Photographs Of Prisons And Prisoners

 

This is a very interesting website, containing images of prisons and incarceration throughout the world and throughout history. The above photograph is from an artist’s project of documenting a women’s prison in Albania. also, check out these 1950′s Brooklyn mugshots:

This is all part of what I sincerely hope is a resurgence of political interest in the U.S. prison population, currently the highest in the world. For more information about the warehousing of millions of human beings in The American Gulag, the Prison Activist Resource Center is a good place to start.

The National Security Administration Is Building The Country’s Biggest Spy Center. Go Figure.

The N.S.A., who are currently among the scarier of our security services, are constructing a massive complex in Utah that will basically be a giant bank of hard drives to store all of the data that they vacuum up on a daily basis. Wired magazine did an excellent story on it, well worth reading. And after you do so try not to start looking over your shoulder every five minutes.

San Francisco Is An Archipelago?

What happens if the sea levels rise oh, say, twenty feet or so in the next fifty years? As this excellent faux-news report from 2072 A.D. explains, SF would be an archipelago of small islands.

 

The Latest Short Film….

Here is a short piece I made with Brandon Jourdan, my faithful film-buddy, currently shacked up in Holland. Luckily he was passing through when Occupy Oakland staged their “Move In Day” action and we made this piece. It was commissioned for Telesur but they wound up never airing it. In any event, here ’tis.

Xochimilco, 1914

This is a pretty damn good short animated film about the historic meeting between Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata in Xochimilco (which at the time was its own town just south of Mexico City, these days its just another neighborhood) in 1914. It’s based on original stenographic recordings of their conversation, and two days afterwards they marched on the capital and Porfirio Diaz fled the country. The film is by a Mexican art collective called Los Viumasters (http://www.viumasters.com/), and is delivered here to you my friends in honor of Mexican Independence Day, September 16th. Okay, I’m a wee bit late.

WordPress won’t let me insert videos from Vimeo, so you’ll have to use the link right here to watch the film. Que Viva La Revolucion Mexicana!

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