From Pink Floyd to PJ Harvey, our Street View specialist Halley Docherty shows us the world’s cities through the lens of famous album coversAlso worth a browse, old paintings of London in modern settings
March 4, 2013
In a detailed article published today in Al-Sharq Al-Wasat, one of the most prominent newspapers in the Middle East, Iraqi archeologist Dr. Lamia Al-Gailani described the tragic looting of the National Museum of Iraq in 2003. The first female archeologist of Iraq, a University of…
Can you imagine how many friends Israel will have? That’s too bad they didn’t make the first edition…Check out Tyranny Book
Tyrannybook is a network that aims to generate a global consciousness about the countless atrocities that take place here and there across the globe. Using a following system, the users can be updated about the faults committed by those leaders against the well known and recognised Human Rights.
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Released by Amnesty, the profiles of the tyrants are updated both by the organization itself and by the users, according to the current situation of the countries where they lead. However, as time goes by, it will expand by the addition of new profiles from the Amnesty. It’s up to each user to decide which leaders they are most interested to watch. Between them, users can even become allies, exchanging points of view and discussing current issues.
In this first phase there are ten tyrants in the site: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan, Kim Jong Il of North Korea, Than Shwe of Myanmar, Hu Jintau of China, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Radovan Karadzic of Serbia, Aleksandr Lukashenka of Belarus and Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov of Chechnya.
Taking advantage of the visibility of this kind of social networks, Amnesty hopes to get more support to the causes it promotes. Inside the Tyrannybook all its action are reported and have a direct link to Amnesty
International – Portugal’s official website. There the users can get more information on how they can help promote Human Rights.
This project was developed by Leo Burnett Iberia.
A ping-pong table divided by a brick wall by Portuguese artist Carlos No is inspired by Palestine.
“Intifada is a site-specific installation whose theme focuses the problematic of the physical boundaries,” says No. “It could be seen as a solution of self-defense or, in other point of view,…
My latest article for This is World Town where I give a thorough review (and an anecdote) of Ryerson’s graduate fashion show
April 21-25 at Studio City in Liberty Village. Includes my picks.
Latest work: my first piece for Heeba Magazine
A Waltz for Iraq: interview with Iraqi-Canadian painter Sundus Abdul Hadi
london based shoe designer nicholas kirkwood has created a series of illuminated high heel shoes for rodarte’s fall/winter collection 2010/2011. the series of light up heels was just launched at new york fashion week. (via)
http://www.nicholaskirkwood.com
