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August 9, 2009
Hidden in Remembrance is the Silent Memory of Our Future
*Looks like the art-curator here is having a major fit of atemporality. " … overthrowing ideas about the 'end of history' and the dominant culture of 'presentism' — the 'jigsaw that is history' — not be constructed as a linear narrative but will consist of autonomous chapters — the complex and often persisting entanglements between past, present and future" — Not to mention the blatant temporal oxymoron in the title of the show.
Hidden in Remembrance is the Silent Memory of Our Future
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Choli Ke Peechay
*If you've been watching Google News, you may have noticed that a CIA Predator just allegedly iced a sinister terrorist tribal mastermind at the home of his second wife.
*In this Bollywood video from distant 1993, we've got a sinister terrorist tribal mastermind — (he's the boozing, smoking miscreant with the black eyepatch) — and a dance-off between two local nautch-girls sparring for his global-guerrilla favors. This song, "What's Beneath the Blouse," was a monster pop superhit in the mid '
Fiza, Sushmita, Mehboob Mere
*Okay, this Himalayan peak of the item-number trade — (maybe the single best item-number ever, especially if you know anything about deconstruction) — was filmed way back in 2000. If you ever wondered why crazed young Pakistani culture warriors have to sacrifice their own lives like armed lemmings in order to massacre literally everybody in Bombay that they can find… Well, you ought to watch this movie, "Fiza." Fiza is all about working your way into that frame of mind, because you can't dea
Bin Laden nu nan maava, Bill Clinton nan bava
One of Yana's better efforts since moving her talents to the southern-Indian cinema scene in "Sandalwood."
*Despite its interesting geopolitical subtext, it's still not a patch on her immortal perfomance in the "Babuji Jara Dheere Chalo" item number.
August 8, 2009
Kalki Koechlin, Bollywood Actress
*Miss Koechlin is Indian, but the adult child of French hippies. She speaks English, French and Tamil, but had to learn Hindi to break into the industry.
Kalki Koechlin Speaks About 'Dev D'
di hungama
*Here Kalki is being interviewed on an American Bollywood blog.
http://filmi-girl.livejournal.com/187005.html
*Did you know that Gisele Bundchen is Brazilian?
The Thingiverse Galaxy of Tools
*I wonder what would happen if there was a way to cheaply mass-produce the entire Thingiverse Galaxy of Tools, and then drop a shipping-case full of 'em into favelas or abandoned malls.
*Robinson Crusoe would have completely wigged out with this stuff. The guys in Jules Verne's MYSTERIOUS ISLAND would have become a one-island techno-superpower.
http://www.thingiverse.com/tools
http://www.thingiverse.com/tools/category:4
(((Meanwhile, over at MakerBot:)))
"Who is the world's sexiest leader?"
*I don't think any of these three guys are heart-throb Valentino types, but all three of them are really and seriously pushing it physically. Reagan was never afraid of plastic surgery, Schwarzenegger is like a plastic action figure… Putin, Sarkozy and Obama are not trying to be "sexy," but they are major political leaders methodically pushing diet and exercise i
Web Semantics: crowdsourced partisan slogans
*This Twitter technique is interesting. Really generates a lot of social-media heat with minimal individual effort.
#3wordslibshate
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