Guestbook

NO WAR!

wow - we made it.
Thanks to you all and our webcrew Harald and Philipp.
39 statements on the web already and 92 listed for participation.
Wonderful!

NO ! NO !
AGAIN LAST NIGHT THE T.V "GAVE" US THE GUYS GOING TO THE BUSHERIE…..

Ein alter Bush steht verwelkend im wilden Westen und sagt: Na, Junior, denkdran: Wir brauchen wieder Öl für uns, für meine Enkel, für deine Kinder und für alle großen Jeeps. - Da steht er nun, der kleine Bush und will es rumsen lassen auf weitem Feld. Doch viele sagen NEIN, lasssein! Auch ich.
Büsche brauchen Wasser, kein Öl. - Grüße von EXIT ART - Ahoi! Captain

NO WAR!! Your visual statement is a brilliant idea and I hope that a lot of people appreciate this! I sent the link to all people I know.

Jedes Zeichen, jede Äußerung gegen diesen imperialistischen Wahnsinn - der nebenbei bereits 10 Jahre dauert und ein ganzes Volk verrecken läßt ist wichtig. Auf das wir für das Leben denken!

I love it.

(The essential part of this statement is the word right in the middle… might help in other situations as well, Mr. President ;))

Some of the images are a stretch as far as their anti-war message goes but for the most part,a homerun. The images are compelling and wonderful. What a fantastic way to voice your opposition. If only the bully in the White House knew how to work a computer.

super aktion! danke für diese idee und spontane umsetzung. grosse klasse!

1:19 am
120 in website
169 in exhibition

thanks

This looks impressive! All thebest for you all for the show!

ARI

3.48 a.m. - 137 in website - 188 in exhibition - thanks!

Hope more Japanese photographers would participate in this project.

curator, kawasaki city museum, japan

0:12 a.m. - 157 in website - 212 in exhibition - thanks to you all

text for the guestbook:
"um eine kranheit (krieg) zu heilen, muß man nicht nur die symptome behandeln, sondern man muß die auslösenden ursachen bekämpfen/ausschalten"
wilfried h.g. neuse

very nice site! keep it up and i would be happy if you left a message at http://nowar.ch

cheers
alain

Danke für die Initiative, danke für die Anregung…
Viel Spaß und einen netten Abend bei der Eröffnung wünsche ich euch bzw. allen….

Some great images here. Congratulations.

Liebe Tina,eine grosse Idee und eine fabelhafte Umsetzung.Gratulation. Geredet wird viel……….. Hansjoachim Nierentz

die website schaut ja ganz toll und vielversprechend aus! Eine kleine Korektur, schreibt bei uns bitte: Haubitz+Zoche
Danke

Wir finden's toll und unterstützen auch gerne auf unserem Web-Portal.

Someone earlier in the guestbook mentioned that some of the photos were a "stretch in terms of their anti-war message." I would counter that any photograph, or work of art for that matter, is an anti-war message. It is an act of creation, while war is one of destruction. In and of itself, any piece of art, deliberate or off the cuff, elaborate or humble, is a gesture of peace. If everyone were concerned with making, we would want to preserve what we have, and wouldn't be so obsessed with destroying each other and ourselves. To me every photograph on this site is very pertinent to what is happening now in the world, even if it doesn't seem so on the surface.

I beg to differ with C.Cambon. If we follow his message, all acts of creation would fall into your \"anti-war category.\" This is not the case. Many, many works of art have been created in violence and pain. Know your history.

7:37 a.m. - 196 in web - 238 in exhibition -
everything framed and printed - 2 works already on the wall - 12 hours to go
thanks to you all!

the tuff workcrew here:
Frederic - the masterprinter (around 80 from files
Wolfgang - exhibition design (in freehand)
Stefan: handling of "flatware"
Magda: framing, scanning…
David: digies for the exhibition design
Manoel: best boy
Barbara: framing
and, and…

ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Eröffnung
viel Resonanz & Unterstützung für Eure Aktion
liebe Grüsse Oliver

Some corrections : The tittel of photos No guerra is better : " NO A LA GUERRA "
I don´t know if the phrases " live and work in Vitoria Spain " and " Spanish people don´t want war " are o.k. in English. Please, if not to correct. Thanks you. Pilar

thanks to all participating artist.
the opening was a big success, even on the special occation like carnival right now in Cologne.
Everybody else went to sleep some time ago and i sit alone in the rubbish after an opening. Hope we can establish a forum about photography here.


