The author of the site American Pictures bills his work as “Racism shock therapy”. It’s a fascinating, and rather saddening, collection of photos by a Dane named Jacob Holdt who traveled as a vagabond among the poor classes in America back in the early 1970s. The thematic focus is systemic racial oppression. Worth a look.
Category: ASIDES
ECLEXYS SAGL – Homepage
I was thinking of getting a second web url registered to forward to my own site, but when I did some googling, I discovered something funny. Weirdly enough, there’s a company that seems to be using the name eclexys, if you can believe that. Why they’d choose anything as unpronounceable as that is beyond me. Too bad I won’t be able to register the url, but whatever… the name is mine, just the same, and I bet I’ll hold onto it longer than their business exists. If indeed it is a business and not just a holding page or something.
Pinter demands war crimes trial for Blair
Sometimes artists still do act as prophets, calling people out on wrongs: The Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter has called for Tony Blair to be tried for war crimes, in his acceptance speech to the Nobel committee. Go, Pinter, go!
Is This The Song You Mean?
I think this is the song you wanted, Lime — Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Rain”. It’s popular here in Korea, so maybe that’s the one.
Mike Hoare
Earlier today I was browsing the 80s entries for political and historical events and I stumbled upon a mention of “Mad” Mike Hoare, who is a mercenary my father told me stories about in the past. What a flashback. Would like to read one of the books penned by the guy, but the prices are a bit mad.
Richard Pryor’s Gone
Requiescat In Pace.
Lawrence Lessig And Free Culture
I’ve been “reading” Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture lately. Well, listening to it, too. It’s brilliant and definitely worth checking out. If you want to listen, it’s free — yes, free, recorded as mp3s under his Creative Commons license. Download the free, legal audiobook torrent using this link (which was gleaned from the legaltorrents site). I’ll be having a lot to say about this book very soon. Courtesy of the esteemed Lawrence Lessig’s blog: Glypho is a new site experimenting with collective authorship. And here’s a video clip on a documentary about some the main important problems Lessig is writing …
TESOL Radio
The EFL-Law guy from efl-law.org has a radio show you can listen to online; lots of interesting listening here.
What Ever Happened to Hal Hartley?
Anyone else out there wonder sometimes whatever happened to Hal Hartley? Here are an interview at Wired and a feature at New York Metro to bring you up to speed.
The Affair of the Necklace
This is one of the funniest stories of 18th-century France that I’ve ever come across. There’s a movie, too!