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Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 278
Kuwait: Green Caravan Film Festival 2009: Manufactured Landscapes
1MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it. [From edwardburtynsky.com]
Manufactured Landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
Alphabeat’s official cover, new album “The Spell” has leaked!
The highly-touted second album from our favorite Danish band Alphabeat has leaked. The Spell takes a different direction in tribute to the great pop sound of early 90s’ house music and vocals. The lead single “The Spell” shows just that. The album is supposed to be released November 2nd in the UK.
Premiere: Video: “Water And A Flame” by Daniel Merriweather featuring Adele
You might have to click out for this one as embedding is disabled (the stupidest feature since underwater headphones). But this is the new single and it features the lovely Adele on backing vocals, but she is not in the video. Not too sure how well this is doing, but something tells us that his second album will be make or break.
Official cover for Sugababes’ album “Sweet 7″
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Amelle is still in the hospital for exhaustion or whatever she’s there for. But, the album campaign is still running. This cover is probably their worst. The fire affect in the back and the dresses looks like TopShop threw up on them. They album might have great songs if “Get Sexy” is anything to go by, but, in all honesty, they have lost a whole of credibility with the firing of Keisha Buchanan. They don’t look cohesive enough and Jade Ewen is too cookie-cutter for their edgy image.
Republicans will stop at nothing…
2There is a reason why the White House thinks that Fox News is not a credible news channel. Because they rely on body language analysts more than they care about facts. They are bipartisan, partially, subjective and completely false at times. The conservatives have gone out of their minds and they will stop at nothing to prove the Obama administration wrong. They are not used to a presidency that is just and lenient. They want to see dead third world children to validate and comfort their existence. The truth is even with as little as this administration has accomplished in a year, it has been better that 8 years of the buffoon’s reign.
