January 2010
161 posts
““Twenty years ago I told them that General Motors was going to collapse...”
– ‘Capitalism is evil … you have to eliminate it’
The $2 Million Photograph →
Sotheby’s upcoming contemporary-art sale in London is getting a dose of celebrity wattage from post-Warholian pop icon Madonna, thanks to a personalized photograph by Andreas Gursky that is scheduled to go on the block Feb. 10. Titled Madonna I, the nine-foot-high photo is an aerial shot of the singer playing to a packed Los Angeles audience on Sept.13, 2001. Part of her Drowned World Tour,...
How George W. Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's... →
“The debate over Prescott Bush’s behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the “Bush/Nazi” connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information...
#Haitiphoto 'Photographer's Response to Haiti' →
I’d like to applaud Rafael Soldi, one of the first people to respond to this catastrophe, for creating the Haiti Relief Benefit Print sale. He ( and a group of photographers) has raised over $7,000 in 48 hours. Andrew Newson helped organize a worldwide Charity Print Auction on Flickr that will continue on until February 14th. Crista Dix, from Wallspace Gallery in Seattle, created the Life...
CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding
conscientious:
“Well, it’s official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about. […] he claims that the disinformation he helped spread was a CIA dirty trick: ‘In retrospect, it was a valuable lesson in how the CIA uses the fine arts of deception even among...
EXHIBIT YOUR ART IN AN OLD, KNACKERED PRISON →
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site seeks proposals for its 2011 tour season and beyond
http://www.easternstate.org/exhibits/guidelines.php
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this...
Why Don't Bloggers Make Constructive Negative... →
“There simply isn’t enough (constructive) negative criticism on the blogs. There are reasons for this: Why would I waste time writing about something I don’t like? Old media critics, on the other hand, have a beat – they go to a certain number of shows and they review the shows, both the exceptional and unexceptional ones. We, for the most part, don’t have an impetus to write even when it’s...
#phnat Labour Government Learns not to Fuck with... →
The Labour party learnt the hard way. As first revealed by the Photographer Not a Terrorist campaign, and as Kate Day at The Daily Telegraph writes, the party that has been in power since 1997 has launched a social media experiment using Flickr. ‘Change we can see’ asks for UK residents to send pictures of places that have changed over the past 13 years. Of course, and in this case...
"San Francisco Values" according to Wikipedia
“San Francisco values” is used in a pejorative sense by conservative commentators to describe a secular progressive culture commonly associated with the city of San Francisco. The term has been associated with same-sex marriage, anti-war activism, pro-choice politics, marijuana decriminalization, and lenient immigration policies.
