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No news from Iceland… why?
How come we hear everything that happens in Egypt but no news about what’s happening in Iceland:
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In Iceland, the people has made the government resign, the primary banks have been nationalized, it was decided to not pay the debt that these…
Edward Curtis is a twentieth century photographer best known for his work photographing Native Americans during the period of 1907-1930. He was dedicated to photographing the Natives as he perceived them to be a dying race and was intent on capturing and documenting their culture before they became extinct.
As great, and as beautiful as his work is, it is not without controversy because his ‘dedication’ to documenting the Native Americans was not as authentic as he would have liked us to believe.
‘He presented his subjects in a traditional way whenever possible and even supplied a bit of the proper clothing when his subjects had none. Re-enactments of battles, moving camp, ceremonies and other past activities were also photographed.’ American Masters PBS April 2001
By doing this Curtis was dismissing their culture and replacing it with a myth that his suited ideology and vision, often manipulating his photographs. He did so by removing all traces of modernity and all elements of westernization to conjure the sense of ‘traditional’ identity. It was for these reasons why he was criticized by Ethnographers.
Exploitation masquerading as charity. Read some thoughts by Cyborgology.
![Women perform 66% of the world’s work, but receive only 11% of the world’s income, and own only 1% of the world’s land.
Women make up 66% of the world’s illiterate adults.
Women head 83% of single-parent families. The number of families nurtured by women alone doubled from 1970 to 1995 (from 5.6 million to 12.2 million).
Women account for 55% of all college students, but even when women have equal years of education it does not translate into economic opportunities or political power.
There are six million more women than men in the world.
Two-thirds of the world’s children who receive less than four years of education are girls. Girls represent nearly 60% of the children not in school.
Parents in countries such as China and India sometimes use sex determination tests to find out if their fetus is a girl. Of 8,000 fetuses aborted at a Bombay clinic, 7,999 were female.
Wars today affect civilians most, since they are civil wars, guerrilla actions and ethnic disputes over territory or government. 3 out of 4 fatalities of war are women and children.
Rape is consciously used as a tool of genocide and weapon of war. Tens of thousands of women and girls have been subjected to rape and other sexual violence since the crisis erupted in Darfur in 2003. There is no evidence of anyone being convicted in Darfur for these atrocities.
About 75% of the refugees and internally displaced in the world are women who have lost their families and their homes.
Gender-based violence kills one in three women across the world and is the biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide, causing more deaths and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accident, and war.
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- Women perform 66% of the world’s work, but receive only 11% of the world’s income, and own only 1% of the world’s land.
- Women make up 66% of the world’s illiterate adults.
- Women head 83% of single-parent families. The number of families nurtured by women alone doubled from 1970 to 1995 (from 5.6 million to 12.2 million).
- Women account for 55% of all college students, but even when women have equal years of education it does not translate into economic opportunities or political power.
- There are six million more women than men in the world.
- Two-thirds of the world’s children who receive less than four years of education are girls. Girls represent nearly 60% of the children not in school.
- Parents in countries such as China and India sometimes use sex determination tests to find out if their fetus is a girl. Of 8,000 fetuses aborted at a Bombay clinic, 7,999 were female.
- Wars today affect civilians most, since they are civil wars, guerrilla actions and ethnic disputes over territory or government. 3 out of 4 fatalities of war are women and children.
- Rape is consciously used as a tool of genocide and weapon of war. Tens of thousands of women and girls have been subjected to rape and other sexual violence since the crisis erupted in Darfur in 2003. There is no evidence of anyone being convicted in Darfur for these atrocities.
- About 75% of the refugees and internally displaced in the world are women who have lost their families and their homes.
- Gender-based violence kills one in three women across the world and is the biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide, causing more deaths and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accident, and war.
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How to make friends by Telephone
By Scott Steffens, telephone etiquette from the 1940s
Living Books are people just like you and me and for different reasons they are subjected to stereotyping and prejudices. They are open about who they are and prepared to share their experiences. A Living Book is a person who has chosen to be a public representative of a certain group.
Living Books can be found in the Toronto Public Library. The library lets us check out humans as well as books.The idea is a way to break down prejudice by bringing people of different backgrounds together for one-on-one conversation.
A 32 minute stop-motion animation directed by Suzie Templeton. Won an Academy Award in 2007 for Animated Short Film.
Design your own custom printed fabric. Spoonflower is not only a business it is also a community. “Now numbers around 150,000 individuals who use their own fabric to make curtains, quilts, clothes, bags, furniture, dolls, pillows, framed artwork, costumes, banners and much, much more. The Spoonflower marketplace offers the largest collection of independent fabric designers in the world.
Sovvrapensiero and OniricaLab’s latest workshop is a study about the human body and the relation between humanity and materiality. The human body was transformed, dismembered, and elaborated to create a process that generates a displacement of the usual point of view and the formulation of collateral thoughts about arguments mostly forgotten.
Gears and other mechanical things
A 1930 short film from avant-garde filmmaker Ralph Steiner that shows dozens of gears and other machinery at work. (by kottke.org)
Where is your organization located on this axis?
David Malouf about the convergence and divergence in the interaction design as a community of practice.
“The divergence is happening along the lines of the gravitational interests from where interaction design was born or where the slippery slope of our primary interest takes us. The divergence is also because the level of complexity of our problem sets have grown so vast that no single group can or should keep track of all of it. We have split basically along our primary lines of interest: Engineering, Individuals (psychology), Culture (anthropology) and Art.”
“Our challenge is not necessarily to re-converge but to figure out how to interweave—respecting the contexts that have reinforced this separation and learning how to collaborate and cooperate when the opportunity presents itself.”
The Inuit carved goggles from caribou antlers to help prevent snow blindness. and block the glare of the sun on the snow. The goggles were curved to fit the user’s face and had a large groove cut in the back to allow for the nose. A long thin slit was cut through the goggles to allow in a small amount of light, diminishing the amount of UV rays that get through. The goggles were held to the head by a cord made of caribou sinew.
A protester wears a Guy Fawkes mask during the unrest in Cairo on Thursday, February 2. Thousands of protesters marched on government buildings after more than 70 soccer fans were killed in Port Said. Nearly 1,500 people were hurt in the Cairo confrontation, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Health. Photo courtesy of @mosaaberizing
photo © rita parada
The private automobile, that avatar of western individualism, is difficult to square with collectivist notions. A fascinating look at automobile use, production, and urban planning behind the Iron Curtain. It reveals a system that, if far from socialist or egalitarian in origin, created a culture of automobile use distinct from the western world and once its owners were at the wheel, these socialist automobiles were often difficult to reconcile with notions of mechanical reliability.
