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7 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘quote’
Know Thine Enemy Sun 10 Jul 2005
The news that Steven Spielberg has begun production on a movie based on the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics (which was the subject of a documentary, One Day in September, which I haven’t seen but by most accounts...
London Speaks Sun 10 Jul 2005
I’ve got nothing more to say, not that I had much worth contributing in the first place, being a safe 300 miles away. And anyway, as others have put it, this is not a time to dwell, or “indulge in...
Some Notes on Rock and Roll Graphic Design Wed 30 Mar 2005
There’s an interesting article by Tom Vanderbilt over at Design Observer on ‘the rise and fall of rock and roll graphic design’, highlighting what he perceives as the death of iconography in contemporary music. He asks three questions: Has heavy...
Cruel... but Usual Tue 01 Mar 2005
Gary Younge’s thoughtful commentary in today’s Guardian takes Britain’s foreign policy to task, comparing the abuses at Camp Breadbasket — Britain’s Abu Ghraib — with the British Empire’s long history of colonial oppression, highlighting the refusal of the establishment to...
The Coriolis Force Thu 24 Feb 2005
Antipixel’s Jeremy Hedley loves the vaguely comical natural phenomena: [S]now always makes me think of chicks leaving a nest. Those little whirlpools that form in creeks are funny, too, in a dog-chasing-its-tail way, and the coriolis force always reminds me...
Election Response Roundup Thu 11 Nov 2004 | 1 Comments
In an appendix of sorts to last week’s US election rant, here’s a roundup of related commentary that caught my attention (and might otherwise have been lost in the Linklog): Simon Schama: Onward Christian soldiersHistorian Schama sees the US as...
The War on Words Wed 10 Nov 2004
Philip Pullman writes in last weekend's Guardian Review on the fate of literature as democratic activity in an increasingly didactic, theocratic world: The democracy of reading exists in the to-and-fro between reader and text, when each is free to engage...
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