Posts by chris
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Lilith __,
That's fantastic Lilith__,
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Islander,
but aue! eaten immediately!
I had to be pretty quick to get that shot, I’ve no doubt their nuclear free Bluff cousins would chew ’em up and spit ’em out. A belated happy birthday to you Kai! 65 - E hika!
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Normandy 2007
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What the defendants were seen doing was little different to kids playing dress-up with unsafe toys.
If anyone is genuinely interested in playing around with this type of gear (without the adverse recriminations), China North International Shooting Range offers a wide range to choose from including AK47, various kinds of pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, and a 40mm anti-tank rocket launcher, all for a small fee (bring your passport).
Here's what Lindsay had to say.
If that doesn't tick all your boxes, you could make a day of it: Beijing Target Shooting & Great Wall Day Tour
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When it’s being presented as a “memoir” or a “documentary play” (or even that delightfully fuzzy genre the ‘biopic’), I think that expectation is real and not unreasonable.
I mean, I'm not sure how realistic or reasonable that expectation is Craig. This case seems symptomatic of the age we live in. An age where the inquisitive mind is hindered only by its own voluntary subjugation.
You are the man on the pulse Sacha, thanks for the help with that link.
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If you go on a stage and say that you personally saw something, and the show in which you make this claim is not clearly identified in some meaningful way as “fiction” or “fictionalized,” [Emphasis mine] then you’d better have seen it–especially if you tell your audiences that they need to take action based on what you claim to have seen.
Surely that challenge could firstly be entrusted to politicians, religious leaders, media organizations and witnesses. It’s problematic in that the stage (especially for the performance artist) is often a symbolic term. Teachout’s commandment would kill stand up comedy as we know it, Sacha Baron Cohen’s career would be in tatters. The Exit through the Gift shop/ Forgotten Silver ilk would lose a lot of its appeal. Despite the disclaimer at the beginning Orson Welle’s War of the Worlds broadcast October 30, 1938:
The woman rushed to the pulpit, telling the pastor, “Something so terrible has happened that I must interfere.”
She told worshippers that “New York has been destroyed” and added: “I believe the end of the world has come. I heard it over the radio.”
The pastor offered a short prayer and excused anyone who wanted to return home. Several members of the choir “doffed robes and went from the church, followed by a portion of the congregation,” the Star reported. But the service continued.
Soon, several members of the congregation returned, explaining sheepishly that the alarm had been caused by nothing more than a misunderstood radio show.
In this case also, it was Welles the artist who had the most to gain. That As you like it quote comes to mind.
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Sir, you put a smile on my face with that post. Most of all (from the last thread) I'm grateful to you for highlighting the fact that my Nokia was most likely also produced at the Sz Foxconn plant (or somewhere similar). It's as good a motivation as any to lose less phones.
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Muse: Confound The Ignorant, And Amaze Indeed!, in reply to Islander,
Peter Jackson is no longer part of ANZ culture.
As much as I'd like to take umbrage at the preclusion, it sounds spot on. Sir Anthony Hopkins was a greater exponent of ANZ culture in the last decade. Still, have you got around to watching Heavenly Creatures yet Is?
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Hard News: A fiction of unalloyed darkness, in reply to Russell Brown,
I honestly think it’s a real issue, especially when stuff in China is huge headline news and stuff in the US southern states is largely confined to trade publications. The armed factory guards that Daisey lied about seeing in Shenzen have actually been a reality in America.
I don't disagree that it is a real issue, and fully deserving of it's own thread. Yet 137 workers poisoned by n-hexane cleaning iPhone screens (link from other thread), is no less real and iPhone issues are certain to generate bigger headlines given that people are holding iPhones in their hands, they cost an arm and a leg, and it's one of the few corporations that consumers will go out on a limb to defend en masse, certainly there's a reactionary element there, and Apple's slick marketing only enhances the sex appeal. Some of Daisey's stuff was just preposterous - armed factory guards in Shenzhen - in a nation where firearms are illegal? Per chance armed with kung fu? Sorry I never listened to his thing, I imagined it was much the same as his stage show. Did you watch that TBBT episode Russell?
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Don’t be ridiculous. Daisey lied in his monologue, in the This American Life doco and to a string of journalists who directly asked him about it. He actively tried to cover up those lies.
Sure, Daisey insulted the journalists, I got that. The reason I asked is your repeated "don't touch the Apple, look at the meat" campaign reminds me of the Chinese '5 mao', The 5 mao are a group set up to diffuse anti-government sentiment, paid 5 mao for each post one writes in support of the Party (in response to attack). You've come out pretty strong on this considering the mass and visibility of allegations raised on this side of the firewall. People can't stop buying Dafur.
