15levels Posted September 28, 2001 Report Share Posted September 28, 2001 Dear friends, We would like to invite you to participate in the important for the Armenian Causeproject which has began not too long ago by me and few other webdevelopers from Europe and United States. Our main objective is to implement an International Poster Campaign for the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Please take your time and review our work athttp://15levels.com/1915/ The website offers a description, main objectives and the implementation planof the Campaign, as well as broad collection of information related to the subject. There are some posters put on display already. The website will be finalized and put on it's own domain within a week or two. United Kingdom along with USA, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain,Turkey and Israel is on the list of the countries which Campaign will be targeting. If you are interested in designing a poster for the Campaign, we would warmly welcome you to do so. If you need any additionalinformation please don't hesitate to contact us at 1915@15levels.com With best regards, Rouben Malayan PS. Many thanks to Garik for helping to implement this project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThornyRose Posted September 28, 2001 Report Share Posted September 28, 2001 http://15levels.com/1915/images/assen.april.24/_greek-priest.jpg Good stuff.. That priest there seems to be held a microphone from our own Kanal 7! (Following the link...)Why do you not post this on a few Turkish forums? I think it would be totally safe for you to do so... Especially that part where it says, "it is blamed on WWI, on Armenian 'revolts,'" etc. One thing - I'm not sure if it is because of me, but I have trouble downloading those images - some will not appear at first. I think that what is most important is being able to provide Turks as many pictures of the events of the genocide as possible - starving people, people being executed, etc. I am thinking of myself here - I had no visual images in my head to really grasp what it was all about - no matter how much text and back-and-forth "alleged" accusing, nothing can substitute for pictures. To the visual images of men and women on mules and on foot are now added images of starved children, molested people, etc. These must be pushed through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wh00t Posted September 28, 2001 Report Share Posted September 28, 2001 These posters are great.. I'll have to post them around my school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
15levels Posted October 2, 2001 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2001 Please notify the artists you know about the Campaign. We need to get as many participants as possible. Time is very short, please make an effort to spread the word around. Any school of art, or freelance designers are welcome... Rouben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juggernaut Posted October 3, 2001 Report Share Posted October 3, 2001 If only I could help . Instead of filling my brain cells with 'computer wizdom', I have been reading car magz recently in the hollow anticipation of buying a brand new Honda Integra Type R in the near future. I guess I could stick one of these posters on the bonnet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anshnork Posted October 7, 2001 Report Share Posted October 7, 2001 I love and appreciate the effort that is being placed into this program, and as an artist I may try to contribute a poster. However, one MAJOR question has to be addressed. Who will display these posters? Yes, they are beautiful and yes, they carry a good message, but with such strong political implications, what major entity will care to display them? Personally, I can't envision any "LA Times" featuring them, or the posters being placed on a streetcorner in England. Who would risk upsetting an entire peoples (the Turks)? Maybe a teacher or two in various tiny Armenian schools will tack them onto the wall, but isn't that just preaching to the choir? Plus, you don't think that the turkish peoples will be FURTHUR angered by such a "feel sorry for us" campaign, and will be EVEN more reluctant to acknowledge the genocide? With so many other problems facing the Armenian people today, isn't it about time we focused on those and move on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurguplu Posted October 12, 2001 Report Share Posted October 12, 2001 anshnork, i am a turk from istanbul. i was exposed to the fact of genocide when i was fourteen. it was my grandfather who made some remarks about it a few months before he passed away. and in my family, which was a very political one, nobody ever denied the genocide in the event in cropped up in conversations. the overwhelming majority of those turks who deny the genocide are honest in their approach: they really know zilch about it. now that genocide recognition has been hitting the headlines round the world (and especially in turkey) there is general awareness of the fact that we are ACCUSED OF something, but people still think that is a lie because there is not much, well nothing really, if you are in turkey, in the way of solid evidence that the genocide indeed occurred. the government knows this and capitalises on it. i have known about the genocide since about the end of 1981. later on, i rad about it, from both turkish, armenian, and third party sources. i still maintain that my knowledge of the issue is woefully inadequate (there is so much stuff in so many languages that you have to read, plus it is an inaccessible and potentially dangerous subject, especially if you belong to one of the nations concerned). i have never been forced to accept the genocide, rather i came to my own conclusions about it by what my family told me and by what i read in the academic literature. i have also encountered some armenian in life, both in turkey and abroad, but their stance toward the genocide did not affect me much since i already knew about it by the time i first met them. a lot of armenians think that the turks will not accept the genocide unless forced to do so, i beg to be an example to the contrary. i have been moved to accept it by the sheer weight of evidence in front of me, and i believe many of my countrymen would do the same. so it is your duty, if i may say so, to publish the evidence, at least for your people and mine, because this is an issue that concerns both of us directly. good luck in your endeavour. regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
15levels Posted October 12, 2001 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2001 Dear Ali, Thank you for your response, it is indeed surprising to see this kind of attitude, but I think that with time, more and more people in Turkey will think like yourself. To work in that direction we need to educate the turkish people and the world about Armenian Genocide and our Poster Campaign is exactly to serve that purpose. It is in fact more than that, since the posters are being designed by artists of different nationality, it is a way for Armenians and others to express through art their feelings about the silence and denial of politicians and governments throughout the world, and the tragedy of Armenians. There are going to be Posters in turkish, arabic, german, spanish and english, perhaps also russian and french and they will be hanging on the walls of many European and Eastern Capitals in April next year. I want to thank you for the corage you display by speaking out on this painful for us subject. With regards, Rouben Malayan http://15levels.com/1915 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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