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Bahrain: a different wind of change
O King We are your flocks, of whom you boast to the nations. We are fed up with this glory. (Qassim Haddad, “Sin 3,” tr. Bassam K. Frangieh) Click here to view the embedded video. To those of us...
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Oslo, R18+ And Default Media Finger Pointing
About three years ago I interviewed a group of soldiers deployed in Afghanistan about gaming on the battlefield. Here were three men, fully trained soldiers, trained in combat, who spent most of their...
View ArticleThe Death Of Oula Jablawi And The Democratization Of Bearing Witness
Images from foreign famines and wars have always shaped our consciousnesses. The famous images of the 1984 Ethiopian famine, reported by Michael Buerk for the BBC, spawned an international response....
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1961: Violence and Silence
October 17, 1961/ Photo copyright Elie Kagan/BDIC The events that preceded the demonstration of October 17 and the roundup of nearly 12,000 Algerians form a taboo chapter in the history of France. Yet...
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Revolution 101
A YouTube channel under the name FSAHelp (Free Syrian Army Help) has posted over 80 videos aimed at helping the Syrian opposition to learn different skills – from hand-to-hand combat to making...
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Top 22 awkward album covers
We have compiled the top album covers: The prettiest, the ugliest, the gayest, the tackiest, the most controversial… Some others have their place lower in the ranking? We are not sure. And you, have...
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Honest Logos Part 2
Swedish graphic designer Viktor Hertz made a name for himself last year with his Honest Logos series, recreating well-known logos as if they had been treated with truth serum. Now he’s back with a...
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Russia’s New Viral Dissident Art
With broadcast and print media largely under state control, the Russian Internet has been a key platform for opposition activism. Ahead of anti-government protests on February 4, there has been a...
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Screenshots of Despair
Josh Kimball’s Screenshots of Despair blog curates those moments when our technology and social media gets unexpectedly existential all of a sudden. “The thinking behind the site was simply that we...
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Movies As Code
Ben Howdle’s site Movies As Code invites you the unemployed or work-dodging public to rewrite fims purely in programming code. The only rule: the code has to actually run. <funny> movies as code...
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In Pictures: Flux Machine
Kevin Weir started his site Flux Machine as a way to explore the features of Photoshop. “The earliest images focused on mashing together old photography and new photography, with the animation thrown...
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Bahrain: a different wind of change
O King We are your flocks, of whom you boast to the nations. We are fed up with this glory. (Qassim Haddad, “Sin 3,” tr. Bassam K. Frangieh) Click here to view the embedded video. To those of us...
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Oslo, R18+ And Default Media Finger Pointing
About three years ago I interviewed a group of soldiers deployed in Afghanistan about gaming on the battlefield. Here were three men, fully trained soldiers, trained in combat, who spent most of their...
View ArticleThe Death Of Oula Jablawi And The Democratization Of Bearing Witness
Images from foreign famines and wars have always shaped our consciousnesses. The famous images of the 1984 Ethiopian famine, reported by Michael Buerk for the BBC, spawned an international response....
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1961: Violence and Silence
October 17, 1961/ Photo copyright Elie Kagan/BDIC The events that preceded the demonstration of October 17 and the roundup of nearly 12,000 Algerians form a taboo chapter in the history of France. Yet...
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Revolution 101
A YouTube channel under the name FSAHelp (Free Syrian Army Help) has posted over 80 videos aimed at helping the Syrian opposition to learn different skills – from hand-to-hand combat to making...
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