Posted in creativity, tagged movies on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Once upon a time in a land, far, far away
By twisting history, garbling geography and glossing over the appalling exploitation of Aboriginal workers, Baz Luhrmann’s film Australia bears more relation to fairytale than fact, argues Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
The Guardian, Tuesday 16 December 2008
The scale of the disaster that is Baz Luhrmann’s Australia is gradually becoming [...]
Posted in creativity, tagged photography on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eric Tabuchi certainly has quite a unique way of seeing the world. Apart from elements of geometry and order in various land and urban scapes, there’s an air of desertedness about his work, a sense of austerity, which sometimes contains touches of surreal absurdity – all of which I find quite appealing. But before exploring [...]
Posted in creativity, tagged World Art on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew Woodson, a brilliant illustrator from Chicago, where he “lives … in an apartment full of hardwood floors and taxidermy, with an unapologetically vocal cat and a dog that is skinnier than the grain“.
Posted in creativity, tagged music on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An awesome mix from Los Angeles beat scientist Flying Lotus. Simply superb. A very essential mix from BBC’s Radio One’s Essential Mix. If you love Experimental Hip Hop with House flavour, you’ll have to download it – here.
Broadcast: BBC Radio 1, SAT. Tracklist:
Alice Coltrane – Galaxy In Turiya
Charlie Hayden and Egberto Gisomonti and Gonjasufi [...]
Posted in civilisation?, tagged global-justice, human-rights, Israel, Middle-East, Palestine, racism, violence, warfare-conflict on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The following interview was produced by the radio news magazine Between the Lines; it is kind of comforting to read that there are at least a few Israelis who do not support the Zionist politics that have characterised the State of Israel since its inception some 60 years ago.
RealAudio MP3
Interview with Hagit Ofran,
director of the [...]
Posted in creativity, tagged art, World Art on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in creativity, tagged art, design on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I happened to stumble across Siggi Eggertsson’s graphic design site; I find his style quite appealing.
Eggertsson says: “Ultima Thule is a typeface that I made with a good friend of mine, Sveinn. One night we were really bored and decided to make a typeface together. We worked all night and at 6 o’clock in the [...]
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