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The Credit Crisis Visualized
An interesting visualization of the credit crises.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized – Part 1
The Crisis of Credit Visualized – Part 2
A Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.
By Jonathan Jarvis.
Crisisofcredit.comThe goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
For more on my broader thesis work exploring the use of new media to make sense of a increasingly complex world, visit jonathanjarvis.com
Israeli peace activist highlights Bedouin’s plight – Aug 16 09
Ezra Nawi, a well-known Israeli peace activist, is expected to be sentenced to several months in jail for trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.
Now he is using media interest in him and his case to highlight the plight of the Bedouin – a marginalised group in Palestinian society.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from the south Hebron hills on the plumber and peace activist.
Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh “Death Panel” Support Exposed by Rachel Maddow
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Best Wishes to Marjorie and Sweetny!
Marjorie and Sweetny’s story will touch your heart. Watch the videos at the links below.
‘Keep praying that we’re going to be together’
Majorie, a political refugee from Uganda, has been trying to get a visa to allow her daughter, Sweetny, to join her in the UK for the last eight years. Their first application was rejected – there wasn’t enough photographic evidence to support Majorie’s maternity claim. Now she is hoping a video correspondence between them will help their appeal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/video/2009/aug/07/asylum-seeker-visa
Video courtesy of Indivision Films and The Testimony Project
Marjorie’s appeal is today, August 14th!
The Instant DJ Toolkit
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DIRT! The Movie (Documentary)
DIRT! The Movie TRAILER
DIRT! In the News
DIRT! The Movie presents: Sabastiao and Lelia Salgado and the The Instituto Terra
DIRT! The Movie, tells the amazing and little known story of the relationship between humans and living dirt.
Why Dirt?Dirt feeds us and gives us shelter. Dirt holds and cleans our water. Dirt heals us and makes us beautiful. Dirt regulates the earth’s climate. Dirt is the ultimate natural resource for all life on earth.
Yet most humans ignore, abuse, and destroy our most precious living natural resource. Consider the results of such behavior: mass starvation, drought, floods, and global warming, and wars. If we continue on our current path, Dirt might find another use for humans, as compost for future life forms.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Another world, in which we treat dirt with the respect it deserves, is possible and we’ll show you how.
The film offers a vision of a sustainable relationship between Humans and Dirt through profiles of the global visionaries who are determined to repair the damage we’ve done before it’s too late. There are many ways we can preserve the living skin of the earth for future generations. If you care about your food, water, the air you breathe, your health and happiness… it’s time to see DIRT! the Movie, roll up your sleeves for action and Get Dirty.
The participants
Actress, Author, Social Activist (narrator)
Bill Logan — Author, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, and Urban Arborist,
Andy Lipkis: President, Founder of TreePeople,
Vandana Shiva: Physicist, Environmental Activist,
Wangari Maathai: Nobel Laureate and Founder, Green Belt Movement,
Wes Jackson: President, The Land Institute,
Sebastiao Salgado: Documentary Photojournalist and Co-Founder, Instituto Terra
Lelia Deluiz Wanick Salgado: Co-Founder, Instituto Terra
Paul Stamets: Mycologist
Miguel Altieri: Professor of Agroecology, University of California at Berkeley
Pierre Rabhi: Philosopher, Agroecologist Farmer turned philosopher
David Orr: Professor of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College
Majora Carter: Founder, Sustainable South Bronx
James Jiler: Program Director, The Greenhouse at Rikers Island Prison Systems
Fritjof Capra: Director of Center for Ecoliteracy, Theoretical Physicist
Peter Girguis: Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Alice Waters: Founder, The Edible Schoolyard
Gary Vaynerchuk: Host, WineLibrary.TV
Janine Benyus: Founder, The Biomimicry Institute
John Todd: Biologist, Ecological Designer
http://www.dirtthemovie.org/
Birther Insanity! Okay, okay, okay…so…
Why is this certified screeching nincompoop even involved in questions about the legitimacy of president Barack Obama?
Arrrgggh, this cartoon is obviously out of her head. This is who the far right believes? I have no choice than to post this in the (scary) humor category. Lord help us!
Repercussions of Robert Capa’s Staging of the Death of a Loyalist Soldier
In his article, “The truth is rarely so black and white,” Euan Ferguson discusses the fallout from recent evidence which supposedly proves that legendary photojournalist Robert Capa staged his acclaimed photograph, “The Falling Soldier.” (1936) Should we care?
Robert Capa - Death of a Loyalist Soldier
Very sadly, then, it’s a fake. Hokey. A gammon, a sham, a queer, a snide. Seventy-three years later, this is still very bad news indeed.
A few weeks ago, we reported on an academic study which revived doubts, which have niggled for more than half a century, over the authenticity of “The Falling Soldier”, Robert Capa’s famous Spanish Civil War photograph of a Republican militiaman at the moment of death. A Spanish newspaper has now further proved, with pictures, far beyond reasonable doubt, that the fledgling, Hungarian-born star, who went on to cofound the revered Magnum agency, got his big photographic break through trickery: stuck too far from the action, he persuaded bored soldiers in a distant village to act out their deaths to make a point. No one wanted it to be a fake. No one had reason to lie. The evidence is sadly compelling.
And my first thought, my thought any time I’ve seen this picture, was: does it matter? It is still an astonishing image. It captures, or as we now know purported to capture, the very moment of death; legs and torso in a shocking tumble of forced imbalance, seemingly impossible in life, the face neither shocked nor pained, but wholly unknowing; and life, fields and vistas and skies, going on, but suddenly without him. It made much of the world pay more attention to Franco’s war and the rising German fascist movement funding it; volunteers arrived from around the world in a nascent spirit of internationalism. Subsequently, it made generations of younger viewers, myself included, think apparently big thoughts about war and death. Why should it matter that it was faked, if it got a point across, and made people think?
Click here for the complete article
Coco Before Chanel – Coco avant Chanel (France)
This is on my list of movies to see! Release Date: September 18, 2009
More sentimental than chic, Gallic biopic “Coco Before Chanel” nonetheless knits a convincing portrait of the designer’s journey from her humble beginnings as a provincial seamstress to the halls of Parisian haute couture. Focusing on the era in which Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (winningly played by Audrey Tautou) served as mistress of an eccentric millionaire, the film reveals, via meticulous period imagery, how the couturier forged a style that would change the way women dressed in the 20th century. Warner Bros.’ April 22 Gaul release should scoot gracefully down the theatrical runway before wafting overseas like a splash of No. 5.
The first of two Chanel biopics skedded to hit screens this year, this one, co-written by helmer Anne Fontaine and her sister Camille, limits its scope to the time in the designer’s late 20s when she began showcasing her distinct creative voice. The opening, purely visual flashback shows the young Chanel arriving at an ominous Catholic orphanage after her mother has died and her father has left to support the family.
Official “Coco Before Chanel” website
“Coco Before Chanel” IMDB page