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Editors’ Picks: March 2007

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

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Maya Meet 2007
The River Cities: Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, Pomona
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Art and Art History
Austin, TX 78712
Maya Meet [...]

First Official Samurai Embassador to Mexico

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Detail of Hasekura’s portrait during his mission in Rome in 1615, by Claude Deruet, Coll. Borghese, Rome, from wikipedia.
On January 25, in 1614, almost 400 years ago, samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga was the first official Japanese Embassador to set foot on the Americas. First stop? Acapulco Mexico of course!
What’s left of him today? A few [...]

Flash Back, Words by Paul Chan

Friday, December 29th, 2006

I bought this painting in a decrepit stairway just outside what is now know as the ‘green zone’ in Baghdad. I find dreamy women (and men) incredibly attractive. Yasser, the painter agreed. He also assured me that the man on the upper left corner was not Lenin. I bought it anyway.
There were many painters in [...]

Renewed Power, Cat Power

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

“Taking with Cat Power“, Produced by Erik Olsen; photography and interview by Winter Miller.
Brighter days ahead for Chan Marshal of Cat Power! She is now clean and sober, and can deliver a whole concert without breaking-down and getting emotional on th audience. I know, many of you are gonna miss that side of her. [...]

Al-Jazeera English TV Goes Live

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Launching last Wednesday, Al-Jazeera launched it’s international english TV channel, but it is having trouble finding a company who will carry the channel in the US. I wonder why? Many say that it’s more of a financial issue than anything else. It’ll take sometime for Al-Jezeera to be accepted by the American public [...]

NiggaSpace.com down? Pleez!

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Alright, For all ya’ll trying to log onto your niggaspace.com pages, it ain’t gonna happen. Site’s down. Tyrone, where you at?! You need to come and fix your MySql server so I can get some historical screenshots for Bureaux!!
Meanwhile, people on myspace blogging about the thing…
Diary of a Black White Girl
Tipped me off: Fishbowl NY

Wired Office Finally in SecondLife

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

View of Wired Magazine’s new office in SecondLife designed Millions of Us.

What took them so long? Everyone and their mothers have already set up shop in SecondLife- Geez! Were they too busy expanding in their first life? Anyhow, Wired Magazine say’s “whether you’re man or machine, furry or vampire, we want you to make yourself [...]