Well yesterday went reasonably well, I had some work to do so that was nice. Comping together those middle east milk drink ads, nice images. I then got given the task of doing a backplate for a car animation we are pitching for. I have a photo to work from and I spent yesterday airbrushing out a big fat american man from the side of the picture. I like doing this sort of thing, retouching photos, trying to keep it looking real is a challenge. Would help if he wasn't such a fat bastard like, occupying more pixels which means more work for me. I normally have a wee pint on a wednesday night but due to fucking england playing it meant my two locals were crammed to the rafters with cunts, so I just wandered home. After my tea I just sat down with my rwanda book and read and read for hours, until I'd finished it. A harrowing read but equally it was totally worthwhile. I felt so much for the bloke as he obviously suffered so much psychological harm after the event. When he detailed members of the UN team who eventually just snapped while out there was saddening to read. I'm sure I'd snap if I saw the sights and felt the things they felt while out there. You could feel his anger in every page that he was left with fuck all resources and abandonded by the western nations as 800,000 people were murdered in that small country. Reading these sorts of accounts make me really appreciate living in a western nation at the current time, we are more lucky than we could possibly comprehend, and he alludes to the increasing anger felt by the worlds poor and hopeless towards the affluent nations in the west. Maybe if we showed true compassion towards suffering then we would be looked on with more respect, but as we only ever generally intervene for our own gain, so that growing anger is understandable, especially whenn you consider how much of the world lives. As he sums up at the end of his book, he tells of how the Canadian Forces Peace Support Training Centre teachers use a slide to explain to soldiers the nature of the world. If the entire population of the world was represented by 100 people, 57 live in asia, 21 in europe, 14 in north and south america, and 8 in africa. 50% of the worlds wealth is in the hands of 6 people, all of whom are american. 70 people are unable to read and write. 50 suffer from malnutrition due to insufficient nutrition. 35 do not have access to safe drinking water. 80 live in substandard housing. Only 1 has a university or college education.
Saddening reading. And who can blame some of these people wanting a better life, wanting to have something more than shit and despair.
Anyways, I'm now reading a book about the lives of dogs.
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