Words

I’m usually image based, but occasionally I do some writing.

Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined Steven Pinkerton Viking 2011 This book by Steven Pinker (The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate) is truly a tome. I’ve been reduced to actually having to buy a copy – I’m racking up library fines as I write,  there’s a long waiting list for this through [...]

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Portland Genocide Awareness Coalition

Recently I realized that I should pull together what I could from a ad hoc grass roots group I worked with in 2006-2009 called the Portland Genocide Awareness Coalition. the group did a week of events for Genocide Awareness for several years, and put together and sponsored a number of other events throughout that time. [...]

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Into the Abyss

Death Row and executions in the great state of Texas. Werner Herzog becomes a neutral observer, and a sad story slowly unfolds through his interviewees.  One of the best movies I’ve seen this year. A very fair treatment of a very difficult subject – A man on death row, a week from his execution, and [...]

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World Memory Project

I learned about the World Memory Project from a video report by Athena Jones on  CNN . I was intrigued, to put it lightly. One of the existential themes  in my life as been “genocide”. Another theme is media and stories. (Trans-media – is what they call it now… ). And a third theme is my belief [...]

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Viva Mexico

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Happy World

I’m afraid this video brings to mind the “Happiness Police from an episode of Dr. Who I saw a long, long time ago. But this is not science fiction – it is Burma today. I haven’t watched the entire episode yet – and am waiting to talk to the Burmese friends about what they think. Letting [...]

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Spring Break Light Reading

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Because of the Oregon rains there wasn’t much else to do but read this spring break. Oh yeah – and I don’t even get spring break! So I grabbed a copy of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (New Press People’s History)  by Prashad. Light reading – not. Kind of like [...]

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Made in Dagenham

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Once in awhile I’m able to get to the monthly “Movies & Meaning’s”  event.  So in January I watched Made in Dagenham with the group, and discussed the film over a beer afterward.  A surprisingly well made film that told the story of Rita O’Grady becoming the initially unwilling leader of a group of women [...]

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Wreck of the Emily G. Reed now on YouTube

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The Oregon Coast is a ship graveyard, from the New Carissa (1999) to the Beeswax Wreck (>1800′s). As a child I enjoyed visiting the wreck of the Peter Iredale, just south of the Columbia River at Ft. Stevens. (1906). So when the news reported that the wreck of the Emily G. Reed had been uncovered [...]

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iMovie ’11

Somehow Apple has snuck iMovie ’11 out without much fanfare. I just read a review in Online Video , and was happy to see the addition of  audio waveforms (and better audio editing) and a wizard for “trailers” has been added. This is part of the iLife ’11, and also includes a new version of [...]

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