Baywatch Issue 8 Dec 2002.Pdf
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CONTRIBiill"ORS COVER DRAWING: COLIN COULSTOCK l BAYWATCH llllliil!llllllllll II- on your feet, than live a lifetime on your knees>" &'.2:ap.ata- Mexican Revolutionary cultures are wonderfully equal hues in the great rainbow of humanity." Conventional Wisdom "A simple smile can have as much value as all the dollars in the world". Dominique Lapiere- City of Joy "Life is ajonmey, not a destination". Unknown "The profoundest distances are never geographical". John Fowles- The Magus ''People who appreciate legislation and sausages should not see them being made"· Saying CHRlSTMAS is the day on which Antiochus IV in 165 B.C., they held Christians celebrate the birthday of Jesus celebrations in the temple in Jerusalem. Christ. Although the exact date of Jesus' They found only a small cruse of oil, birth is not known, it is universally which miraculously provided eight days purpose is to the mind" celebrated on the 25"' of December. The of light for the holy lamps. sentiment of the Christmas season is "Peace on earth and goodwill to all RAMADAN is in the 9"' month in the men". Moslem calendar. It is the holy month of fasting. Moslems may not eat or drink HANNUKKA.H is the Jewish Feast of from dawn til sunset. The end of the long Lights or Feast of'Dedication' fast is joyfully celebrated in the 3 day (hannukkah). This holiday begins on the festival of the Breaking of the Fast eve of the 25.. day of the Hebrew month (Little Bairam). of Kieslev, and lasts eight days. It usually falls in the month of December. After the Jews defeated the Syrian tyrant IBAVWATCH ll!lilll!li!!llll 111111111111 IBAYWATCH --111111 BBB McGinty, asking "Do you want your part ofthe system. It is quite po1 money spent on schools and hospitals, create a gaol environment whe or on gaols that cost a fortune to keep incidents are much less prevale1 people in?" Western Australia has system appears to be ba! abolished short sentences ofsix months vengeance, rather then justic or Jess. A recent study by the NSW Sydney Magistrate stated re Bureau ofCrime Statistics and Research "People are sent to gaol for puni found that a similar policy in this state not to be punished!" As if losi: would produce a cost saving ofbetween freedom isn't enough! ''The 01 $33 million and $47 million a year. difference between the 19'h , In NSW gaols, bashings· are prisons and today's", one exper common place, and nationally, homicide is that the toilets flush. They are 1 In the past ten years the NSW percepti.ons, then actually reducing rates are 7 times higher then in the as they've ever been." They tl prison population has jumped 25% to crime. "The bipartisan formula hold that general population. Research by David system that is Third World 150 per 100 000 of the population. tougher sentences and more people in Neilpern found that 25% of young men conditions. On any given day there are 8 000 gaol will lead to a reduction in crime in NSW have been raped (although this As inmates in the syst people in prison, and annually there are but if that were true, the public could' statistic is said to be low). "And yet look forward to seeing some pre 15 000 people sent to gaol. It is expected, expect to have already seen some return prisons don't need to be as violent as responses to all these issues, bu with Bob Carr's on the hundreds of millions of dollars they are". Tony Vinson (ex head of paper goes to print, we are still! harsher spent on gaols. In fact the opposite has Corrective Services) says, "Assaults and 'the forgotten world'. rapes should not be seen as an inevitable minimum happened. Over the past 15 years the sentences, that increase in prison numbers has been this figure will matched by an equivalent increase in jump to 10 000 crime levels," Bearup informs us. people in prison As Bob Carr speaks proudly of onanygivenday, gaoling increasing numbers of citizens in a few years. (NSW gaols it citizens at almost twice With an election the rate of Victoria), the budget for on the horizon, Corrective Services has blown out to we can expect $729 million. On top, this year, .the more 'law and government is to spend $117 million order mania' to building new gaols. It costs between the state. $145 & $183 a day to keep a prisoner in politicians gaol (this doesn't include administrative redictable costs). Because our politicians are so focused on appearing to do whatever the radio shock jocks and their ignorant callers think ought to be done, the difficult questions are not being asked, Like WA's Attorney - General, Jim 7 IBAYW.ATCH --~~ 1111111- B.AYWATCH --~~ ·- ---- LIVING IN NED KELLY'S ERA I woUld like to live in Ned tattoo's, the shading, flowing lines and Kelly's era. Not to be a bushranger to be the symbolism they represent to the more or less a pioneer. In them days if wearer. Also I reckon that maybe the you never got out of bed and stoked a world would be a better place if an fire you wouldn't eat. One would spend a animal was the superior species. Our all long day workingjust to have food on conquering dominance will be our the table & a roof overhead. Today its to demise in the end. easy, throw away lifestyles & most Drawing relaxes me very much. things come to us by the flick of a At times when I am drawing a picture, switch. Back when this country was usually in my cell at night, I in a way starting a man had to become part of it. I be good with his ~---""'''r-""'11..... _.-._'1111!!!!111111 imagine my picture to . hands & prepared to be a world & I go eat humble pie, not so .J,.. into it. It takes my much Ned Kelly but _.CfJ~lll\l'fr.·1" ~ head out of gaol for a the law abiding while. I get lost in the members of his ""'A,·..;- --•lines and colours the family were toil less. patterns & poses of I relate to this era the creatures. that's why I draw Mostofwhat . him. I draw comes from My ~IIIJIIII my mind & my imagination is quite affinity with crea.tures I vivid. This shows up & old style weapons, in my drawings. knives, swords. I Mythical beasts, relate to living in the historical animals of 17th & 18th century a history, snakes (sin), lot because I've had dragons, gargoyles & so much trouble creatures I make up in my mind. Most trying to live in the 20th century. I'm not ~---- times I don't really know how they will a modern man and most of my designs _____.... tum out until there finished. I have reflect this. I would choose, ifl had the always been fascinated with the style of choice, to live in yesteryear over the ---- IBAYWATCH 11111111111111111 111111- IBAYWATCH --~~ IIIIIIIIIB r •' . present all the tinie. Then aglrln some labels that are placed on me, a lot could say that yesteryear would be to times by myself. My pictures also remind hard. This is exactly why I would like it. me that all of this chaos around me is just I hate things to be easy, life today in my someone else's picture that I erase when opinion is to easy. There is to much in I'm drawing mine.I believe that everyone this world for all people to use or have has the talent to draw. A lot of people do yet some people use and have nothing. some sort of expressive drawing & then Drawing also slows me down throw it away, not because it isn't any and makes me think. It grounds my soul good, but because to show it off to others & makes me realise that I place to much scares them. Drawing has a way of emphasis on what I am doing and not showing what's in a persons heart. enough on what I am. What I am isn't In here, especially in maximum, a what I'm called or labelled or even the person is hesitant to show their heart. Like sum of what I've been taught. My a dragons heart, its always pure but others pictures remind me that I'm sensitive, would always use its eternal power for imaginative & basically expressive with impure purposes. That's why in history pen on paper. This helps me to shrug off they were labelled as horrific beasts that the junkie, criminal & numerous other caused havoc & mayhem. text & drawings by Colin Coulstock IBAYWATCH 10 --··-· --11111111111- 11 --··-· IBAYWATCH --~~~ 111111- What is Love? What is Love? What is Love?•.•• a question well worth asking. A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think? "Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt and he wears it everyday." "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that * Noelle- age 7 your names is safe in their mouth." *Billy- age 4 "Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well." "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go *Tommy- age 6 out and smell each other." * Karl Roberts- age 5 "Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken." * Elaine - age 5 "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your french-fries without making them give you any ofthe,irs." "Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer * Chrissy - age 6 than Robert Redford." * Chris - age 7 "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." * Terri - age 4 "Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." * Becky- age 3 "Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." "I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go * Danny- age 7 out and buy new ones." * Lauren- age 4 "Love is when yon kiss all the time.