Archive for the 'War' Category
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Interesting article plus multimedia in the New York Times last month about a show of the Ceausescu Collection in Romania’s Bucharest’s National Museum of Contemporary Art. The paintings were all hung at angles or low to the ground to so the show is not interpreted as a tribute.
Romania Shrugs Off Reminder of Its Past (article)
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
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 [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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 [...]
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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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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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