Weekend Contest: #JeSuisCharlie
Artists all around the world are making themselves heard after the terrible shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris earlier this week. As a tribute, I’d like to dedicate the weekend contest theme to it as well.
- Post your work below (attach an image and a screenshot if you like).
- Post only new work, not existing.
- Vote for your winner by Monday.
- Be sure you’re logged in to Disqus when voting, anonymous votes will be discarded!
- The winner will get a post next week, and will get to pick next weekend’s contest theme. Have fun!
(Image: #jesuisCharlie by Paradox Wyw)
I started making the last night as a header image before seeing this post. I wanted to include all the cartoonist’s tools of the trade.
Little Sketch, Mighty Words: #JeSuisCharlie
Since this day, everyone is Charlie.
Tous Charlie.
Hey Crus-T
I add such an idea, very cool you’ve made this picture :)
good luck for this Contest
I vote for you
Thanks Pierrick :)
#JeSuisCharlie
Ce ne sont pas des épées (These are not swords)
Perhaps a double meaning: exercising the freedom of speech should not be seen as a crime, but it shouldn’t be used as a weapon either. #JeSuisCharlie #NousSommesCharlie
In France, this drawing would not be considered as defending freedom of expression, in this realm of ideas, it is forbidden to forbid. But freedom gives you the right to treat this drawing as a weapon.
Oh gosh, that is not what I was going for. My first
intention was to show that Charlie Hebdo was justified in their satire because “words
are not swords”; ie. The extremists had reacted as if they had been physically
assaulted even though the drawings had been just that: drawings. The image is
based off of René Magritte’s La trahison
des images, and in this sense it also lays claim that freedom of expression
is a weapon, or at least it has the ability to act as a weapon if you so choose
(which I think is your stance, maybe?). I guess your reaction helps to demonstrate
the subjectivity of everything we say or do. My interpretation of this image is
that it supports freedom of expression, although I see how it could easily
support the contrary. It appears that I put way too much thought into this,
haha. I’m sorry for any confusion I may have caused.
You just described the problem between the shade of a comment and the shock of one image. The problem is located there. Thanks for the precision.
Here is my reference work:
“In the field of ideas it is forbidden to forbid.”
Hmm…I’m not sure if that logic stands as universally as you stated it. I won’t relate my reply here to the Je suis Charlie topic, so I just want to speak objectively. Just dealing squarely with pure logic here.
I think that statement is generally true, but not true in the absolute tone in which you stated it. Logically-speaking, even in a free society with free speech, certain speech is socially forbidden. Every freedom has its natural bounds.
For instance, if someone started publicly writing graphically-demented fantasies involving your wife, or if some seeming stranger started to talk with your child online, you’d immediately stand with a sense that a forbidden (potentially illegal, even) idea has been promoted.
If I were to write a bunch of racist, sexist or otherwise discriminatory rhetoric about people in a general publication, I could be sued by such people in the court of law, and most likely would lose the case. Why? Simple. Even in context to the freedom of speech, there exists anti-discriminatory laws. Free society still places limits.
An absolutely true freedom of speech would account no level of speech as a crime–but naturally, we do not feature such an absolute freedom. Even within the freedom of speech, there’s a line with most people in society. A line of common sense, perhaps, but still, a line nonetheless.
Of course, that’s the intrinsic balancing act with the freedom of speech. It’s a principle that, if you take it most literally, it’s ultimately a catch-22. Of course, it’s also much better than the alternative: no freedom of speech.
So, the freedom becomes relative…which is where the question begins: What is the freedom of speech? Such freedom is humanity’s constant question. Though, for what it’s worth, I’d say the question worth our efforts in answering.
I just wanted to address this, because I think that quote is a bit challenging. Someone can take the notion and run with it, without weighing it responsibly. What we say today can affect others tomorrow. For better or for worse.
This is the only reason why I would say that “In the field of ideas, it is forbidden to forbid” would not stand as factually true. It’s relatively true, and I would emphasize it as such. We have the freedom of speech, but we also have a responsibility for how we define such freedom.
Charlie Hebdo, it is the disrespect, the freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the freedom to criticize religion, the freedom of having no religion. Simply Freedom, freedom of caricature and today it seems we have a big job in France to make this rules understandable. But I also agree with you for the rest.
Hi!! Our armaments are ready!!
I’m sure a lot a lot of you have, at some point in your lives, created a plane like this.
OK, I cheated on this one: 3D – Model “Pencil” by ibworlds, 3D – Model “Submachine gun M24 R” by DennisH2010 from blendswap were used…
Hi!! Our armaments are ready!!
Good “weaponization” of pencils :P
Just one thing: it’s “Charlie Hebdo”, but you wrote “Charlie Hedbo” on the pencil holders ;)
jajaja …my dyslexia… jajaja
Thanks
Statue of Liberty of Speech
Scripta Manent
How would aliens express their support for Free Speech ?
Can you see the people ?
How would aliens express their support for Free Speech ?
Can you see the people ?
Oops, sorry, I can’t delete the first post with double image.
Yeah, i discovered this last time, that disqus has some bogus behavior, assigning a post to a “Guest” user when you try to delete it. I hope this will get fixed, and if it’s wanted i hope they’ll understand that it doesn’t make sense xD
Thanks for the explanation, I couldn’t understand how that ‘guest’ post appeared.
I removed it.
I try ^__^
Hi,
Here is my entry for the contest ! Thanks Bart for giving Blender artists the opportunity to express themself about this tragedy.
I started this image tonight after seeing all the demonstration that happened today all around the world : solidarity and unity are good values to fight terror, and I’m really glad that people stood together today to say that they are ready to defend freedom of speech! Let’s hope that it will last for the next days…
Cheers !
“Broken”
Dont know if its to late but heres my entry, i also designed this as a header image and wanted to make something simplistic yet meaningfull.
#JeSuisCharlie
Could anybody admiring free speech be tolerant enough to say: “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do”?