More infos later tomorrow

it was worth all the work without sleep.


good night

Hallo Ihr Lieben,
ein absolutes BRAVO und Danke für diese wunderbare einfache aber dennoch so aussagekräftige Seite.
SUPER weiter so…
Ganz viele liebe Grüsse von Gudrun Röder und Jürgen Terhé

Hello Darlings,
a very big BRAVO and THANK YOU for this absolutly welldone page.
Take care and carry on.
Lots of love and good vibrations from
Gudrun and Jürgen

Living in the center of the United States, we are insolated from much of the rest of the world and the real thoughts and ideas of it's peoples. I salute your effort, the expense in time and money to produce this vast work of art and your bravery in standing up and making a statement for sanity. I trust that all who see this web site will pass it on to everyone they know. Thank You.

Eine gute Idee und eine gute Aktion.
Ich wünsche Euch viel Erfolg mit dieser Seite, möge die Resonanz mit Euch sein.

Thorben Schulte

Hi, this all looks great! How about showing us pictures from the opening?

hi there,
a lot of good works.
i am very impressd by the photos from anu suhonen.

some really impressive art here..

perfekt ! werde es unter meinem linkportal "photolink.de" weiterverbreiten.

gruesse juergen

this is a good idea to show images against war. but most of the pictures are much too yellow to really break up peoples protected safe lifes. there are much more shocks needed to show reality much closer. anyway - good luck to you - and of cause - PEACE!

My English is not very good, but i will try to make a good post. This Page here is ………. I can´t say it in words, it´s to good. I´m only a pupil and have no idea from Art. But even I can say, that this pictures speak with the viewer and make him thoughtfully. There are so many questions in this terrible world full with terror and war. Where is no answer, that are questions like "Why can´t we life peacfully?" and "Who are the people behind the threads?" I hope my grammar isn´t so bad and that everybody understand what i wanted to say. In the end I would like praise Jürgen Raap, because I am from Cologne and the text is really good scribed in "Kölsch" you can drink and speak it. my last statement: " There is no end in view"

eine wirklich tolle idee.
vielen dank fuer diese seite !

SAY NO TO WAR IN IRAQ - GO TO

http://starmailgermany.tripod.com/emfomeganews/id4.html

www.idealist.org

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter. —-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thank you very much for your valuable site!

PEACE!

Citizens Initiative Omega

"Act as if the principle by which you act were about to be turned into a universal law of nature". –Immanuel Kant

Liebe Tina, Lieber Wolfgang,

vielen Dank für euer Engagement die Menschen um euch herum nachdenklich zustimmen. Es ist wichtig, heut zu Tage einen Beitrag zu seiner Meinung zu leisten, die nicht medial vorgefasst ist. Ich glaube die Kunst ist mal wieder so frei dies in einer "Art" zu zulassen die nicht immer in "Babylonischer" Sprachverwirrung endet.

Mit den besten Grüßen
Philippe

P.S. Eure Site ist super gemacht.

Habe eure Site an George Bush persöhnlich geschickt.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Dear friends,
in the next days you will find images from the opening, which was great, installation views and installation plans in the site here. Just takes some time to do it all.
the last image went on the wall 5 minutes before opening.
Please check our first internetnagazine article:
www.telepolis.de.
Still works can go in the website. Just send them by email.

Thanks again to you all.

Bilder die das Leben schreibt - gezeichnet in die Gesichter ist die Ratlosigkeit. Nein, man wird Nichts im Leben vergessen. Aber man kann lernen Leid zu teilen. Ein Leben danach ist möglich wenn der Geist sich öffnet und nicht die Seele frisst. Danke für diese beeindruckenden Bilder. Ein Lob an alle mitwirkenden Künstler die Leben, Leid und Hoffnung zum Ausdruck bringen.

Great Project, great images, great idea.

wow !

HAHAHA! Die Bilder "Haubitz&Zoche" verstehe ich irgendwie nicht (wie andere auch hier)!! Habe keinen Plan, was diese Rohbauten mit dem Motto images against war zu tun haben sollen. Ihr etwa??! Ich denke die beiden Typen sind Architekten und wollen ihre tollen Fähigkeiten (hier unter makaberen Umständen) präsentieren…
Wenn jemand doch es wissen sollte, würde ich mich über E-Mails freuen! Vielleicht auch die Herren Fotografen selber, denn die "wissen" bestimmt am besten, was diese Häuser ausdrücken sollen. Oh, vielleicht liegen sie ja im Irak… Das könnte natürlich sein! :))

Dear visitors,
I will say thank you to the initiators of this side but remember:
Not every war is against peace. Sometimes it is the way to peace.
I don’t know if the war against the irak is a way that should be gone. Therefore I think we all should protest against censorships and try to get more and correct information.
Than WE can decide if this war must be fought.

may we all have the sincere look to each other after the war. anything is possible, but never shure in time. I'm very sorry about this barely póór 'time windows' inside the 3rd millennium…

Herzlichen Glueckwunsch zu dieser guten Idee.