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Vimeo of the Week: Collision

Bradford Shellhammer — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:40:30 +0000

Collision (by Max Hattler) from Max Hattler on Vimeo. Max Hattler‘s film COLLISION was created in 2006 and it shows “Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colours and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection.” In 2008 The Gaurdian wrote, “to note the five long years that the Iraq campaign has chalked up this [...]

Neil Young’s GREENDALE comes to print

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:00:14 +0000

Iconic rocker Neil Young wasted no time in crafting a response to the launch of the war in Iraq, and the larger political and cultural forces he saw motivating it: the concept album Greendale came out in August, 2003, a mere six months after the first attacks were launched. Since then, Young has recrafted the story of Sun Green and her family into a live rock opera, a film (which he directed under the pseudonym Bernard Shakey), and, of course, a website (though, as you might expect, not the usual promotional site).

NY Post: Today more phony than normal

Bradford Shellhammer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:10:38 +0000

As I walked south on Sixth Avenue this morning, like any thinking person, I declined two different people’s attempts to give me a free copy of the New York Post. Not really my kind of paper. It wasn’t until I got comfortable at my desk and read the day’s news, online natch, that I realized [...]

Green tech finds (9/17/09)

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:45:18 +0000

Things that go "zoom"... plus online tomato swapping, bike power harnessing, and another good reason to upgrade to Snow Leopard. Green tech finds galore...

Online vegetable trading: Got more tomatoes from your garden then you could possibly eat? Really want some homegrown watermelon? Veggie Trader is a new site that allow you to "...trade, buy or sell local homegrown produce." (via Planet Green)
EVs hit prime time: Prime time television, that is: Jay Leno plans to host a "Green Car Challenge" regularly on his new show that will feature "...celebrities who will take turns trying to best one another's track times in a specially prepared Ford Focus-based battery car." (via Examiner.com)

In The Loop – Lost in translation

Perrin Drumm — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:11:25 +0000

I have no doubt that the days before the US declared war on Afghanistan in 2001 were hectic and that accusations and insults were flung about prolifically amongst various government offices. Such is the setting of the political farce IN THE LOOP, which plays out during the final, clamorous days of a war-free United States - from the British perspective. Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) is a bumbling British Secretary of something-or-other who inadvertently gets involved in the war planning after a gaffe during an interview and spends the rest of the film trying to stay afloat amidst a sea of war-hungry American politicians.