Will Potter: The secret US prisons you've never heard of before | TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript Father Daniel Berrigan once said that "writing about prisonersis a little like writing about the dead."I think what he meant is that we treat prisoners as ghosts.They're unseen and unheard.It's easy to simply ignore themand it's even easier when the government goes to great lengths to keep them hidden. As a journalist, I think these storiesof what people in power do when no one is watching,are precisely the stories that we need to tell.That's why I began investigatingthe most secretive and experimental prison units in the United States,for so-called "second-tier" terrorists.The government calls these units Communications Management Units or CMUs.Prisoners and guards call them "Little Guantanamo."They are islands unto themselves.But unlike Gitmo they exist right here, at home,floating within larger federal prisons. There's an estimated 60 to 70 prisoners here,and they're overwhelmingly Muslim.They include people like Dr. So, why was he moved? (Laughter) For the record, I'm not. Thank you.
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry: Home Page The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by Title Index | Subject Index | Series Index | Name Index | Recordings Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry is a selection of more than 400 items from the Emile Berliner Papers and 118 Berliner sound recordings from the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Berliner (1851-1929), an immigrant and a largely self-educated man, was responsible for the development of the microphone and the flat recording disc and gramophone player. The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past. Special Presentation: Emile Berliner: Inventor of the Gramophone 30-Apr-02
The Po-Mo Page: Postmodern, Postmodernism, Postmodernity Approaching the Main Questions Postmodernism/Postmodernity is associated with an awareness of societal and cultural transitions after World War II and the rise of mass-mediated consumerist popular culture in the 1960s-1970s. In culture and the arts, interpreters of this era describe the kinds of cultural hybrids that emerge from mixing (or rendering inoperative) the categories of "high" and "low" cultures, and hybrids in cultural forms that have developed in regions where local identities seek definition against, or in dialog with, Western "hegemonic" cultures (the mixing of "official" cultures and those defined as "other" in modernist ideologies). Postmodern views of history and national identity typically cancel a commitment to modern "master narratives" or "metanarratives" like progress and goal-directed history, and disrupt myths of national and ethnic identities as "natural" foundations of "unity." Primary Problem: Constructing Trajectories of History and Culture What was Modernism?
Music Douglas Crimp - "Getting the Warhol We Deserve: Cultural Studies and Queer Culture" Getting the Warhol We Deserve: Cultural Studies and Queer Culture by Douglas Crimp Two years after the unexpected death of Andy Warhol in February 1987, the Museum of Modern Art moved to consolidate his reputation as one of the greatest artists of the second half of the twentieth century. When we turn to the discussion following the papers, a single question, posed by Buchloh, determines almost all of what follows: What, Buchloh wants to know, does Fairbrother's "traditional iconographic reading" of the skulls tell us about the "supposedly meaningless icons that are constituted as random, arbitrary, willful, as destructions of traditional referential iconography."3 Apparently undecidable, the discussion develops into an argument about the degree of Warhol's criticality, about whether, for example, Warhol intended to criticize Imelda Marcos when he put her on the cover of Interview or whether he just thought she was "glamourous, wonderful."
Healing Music |Surgery Music | Lullabies l Mozart Effect- Dr. Alice Cash Takashi Murakami - Murakami Art Fan Blog Fashion in Japan Japan | Japanese Brands | Toyota | Sony | Muji | Uniqlo | Honda | Panasonic | Subaru| brands | brand | branding news Shibui means unobtrusive beauty. Wabi sabi is the reflection of inner perfection, simplicity, the rustic and the unembellished. The company Uniqlo, whose 768 stores have annual sales to date of ¥462.3 billion (US$ 5.1 billion) and include locations in the US, UK, Hong Kong, China, Korea and France, is founded on the premise of high-quality, unadorned casual clothes for everybody using the best, most innovative materials and ever-evolving processes that allow the individual to come through by way of his or her own dressing habits. Muji, a simple lifestyle brand that uses natural and recycled materials and employs top designers whose names are absent from all packaging and merchandising, is thriving, with 433 stores across 16 countries. Lesson 3: Reverence for Nature and the Human Touch Products that exhibit the human touch and an understanding of the environment are what consumers—and society—demand now. In Conclusion Brands are about values, and values are about people. [13-Apr-2009]