Feels Like: Death.
Thursday 4 March 2010
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Starting tomorrow, selling, renting, importing, making & distributing video games will be illegal in Venezuela and punishable with 3 to 5 years in prison, so I decided to treat myself for the last time.
Wednesday 10 February 2010
Iran plans to block Gmail and roll out a national email service
Iranians have reported widespread service disruptions to Internet and text messaging services, though mobile phones appeared to be operating normally Wednesday.
Iran’s telecommunications agency announced what it described as a permanent suspension of Google Inc.’s email services, saying instead that a national email service for Iranian citizens would soon be rolled out. It wasn’t clear late Wednesday what effect the order had on Google’s email services in Iran.
Every time Google launches a new service, be it email, DNS, or whatever, someone always asks me why I trust Google with my data & privacy. For me, the answer is always that I trust them a hell of a lot more than I trust my government. Who in their right mind would use an email service run by the Iranian government?
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Country Store, Venezuela, ca. 1905. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. (Via Shorpy.)
I predict that by 2015 Venezuela will look like this again.
Friday 18 September 2009
From Chris Anderson’s Capitolio.
Blood on the streets of Caracas. From Christopher Anderson’s Capitolio.
From Christopher Anderson’s Capitolio.
Haunting photo from Chris Anderson’s new photo-documentary book about Venezuela, Capitolio. Here’s an excerpt from the review by The New York Times:
Murders in this hardened city have grown so widespread that looking at the homicide statistics alone can seem banal.
In one 60-hour span in July, for instance, the Bello Monte morgue overflowed with the corpses of 49 murder victims. Homicides nationwide surged almost 31 percent in the first quarter to 4,659, according to the Interior Ministry. No wonder Caraqueños grimly joke about studies of violence that rank their city as deadlier than Baghdad.
“Capitolio,” the new book on Venezuela by Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson, offers a stunning view into Caracas’s descent from its perch as one of Latin America’s most economically advanced, if unequal, cities into a place gripped by low-intensity chaos and fear.
He combines images of decaying modernist apartment blocks with the slums eating away at jungle that never seems to give up growing through the cracks of concrete. From the Ávila mountain overlooking the city, he captures the ugly, anarchic sprawl of what could be mistaken for São Paulo on a bad day.
I want this book.
Wednesday 1 July 2009
I love this packaging for Willie’s Cacao, by Taxi Studio. And, it’s for venezuelan cacao, so I had to post this.
Sunday 5 April 2009
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Soda Stereo — Cuando Pase El Temblor.
In honor of today’s earthquake.
