Culture
Existential Exodus
Existential Exodus is a book by a family friend. I haven’t gotten my copy yet, so I’ll just quote this Amazon Review by “Motorcycle Boy”:
Although one might get the impression from Surfergirl’s synopsis that Existential Exodus falls in the genre of “addiction fiction”, this is not the case. Henry defeats his drug addiction soon after […]
Alternatives
One thing I’ve learned about the British: they love to tell you alternative routes. If you ask how to get from point A to point B, don’t expect to just be told the shortest, quickest, route as a New Yorker might tell you. No, the British will tell you a half a dozen possibilities. My […]
All for one …
I had always believed that d’Artagnan and his friends were fighting against Richelieu and his men for a reason, even if I couldn’t remember what it was.
Me too!
{Dumas, france, literature, Three Musketeers, translation}
Oil and Sugar
No, this isn’t a post about the Middle East, but rather about the small ways in which something as simple as buying gas can be quite a different experience here in Taiwan than in the states.
For one thing, every station here is full service. I say “full service” but they won’t actually do anything useful […]
TIFF 2006
I love international film festivals, because you see so many movies that you would otherwise never get to see. The Taipei International Film Festival has consistently been one of the best run international film festivals, and I always try to make it to some of the films if I can. This year grading kept me […]
Krrish
The new Bollywood movie, Krrish, is not India’s first Superman movie. That distinction goes to the 1987 film, Superman.
However, Kriish, made by the same director who made the excellent E.T. rip-off, Koi … Mil Gaya, does look to be a promising film. Especially with action scenes directed by Hong Kong film veteran Tony Ching who […]
Contract!
We are happy to announce some very exciting news …
Today we signed a contract with Documentary Educational Resources (DER) to distribute two of our films: Acting Like A Thief, and Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer. It was Shashwati’s film about Mahasweta Devi that got us involved with these issues, and because of Mahasweta Devi’s long […]
Gujarat Police Academy
One of the most moving experiences we had when shooting the film was a performance arranged for the cadets at the Gujarat Police Academy. It will probably end up being a key scene in the movie, but who knows? Fortunately, you won’t have to wait. Renowned journalist (and blogger) Dilip D’ Souza was also in […]
Abstract Art
This wonderful diagram, made in 1936 by Alfred Barr, appears in Edward Tufte’s new book, Beautiful Evidence. Banksean made a wonderful interactive version on his web site.
Read more on Banksean’s blog.
Some illustrations from the book can be found on Tufte’s web site.
{art, cubism, Tufte}
Porgera
Fellow Savage Mind, Alex Golub, was interviewed extensively for this excellent article in the Ottawa Citizen about conflict between a Canadian mining company and the local population in Papua New Guinea (where Alex did his fieldwork):
And so the stage was set for the tragedy that is Porgera: On the one side, hundreds of people who […]
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