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Photography Visionaries, by Mary Warner Marien.
Available on amazon UK and USA
Publisher Laurence King writes: Photography Visionaries is an inspiring guide to 75 of the most influential photographers from around 1900 to the present. Entertainingly written by an expert on photography, it provides fascinating insight into the lives and careers of men and women working in a medium which perhaps more than any other in the visual arts has been deeply affected by technological change.
The entries are arranged chronologically, instilling in the reader an understanding of what marks each photographer as a visionary. Each entry is less about providing a full biography of the person and more about creating a sense of excitement regarding their work and the lasting impact that it has had on photography.
With the aid of an arresting selection of photographs, some well-known and others less so, this book offers a unique and engaging perspective on the development of photography through some of its most inventive practitioners.
"A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent." Eugène Atget.
Mary Warner Marien knows where to find a quote or anecdote that says more about a photographer's life, career and ethos than a long biography. She found something witty or striking to say about each of the 75 photographic visionaries she selected for the book. Those visionaries are people who experiment, expand the scope and significance of photography and are inspiring to their peers. They work in any field: portraiture, advertising, photo reportage, documentary, fashion or conceptualism.
Each of them gets one page of bio and three pages of images with a timeline charting the most salient moments of their career. There is always also a portrait of the photographers. I thought i didn't care much for artists' portraits until i realized i had never seen a photo of Bernhard and Hilla Becher before. Or one of Cindy Sherman being no one else but Cindy Sherman.
Obviously not everyone is going to be happy with the author's selection. And i'm going to agree with the English reviewers who deplore the absence of Martin Parr. Another reviewer mentioned Hiroshi Sugimoto. Indeed! He should be there as well. I'm going to add Broomberg and Chanarin to the list. What i like in the author's selection, however, is that women and non-Caucasian people do not feature only as subjects. I don't know if there was a conscious effort to include women photographers, black photographers, Chinese photographers, etc. But it feels just that the white male monopoly is somewhat under assault.
Warner Marien is also the author of Photography. A Cultural History, perhaps the most informative, interesting and intelligent photo book i've ever read about photo. Photography Visionaries is very different (i probably shouldn't compare one with the other anyway): it's snappier, shorter and less elaborate. But it's written with the passion and verve that characterizes her style.
And now for some images and (fairly random) comments
August Sander's major project, People of the 20th Century, attempted to give an overview of the most archetypal figures of contemporary society, categorizing his subjects by profession or social class. His photos represent types (The Woodcutter, The Farmer, The Sculptress, The Bricklayer, The Bohemian, The Bank Official, etc.), not individuals.
Although there was nothing progressive about this model of society, the Nazis disapproved of Sander's work. In 1936 they confiscated the publisher's copies of Face of our Time (a selection of portraits from his series People of the 20th Century); the printing plates were destroyed and the book was officially banned.
Inspired by Sander's work, Liu Zheng traveled throughout China to portray archetypal Chinese characters from every social stratum: homeless children, transvestite performers, provincial drug traffickers, coal miners, Buddhist monks, prison inmates, Taoist priests, waxwork figures in historical museums, and the dead and dying. The images of The Chinese series depict a country caught between tradition and unprecedented economic upheavals.
When she was herself in her early nineties, Imogen Cunningham started working on After 90, a series that portrayed the elderly. One of them was Irene "Bobbie" Libarry who used to be a circus attraction and was living in a nursing home at the time of the photography.
John Heartfield was one of the first artists to use photomontage, manipulating photographs to satirize the brutality of the Nazi regime.
Lisette Mode never formally studied photography but took it up in the 1930s while living in Paris. Her images are early examples of "street photography," a style which developed after the invention of the hand-held camera, which made impromptu shots possible.
Yes, the photo above just made me realize how black and white the book is.
López orchestrated situations in public space and document passersby reactions. In the series "La Venus se va de juerga", for example, a man travels through the crowd carrying a blond mannequin.
Over the past few months, artist Paolo Cirio has been quietly collecting pictures of high-ranking U.S. intelligence officials on social media. He then blew the photos up using High Definition Stencils (an OS graffiti technique he invented), spray-painted the reproductions of the misappropriated photos and plastered the copies onto the streets of cities like New York, Paris or London.
The individuals targeted in the Overexposed series are some of the officials responsible for programs of mass surveillance or for misleading the public about them. Their names are: Keith Alexander (NSA), John Brennan (CIA), Michael Hayden (NSA), Michael Rogers (NSA), James Comey (FBI), James Clapper (NSA), David Petraeus (CIA), Caitlin Hayden (NSC), and Avril Haines (NSA).
Cirio tracked down these portraits through open-source intelligence (OSINT), an information-gathering method that uses the internet, including social media, as an investigative tool. OSINT is used by government agencies, law enforcement, corporations and people involved in marketing. But activists and journalists are also routinely relying on it for their research. The portraits brought to light by Cirio are photographs and selfies of government officials taken in informal situations by civilians or lower ranking officers.
By making private portraits of members of the CIA and NSA part of the public domain, both through his street interventions and the detailed documentation of the research he published on his website, the artist invaded the private life of these government officials (though not as much as they might invade ours) and literally gave a face to U.S. intelligence services. The work holds a satirizing mirror to the people participating to operations of mass surveillance, commenting on the need for public accountability and pushing to its most uncomfortable limits the trends for 'overly mediated political personas.'
Cirio's political satire reverses the contemporary means of propaganda, exposing the extent to which a public image can be captured on camera and exploited by the very same systems that intelligence officials seek to control. Overexposed derides the watchers with embarrassing pictures over which they have lost control, effectively turning the tables on them and their advocacy of mass surveillance and lax privacy practices.
