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“I’ll Call You Back” is a very funny new two-minute short film by the English filmmaker Mark Kuczewski. A young fellow is sitting at home trying to watch his favorite sports program on television, while his lady friend is sitting next to him and chattering away on the phone. Now there are times like this when nothing is more annoying than a woman talking endlessly on the phone. But if you dare to complain, just be very careful about what might come next!
This piece include a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the wicked funny short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/ill-call-you-back-and-just-what-comes-next/“I’ll Call You Back” is a very funny new two-minute short film by... more
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‘I Am Legend’ is a science fiction movie which was released in 2007 and directors of the movie are Francis Lawrence and Will Smith. The movie was based on the novel of Richard Matheson.
The cast of the movie includes Will Smith as Dr. Robert Neville, Alice Braga as Anna, Emma Thompson as Dr. Alice Krippin, Charlie Tahan as Ethan, Salli Richardson as Zoe Neville, Willow Smith as Marley Neville and many other characters.‘I Am Legend’ is a science fiction movie which was released in 2007 and... more
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London - The British and Iranian governments are often at odds about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and alleged human rights abuses.
But when it comes to war on drugs, the two countries have put their differences aside to stop the stream of heroin that flows from Central Asia into Europe, a government source told Bright Magazine. More than 90 percent of the heroin sold in the UK is derived from Afghan opium.
Almost 30 percent of the heroin and half of the opiates produced in Afghanistan transit through Iranian borders, according to the latest United Nations World Drug Report. Millions of Iranian drug addicts consume about 15 percent of all the opiates smuggled into their country.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) and other international organisations have credited Iran with “holding back a flood of heroin”. Iran alone is responsible for nearly a quarter of global heroin seizures and 60 percent of all opiates.
The commitment against narcotics came with a high death toll attached. More than 3,700 Iranian policemen died in the last 30 years, and several thousands were wounded in the effort of patrolling the 2,300-mile-long eastern border that runs from Turkmenistan to Pakistan.
Drug traffickers are often better funded and equipped than the Iranian forces. In one occasion, the traffickers crossed the border with 400 armed vehicles equipped with machine guns and rocket launchers, and attacked a military outpost, slaughtering 31 officers.
Read more on Bright Magazine - www.brightmag.orgLondon - The British and Iranian governments are often at odds about Tehran’s... more
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http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=4119
Have you ever thought to stop and think what taxation really is?
Taxation is nothing but theft. Why? Because it is not voluntary. Taxation is extortion at gunpoint! If you do not hand over money, men in costumes, with signs and guns will come and arrest you and throw you in a cage. If you still refuse to pay and you own property, the government will more than likely cease that property and sell it.
Working for the benefit of others against your will is nothing but slavery. When money is stolen from you in the name of taxation, the government is forcing you to work against your will for them. When you let the government steal from you, you are their slave. The injustice of seizing by force the fruits of a person’s labor is never considered by those who push taxation and redistribution, that is because slavery cannot be justified.
Government is nothing but force. It holds a legal monopoly to use violence on you. Government makes people do things that they don't want to do, stops people from doing things that they do want to do, and those demands are always backed up by police with guns.
See video here >>> http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=4119http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=4119
Have you ever thought to stop and... more
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Old Dominion University ODU is a research university in Norfolk Virginia, United States. The university is started in1930 as a College of William and Mary. Its first bachelor badge awarded with degree in 1956. College name changed as Old Dominion College in 1962 and became University in 1969. OD University gives degree in all and programs and considered as a number one nation’s largest providers of online distance education.Old Dominion University ODU is a research university in Norfolk Virginia, United... more
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Dean Richard died last week on Sunday. He was 36 years of age. He had been defender of Wolves in his career. His fans will pay tributes to him today. His death happened due to long illness of him. It is supposed that this man had gotten a tumour in his brain. The tumour was found in early hours of last Saturday. Doctors made efforts to protect his life but could do nothing to save his life. It is believed that Dean Richards had died in the early hours of Saturday. The Wolverhampton Wanderers was his old team. The other old team of Dean was Tottenham Hotspur. These two teams clashed at Molineux in a Premier League match.Dean Richard died last week on Sunday. He was 36 years of age. He had been defender of... more
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The illusive JR has pasted gigantic portraits all over the world, and the public still doesn’t know the artist’s full name. He insists on JR, which are his real initials. He refers to his performance-exhibitions as the mix of photography with graffiti art. His work involves showing up in a shantytown in Kenya or a favela in Brazil, a place where some event has been noted in the media and has captured his attention. His work turns it inside out, photographing the residents, then wrapping their buildings with the results, on a scale so vast that you can see their eyes from the sky.
