via fantomatik / image © Rosalind Solomon
31.3.11
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28.3.11
Big Brother is Watching You, Watching Me, Watching You
This is genius on so many levels....
The Surveillance Camera Players are a New York based protest group who highlight the intrusion of CCTV surveillance in our public lives by staging specially adapted plays at them - reclaiming them for public use.
" It is clear that the quickest way to open people's eyes, given that a general matter may deceive them, is to make them get down to its particulars....It is as difficult and as dangerous to try to liberate a people that wishes to live in slavery as it is to try to enslave a people that wishes to live in freedom."
(Machiavelli - Discourses on Livy 1517 - quoted in their 10 year report)
27.3.11
In the Homes of the Brave, In the Land of the Free
Washington County Chief Deputy Sheriff Billy Barber said: "Homeowners and property owners need to respect each other's property... If a dog did that in your yard, call the law. Don't take matters into your own hands."
26.3.11
It's a Dogs Life - Dogs on the Run
plenty more floppy skinned running dog pictures for your viewing pleasure here...
With an intensive cross-breeding program, it may be possible to create a sub-species of floppy skinned human runners. Then I will watch the Olympics.
With an intensive cross-breeding program, it may be possible to create a sub-species of floppy skinned human runners. Then I will watch the Olympics.
Diēs Caniculārēs
It was turning out to be one of those days...
via fantomatik / image © Richard Kalvar / Magnum Photos
via fantomatik / image © Richard Kalvar / Magnum Photos
21.3.11
20.3.11
Fermenters of Revolution update...
From todays Live Feed on the BBC website Libya coverage...
1248: UK Prime Minister David Cameron will chair another meeting of the government's emergency management committee Cobra later on Sunday, Downing Street says.
Facebook / Twitter (?!) - lazy bloated self obsessed rolling news journalism
The revolution has tagged you in 3 photos and updated its profile ;¬) lol
18.3.11
Apache - Jump On It
Jet Harris, the original bass player with The Shadows has passed away age 71
So in tribute here are four versions of the seminal Apache - all classics in their own way.
This is one tune that really can be called a classic...
So in tribute here are four versions of the seminal Apache - all classics in their own way.
This is one tune that really can be called a classic...
The Original (1960)
The Bongotastic (1973)
The Discoliscious (1977)
The Hippety Hopper (1981)
Wooh! Wooh! Lets all go to War (again) - Democracy In Action.
Hoorah! The forces of Liberty and Democracy are back on the march
You ain't in the club until you have had your own war...
Blair and Bush have seconded the nominations for the newest members of the War Club, Cameron and Obama will be handed their green jackets at a desert themed champagne and canape reception, to be held this coming Friday in the Saudi Royal Palace (Black Tie - 7.30 for 8pm)
...if you are going to fill the balloon with sh*t, you had better make damn sure it isn't going to pop in your face.
You ain't in the club until you have had your own war...
Blair and Bush have seconded the nominations for the newest members of the War Club, Cameron and Obama will be handed their green jackets at a desert themed champagne and canape reception, to be held this coming Friday in the Saudi Royal Palace (Black Tie - 7.30 for 8pm)
“when it comes to U.S. military action (..in Libya..), whether it’s a no-fly zone or other options, you’ve got to balance costs versus benefits, and I don’t take those decisions lightly.” Barak Obama
The UN mandate (and hardening of America's stance) comes days after Obama's envoy returned from Saudi Arabia, who have themselves been working to promote democracy in region by sending 1000 troops to help their royal pals in Bahrain quell their own democracy 'issues'.
Feb 15th 2003 - between 750k and 2m join anti-war march in London at the UK's biggest ever demonstration.
Part of a weekend of protest with six million plus people protesting in up to 60 countries
3m march in Rome, 1.5m in Madrid and demonstrators protest in 150+ US cities
3m march in Rome, 1.5m in Madrid and demonstrators protest in 150+ US cities
Gulf War II (The Sequel) begins one month later on March 20th
"The oil price surged more than $2 a barrel to its highest for more than two years today...Libya produced 1.7 million barrels of oil a day in 2009 and accounted for just over 2% of world production. At 44.3 billion barrels, it also accounts for 3.3% of world oil reserves...The unrest threatens the prospects of 150 British businesses currently operating in the country including blue-chips British Airways, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Glaxo SmithKline...Trade between the two nations since Libya lost its pariah status grew to £1.5 billion in 2009, but BP - which signed a major oil exploration agreement there in 2007 which the then Prime Minister Tony Blair helped to co-ordinate - was today preparing to pull out non-essential staff and their families."
Evening Standard (21/02/11)
The EU granted export licenses for €834.5m worth of arms exports in the first five years after the arms embargo on Libya was lifted in October 2004, with 2009 being the highest at €343.7m
UK licences amounted to €58.9m of the €72.2m total in 2005 and totalling €119.35m over the five years
Guardian article listing the full details of EU Arms sales to Libya
Shall we dance?
Gadaffi's son, Sayf, said his father was impressed with Tony,
and they had engaged in full and frank discussions.
