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[ filed under: culture philosophy ] Once in a while, something jumps out from the corner of our vision and turns all our assumptions about people and the world upside down and inside out. "In My Language" is one of these epiphanies, if one allows the film to do its work and shake us out of the fuzzy cloud of our conventional thought and what we believe normalcy is. Created by a young autistic woman, the film shows how she communicates in her own native language, then explains to us through a computer translation "in our language" how she interacts with the world. We believe that our thought, our language and the world exist in a transparent relationship -- and this allows us to operate in normal society -- but hopefully after watching "In My Language," some of us will wonder about personhood, thought, communication, normalcy, and if we're experiencing the world around us at all... Click here for the YouTube link. Search New America Media articles on: autism Romania’s private Pro TV station has posted a video on their web site showing Chinese soldiers firing upon a group of unarmed Tibetan refugees crossing the Himalayan Nangpa La pass into Nepal. The shootings took place on September 30 and were witnessed by European mountain climbers on nearby advance base camps. At least 2 Tibetan refugees were killed, one of whom was a nun. The incident was captured on video by Segiu Matei, a Romanian cameraman who was part of an expedition climbing the Himalayan peak Cho Oyu on the border of China and Nepal. According to an AP report published by the Internation Herald Tribune on October 14, the video from Pro TV shows a distant figure that its narrator says is a Chinese border guard firing a rifle and a separate scene of a person in a line of figures walking through the snow falling to the ground. An unidentified man near the camera can be heard saying in English, “They are shooting them like, like dogs.” Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency released a report stating that the Chinese soldiers had acted out of self-defense: Soldiers had found nearly 70 people trying to illegally cross the Tibetan border into Nepal. The soldiers tried to persuade the group to go back home, according to Xinhua, which was citing an unnamed Tibetan government official. “But the stowaways refused and attacked the soldiers,” Xinhua said. “Under the circumstances, the frontier soldiers were forced to defend themselves and injured two stowaways.” The Pro TV video:
More info: Watch the Pro TV interview with cameraman Sergiu Matei who captured the shootings on video:
Search New America Media articles on: Tibet [ filed under: race-relations youth ] Conscious Youth Media Crew presents "The Real State of Emergency," a raw, compelling short film made by 17-year-old East Oakland native Elliott McGregor, who used a digital camcorder to examine the steady rise in homicides in Oakland’s toughest neighborhoods. "It’s a true war in the streets of Oakland because of all the problems with drugs and poverty. What this means is that folks out there are trying to get it however and whenever they can. People are getting hurt and killed just trying to get on top and out of poverty the best way they can,” says McGregor. “If I wasn’t spending all this time to make this film, I could have become a murder statistic myself." -- from Conscious Youth Media Crew (CYMC)'s Press Release on "The Real State of Emergency"
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More info: Comment [1] Hurra Torpedo’s unique rendition of the 1983 pop song “Total Eclipse of the Heart”: From the wikipedia: Hurra Torpedo is Norway’s most famous kitchen appliance band, formed in the early nineties. They are a part of the artistic collective Duplex Records, and all members of the band also play in a variety of other bands in Norway. The band struck international fame when a television performance of the 1983 Bonnie Tyler power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, using kitchen appliances for percussion, spread as an internet meme. The clip, from a Norwegian Saturday Night Live type show called Lille lørdag (“Little Saturday”), was filmed in 1995. In early 2005 the clip was uploaded to the internet. In the clip, the band, dressed in ill-fitting jogging suits, play on a stage surrounded by various kitchen appliances. Frontman Hegerberg plays guitar and sings in an off-key monotone, Schau “drums” by hitting a stove with a stick and slamming the door of a freezer, while Guttormsgaard adds backing vocals, and at the climax smashes the top of an electrical stove with a large piece of metal on the beat of the song. Search New America Media articles on: music
Click here to watch the video on Google. Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founding members of the Magnum photo agency, is the “father of street photography” known for his ability to capture “the decisive moment.” This video from the Charlie Rose show is one of the few interviews Cartier-Bresson has given where he discusses his views on photography, its practice and its aesthetics. "Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the century’s icons of photography. He has transformed the art of photography with his uncanny sense of timing, his intuition in seizing the right moment, his sensitivity and his sense of geometry. His photographs have given a meaning to the world they arrest. He’s a marksman and a sharpshooter whose main tool is spontaneity…" —Charlie Rose intro Browse New America Media’s photo galleries and photo of the day blog. |
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