by Pier Marton | Oct 12, 2011 | Death, Human Rights, Politics, Spectacle, Wars
character assassination n. A vicious personal verbal attack, especially one intended to destroy or damage a public figure’s reputation. From The ‘getting’ of Assange and the smearing of a revolution from JohnPilger.com An excerpt: “… it is not the...
by Pier Marton | Oct 12, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Dance, Death, Eco, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Native, Poet, Politics, Spectacle, Tech, TED, Theater, Wars, Women
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by Pier Marton | Oct 8, 2011 | Art, Asia, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Film, Highlights, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, KeyFilm, Mystery, Objects, Poet, Politics, Review, Sound, STL, Teach, Time, Video
– more about non-violent media – PEACE My short review: Are you familiar with Barthes’ “Degree Zero of Writing,” Lévinas’s philosophy of caress* or Ozu’s elliptical cinema? For the viewer of this astounding film these came to...
by Pier Marton | Oct 5, 2011 | Art, Books, Care, Death, Eco, Future Tech, Health, Humor, Ideas, Idées, iOS, iPhone, Mac, Middle-East, Quotes, Software
Steve Jobs was so taken by a typography class in college that no detail was ever irrelevant (cf. below). Apple ended up being one of those companies, like Trader Joe’s, Southwest Airlines and R.E.I., that keeps reminding customers that they are always...
by Pier Marton | Oct 3, 2011 | Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Future Tech, Human Rights, Politics, Spectacle, Women
An important documentary about contemporary China. Its website. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Oct 1, 2011 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Eco, Health, History, Humor, Magyar, Popular, Women
[Update: Hedda Bolgar dies at 103] An earlier story by Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times. Appears in the documentary “The Beauty of Aging” (trailer below) EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...