ROULETTE WHEEL

The car, the road and driving for many symbolize freedom,

... and with these rims on your car it will be a gamble which way they will take you, I suppose.

HEALTH

Gambling is often warned about being a negative attitude towards life

... and to gamble with your health a VERY unwise thing to do.



That'll give you something to chew over!

(Award winning advertsiment by JSM Concepts.)

CAGING THE GREEN FAIRY

In the 19th century the Swiss liquor Absinthe was the favored poison among European artists. By the 20th century governements and anti-drink movements were campaigning heavily against the neurotoxic and hallucinous drink.

Prohibition followed soon, starting in Switzerland, where a father killed his entire family after having a few Absinthe drinks. Anti-prohibition movements also emerged soon. The result a battle between the anti-alcohol league of the Blue Cross and the free individual under the Swiss Red Cross.

The prohibition of Absinthe was lifted only a few years ago.

DICE PRINTING NO GAMBLE

Brooklyn artist Stukenborg leaves no room for chance in his 'letterpress dice prints': classical patterns emerge when arranging the dice to plan.

PLAYING CARDS

To break the monotony of army life, gambling your wages playing cards has been the solution for centuries.

To break the monotony of a crippled veteran's life, gambling your pension playing cards turns out to be a good solution as well.

Otto Dix, a german machinegunner in the trenches of Flanders in the First World War, made many drawings, etchings and paintings both about the soldier on the battlefield as well as about his distorted post-war life in the big modern city.



Otto Dix, 'Skatspieler' (1920)

BIRDS

The abolishment of slavery in the 19th century is recognized as one of the major turning points in the struggle for freedom. However, at the moment more people are 'owned' or forced to work then ever before.

The struggle to get rid of slavery started in Haïti in the wake of the French Revolution around 1800. Slave trade was illegal in the British Empire by the 1830's, by the 1840's in France and by the 1860's the United States and most other nations in the world followed.

As disagreements over slavery directly led to the American Civil War the abolition of slavery is an essential part of the history of the United States of America.

In this awkward cartoon from 1863 the American Bird of Freedom is congratulating the Black Bird.

LUGGAGE ROULETTE

Traveling is to many a journey into uncertainty.

One of the most anxious moments is waiting for your luggage to turn up on the airport's luggage belt ... remebering the mixed feelings we had checking-in our luggage at the check-in counter at the start of our journey, a gamble in itself.

The Venetian Casino thought to use these emotions as a way to promote themselves.

While waiting for your luggage you can make a bet with your fellow travellers which number your suitcase will land on.

On 'zero' the house wins of course!