November 2012
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June 2012
2 posts
“I wear my culture on my skin. They want to make me forget who I am, the beauty of my people and my heritage, but to do it they got to peel my skin off. And if they ever do that, they’ll kill me doing it— and that’s good, because once they make you forget the language and history, they’ve killed you anyway. I’m alive and free, no matter how many bars they put me behind.”
—A Place to Stand, Jimmy Santiago Baca (via fateama)
May 2012
2 posts
March 2012
4 posts
October 2011
3 posts
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
—Steve Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)
July 2011
8 posts
Submit your awesome iPhoneography to Pixel This
I’m so taking part in this.
Have you heard of “Pixel This”? It’s an iPhoneography exhibition, which will take place in London later this year, organized by http://www.createhive.org/. You can submit your photos for free, pictures and videos will be shown at Acquire Gallery (London) plus you can win awesome prizes. No reason to miss the opportunity, either you are a pro or just starting your iPhoneography adventure. Good luck. (Picture by Gerard Garcia)
Somalia-nevermind
‘somalia: nevermind’
i woke up with somalia on me. in me. so i did what i always do when i feel helpless. i wrote.
S.O.S - Save Our Somalia Fundraiser Event
Westminster University - Marylebone Campus
35 Marylebone Road
NW1 5LS
Friday, 29 July 2011
Time: 5:30 - 9:00pm
Admission fees: £5
A panel of speakers will be present discussing the situation in Somalia and the vision of the newly established Somali Development and Relief Forum will be talked about. An eyewitness will speak of the situation there too.
There will be:
Documentary
Auction & Fundraising
Poets
Food & Refreshment
Be the change you want to see in others and JOIN US for an informative night.
Target £20,000.
To confirm your attendance please email: Somalisociety@hotmail.co.uk
“Its about Western Governments — always try to find a solution for their problems in the East. They wash their dirty clothes in our life”
—Halim Al Karim ‘Nations Laundry’ (Imagine… Iraq in Venice)
What inspired you to be artistic?
I’m not sure whether I consider myself artistic or something like that. One thing I do love though is the creative freedom my iPhone has giving me over the past 2 years. It has taught me to ‘see’.
June 2011
16 posts
Hillary Clinton gives green light for Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla - Ali Abunimah →
electronicintifada.net
In comments yesterday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to lay the ground – indeed almost provide a green light – for an Israeli military attack on the upcoming Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which will include the US Boat to Gaza.
Among the passengers aboard the American boat will be 87-year old Kindertransport survivor Hedy Epstein, and author and poet Alice Walker. In all it is expected that about 10 ships, carrying 1000 people from over 20 countries will take part.
Here’s what Clinton said in remarks at the State Department on 23 June:
Well, we do not believe that the flotilla is a necessary or useful effort to try to assist the people of Gaza. Just this week, the Israeli Government approved a significant commitment to housing in Gaza. There will be construction materials entering Gaza and we think that it’s not helpful for there to be flotillas that try to provoke actions by entering into Israeli waters and creating a situation in which the Israelis have the right to defend themselves.
Clinton must know that Gaza is not part of what any country recognizes as “sovereign” Israeli territory, and therefore neither are Gaza’s territorial waters. Any boats entering Gaza’s waters would not in fact be entering “Israeli waters” as Clinton claimed. Clinton also, presuming she is properly briefed rather than misled, must also know that last year Israel attacked the Gaza Freedom Flotilla when it was in international waters and GPS data showed that it was actually heading away from Israel.
By invoking Israel’s supposed “right to self-defense” against civilian boats trying to reach Gaza, we must understand that Clinton is telling Israel the United States will not stand in the way of another military attack.
And by citing Israel allowing construction materials into Gaza to make the case that the flotilla is “unnecessary” because “aid” can reach the Palestinian people in Gaza, Clinton is engaging in the ultimate obfuscation.
People in Gaza have been reduced to penury and rendered dependent on aid by decades of Israeli occupation, siege and military attacks. The issue is not the delivery of aid but freeing the people by lifting the siege. It is an abhorrent position to suggest – as Clinton seems to – that if people in Gaza receive enough calories or a few building supplies then we should not be concerned about Israel’s siege. The Palestinian people of Gaza are not caged animals for whom sufficient care consists of shoving rations through the bars of their prison.
Israel’s siege is intended as a form of collective punishment and has been declared illegal by the ICRC.
Israel, as The Electronic Intifada reported, is engaging in military drills to intercept this unarmed civilian flotilla. In light of Clinton’s statements, if any blood is spilled it will not only be on Israeli, but also American hands.
Prosecuting flotilla passengers under “material support” lawsNot content with tacitly encouraging Israeli violence, in another alarming development, the State Department has apparently threatened that Americans who board boats to Gaza could be jailed or fined for supporting terrorism. Haaretz reports:
The U.S. State Department said Friday that attempts to break the blockade are “irresponsible and provocative” and that Israel has well-established means of delivering assistance to the Palestinian residents of Gaza. It noted that the territory is run by the militant Hamas group, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization, and that Americans providing support to it are subject to fines and jail.
In effect, the US now seems to be defining any support for any Palestinians, including a besieged civilian population, as support for Hamas, and therefore support for “terrorism.”
This mirrors its use of such “material support” laws as a pretext to investigate and persecute Palestine solidarity, antiwar, and labor activists exercising their First Amendment rights at home.
London Apple talk July 11th, 7PM
Pixels has opened the doors to many iPhononeography talks/shows in the chain of Apple Stores across the world.
Now for the first time ever on British soil, the Regent St. Apple Store in London, England will play host to an iPhoneography talk with four of London’s best iPhone street photographers. Among them are two past featured artist here on iPhoneogenic, Daniel Holland and Matthew Burlem along with the brilliant Robson Santos and a new one to me, Leyla Bile.
Phoster created by EdiCaves
Congratulations to all on this wonderful feat! Another small step for man and a giant leap for iPhoneography!
Matt Brock's iPhoneography: London iPhoneographers: Street Photography →
iphoneography.mattbrock.co.uk
At 7pm on 11th July, the Apple Store on Regent Street will be hosting an iPhoneography event to highlight four talented members of the London iPhoneography Group who will be showing their work and discussing how they use their iPhones for street photography in London: Daniel Holland, Robson…
May 2011
50 posts
your Tumblr is dope
Thank you for your lovely comment Yasin :-)
