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Monthly Archives: September 2007

22 july 1944

Thursday, September 20, 2007

on 22 july 1944, 150 new prisoners arrived at auschwitz as members of the SS Helferinnen (female auxiliaries) ate blueberries. 21 men and 12 women were selected for work, the others were taken to the gas chambers.
in the mid-nineties christian boltanski exhibited photographs of “ordinary“ ss officers which appeared in contemporary german magazines. there was [...]

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attention : will oldham fans

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

tarry not will oldham fans young and old for this free 192kbps download
Bonnie Prince Billy Live with Harem Scarem, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 12, 2006

At this show, Oldham performs with Harem Scarem (not to be confused with the Canadian rockers), a group of fine vocalists with an array of instruments that easily compliments the [...]

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rengetsu

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

at the australian national gallery for a very lacklustre show of late rauschenbergs i stumbled into a wonderful exhibition of calligraphy and ceramics inscribed with waka poems by a buddhist nun called Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) … it seems odd to be moved close to tears by a tea cup but there you are … if [...]

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Through the Looking Glass

Friday, September 7, 2007

as a kind of ex-cyberpunk i should be a science fiction fan, but i am just not … something about being unwilling to suspend my disbelief. however william gibson explains why science fiction is about the present, and his observations on the strange kind of reality we live in this recent interview in the washington [...]

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