We were supposed to be hard at work yesterday, planning for the release of our Spring 2009 Collection… When these two characters {Gerry & Rich - Amivectio} showed up with two cases of beer. Our master planning turned into a discussion about Gandhi vs. Che? If you see these two shady individuals drinking on the job in a town near you, please take a flick, and report them to friends@amivectio.com. Thank you in advance!
Tell the Energy Department to save money and energy by strengthening lighting efficiency standards
A new lighting standard could save energy and money and reduce global warming pollution. Urge the new leaders at the Department of Energy to strengthen the proposed lamp standards and close loopholes left behind by the Bush administration. TAKE ACTION!
via: NRDC
Tell the Energy Department to save money and energy by strengthening lighting efficiency standards
A new lighting standard could save energy and money and reduce global warming pollution. Urge the new leaders at the Department of Energy to strengthen the proposed lamp standards and close loopholes left behind by the Bush administration. TAKE ACTION!
via: NRDC
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin are a Dutch fashion photographer duo, well known for their work for fashion magazines, advertising campaigns, and for their independent art work.
Matadin’s and van Lamsweerde’s work have been published in magazines like Vogue, GQ, and Arena Homme Plus.
They have produced photographs for the advertising campaigns of Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Chloé, Stella McCartney, Valentino, Gucci, Givenchy, Roberto Cavalli, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Gap, Narciso Rodriguez, and H&M. Check out some of their most recent work for GQ above. Enjoy!
Folkstreams.net has two goals. One is to build a national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. The other is to give them renewed life by streaming them on the internet. The films were produced by independent filmmakers in a golden age that began in the 1960s and was made possible by the development first of portable cameras and then capacity for synch sound. Their films focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different regions and communities.
The filmmakers were driven more by sheer engagement with the people and their traditions than by commercial hopes. Their films have unusual subjects, odd lengths, and talkers who do not speak “broadcast English.” Although they won prizes at film festivals, were used in college classes, and occasionally were shown on PBS, they found few outlets in venues like theaters, video shops or commercial television. But they have permanent value. They come from the same intellectual movement that gave rise to American studies, regional and ethnic studies, the “new history,” “performance theory,” and investigation of tenacious cultural styles in phenomena like song, dance, storytelling, visual designs, and ceremonies.They also respond to the intense political and social ferment of the period.
The filmmakers and the researchers they collaborated with explored performances situated in a community’s customary work, worship, and play. Beneath their colorful surfaces often lie serious issues of physical, psychic, and social survival under duress. For understanding what they saw the filmmakers relied more heavily on observant and knowledgeable community members than on outside “experts.” They conveyed understanding through action and symbol as often as by “talking heads.” See Selected Films.
Many of the films, however, are linked to significant published research. Folkstreams draws on this material to accompany and illuminate both the subjects and the filmmaking. And the films themselves add powerful dimensions to print scholarship. They offer a direct experience of unfamiliar worlds. Many of these are now receding into the historical past, but we hope the example of these films may stimulate alternative filmmaking with subjects and approaches still ignored by mainstream corporate media.
Adbusters Issue 82, Endgame Strategies, all about tapping the revolutionary potential of Generation O, is hitting the newsstands now. Here’s a preview of what’s inside:
How Obama Carried Me Home
Frances McCaffery spent her whole life searching for political inspiration. When she joined Obama’s campaign, she finally found it.
They Believed, Why Can’t I?
A billboard by designer Alexander McQueen features an image of chic Parisians rebelling in 1968 and no sign of the actual product.
Pachamama: Rights for Nature
In an unprecedented move Ecuador recently passed constitutional amendments that enshrine rights for nature. In doing so the tiny nation has figured out a way, totally consistent with our Western legal platforms, to give earth and civilization a fighting chance.
A Crack in Capitalismo’s Façade
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa is breaking capitalism’s rules of conduct by defaulting on repayment of almost $4 billion in foreign debt. Declaring that the debt is immoral and illegal, Correa is pledging to deal with his country’s social debt before kowtowing to foreign creditors.
Not So Fast
Ziauddin Sardar explores the cultural, historical and spiritual significance of Ramadan.
Revolutionary Potential
Editor-in-Chief, Kalle Lasn, probes the latent potential for a replay of 60s-style insurrection in the streets of North America. Will Generation O rise to the challenge of the times?
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in a magnificent odyssey that seamlessly merges the actual with the imagined. A book whose importance is eclipsed only by its quality, The Satanic Verses is a key work of our times.
Author Salman Rushdie became a household name in 1989, when Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or Islamic edict, calling for Rushdie’s death. Khomeini believed Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, blasphemed Islam.
Rushdie went into hiding for the next nine years. After the Ayatollah died in 1998, the Iranian government rescinded the fatwa.
But just last month, Iran’s hard-line military group, the Revolutionary Guards, issued a statement saying the fatwa is still valid.
Listen to Salman Rushdie talk about going in hiding after the Iranian death edict. Buy this book.
Make history March 2, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
Be part of the largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history.
You know there is a climate crisis. You know we have to solve it. It’s time to take our action to the next level.
With a new administration and a new Congress, we have a window of opportunity. But we have to open it — together.
On March 2, join thousands of people in a multi-generational act of civil disobedience at the Capitol Power Plant — a plant that powers Congress with dirty energy and symbolizes a past that cannot be our future. Let’s use this as a rallying cry for a clean energy economy that will protect the health of our families, our climate, and our future.
This will be a peaceful demonstration, carried out in a spirit of hope and not rancor. We will be there in our dress clothes, and ask the same of you.
It’s time to take a stand on global warming. We can’t wait any longer for the changes we KNOW we can, and must, make today.
As promised… Pictures from the Grand Theft Auto IV official event:
Rich’s cousin from PR, can’t remember his name {blame the open bar}.
The beautiful Miss Info of Hot 97.
Laura Stylez, Host of RottenAppleChicks & Lady J. VJ of La Kalle 105.9FM.
A very happy L. Boogs.
DJ Mick Boogie, proudly holds up his ltd. xbox, after spending some time at the bar with us.
DJ Spin One is no stranger to ltd. products.
Last, but certainly not least; The Three Amigos: “Hawaii” Mike {Mr. LTD.} and Rich & Hector {Amivectio}.