Often he works through the night, and as soon as he’s done, he disappears; so when the installation becomes front-page news, there is no one left to explain it but the people whose voices had not been previously heard. As a woman from Kibera, a neighborhood in Nairobi, put it in Women Are Heroes, a documentary recently released in France that JR made about his work: “Photos can’t change the environment. But if people see me there, they’ll ask me: ‘Who are you? Where do you come from?’ And then I’m proud.”
JR’s collection of works entitled “Women Are Heroes” features a compelling and empowering style focused on the struggles of women in society today. JR was recently awarded the 2011 TED Prize for “Women Are Heroes.” At the age of 28, JR is the youngest recipient of the $100,000 prize.
JR’s latest project is “The Wrinkles of the City,” an installation of street pieces in Shanghai (and later, in other large cities). The project features images of the elderly, who represent the memory of the city. The photographs have been pasted up at locations that he feels speak to the heritage of a city that has definitely had its share of ups and downs, “from the Japanese occupation, the establishment of the Communist Party, The Liberation, World War II, the end of the foreign concessions, the victory of Mao Zedong over the General Tchang Kaï-Chek’s troops, the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward to the actual development of the city.“
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/jr-the-compellingly-powerful-street-art-of-a-guerrilla-photograffeur/The illusive JR has pasted gigantic portraits all over the world, and the public still... more
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“Analog” is an exhibition at London’s Riflemaker Gallery that invites you inside the last of London’s photographic darkrooms, as well as taking a visit to a working reel-to-reel music studio, courtesy of an installation by Lewis Durham of the band Kitty, Daisy and Lewis.
English photographer Richard Nicholson chose to photograph professional darkrooms because they are often shrouded in mystery, hidden behind the tidy glass facade of the lab’s front desk. The spaces he discovered were often haphazard and brimming with personal details: coffee cups, CD collections, family snapshots, unpaid invoices, curious knick-knacks brought back by globe-trotting photographers. These human elements transformed what might have been a detached typology of modernist industrial design into something more intimate and nuanced.
Many of the iconic images of recent decades were crafted in these rooms. Mike Spry’s high contrast lith prints of U2 and Depeche Mode for music photographer Anton Corbijn, Peter Guest’s black and white prints of the Trainspotting cast for portrait photographer Lorenzo Agius and Brian Dowling’s intricately masked colour prints for fashion photographer Nick Knight.
In Summer 2006, when Nicholson first began to shoot the images of professional darkrooms in and around London, some 204 were still in existence, continuing the printing of image from film-stock to paper within the new digital era. However, when he completed the project some three years later, only 6 remained.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and a music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/analog-the-end-of-professional-photographic-darkrooms-and-recording-studios/“Analog” is an exhibition at London’s Riflemaker Gallery that... more
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When the last UK census was conducted in 2001, around 400,000 people claimed to be members of the Star Wars Jedi religious movement.
This was understandably a source of embarrassment for statistics bosses who consider the record one of the most important pieces of information about the UK population.
And now it looks like the rise of the Jedi could be repeated, because while not on the official religion list, the ONS will once again include Jedi in the official numbers.
