republican nomination. He is likely to make his decision in June 2011. In an ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos, Trump identified China’s currency manipulation of significant concern, claiming the Chinese and other international countries lacked respect by getting away with ripping America off and treating Americans and their leaders as fools.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki the 60 year old Iraqi Prime Minister and Secretary general of the Shite Islamic Dawa Party has been returned for a second term in office following eight months of political deadlock between al-Maliki and major rival the Sunni backed Iraqiya coalition. The new government will comprise a power sharing arrangement where the Sunni bloc will fill the Speakers role and the Kurds with its incumbent for the ceremonial position as President. The agreement should help dampen the violent sectarian divisions that exist in Iraq as minority Sunni extremists seek to destabilize the government and fill the power vacuum that has existed due to the protracted post election negotiations.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

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