It's good to hear from you too David! I guess I'm being really oversensitive about the whole thing. One of the reasons I haven't posted in so long is because I...
My inclination is to agree with you on the idea that art is pretty much anything that reflects a vision of society or culture etc... As far as where does art...
I remember how they told Shirley Temple her parents were dead so she'd cry. I also remember Lee Strassberg insisting that "method acting" only be employed by...
One can talk about this issue in terms of our rights, legality, and artistic merit. The original post brought up the issue of free speech. I'm not sure these...
The original post also acknowledged a startling array of vantage points on this. I would have to agree with you tho: the photographer is an asshole. I would...
actually, people quite often like artists who are assholes ... -- http://www.bumpidee.com "the official website of jigsaw online"...
Tobi
tobi@...
Jul 3, 2006 11:26 am
14578
One question to ask might be, what were the parents getting out of it? Payment from this photographer for her to use their children? Or starting their kids on...
Aloha Media Squatters I'm new to this list and send you a warm greeting from SummerGermany.... In my first post I love to throw in a couple snippets that...
Hi quatters, read this important articel in Alternet....... greetings WHY CONSERVATIVES CAN'T GOVERN Alan Wolfe, Washington Monthly The Bush administration's...
... I just read that article. Gee, couldn't you find something even MORE politically bigoted? Another one of those activist websites filled with hearsay and...
Something for Douglas and the Officers who've taken seriously some of the bulleted concepts below? The Praxis of Resistance and the Hegemony of Organisation A...
Ra, I also think that some of today's conflicts are due to the many chaotic and conflicting ideas and beliefs that govern our thinking. While we will never...
Anybody seen Al Gore's An Inconvient Truth? I did today, after watching the Man-Bear-Pig episode on South Park, where they made him look like an evil, crazy...
hearing him (gore) on TV recently it apperars he has been avoiding talking directly about the solutions because to most here they are still completely wedded...
Peter Kennard
media-squat.peterk@...
Jul 17, 2006 5:21 am
14587
Solution: Polluters pay, everyone benefits. Energy policy need only get the prices right(er) Global warming has a very high cost that can be documented. This...
Well, that's a great idea, truly. The obstacle is that it requires a major retooling of how our economy works. To today's administration and lawmakers, it will...
... Well, this is the tricky part to argue, I think, because it depends on a cause-and-effect logic that your timless reality does not afford. I mean, in...
Don't forget, negative PR could be as encouraging to get polluters to change as attacking their wallets. Also charging the polluters will be tough because so...
true enough. I think there are definitely ways to change the playing field so that investors move towards different kinds of companies. But the companies in...
interesting. an observation... I think that as articulate and obviously educated on the global warming issue that gore is, he hurts the effort as well. it's a...
Aloha John... Thanks for sharing your holy "scroll". I am not sure how it relates to the Media Ecosophy Jam I posted but I guess it is tied together somehow...
It seems to me that there are so many layers of abstraction today between investors and that which is invested in - ie: hedge funds, options, stocks, ...
Peter Kennard
media-squat.peterk@...
Jul 17, 2006 5:32 pm
14596
In other venues Gore has come close to saying what some have said: were we to abide by Kyoto immediately, we couldn't really stop some of the disaster's that...
So the whole stealth plan isn't going to work, is it? (-; What if we don't say that the rich pollute more than the poor? What if we don't mention that...
Greg Elich reviews Little Birds, an Iraq War documentary by Watai Takeharu: <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/elich190706.html>. Little Birds is by far the best...
Hello Yoshie, Would the producers consider presenting it to community cable television stations? (Would their financial model allow it? Could they envision ...