While it's illegal to lie on the form, because the question on religion is voluntary, people can put whatever they want, whether claiming to be a Jedi or a witch.
http://newslite.tv/2011/02/22/census-bosses-cant-stop-the-ri.htmlWhen the last UK census was conducted in 2001, around 400,000 people claimed to be... more
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“Wish 143” is an acclaimed, quietly bittersweet short film directed by British filmmaker Ian Barnes, which is a 2011 Oscar Nominee for Best Live-Action Short Film. The film presents the touching emotional drama of a fifteen-year-old boy with only months to live, who is granted one final wish from the Dreamscape Charity. But David doesn’t want to go to Disneyland or meet Gary Neville; what he really wants is an hour alone with a naked woman. The air of impending mortality hangs over this gentle, wry tale, which in the end has little to do with sex and everything to do with the human need to find connection.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the emotionally touching short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/wish-143-a-final-encounter-with-the-wishman/“Wish 143” is an acclaimed, quietly bittersweet short film directed by... more
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In Britain, the go-ahead has been given to heat a public swimming pool with heat generated by a nearby crematorium. The scheme is the first of its kind in Britain, although the practice in not new to Europe.
The project will be located in the town of Redditch in Worcestershire. The local council maintains that by using heat from gases produced by the crematorium to heat the pool at the Abbey Lesisure Centre, £14,000 a year will be saved.In Britain, the go-ahead has been given to heat a public swimming pool with heat... more
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For seven people in the United Kingdom their snow day transcended all of their wildest dreams. While drinking at the Lion Inn this past November, snowdrifts blanketed the roads, doors, and windows of the North Yorkshire bar and inn, trapping five staff members and two patrons for eight days. What ensued must have been the most enjoyable involuntary vacation ever taken...
Read on for more savory adventures:
http://drinkphilly.com/articles/read/295For seven people in the United Kingdom their snow day transcended all of their wildest... more
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Everything you always wanted to know about the difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England, but couldn’t be bothered to inquire is explained to you in this video.
Everything you always wanted to know about the difference between the United Kingdom,... more
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An American CGPGrey explains the confusing differences between "United Kingdom, Great Britain and England" with details most UKers don't know. Also best comment:
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Northern Ireland in orange... controversial. lol.
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@chevriley I had no idea.
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“Luminous Cities” is a fascinating collection of photographs, which have been selected from a delightful exhibition of photographs of the built environment presently on display at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. The world’s great cities have always been vibrant centers of creativity, in which the built environment is often as inspirational as the activities of its citizens, and since the nineteenth century photographers have creatively explored the idea of the city.
The exhibition enables the viewer to examine the various ways photographers have viewed cities as historical sites, bustling modern hubs and architectural utopias since the nineteenth century. Through the work of a range of photographers, “Luminous Cities” leads viewers on a fascinating journey around the world, into the streets, buildings and former lives of some of our greatest international cities. The many fine photographs presented here, and in the remarkable slide show, include works by renowned photographers Eugene Atget, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Berenice Abbott, Bill Brandt, Lee Freidlander and Grant Mudford amongst many others.
This piece includes a number of outstanding high-resolution vintage photographs, a wonderful slide show of additional architectural images and a documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/luminous-cities-creative-explorations-of-architectural-structures-in-urban-landscapes/“Luminous Cities” is a fascinating collection of photographs, which have... more
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Sustainable seafood purchases have surged in the UK after being encouraged by a new Channel 4 Fish Fight campaign. According to leading UK supermarkets, people have started preferring species such as coley, dab, mussels, squid and sardines over salmon, cod and tunaSustainable seafood purchases have surged in the UK after being encouraged by a new... more
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“In Focus: Still Life” is a selection of remarkable photographs from an installation of wonderful still life photographs presently on view at The J. Paul Getty Museum Center for Photographs. The collection presents a survey of some of the innovative ways photographers have explored and refreshed this traditional genre. During the 19th century, still life photographs tended to resemble still life paintings, with similar subjects and arrangements. Beginning in the 20th century, still life photographs have mirrored the subjects and styles that have more broadly concerned photographers in their time.
