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Some beautiful and excellent designs! Thanks.

Photos taken on the first day of the Dakar Rally outside the town of Mones Cazon. The rally is racing towards the town of la Carreta, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.

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Gregory Millen ©2009 – all rights reserved.

This is the exhibition poster below.

]]> http://www.gregorymillen.com/2008/11/photography-exhibition-128-dias-campo-gobierno/feed/ 0 http://www.gregorymillen.com/2008/10/freehand/ http://www.gregorymillen.com/2008/10/freehand/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:08:04 +0000 Gregory http://www.gregorymillen.com/?p=294 Keeping up with the learning curve and what to learn is an ongoing challenge for anyone who gets into using these creative tools. Factoring in all the other software and web platform services out there and has at one’s finger tips can appear to be a mind boggling task. Not to mention the rate software develops, improves and expands. Been traditionally trained (per the studio Mac with scalpel in hand) and reflecting on the blood, sweat and tears along with the delight invested over the years into using Freehand I certainly missed it’s multi-page layout and typography features when it went by the way side – Adobe buying over Macromedia and absorbing the product suite into their own. I particularly missed the multi-page feature when it came doing design roughs with many vector and different type elements – held altogether in one editable doc – which then through a process of copy file and elimination you ended up with the final design and artwork file. Having wrestled with both Illustrator and InDesign CS3 to achieve a similar work flow it appears that Illustrator CS4 has adopted the ability to work in such a manner into this new release. I look forward to seeing how the return of this feature is greeted by those in the design community who so dearly missed it.

Adobe CS4 is now shipping.

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Clamor espontáneo / Spontaneous Outcry

Marzo / March 2008 – Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires. Through-out the city thousands spontaneously take to the streets - Cacerolazo – in outrage at the President Christina’s speech slamming the farmers.

Masa en pacífico desacuerdo / Peaceful Mass Disagreement

Julio / July 2008 – Acto av. Libertador, Buenos Aires. On one of the main avenues of the city over 300 thousand people unite in protest supporting the farmers.

Victorioso acuerdo / Victorious Agreement

Julio / July 2008 – Acto av. Libertador, Buenos Aires. Supporters reveal in the words of a farm leaders speech the afternoon before the “no positivo” vote by Vice President Cobos (see below).

If you wish to use any of these photos that would be great! Please contact me about how and what, thanks!

Gregory Millen ©2008 – all rights reserved.

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The end of the “128 days Farm-Government / 128 días campo-gobierno” stand off came after the now famous Senate deciding “el voto de Cobos” (Vice President) which was –  “no positivo” – to stop the increase in tax retentions becoming law. It is worth noting that the Government had for these past 128 days been collecting the increase in taxes which amounted to millions of dollars – lack of transparency as to where to money when still stands today. The protest was bringing on a food crisis with empty shelves in supermarkets and restaurants closing across the country. It impacted all of related services within argibusiness and effected the tourism industry.

Even now after the tax law has been thrown out of the Senate back in July, the Government continues to shut out the farmers in finding full resolution and agreement to the counrty and economy forward. In the meantime the world economy at large keeps spinning into turmoil as this internal battle turns a new page – as of last Friday the farmers have renewed their protest as Argentina comes to terms with one of its worse droughts in past 100 years.

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Related post is “Olympic Torch – Food Crisis – Buenos Aires, Argentina“.

Further points of view on Argentina visit The Argentina Post.

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The imaginary in this video gives you an appreciation of the scale of the 128 days of protest and the amount of people who took to the streets and highways.

Disclaimer: This video is included purely for the breadth of original imaginary it has drawn from – I do not agree or disagreed or claim credit for how some of the lead political figures are presented or the artistic editing of sound and imagine used.

For more information about Gauchos, in English click here or en Espanol click aqui.

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If you wish to use any of these photos that would be great! Please contact me about how and what, thanks!

Gregory Millen ©2008 – all rights reserved.

Has the USA lead “orgy of consumption” resulting in the financial markets melt-down past couple of weeks triggered the beginning of a new world order?

In regards to the irresponsible management and crisis in which the USA find themselves – is it time for them to take the responsibility onto their own shoulders like any responsible adult would or should they be given a “get out of jail free” card?

Whether or not they go for the $700 billion+ bail-out plan, is it time to stop their international line of “credit” i.e. no more borrowing and adding to their already massive debt?
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/nat-debt/debt-nat-a.htm – as of March 2008.

http://www.iousathemovie.com/

http://designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38814#more

Is it a time for them to reflect upon their way of being/life within the global context and liquidated the current any means necessary, money is king, American Dream – “consumption capitalism” and replace it with a new vision?

If a new vision is required – what is the BIG idea, where is going to come from and how is it going to manifest?

Is sustainability a viable option or is it to fragmented (in silos of thinking or debate) for it to have any real immediate short term effect?

Rome rose and fell a number of times before it rotted from the inside out. The USA has come up with some brilliant world leading ideas in the past, can it do it again?

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I posted the same questions on Linkedin, visit for peoples viewpoints – http://www.linkedin.com/answers?viewQuestion=&questionID=329551&askerID=11572988