Pyjama medals - nice touch!
| Pam Am Flight 103 (21/12/88) - 270 dead |
Memorial to Yvonne Fletcher shot from a Libyan Embassy window (17/04/84)
On the day he resigned as Prime Minister, Tony Blair was appointed as Official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East (consisting of the United Natiions / the United States / the European Union and Russia) whilst continuing to work closely as a private consultant with UK companies (inc BP) and the Gadaffi regime on investment opportunities in 'Eldorado'.
Top of the World Ma!
...if you are going to fill the balloon with sh*t, you had better make damn sure it isn't going to pop in your face.
17.3.11
Bill and Ben
Bill was surprised that they had never met before.
via fantomatik / image © Richard Kalvar / Magnum Photos
Waxing Gibbous
...not as I had hoped, a garrulous outpouring of primate related chat.
(gibbous - bulging, from the Latin for humpbacked)
16.3.11
In Memory of Smiley Culture....
Who died yesterday of 'allegedly self inflicted stab wounds during a police drugs raid' on his home (mmmh!!) One of the originators.
15.3.11
Slipping Into Darkness - The Funkees
A bongotastic piece of '70s Nigerian AfroFunk available for your listening and downloading pleasure here
and the original version by War below...
I am pleased to find there is an Australian group keeping The Funkees name and traditions alive, its this continuance of musical tradition through the generations that gives me faith in the future of popular music.
14.3.11
The Horror! The Horror!
It was then the decision was taken not to continue
with Radium as a Nicotine substitute.
Early '50s horror comic covers from here...
10.3.11
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread
"Who are these superhuman beings, glorious and terrible, who share God’s joy when sinners repent, and who wipe out a third of the earth’s population near the end of time...Who are these heavenly messengers, not bound by time or space as earthbound creatures...? Are they omnipresent?...Are they all-knowing?...They are the army of God, the militia of the Ancient of Days....One can understand that when an angel appeared unannounced to Zechariah in the temple, he didn’t respond, “You little cutie.” Instead, “he was startled and was gripped with fear” (Luke 1:12)."
find our here and keep your eyes peeled!
9.3.11
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5.3.11
Chandler - Red Tide (A Noir Graphic Novel) by Jim Steranko
The original graphic novel published in 1976
"My artistic goal was to make Red Tide resonate in readers' minds with the great detective films they'd seen. I tried to generate the same ambience and atmosphere by incorporating similar icons: urban settings, neon motifs, deco architecture, period automobiles, rainswept streets, claustrophobic offices, exotic nightclubs, reflective glassware, vintage telephones, and, of course, venetian blinds—all visualized in deep shadows and high-contrast imagery. I was looking for the feel and style of The Maltese Falcon, Out of the Past, and The Killers, for example, and hoped to achieve it by mirroring the compositions, the textures, and the visual themes that made those films so memorable." JimSteranko
Hey Babe!
via lp cover lover
Looked up the movie and it sounds like a classic, you can watch the trailer here.
The animated sequence the cover is based on is quite funny.
"An exploitation pot-boiler, posing as an anthropology art-film, and supposedly filmed by seventeen different cameraman in Africa, Malaya, India, Ceylon, Bali, New Guinea and New Hebrides...The art-house aspects and come-on was that it depicted strange love-rites in strange lands, even if some of them were re-enactments in color, in places of the black-and-white stock footage that had been serving in several reincarnations over the years" IMDb
4.3.11
The Man with the Beautiful Eyes - Charles Bukowski
from the poem of the same name by Charles Bukowski
...and
we were afraid
then
that
all through our lives
things like that
would
happen,
that nobody
wanted
anybody
to be
strong and
beautiful
like that,
that
others would never
allow it,
and that
many people
would have to
die.
Saul Bass - Better by Design
With a cool name like Saul Bass,
I Guess.....
He couldn't be Anything Less.
(1920-1996)
The man who designed the movies...
"Until then, the lists of cast and crew members which passed for movie titles were so dull that projectionists only pulled back the curtains to reveal the screen once they’d finished....Saul Bass reinvented the movie title as an art form. By the end of his life, he had created over 50 title sequences for Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer and Martin Scorsese."
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Saul Bass - Edifice and Artifice
One of 8 sections from Saul Bass' excellent Oscar winning 1968 short film 'Why Man Creates' which takes a sideways look at why man does what he does. Here we see the rise of civilisation...
(I wonder if Sid Meier ever saw this - I wasted many hours of the early '90s sending those little tiles scrolling round the screen)
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| Bruegal the Elder's 'Tower of Babel (1563) |
3.3.11
Y2K - A View of Now as it was Then
My fave is the personal balloon water walking system....
(and the doffing of hats - nice to see politeness is alive and well in the future)
(and the doffing of hats - nice to see politeness is alive and well in the future)
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer
2.3.11
1.3.11
...like a pube on a pipe
The best episode from one of the funniest series ever made...
"I'm Garth Marenghi. Author. Dreamweaver. Visionary. Plus actor.
You're about to enter the world of my imagination.
You are entering my Darkplace."
Darkplace ep. 3 - Skipper the Eyechild from sepi on Vimeo.
"I'm Garth Marenghi. Author. Dreamweaver. Visionary. Plus actor.
You're about to enter the world of my imagination.
You are entering my Darkplace."
Darkplace ep. 3 - Skipper the Eyechild from sepi on Vimeo.
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