Darkness
Serbian bloggers express their spontanious protest over everything that happened in the past couple of days (and maybe more) by placing the picture of darkness on their blogs: Mooshema, Blogowski, Dinke, Aurora, Suske, Milos and Stefan so far…
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LOL!!! Holy CRAP! Just looked to the left on your site! That flickr image on top is mine! I uploaded it only an hour ago! Jebiga! I am Island-Life! I was going to link to it here but no need now! LOL!!!
Someone here has known that for a while now though!
For what it is worth, I didn’t believe the rumor. Some do though, and that is not a good thing….
While I fully understand emotional side of this initiative, I don’t see too much reason for it. If we now have medium (blog) to use as we like and say what we want, why give it up?. Sure, black image is a message too, but other images and words are probably more powerful. It’s just individual feeling, I guess…
@MediaMix
It doesn’t matter is it only darkness on the image, or perhaps it’s a photo of snickers… The only thing that matters is to send a message which will show our feelings at this moment.
So. . .go ahead! Publish at your blog what ever you want, just do it.
It’s a good message, it’s a reminder of the Women in Black protests, very appropriate.
Also the blank display stands as an eloquent contrast to the sort of message communicated by the YouTube threat to B92 presenters reported by Dragan Grcic at Blog de veille sur les droits de l’Homme en Serbie (In the First Comment – https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3095375028602125849&postID=4688056570373071495)
@Aurora, my point here was that I’d prefer to see Viktor’s posts, and some others’, about what’s going on, and comments on these things, than JUST black image and no posts for a while.
“MediaMix,
(I’m sorry if my comment sounded as a kind of an “attack”)
But it is really hard to write these past few days… Ppl are writing, but all these blog posts sound like a one single track on a “repeat mode”.
Black images are just a way of an quiet protest in blogosphere.
Media Mix, this is a temporary protest. And I believe that people are using the black image for different reasons, too. Some have it because they are afraid of another war, some because they are simply sick of it all, some cause they are tired, and some maybe even because they are sorry for Kosovo loss.
Live coverage continues here, as well as on these other blogs as of right now (as if it ever stopped thanks to commentators).
I personally thought this a good idea. It is but, something is missing. Something isn’t there that is catching the eye of the majority. I admit I haven’t a clue to what this is yet.
What I do know though, is my boy the other day told me a Muslim kid of his age came to him asking to borrow 20km that was desperately needed. My boy goes on to tell me that he really doesn’t like the Bosniaks but gave him the 20km because he knew how it feels to really need money and not have it. I was FREAKING proud of him and told him so. If you followed my blog at all you may know of the challenges I had with him in the Srpska Republika as a young boy traveling into the Federation.
Something is missing here though! I told him about this “protest”. It didn’t make a bit of difference to him. He didn’t care and from what I am seeing not too many do care from both sides. Once again it seems a minority are trying to cause war while the majority idly sit by in fear and anticipation. I’ll ask him what he really thinks will make a difference. If there is someway to get the attention of the Serb, Bosniak and Albanian youth alike to wake up and see the good light verses the bad, progress may be gained. Yea I know, very much easier said than done.
There is something out there that will connect to this next generation to wake them up to the practices of a corrupt political party and government whose only care is of its self – not for the people. I think it is each of our own responsibilities to attempt with all our might to figure it out before it is too late.