Yesterday, X-initiative launched No Soul For Sale: A Festival for Independents. It was a nice turn out, it was like an art fair except without those nasty cubical-like partitions. Event goes on until Sunday 1-9pm. Studio Film Club at No Soul For Sale recently also added nightly film screening 9-11pm every night.
A few clips of interest, mostly of themes I have been thinking about. I’m not gonna discuss them, I want to keep opinion and sentiment at bay.
Walks in the West Bank
The Palestinian author Raja Shehadeh looks back on years of walks in the hills of the West Bank. (A video article by the New [...]
Meet Big Dog, designed by Boston Dynamics for DARPA. One blogger called it “amazing”, I call it creepy. When I was young I used to fantasize about a future flourishing with robots in all shapes and sizes, but during these wartime years here in America I feel less comfortable with our military’s effort to sanitize [...]
In December 2001, Dean Kamen unveiled his latest invention, The Segway, a two wheeled battery powered scooter that can take people -umm- around the block and back? Not much more efficient than the other two wheeled invention called the bicycle. Many people still see them on the street or on TV and are befuddled by [...]
Cambodia, 1974, photo by Dith Pran. Dith Pran/New York Times.
If you haven’t see the film “The Killing Fields” since it came out in the eighties, perhaps now would be an appropriate time. Dith Pran, the photojournalist and war prisoner who’s story is told by the film has passed away March 31st from cancer just as [...]
Laguna de San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, May 16, 1965 opening day, by Eloy Zarate and Benjamin Dominguez family as appeared in this NPR article.
After reading and listening to a few accounts of new Hamas-made hole-in-the-wall that separates Gaza and Egypt, I couldn’t help but notice the many flexible uses of concrete in the [...]
Martin Ramirez (right) holding up one of his large drawings with art and psychology professor Tarmo Pasto (left) at DeWitt State Hospital.
NYTimes just reported the finding of some 140 new works by Mexican outsider artist Martin Ramirez who’s work previously numbered at around 300. The works were discovered by the daughter-in-law of one [...]
