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Milo Manara - “Storia dell’Umanità”, 1999
So many ethnocentric, racist, and sexist implications, so little time. Admirable points that are tarnished by one-sided perspectives, objectification, along with giant leaps of anachronism and missing context.
I’m not sure if I’m more angry about the problems it has or the brand of history and half-truths that it is a symptom of. It straddles the line of judgement, being technically and aesthetically sound while taking serious liberties with its content.
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- Apr 29, 2013 (a Monday)
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- 9:08:00 (2 weeks ago)
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It’s been little over a decade since the last time there has been something of this scale happen on American soil. It belies the blatantly selective definition and significance of certain acts of terrorism, and already has people already posturing for the right angle. Who to blame, who to attack, who to put the burden of proof on before the facts are in, let alone the wounded, dead, and survivors tended fully to. A tragedy is not a mantle to take up and be consumed by, especially when it provides little comfort to those already victims.
For now the bombing in Boston is a senseless and organized act of violence until we know more. Decisive action is not the same as paranoia and irrational reaction. It stings because people have skin in an increasingly complicated game of Patriots and Terrorists, when people can’t tell themselves apart from the ideas of nation and identity. Does attacking your fellow human, an equal, no matter what the scale or weapons used, make either a better person? It shouldn’t be difficult to see through the haze of nationalism, jingoism, opportunism, proxy wars, and relevant-as-ever racism, and yet here we are again.
My hope is we take this chance not to fall into the same traps of wasted time and hatred, manufactured panic and even more lost lives. That people can wake up tomorrow, thoughts a bit more collected and with some perspective, and prove we’ve learned from all that has happened in the past 12 years. The fact is these events in the States and those occurring everywhere else in the world are terrible reminders, that there are more pressing concerns beyond (and even fuelling) petty politics and economies taking a dive.
The measure of progress should not be in the degree of ruthlessness and zeal of reaction or execution of justice, but in tempering emotions with patience and the ability to fully comprehend the nature and source, then acting appropriately. This could be a turning point, away from a trajectory of fear and an induced state of terror—the effort and will must be applied or else risk only similar destinations of differing degrees.
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- Apr 16, 2013 (a Tuesday)
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- 12:44:00 (1 month ago)
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Ishiuchi Miyako - Hiroshima (2007)
Items worn by the victims of the atrocious bombing, from the archives of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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- Apr 9, 2013 (a Tuesday)
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- 9:08:42 (1 month ago)
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- Mar 11, 2013 (a Monday)
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- 7:51:19 (2 months ago)
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#Ai Weiwei#art#sculpture#history#art history#war#bronze#Opium Wars#chinese zodiac#Architecture#colonialism#repatriation#artifact#Qing dynasty#repurpose#China#Baroque#metalInfo
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- Feb 15, 2013 (a Friday)
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- 7:51:45 (3 months ago)
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Teju Cole continues to devastate in 140 characters or less. ProPublica: Everything we know so far about drone strikes
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- Jan 30, 2013 (a Wednesday)
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- 3:34:00 (3 months ago)
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Nina Paley - “This Land is Mine”
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- Dec 15, 2012 (a Saturday)
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- 9:00:26 (5 months ago)
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Unicorn Polo by Marwan Shahin
Meanwhile, on an Alternate Earth where Noah wasn’t a giant cockbag to the unicorns, Ralph Lauren’s iconic Polo Logo takes on a more magical look. It also correctly envisioned the inevitable Four Unicornmen of the Apocalypse… all smartly dressed, of course.
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- Dec 15, 2012 (a Saturday)
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- 8:00:19 (5 months ago)
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Destroy mines with creativity, Massoud Hassani has created a working prototype to create safe paths through mine fields.
A designer raised in Kabul in Afghanistan and now living in the Netherlands, as a boy he played with self-made toys. One of his favourites was a small rolling wind-powered object that he used to “race against the other kids on the fields around our neighbourhood. There was always a strong wind waving towards the mountains. While we were racing against each other, our toys rolled too fast and too far. Mostly they landed in areas where we couldn’t go rescue them because of landmines. I still remember those toys I’d made that we lost and watching them just beyond where we could go.”
Almost 20 years later, he went back to Kabul and made those toys again as a garduation project. He calls it a “Mine Kafon”. It destroys mines when it rolls over them, and it has a GPS chip integrated in it. so its movements can be followed to work out the safest paths to walk on and how many land mines are destroyed in that area.
Also, as it’s made from bamboo and biodegradable plastics, each one costs 40 Euros i.e. affordable.
Genius!
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- Dec 2, 2012 (a Sunday)
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- 9:09:03 (5 months ago)
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood - “Two Tribes” (long version), 1984
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- Nov 30, 2012 (a Friday)
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- 1:25:51 (5 months ago)
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Walter Seymour Allward - Canadian National Vimy Memorial
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- Nov 11, 2012 (a Sunday)
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- 4:28:44 (6 months ago)
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America’s Drone War in Pakistan. Larger dots equal more kills. Please ignore the distinction (made on Slate’s website) between militant deaths and non-militant deaths since the U.S. government counts all military age males in a strike zone as militants. Obama has used drones in Pakistan 284 times. (Note that nobody’s counting in Afghanistan) http://slate.me/XtAUs9
Each dot is murder. Multiple murders, meaning mass murder…crimes against humanity.
Another map via Slate shows every reported drone strike in Pakistan. And as the article mentions correctly: Drone strikes are an over-extension of executive power that kills too many civilians, and breeds more “terrorism” (read: revenge).
I wrote in the South Asian magazine Himal about the effects of drone strikes on civilians in Pakistan as well as the deluded defence of the strikes given by proponents. We can use all sorts of technical terms to discuss drone strikes but they are what they are: Murder.
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- Nov 9, 2012 (a Friday)
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- 5:43:22 (6 months ago)
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