Beşiktaş Fish Market – aesthetically beautiful architectural design

Gorgeous design. A pillar-less simple concrete shell covering the Beşiktaş fish market. Located in one of Istanbul’s most populated and diverse neighborhoods, Beşiktaş is an eclectic area with a village-like atmosphere that is in the process of urban renewal.
The Beşiktaş Fish Market is located on a triangular site. It is an iconic venue where many [...]

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Jetson Green: green ecology and social justice architecture

The ‘green building’ blog Jetson Green posted an article on on a project called the Eco-Laboratory, a theoretical design set in Seattle with affordable and market-rate residential housing, a job training center, homeless shelter, hygiene station, and public farmer’s market. I’ve heard a lot about green buildings, and this blog features quite a few of [...]

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Noam Chomsky on democracy and the economy in crisis

Softly spoken but pointedly thinking: Noam Chomsky. He’s talking about democracy and that the only reason it can be called that is because people struggle against the two parties that in fact are two factions of the same party: the business party. Because of that struggle there [...]

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Race hatred in New Orleans

In this Nation Institute/Hidden Driver exclusive, reporter A.C. Thompson talks with innocent victims and ruthless vigilantes about his expose on shootings of black New Orleans residents fleeing the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and police misconduct after the storm. Listening to these white pigmentalists sounds scary as well as [...]

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Faroe Islands: brutal mass slaughter of whales and dolphins – this is no place for tourism! Boycott products from Faroe!

It took me a while to work myself up to writing this post, especially after having seen these images. Every year the Faroe islanders embark on what they consider is fun: they drive hundreds of whales and dolphins into a bay, trap and brutally slaughter them. Because I can’t even comprehend why someone, leave alone [...]

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El Guincho – Alegranza

Another little beautiful, loopy, percussion-driven gem from 2008, which is as colourful as the album cover. An exultant one-man carnival of sound, El Guincho’s ‘Alegranza’ “is a mix of afro-beat percussion, calypso harmonies, psych tropicalia, world music samplers, doo wop, trance repetition, underwater pop, steel drums, and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, [...]

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Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight

Scottish Frightened Rabbit has got two things going for them: their harsh, metallic indie rock sound and their emotionally intense lyrics – the opposite of what the light coloured CD cover would suggest. oh, and then of course, there’s their rather great graphic album tile, a euphemism for sex. People who seem to know better [...]

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Diplo’s xmas card to fbi

that’s quite cute: a diplo xmas card to my favourite radio station: fbi, a community radio with the best mix of indie and electronica in all of australia, i suspect. the card leaves room for a number of interpretations, all of a friendly nature of course . and cool, you can read so [...]

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