last night’s show was quite extraordinary .. entirely live set , no drum tracks — no tracks at all — at least half a dozen different live vocalists not including the two rastafarians nor the roots. there was the o-so-lovely loulou who reminds us why we learnt french and then nina, the brazilian, who has us regretting dropping spanish ..
no tracks at all : live sitar, trumpet, flute, guitar(bothacoustic&electric), sax, bass, full percussion section and more as well as one little box full of mr garza’s cool sounds and erichilton mixing in realtime.
an amazing show , such an amazing show that i’m going back tonight assuming i can get some more tix .. it’s going to be fan-fuck-tanstic [again] and you should definitely get yourself some tix and come along
you know cirque-du-soleil is meant to be revolutionary and one of kind (i was never all that keen on it) ; well the corporation live would make it seem mundane in comparision … you must see thievery corporation live before you die, preferably tomorrow night
Monthly Archive for July, 2005
yep , i’m likely to have a few extra tkts for thievery corporation @930 this friday/jul29 and it’s gonna be great so i think that you should give me a ring right about now so that we can arrange something great.
if you need a listen beforehand, the outernational sound [one of their older albums] is available for your ears, only if you’re coming.
i was really impressed by the salgado book i saw at kramer’s today,
this is how powerful a photograph can be.
Kathleen CollinsEven as machines, robots and computers replace workers, Salgado’s powerful, striking photographs reveal the backbreaking and unrelenting toil that is still the lot of millions of men and women around the globe. Never preachy or didactic, these 350 duotone images of tea pickers in Rwanda, dam builders in India, steelworkers in France and Ukraine, sugarcane harvesters in Brazil, assembly-line workers in Russia and China, sulfur miners in Indonesia and others, pay tribute to working people who preserve their dignity in the harshest conditions. In the lyrical accompanying essay, Salgado ( An Uncertain Grace ) laments Japan’s industrial fishing which decimates fish stocks, France’s agricultural policies and the global exploitation of manual laborers who do the bulk of the world’s work.
Don WestSalgado, an economist by training, documents the unforgettable faces of workers at their jobs around the world. His widely published images of the oil-field firefighters in Kuwait may be the most familiar to U.S. readers. The catalog for a traveling exhibition, this book is divided into six chapters–Agriculture, Food, Mining, Industry, Oil, and Construction–that show the basest realities of work in some of its uncountable forms, from fishing in Spain, to textile factories in Kazakhstan, Eurotunnel construction in France, a slaughterhouse in South Dakota, and gold miners in Brazil. The reader almost never sees a smiling face or evidence of job satisfaction. Instead, this is an iconography of wage-labor toil, alienation, and survival. The location and subject of each related group of images are announced in the table of contents; otherwise, one needs to consult a separate softbound booklet in a pocket in the back, which offers Salgado’s facts and statistics about the particular natural resource, geographical area, and type of work pictured. The reproductions here are of superb quality. The winner of numerous international photography awards, Salgado ( An Uncertain Grace , LJ 2/1/91) has renewed the “concerned photographer” genre and produced one of the finest books of this decade. Essential for all art and photography collections.
To capture the depth and truth of the human experience, to affirm our universal humanity, to honor and inspire people’s struggle to better their world. I have documented individuals and communities who often against all odds, survive and strive — in the United States, Africa, and in Latin America.
I often look at my work and wonder what is its impact? Can images change minds? Can photography influence the way people think and understand the human condition? Certainly photography provides a window into realities we could never witness and in that sense helps us form deeper opinions about verbal information that comes to us. Can we trust what our eyes see? With the digital age upon us, we often wonder — Was the image manipulated? This is a major concern in the news gathering industry. Truth in reporting is paramount — or all believability is lost.
well a bunch of my enormous-format prints arrived today and they are supreme, i am very very happy with white house custom color and would recommend them to anyone for any digital [photographic] printing needs. they’re a small team and each print is accompanied by a card indicating which of them mounted or packaged it, speaking of which their mounting was flawless and the prints came out excellently despite my fears of lacking resolution , they do look wonderful and no flaws can be seen with the human eye at close distance let alone at distance .. their fuji PRO papers are very nice and are very comparable to mpix’s kodak e-surface [despite my natural biases favoring kodak and against fuji] nothing like the flimsy crystal archive crap that all the consumer printers use . all my nonmetallic prints were lustre sprayed and it’s very worth while, comparing with my test 8×10 prints none of which were lustre sprayed . although it’s not cheap ,especially on larger prints, i would recommend it on any print [ besides metallic of course , i doubt they would even offer it on metallic ]
in other news picked up a copy of kevin smith’s collected essays also named ’silent bob speaks’ .. now normally i’m not too keen on these sort of someone’s collected writings books , even douglas adams’s salmon of doubt [which i really wanted to enjoy and was quite looking forward to] was rather disappointing ; i’d say it wasn’t really interesting enough .. i mean naturally these kinds of things won’t be overwhelmingly exciting but sometimes they make up for it in philosophical insight /etc .
