Screw you LCBO!
From Alan Fletcher’s Art of Looking Sideways.
Photographer Highlight: Thomas Wrede
Clipse feat. Kanye West - ‘Kinda Like A Big Deal’
This song really knocks on loud speakers.
Awesome! They finally dropped a video for this. But is it me, or does this seem just a little bit too dark? I could barely make out what’s happening most of the time.
Yeondoo Jung takes photos of children’s drawings
I remember someone else doing something similar not too long a go, but with much darker, grotesque results…
» Her name was Neda.
A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that the bullet had blasted inside the victim’s chest, and she died in less than 2 minutes. The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Please let the world know.
QQ: Why do Iranian police have “POLICE” on their shields written in English?
Глобус by Игорь Тальков
Watching the Iranian “Poem from the Rooftops” reminded me of the lyrics to a Russian song that become popular just as Soviet Union was breaking up. I did a rough translation of the first verse:
Show me a country where they glorify tyrants.
Where people celebrate victory over themselves
Show me a country where everyone is lied to
Where retreat means go forth, and forward means back
Stop rotating the globe, you won’t come across it
On this planet there are no such nations to find
Except that fateful one where none of you live
None of you live there, because how can this be called life
Auto-translate on Picassa Web Albums
By now everyone already knows about Google’s clever move of adding Persian translation to it’s arsenal in the midst of the world-wide focus on Iran. But there’s another really nifty Google trick that I just discovered, which I haven’t noticed before.
If you have any images on Google’s overlooked photo sharing website Picassa Web Albums, all the comments written in languages other then English, automatically get English subtitles.
In the screenshot above, I wrote four comments in Russian, French, Japanese and German. Google not only auto-determined what language they were written in, but also translated them pretty accurately. Can’t wait to see where this feature is going to be implemented next!
From my new travel blog.
