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Comment on “You Are Alive” by Ann

Ann — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:23:33 +0000

I have been looking everywhere for this print…I saw it somewhere and would like very much to buy a copy. Does anyone know where I can find it–or who the photographer is or the owner of copyright?

Thanks so much.

Comment on “You Are Alive” by heatherinparadise

heatherinparadise — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:14:08 +0000

I own a print of that very graffito, from the exhibition of photographs that toured the US after 9/11. It changed me, seeing that.

Comment on McCain’s War Against the Media by Barack Obama and The Party That Can’t Lose « The Blog At The End of the Universe

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:53:19 +0000

[...] as far as attacks, but it has worked to some extent with the general audience. As pointed out in a great post, McCain’s attacks may have not convinced any talking head to intellectual blogger. But I [...]

Comment on Master of Chaos by deichmans

deichmans — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:24:27 +0000

AE, Brilliant review – despite Señor Tomas’s comment, I think you’ve drawn very apt parallels with our dynamic and dangerous world. Very well done!

Comment on Master of Chaos by A.E.

A.E. — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:31:50 +0000

Jay,

I suggest you read Joint Forces Command’s “Terrorist Perspectives Project.” It’s a long and interesting study you’d find quite interesting.,

Senor Tomas,

No one’s telling you that you can’t enjoy it as escapist entertainment. But that doesn’t mean we also can’t draw larger meanings out of it.

Comment on Master of Chaos by Senor Tomas

Senor Tomas — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:21:28 +0000

Too much intellectualism is being read into this Batman movie by reviewers and critics. I just enjoy it as escapist entertainment. The Dark Knight is fiction. It is fantasy. It is not real. Neither Batman nor the Joker would last long in our real world. Both of them would end up dead or in prison in very short order. Their scripted Gotham City is a much safer place for them than our unpredictable real world.

Comment on Master of Chaos by Jay@Soob

Jay@Soob — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:27:40 +0000

An intriguing post. Your description of the Joker (haven’t seen the movie yet) seems that of a demented and vengeful Hobbes. “The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

I posted a while back (can’t remember when) on the possibility that Al Qaeda’s motivations were less idealistic (global Sharia and all that) and more simple blood lust. A bit more along the lines of Abu Sayaff, committing violence for the sake of violence under the guise of a global Salafi agenda. And that we (myself especially) might be giving them more study than needed.

Comment on “You Are Alive” by simlaughter

simlaughter — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:57:10 +0000

That’s an interesting connection, Strategist. Perhaps the greatest challenge in a “post-human” age such as ours is to be remembered as individuals with lives of our own, rather than statistics. I think that’s what at the heart of my picture (which hangs on my wall, one of the few pieces of decoration that I have).

Comment on “You Are Alive” by kotare

kotare — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:09:13 +0000

This is a fascinating insight. A leitmotif of the 20th century, and early 21st, is the way vast numbers of people disappeared, or went ‘missing’ to use the military term, from the killing fields of WW1 France and Belgium, to those of Cambodia and Rwanda, and to the megacities of today.

Bill Manhire, in ‘Lifted’, wrote a poem which I think conveys something similar to the idea in your post. The poem is ‘Erebus Voices’, and commerates the crash of a New Zealand airliner into Mt Erebus, Antarctica, with total loss of life. Part of the poem runs as follows:

The Dead

We fell.
Yet we were loved and we are lifted.
We froze.
Yet we were loved and we are warm.
We broke apart.
Yet we are here and we are whole.

Comment on Brazil’s Charles Bronson by simlaughter

simlaughter — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:56:09 +0000

Yeah. I’ve seen some Hong Kong and Korean action flicks–a lot of cross-cultural pollination and Hollywood influence.