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Sundance 07 Short Films @ iTunes, Jan 22, 07
Jan 19th
Short films from the upcoming Sundance film festival will be released through Apple’s iTunes for download. Documentary, animated and drama shorts from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival will go on sale at $1.99 each on the iTunes Store from Monday, January 22, 2007.
Now if you could just download the parties…
Originally from The Register, ReBlogged by Geraldine Juarez on Jan 18, 2007 at 06:11 PM
via Eyebeam reBlog
HANK’S HI-FI, WebRadio, Blatant Self-Promotion
Jan 19th
Yes, webRadio is everywhere and I couldn’t resist joining the party. Check out my Live! station, "Hank’s Hi-Fi" @ http://www.live365.com/stations/hankshifi
Comments, requests, suggestions? Send in your music and if I like it, I’ll throw it into the rotation.
Bush, de Gaulle, Torture, and The Battle of Algiers
Jan 19th
“ ‘The depressing problem of getting entangled in the Muslim world,’ [author Horne] replied. ‘Algeria was a thoroughly bloodthirsty war that ended horribly and cost the lives of about 20,000 Frenchmen and a million Algerians. There was a terrible civil war. …De Gaulle ended up giving literally everything away and left without his pants.’
President de Gaulle had all the same misconceptions as W., that his prestige could persuade the Muslims to accept his terms; that the guerrillas would recognize military defeat and accept sensible compromise; and that, as Mr. Horne writes, ‘time would wait while he found the correct formula and then imposed peace with it.’
Mr. Horne also sees sad parallels in the torture issue: ‘The French had experience under the Nazis in the occupation and practiced methods the Germans used in Algeria and extracted information that helped them win the Battle of Algiers. But in the long run it lost the war, because it caused such revulsion in France when the news came out, and there was huge opposition to the war from Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.’
In May 2005, Mr. Horne gave a copy of his book to Rummy, with passages about torture underlined. ‘I got a savage letter back from him,’ the author said."
Subscription Only NYTimes article: Aux Barricades! – New York Times.
Wiki: The Battle of Algiers – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
via Wit
LAPD Maps the Homeless
Jan 18th
From the website: "Downtown Los Angeles is the epicenter of the largest homeless population in the United States.
The Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Map takes raw data about those sleeping on the streets and transforms it into a visual tool for understanding the situation.
via BuzzFeed
Center for Land Use Interperetation; Overlook
Jan 16th
Be sure to pick up a copy of thier new book:
From BLDGBLG: "If you’re curious about CLUI’s work, consider purchasing their new book: Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America With the Center for Land Use Interpretation, or just stop by the Center at some point and say hello.
UPGRADE SEATTLE: annie on ni wan + eunsu kang @ 911 Media Arts Center
Jan 10th
Tomorrow night don’t miss Upgrade! Seattle at 911.
Annie Wan is a young activist in audiovisual performance, interactive art and an innovator in interactive technologies. She achieved a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, in 2002. She has lived in Singapore, London, Brighton and Gothenburg (Sweden), earned a Master of Science in Art and Technology at Innovative Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in 2005.
Her works, including locative media, audiovisual performances and interactive installations, have been shown at the Mondal Museum (Sweden); Syndicate Potential (Strasbourg, France); Art+Communication Festival 2004 (Riga, Latvia); Piksel 2004; FLOSS in Motion, (Bergen, Norway); Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference 2004 (Singapore); and Oppositional Architecture (Berlin, Germany). She received travel and project grants from various organizations in Hong Kong, Sweden, and Norway, including the Nordic Fund and EU Culture Fund.
Eunsu Kang is an international media artist from Korea. She has been invited to more than sixty exhibitions and film festivals around the world. She was awarded her first and second solo exhibitions for her video installations. Her third solo exhibition was held on cellular phones with wireless internet connections. She is also a winner of the Korean National Fund for Emerging Artists in 2005, the Insa Web/Mobile Art Project Award in 2003 and the Korean National Juried Project for 2000: the Year of New Arts. Kang received her MA in Media Arts and Technology from the MAT program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her MFA and BFA from the Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea.
BLDGBLOG Event this Saturday at Center for Land Use Interpretation
Jan 9th
If you find yourself in Los Angeles this weekend, be sure to check out the first ever BLDGBLOG event at the Center for Land Use Interp.:
power, sexuality, subjectivity: Foucault on YouTube!
Jan 2nd
Start the New Year off right!
"An eight part audio series. Listen while you do the dishes and skip the tuition many had to pay for this tickly accented postmodern weesdom.
I’m listening as I write this…."
Link: YouTube – Michel Foucault On ‘The Culture Of The Self’ – 1/8.
Via the ever amazing Wood’s Lot.
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