another photo of a car that has been upgraded with seats that enable undocumented migrants to hide in them. this one has been released by the Spanish Guardia Civil (the last one came from the US Immigration and Customs enforcement Service): According to this article at typicallyspanish.com (sic!) the pictures where taken at the El […]
about a year ago i blogged about mini busses shuttling polish migrant workers from poland to holland and back. in that post i had attributed the use of mini buses over trains (and regular busses) at least in part the fact that the mini busses are much faster than other means of transport. apparently they […]
i had noticed the questionable priorities of the EUs ‘reconstruction’ efforts in south lebanon when i was down there in january. now bech over at remarkz confirms (the rest of his post is pretty interesting as well) that there indeed some unusually incompetent people at work for the EU in south lebanon: not only do […]
it is a bit more than a month that i have left Waag Society and started working for Kennisland | Knowledgeland. although i have not really had time to reflect it feels really good to work for a new organization (and with new colleagues!!) after almost 5 years at the Waag and there is lots […]
have missed this when i was in lebanon in april, but nat pointed this out the other night. the first national bank of lebanon has launched a plastic surgery loan programme (‘Beauty is no longer a luxury….’): the BBC is reporting that this whole thing is a reaction to the tense political situation in Lebanon: […]
and i mean this literally. i have already written about the degrading orientation skills of london cab drivers, but in the last couple of days i noticed a much more alarming trend. on three occasions i have spotted people using those irritating gps based car navigation units to walk(!) around town. friggin’ insanity! what do […]
the ECF has put the report online which i wrote about the euro Mediterranean reflection group meting in amman in june (yes the one that killed my last macbook). it is called between ‘a rock and a hard place’ and deals with the issues of artistic practice and international collaboration in the middle east. Get […]
couple of days ago i got this flickr mail from someone working for Tobacco International which describes itself as the ‘The authority on the tobacco industry since 1886’. The person wanted to know if he could use this picture of mine for ‘a profile on the tobacco industry of the middle east for our upcoming […]
ok never thought i would get into the business of posting you tube videos here (kind of fucks up the aesthetics if you ask me) but this one is just too good not to post. the title says it all… via subtopia Technorati Tags: border, desire, migration, stupid
have been following the recent events in the UK with a mix of amusement and amazement. did not really expect that the next ‘wave of attacks‘ would be even more incompetent than the last one. there are a couple of good articles that call these ‘terrorist attacks’ for what they are (‘Terrorist Special Olympics in […]