Aww, cute! Street art just got a little more precious on Death Cab For Cutie’s just-released video to “Home Is A Fire,” the latest single from their forthcoming snoozer album Codes and Keys . The narrative of Ben Gibbard’s pen trails the work of Shepard Fairey, who pastes up his bold messages and iconic visuals on the walls/spaces that surface in the lyrics, from brick walls to cracks in the pavement…. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Line Out Discovery Date : 09/05/2011 20:55 Number of articles : 3
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NBC has announced that Meredith Vieira will be leaving the Today show and will be replaced by Ann Curry. While the news was just announced, it doesn’t come as that big of a surprise. The New York Times reports that Today has been preparing for Vieira’s departure since last year when she opted to renew
Continue reading …Sample question from a WikiLeaks job interview: “What would you do if you had to kill one man to save a hundred?” So Julian Assange asked Aled John, he writes in the Independent . John hesitated. “You’ve got two minutes to think about it before they all die,” Assange said. “This…
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[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here. Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.] I used to think that Democracy Now! was a dishonest liberal media outlet. But today I revise my opinion. Clearly they are right wing organization designed to parody the left and make them look silly. I mean how Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Patterico’s Pontifications Discovery Date : 09/05/2011 14:38 Number of articles : 3
Continue reading …Native American Activist Upset With Use of Codename “Geronimo,” and Terms Like Apache, Blackhawk, Tomahawk…
May 9, 2011 No Comment[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here. Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.] I used to think that Democracy Now! was a dishonest liberal media outlet. But today I revise my opinion. Clearly they are right wing organization designed to parody the left and make them look silly. I mean how Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Patterico’s Pontifications Discovery Date : 09/05/2011 14:38 Number of articles : 3
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Detained for over a month by Beijing police, fears are growing for the safety of the Chinese artist. As two exhibitions of his work open in the UK, Adrian Searle reports It is, as I write, 37 days since Ai Weiwei disappeared, arrested by the Chinese police on 3 April in Beijing as he was about to board a scheduled flight for Hong Kong. He has not been seen or heard from since. He has not had access to a lawyer (Ai’s own lawyer disappeared for five days following the artist’s arrest), and despite persistent enquiries his family do not know where he is. Another question. Who is Ai Weiwei? As well as an artist, Ai is an architect, designer, activist, iconoclast, blogger, sometime antiques dealer and expert blackjack player. If the Chinese authorities who have arrested him and engineered his disappearance are right, this creative, complicated man is also a bigamist, involved in tax fraud, the distribution of pornography, and – laughably – a plagiarist. There is no currently no news on Ai’s condition, only rumour, including an unconfirmed and appalling graphic report , by a disaffected Xinhua journalist writing under a pseudonym, that Ai has been tortured, and has begun to confess to his supposed crimes. Meanwhile, his art has been shipped abroad, to London and New York and Switzerland. Two exhibitions of his work open in London this week. Twelve zodiac animal heads will be unveiled in the Somerset House courtyard tomorrow; these are oversized bronze replicas of figures originally sculpted by the Italian Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) as a water clock for the gardens of the Yuanmingyuan, Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong’s summer retreat. In 1860, the palace was ransacked by French and British troops, and the heads were pillaged. Two ended up in the collection of Yves Saint Laurent; the current Chinese government has been trying to retrieve them. What goes around comes around. A second show of Ai’s sculptures and videos opens on Thursday at the Lisson
Continue reading …Detained for over a month by Beijing police, fears are growing for the safety of the Chinese artist. As two exhibitions of his work open in the UK, Adrian Searle reports It is, as I write, 37 days since Ai Weiwei disappeared, arrested by the Chinese police on 3 April in Beijing as he was about to board a scheduled flight for Hong Kong. He has not been seen or heard from since. He has not had access to a lawyer (Ai’s own lawyer disappeared for five days following the artist’s arrest), and despite persistent enquiries his family do not know where he is. Another question. Who is Ai Weiwei? As well as an artist, Ai is an architect, designer, activist, iconoclast, blogger, sometime antiques dealer and expert blackjack player. If the Chinese authorities who have arrested him and engineered his disappearance are right, this creative, complicated man is also a bigamist, involved in tax fraud, the distribution of pornography, and – laughably – a plagiarist. There is no currently no news on Ai’s condition, only rumour, including an unconfirmed and appalling graphic report , by a disaffected Xinhua journalist writing under a pseudonym, that Ai has been tortured, and has begun to confess to his supposed crimes. Meanwhile, his art has been shipped abroad, to London and New York and Switzerland. Two exhibitions of his work open in London this week. Twelve zodiac animal heads will be unveiled in the Somerset House courtyard tomorrow; these are oversized bronze replicas of figures originally sculpted by the Italian Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) as a water clock for the gardens of the Yuanmingyuan, Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong’s summer retreat. In 1860, the palace was ransacked by French and British troops, and the heads were pillaged. Two ended up in the collection of Yves Saint Laurent; the current Chinese government has been trying to retrieve them. What goes around comes around. A second show of Ai’s sculptures and videos opens on Thursday at the Lisson
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The nation’s first full face transplant recipient has made his first public appearance since his operation. Dallas Wiens had the operation in March. He received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an unidentified dead person. (May 9)
Continue reading …The nation’s first full face transplant recipient has made his first public appearance since his operation. Dallas Wiens had the operation in March. He received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an unidentified dead person. (May 9)
Continue reading …The woman who set off a storm of worldwide condemnation against the Gadhafi regime has finally escaped (literally) Libya and crossed into Tunisia. Via CNN : Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) — Eman al-Obeidy, who garnered worldwide attention for her vocal rape allegations against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, says she has fled Libya, fearing for her safety. Al-Obeidy told CNN that she crossed into Tunisia on Thursday with the help of a defecting military officer and his family. She said she had left Tripoli in a military car, wearing a head cover that hid everything except one eye. Al-Obeidy said she entered at the Dahibah border crossing disguised “in the local manner” and was not challenged. She described the trip from Tripoli as “very tiring.”
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