December 7, 2024
All art contains politics, no matter how overt or covert or messy or inconsistent they may be. This is inevitable because all expression emanates from a particular world view, and every world view is ultimately political.
March 14, 2017
Above: Erlandson Villa designed by Per Friberg. Below: detective Martin
Rohde in “Bron/Broen” (The Bridge)
The Bridge (Bron/Broen) is a Danish-Swedish TV co-production set on both sides of the Øresund Bridge that links Copenhagen, Denmark & Malmö, Sweden.
January 13, 2017
@JaneSeymourFonda in the Alberta tar sands: with @barbarawilliam_, @UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and ACFN (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) Chief Allan Adam on January 11, 2017 (UBCIC Instagram)
This post is about a logical fallacy that for a decade has been popping up all over social media and comment streams on news stories.
July 4, 2016
Someone has uploaded a copy of the film Requiem for the American Dream. In it Noam Chomsky explains the process by which wealth inequality destroys democracy, how fantastic riches are not just intense concentration of wealth but of power, which then further speeds up the cycle of returning ever greater wealth to the rich through the deregulation of the economy that the rich demand.
Back row standing: Suzannah Norstrand, Melba Moore, Marjorie LiPari, Lynn Kellogg, Emmeretta Marks. Middle row: Natalie Mosco, Lorrie Davis, Diane Keaton. Front row sitting: Shelley Plimpton, Leata Galloway
Progress isn’t a straight line, so feminism isn’t on a straight line either.
June 17, 2016
The 1985 film Adavi Donga, with Chiranjeevi, Radha, Sharada, Rao Gopal Rao. And various animals. Directed by K. Raghavendra Rao.
A favourite among my many favourite Indian film numbers.
February 14, 2016
Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and the other very excited nerds at the Windows 95 launch.
Fitting because I was helping my mother with her work PC earlier and it was really was like going back in time.
January 23, 2016
No one believes you, YouTube.
January 15, 2016
“Haste doesn’t live here,” says one sign on the door. Another inside says “Nothing in this room is for sale.” An Italian woman named Chiara Vigo is the last living master of the ancient textile tradition of spinning “baysuss” or silk produced from the fibres exuded by a giant mediterranean mollusc.
November 20, 2015
The urban planning disasters of the 1960s in Britain. We think we have learned from them, but have we?
Start watching the video at 14:00 if you don’t want to watch the whole documentary, which is a sort of myth-busting look at the 60s in England.
