Archive for the 'Historical' Category
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Jackson Pollock’s “Number 14: Gray”(1948). Museum of Modern Art, NYC
I’m amazed that for the New York Times, Obama’s Democratic Party Nomination is still a “black” and “white” issue. Before I even go there I would like to point out that neither of the two main stories really focus on what Obama’s camp is experiencing, he [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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 [...]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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 [...]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
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 [...]
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Screen grab of Britney Spears’ “Oops, I did it again” video. Watch it.
Just heard on a BBC report that the Beatles song “Across the Universe” is being literally beamed across the universe through NASA’s Deep Space Network. It’s aim? The hope that it’ll be intercepted by an alien life form on it’s route to star [...]
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
This CBS news clip I found on the site of Sanford L. Smith’s website got me thinking about the future, the year 2013 to be exact. I was wondering what shape the New York Armory Art Fair will be like when it turns 100. The clip is a 1988 report on the 75th Anniversary [...]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans photo by Donn Young and Frank Aymami, more photos here.
A couple of nights ago we bumped into artist Paul Chan at a mini film festival of Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Anthology Film Archives.* I remember having read that he had just completed a production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for [...]
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