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Taylor Swift’s Americana aesthetics in wartime

LB — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:42:21 +0000

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.

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Swedish architect Per Friberg – possible designer of house in Bron/Broen

LB — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:10:16 +0000

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.

Jane Fonda flying to oppose tar sands isn’t hypocrisy; that’s a “tu quoque” logical fallacy

LB — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:46:49 +0000

@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.

Requiem for the American Dream

LB — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 06:01:26 +0000

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.

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The women of the cast of Hair on Broadway, 1968

LB — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 04:54:46 +0000

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.

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Dance number from Adavi Donga that makes Lidsville look less drug-induced

LB — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:21:11 +0000

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.

You make a grown man cry

LB — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 10:26:54 +0000

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.

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No one believes you

LB — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:07:51 +0000

No one believes you, YouTube.

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Endangered 5000 year old ancient practice of making silk made from mollusc slime

LB — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:40:17 +0000

“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.

Have we learned nothing from the 60s UK demolitions?

LB — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 07:45:18 +0000

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.

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