Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has made a beautiful and terrifying video mapping the 2053 nuclear explosions that have taken place on our planet between 1945 and 1998. Enjoy!
I wonder if this has anything to do with cancer rates?
(video via C&L)
Category: Aesthetics
Image Censorship in Iraq
October 21, 2010:
Bag News has a nice piece in which photojournalist Michael Kamber talks about his experiences with military censorship of images in Iraq:
By the way, the idea that photographers are blocked from taking pictures of detainees in order to protect the detainees rights is a nice example of how the U.S. cynically employs its most lofty ideals in support of its dark imperial agenda.
View from the outside…
September 7, 2010:
Took last month off, so haven’t yet posted on the Park 51 controversy. Don’t have to write anything though, since the following video just about sums it all up:
(h/t to O. Perez)
