… roughly a third of the most blatantly anti-Muslim films of the last century were made in the 1980s alone. These movies used sporadic atrocities committed by individual Islamic extremists (the Lebanon bombing, the Berlin bombing, etc.) to demonize all Muslims. Consequently, Hollywood’s go-to villain in the 1980s became the Muslim terrorist—whether it was “Iron [...]
RF_Americans_news.jpg 600×389. Robert Frank. “Hear no evil, don’t you See no evil, don’t you Lay no evil down on me”
bp15-600×400.jpg 600×400. Gives me goosebumps. More from @cliffhammond: “Egyptian Christians said they will guard the Muslims from the police while they on Friday Pray.” Amazing solidarity. #Egypt #Jan25” Photo from here. Recommend following this Twitter Search feed.
Worth a read. “To be honest, so much of the rhetoric around the use of social media in Egypt and Tunisia makes me want to scream — folks act like these American tools just dropped from the sky like humanitarian food rations, set to save the people from their (American-supported, natch) dictators.” http://jilliancyork.com/2011/01/27/how-are-protestors-in-egypt-using-social-media/
“If I don’t photograph this, people like my mom will think war is what they see on TV.”
This makes me sad.
“A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.” Video created by Andrew Huang. Sometimes things just seem to happen all at the right moment.
