Archive for the ‘War & Peace’ Category
DC Bike Polo
German Illustrator, Olaf Hajek
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Olaf Hajek
Gestalten (Video Interview)
Design Boom
Booooooom!
Johanssen Gallery
Creative Loafing
Palestinian Independent Video Journalism
Revisioned ‘I Want You’ Poster
ARTICLE: Artist & Poet, Liao Yiwu, Detained by Chinese Government
FIRST 3 PARAGRAPHS:
BEIJING — Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly on Monday to a literary festival in Germany, human rights activists said.
It was the 13th time Mr. Liao had been prevented from leaving the country. The Associated Press reported that he had been placed under house arrest after being questioned by security agents for four hours.
“How can this happen?” the news service quoted him as saying. “It’s a cultural event, nothing political. Such drama!”
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NY Times: Asia Pacific
Wikipedia: Liao Yiwu
BBC Interview on YouTube (2008)
Telegraph
Washington Post
Huffington Post
Devdutt Pattanaik @ TED: East vs. West
Some of this could be extended to include the Confucian-heritage cultures in the far East, I would think, including China. However, I would argue that there’s much more emphasis in those cultures on the collective understanding of Mr. Pattanaik’s “mythology of the infinite.” It’s not so much “the world” and/or “my world” (object meets subjective, the West meets India), but “the wolrd” and/or “OUR world.”
In any case, a thought-provoking TED video:
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TED
Devdutt Pattanaik
Photographer John Goodwin and MLK, Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” Speech @ Riverside Church in NY
The Dangers of Being a Freelance Journalist
US Jazz Ambassadors in Pakistan
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Time Video
Ari Roland
NPR Jazz Ambassadors Slideshow
Jam Session
US Department of State
Jazz @ Lincoln Center: The Rhythm Road
Kabul, Then & Now (40yrs of Loss)
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