kevin smith did well in terms of interest , the many collected essays firstly tell an interesting story and some get into very interesting thoughts , through storytelling .. i’m really digging it and i’d definitely recommend you get a copy
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.. didn’t manage to finish it but i already read the end [while at kramer’s] where i think some of the more interesting bits are .. surely the book has its more dreary parts but overall i thought it well balanced and a worthwhile read
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, got it at kramer’s [on 19th at dupont circle] , i always tend to find something interesting there .. and they’re great for dinner and/or drinks .. i certainly don’t go there nearly enough .. while i was there i also noticed a great photo book on the Sahel by Sebastiao Salgado unfortunately kramer’s only had one copy and it was a little beat up but i’ve now got one in the mail from amazon [for half the price (i’m starting to feel the immediate side of a walmart effect brewing but that is for another time] one-day shipping for $4, can’t beat that [loving amazon prime] .. it’s got some really strong hitting photographs from the sub-saharan during the mid eighties over fifteen months
another thing , today at the [world] bank (my internship) i was in a meeting on reconstruction in iraq and a [very clever friend of mine] made some interesting comparisons with egypt .. also demonstrated how the iraqis were [this is post gulf war mid nineties] zealously following the strong example of ireland [a commonly used success story for ingenious economic change overnight] .. he was at the world bank compound in iraq when it was attacked [first and only direct violent attack on world bank staff] , yea it was interesting stuff ; apparently all their pilots are either russian or south african , have you ever been in an aircraft doing a spiral take off .. it’s some scary stuff when they do that , i haven’t a clue where but i seem to remember having been in one as a child (perhaps in a dream, altho it’s more than believable) .. basically the plane just keeps on going in larger circles faster until it has sufficient velocity for take off and straightens out .. it’s a maneuver that requires great skill i’d imagine and is very risky i’m sure .. in a lot of areas in conflict planes have to land and take off in a very small place and from/to great alititude , they can’t descend from safe cruising altitude until they’re well over friendly territory [the airport] and only then can they begin their landing ,, the takeoff works similarly in that as soon as they’re airborne they have to climb as fast as possible without stalling …. all this can be quite traumatic
It was with great sadness and concern that Reporters Without Borders learned on July 6, 2005, a federal judge ordered New York Times reporter Judith Miller to serve time in jail for contempt of court for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative’s name. She was taken into custody immediately. Judith Miller faces up to four months in jail, the length of time before the term of the federal grand jury in the case expires. Matt Cooper avoided prison after agreeing to reveal his sources in front a the grand jury. He said his source gave him a personal confidentiality waiver, allowing him to discuss their conversation.
not such a great day for the concept of public awareness as a whole.
hey there remember that free flickr account i was offering , well it’s still plenty available i didn’t want to give it to you anya because you haven’t uploaded anything new to your existing flickr since november of last year and have a total of 34 photos online [ just wanted to clarify that it wasn’t anything of any sort of personal nature ] , surely their free account isn’t that limiting .. i would hate to see it go to waste so i’m hoping that someone [who’s planning on using it] will stand up and claim it by july15.
again , it’s nothing personal
i should also mention that printsite77 (i don’t know if i’ve posted about it here .. i don’t think i have .. i haven’t) is going to go live at some point in the future , it will most probably be hosted with textdrive and i am very much hoping to get to know rubyonrails while i’m getting it’s back-end together … if anyone is interested in working on a [profitable] project that will involve complex back-end work with rubyonrails (i.e someone wanting a good excuse/exercise to get started with ruby or just db-based back-end work in general) as well as unavoidably snazzy-while-standards-compliant they should be certain to contact me sometime in the near future for details [by contacting me re:printsite77 you agree to an industry-standard non-disclosure agreement (although you are not in any way bound to participate, you just can’t rip off the idea)]
