Bradley Manning on how he leaked 90000 secret government documents.
Category Archives: good reads
Lip-Syncing
July 28, 2010 – 9:22 am
Werningerode
March 24, 2010 – 8:37 pm
A long aside… not far from the town hall is a bookshop with a big outdoor set of bells (glockenspiel) that pings away its own hourly tune (Annchen von Tharau—so I learned when I ran in to ask). In order not to compete with the official town clock, it does this five minutes after every hour. I can imagine the suffering of the glockenspiel’s owner—his only choices were either constantly being late or disrespecting authority. For a German in a quaint little city this is a serious dilemma. A Frenchman, for example, would have had no problem whatsoever with either option.
Excerpt from a fun piece about the quaint German town of Werningerode by Kevin Dolgin.
Suspense Beat
March 20, 2010 – 9:40 pm
The scene is one long suspense beat, a pattern that will be repeated throughout the movie. Over and over, Tarantino slowly ratchets up the tension until it is almost a relief when the tension explodes into violence. Which is, as it turns out, one of the things that elevates Basterds to the level of high art — Tarantino repeatedly uses the audience’s desire for release against it.
Well written piece by screenwriter Todd Alcott on Inglourious Basterds.
When I saw Basterds about a month ago I was surprised at how thoroughly it defied the expectations I’d had. I thought “hyper-violent Nazi bashing fun”, but I got “hyper-intelligent super-suspenseful reflection on violence in cinema and society (with genius acting and luscious set-pieces thrown in for good measure)”.
The Arts Section
March 16, 2010 – 6:07 pm
Shot-by-shot critique of the Telephone video clip.
And now Lady Gaga is in the exercise yard. Also in the exercise yard: A really smoking-hot butch lady. The smoking-hot lady, or SHL as I guess we will be calling her, is also apparently very friendly. VFSHL introduces herself to Gaga by making out with her, and they have a little third-base over-the-pants action happening, and by this point another lady is being friendly to Gaga too. I thought this was a prison for bitches!
At no point did anyone making this video think, “I’m still pretty sure we could get this on television, though.” No. It was made to be on the Internet.
Read it on feministe.us.
Der hetzende Holländer
March 7, 2010 – 8:26 pm
Titelseite der taz vom 5. März 2010
Selbst wenn sich die Umfragen bestätigen sollten, die ihr für Juni 24 von 150 Parlamentssitzen vorhersagen, weiß niemand, woher eine Partei ohne lokale und regionale Strukturen die zusätzlichen Abgeordneten rekrutieren soll. Und auf enthusiastische Koalitionspartner wird die PVV schon gar nicht treffen. Diese aber benötigt sie, denn die zerfurchte niederländische Parteienlandschaft zieht selbst ihr Grenzen.
Hi, my name is Florian Schroiff, I live and work in the beautiful city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This website is mostly a collection of the various flotsam and jetsam I encounter on my travels through the web.