In addition to early experiments of pioneers of the photographic medium, some of the works that have been newly acquired by the Getty Center are presented here: “Still Life with Triangle and Red Eraser” (1985) by American Irving Penn, “Lorikeet with Green Cloth” (2006) by Australian Marian Drew, and “Blow Up: Untitled 15” (2007) by Israeli Ori Gersht. Gersht loosely based his “Blow Up” series on traditional floral still life paintings. His arrangements of flowers are frozen and then detonated; the explosion is captured using synchronized digital cameras, with the fragmentary detritus caught in remarkable detail. This contemporary approach to still photography belies the notion of still life as something motionless, as it explores the relationships among painting and photography, art and science, and creation and destruction.
This piece also presents the acclaimed experimental video “Still Life” (2001) created by the English artist Sam Taylor-Wood, a three-minute short film that focuses on a classically composed bowl of fruit as it decays. Also, there’s a pen. “Still Life” has been said to be one of the most classical works in contemporary art, carving a permanent record for itself in art history with hardly any commentary. This is not just a Still Life; it is based upon a particular type of still life painting that developed during the 16th and 17th centuries in Flanders and the Netherlands, part of a classical genre that contains symbols of change or death as a reminder of their inevitability. Its focus was upon confronting the vanity of worldly things through often subtle signs of elapsing time and decay.
Sam Taylor-Wood’s film represents yet another step in that direction: the image, beautiful as ever in Taylor-Wood’s universe, decomposes itself. By the end of the short film, nothing is left but a grey amorphous mass. But upon closer inspection, one detail distinguishes this picture from its predecessors. The plastic ballpoint pen, a cheap contemporary object. One that doesn’t seem to decay and doesn’t seem to be a part of the universal process of self-disappearing life. Is this what is really left here to stay after we are gone, this nothingness, this ridiculous attribute of ourselves?
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and the short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/still-life-photography-courting-surprise-and-allegorical-meanings/“In Focus: Still Life” is a selection of remarkable photographs from an... more
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Three suspects arrested after forming an international team which included six members of Dubai police.
Dubai Police arrested three suspects, between December 10 and December 12 accused of drug trafficking and money laundering, the three suspects are connected to an international gang that spans across the UAE, South Africa, United Kingdom, and The Netherlands and communicated through cryptic messages via telecommunication methods.
"We haven't found any drugs here but the involvement of the three suspects with drug trafficking crimes overseas is not acceptable and punishable according to the penal code article number 21," said Major General Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina, Deputy Chief of Dubai Police, during a press conference on Monday.
Dubai Police arrested the three suspects after forming an international team which included six members of Dubai police. The investigation took over a year in order to track the gang's modus operandi and their activities.
Three suspects were arrested in Dubai, (A.S) who is considered the mastermind and his accomplices (M.A) and (K.A). According to police sources, A.S who is of Asian origin but carries an European passport and other undisclosed passports which might be partially-forged was arrested in a European country and jailed for five years in drug-related crimes before coming to the UAE and resuming his activities.Three suspects arrested after forming an international team which included six members... more
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Recently Complete News Updates Today The Story of England is a grown-up version of Mr Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill. Mr.Rudyard Kipling , who was born on this day in 1865, is one of several authors who have ridden the choppy seas of being connected to the empire.Recently Complete News Updates Today The Story of England is a grown-up version of Mr... more
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These are five nine-second animated short films on the topic of Christmas that were created by Treat Studios, a London-based collective of young animators. The general theme of the animated shorts was to surprise people with something really Anti-Christmas, and to transform something boring into something amazing. The films are really fun to watch and will surely provide you with much merriment!
This piece includes a number of high-resolution colorful pictures, as well as the five wickedly funny animated short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/five-shots-of-scrooges-anti-christmas-bah-humbug/These are five nine-second animated short films on the topic of Christmas that were... more
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