… in todays guardian: the last two paragraphs of an article which describes the death of two Tunisian men who stowed away on a german cargo ship traveling from sfax in tunesia to ayr in scotland actually treat the two deceased as human beings (plus the entire article does not label them as ‘illegal immigrants’ […]
the fabulous electronic performance arts venue/center/place/non-place [it is hard to describe what this place really is] steim in amsterdam is in danger of loosing it’s funding. over the past years steim has received funding from both the dutch ministry of culture education and science and the city of amsterdam. for some reason (probably because they […]
the league of noble peers has just made available the raw footage of 19 interviews filmed for steal this film 2. the footage is not only available online but also fully text searchable based on the transcripts of the interviews: Thanks to the magic of 0xdb and Pad.ma, plus the hard work of a number […]
Naeem posted a little gem of a text to the nettime mailing list earlier today. it describes the rising popularity of sheik-themed romance novels and begins with one of the best sentences i have read in while: “It seems that an Arab man can now get on the cover of a romance novel in the […]
seems to be a title of a documentary film about life in israel and gaza in production right now (no IMDB entry yet). from what i can tell it looks like an attempt to portray everyday life in both gaza and israel by following surfers in both territories. according to juxtapoz.com the film should be […]
[see previous evidence here, here and here]. Over at BLDGblog Geoff Manaugh reflects on a feature in the last edition of WIRED that praises GPS and user generated map files for allowing rich westerners to travel through remote parts of the world (Namibia in this case) without the need for local guides. In ‘the digital […]
so just before the meal service during yesterday’s flight to boston i get a meal tray handed over by a flight attendant. turns out they have me on the list for a special (vegetarian) meal. now the strange thing is that i had not ordered such a meal (even cheked my reservation confirmation and it […]
had a bit of a bad feeling when i was reading that nat was going back to beirut for some festival and that there would be a general strike in beirut on the 7th of may. turns out that my bad feelings were justified. nat is (or at least was, the last thing i had […]
so Jamie more or less forced us to watch iron man on thursday in some nondescript multiplex cinema in swansea, wales. definitely not the worst film i have ever seen but for some reason these comic book adaptions fail to really excite me (except for film versions of comic books by enki bilal that is). […]
turns out i am in the netherlands for quite a while now (almost eleven years to be exact) and in that period i have managed to start something which has become a tradition of some sorts: the Anniek van Hardeveld memorial race. today is the 10th edition of this alley cat race in the memory […]