An exhibition of Overexposed is opening tomorrow at the NOME gallery in Berlin (keep your eyes peeled for their programme in the future because they work with some of the most thought-provoking artists engaging with digital technologies) so i contacted the artist to get more details about the series:
Hi Paolo! To be honest, when i first read the description of the project, i was expecting some blurry portraits and no name at all. But in the series you go full on: the individuals are very recognizable and their identity is given. Do you expect to get into trouble with this work?
The legal question is not really about the officials because they are public figure, so the use of their photos fall under parody laws and free expression. The controversy is actually about the ownership of those photos and from where they were obtained, in most of the cases the selfies were taken by civilians, random people or acquaintances of the intelligence officials. On my website you can find the original photos where you have the individuals together with officials in the snapshot taken with smartphones and uploaded directly on the social media. I think so far they still don't know that their pictures ended up on public walls around the world. I don't know how they will react yet, the project was published just a few weeks ago.
And since you actually have a history of getting into trouble with your work, could you explain us which part these (mis)adventures, legal threats, cease & desist play into your work?
It's not just about getting in troubles, instead it's about generating legal reactions that reveal contradictions on the inadequacy or abuse of the laws that I want to criticize. In same cases, confronting the subjects of my performances on the legal terrain lets everyone understand which are the actual power structures that generate particular social conditions.
According to the press release, you used your HD Stencils graffiti technique and spray-painted hi-re reproductions of the photos onto public walls. How do you select the locations for these street interventions?
I paste these reproduction of photos mainly in popular street art locations, where people often take pictures that end up on the social media again. This exposes these officials even more through having their pictures in recirculation on the social network with the glamour of the street art.
And how do you go from street graffiti to art gallery? Do you feel that your work, and these stencils in particular, gets another meaning or has to be framed in another way when you change the exhibition context from public space to white wall space?
Beyond the public art interventions made for a wider public, I'm interested in formalizing the pieces as pop art and appropriation art, bringing them in the realm of the art world, which for me it is also a distribution system. Eventually they became historical portraits of figures that mark our time of expansion of cyber-warfare and astonishing programs of mass surveillance, which hopefully we will only remember as an awful war against civil society of the past. Also my technique HD Stencils offers very particular aesthetic qualities that can be fully appreciated with maximum perfection of the works made for the art gallery.
Thanks Paolo!
The exhibition Overexposed opens at the NOME gallery in Berlin on 22 May and remains on view until 20 July.
A detailed catalogue of the show is available for download (PDF.)
Previous mentions of Paolo Cirio's work on the blog: Unstable Territory. Borders and identity in contemporary art, Cultural Hijack, Notes from WJ-Spots Brussels, History and future of artistic creation on the Internet and The Digital Now - 'Drones / Birds: Princes of Ubiquity'.
Internet Yami-ichi (japanese for Black Market) is a flea market where people sell Internet-ish things face to face.
The last edition of the market took place in Amsterdam on 9 and 10 May. More precisely at the Flemish Arts Centre De Brakke Grond, a (vast) space dedicated to promoting and showcasing contemporary art productions from Flanders. Any kind of art and with an emphasis on innovation, cross-over, interdisciplinarity, and artistic guts. Some of their events are in dutch but a big part of their programme caters for the international audience. I've only been to De Brakke Grond twice but what i've seen so far was critical, witty and resolutely embedded into contemporary culture.
The goods on sale at Yami-ichi were both smart and silly. I bought a little mirror to stick on a phone and observe/photograph scenes and people i wouldn't normally dare to watch openly (i'm not one to take the metro and ignore fellow travelers), all sorts of things made or baked to the glory of internet memes and a fabric patch with a glue gun sewn on it. And some mystery eggs. One thrown in a plastic container by JODI, the other enclosing the url of a Fresh Unpopular Video. I was also made a member of the institutions of Resolution Disputes, participated in a 'hate mail writing' workshop and got myself (fake)photographed in the company of Stefan Simchowitz (whom ignorant me had never heard about before.)
Internet Yami-ichi / Black Market is not just a place to throw your wallet around. I quickly found out that it also offers a great opportunity to meet people who are interested in art&tech, hacking, and contemporary culture in general. Artists, designers, art students and hackers were selling objects, offering food and DIY workshop, participating to hilarious performances (singing a cappella the sound of dial-up internet, for example.) And pretty much anyone who's someone in art&tech (whatever that means) had made the trip from Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Brussels or Rotterdam to 'browse' around. It was internet but in the flesh. I didn't count the number of visitors but De Brakke Grond did. Apparently, over 1900 visitors turned up over the Yami-ichi weekend! 'Zeer succesvolle editie'!
All of the above would probably make more sense if i actually showed some images from the event and commented them briefly. There you are:
By the way, institutions of Resolution Disputes [iRD] was one of my favourite projects at the market. It's far brainier than the other pieces sold/exhibited and hopefully i'll find a moment to come back to it in a later post. But in the meantime (and if i don't come back to the work on the blog), do check out this interview that Daniel Rourke did with Rosa Menkman for Furtherfield.
More photos? Check out the ones taken by Sebastiaan ter Burg and mine.
Austin Houldsworth's PhD research at the Royal College of Art in London focuses on the development of a new design method called Counterfictional Design which embeds alternative socially dependent technologies into social science fiction novels. The 'technology', Austin is interested to explore in this context is Money.
Money, he says, 'is inherently conservative.' As currency expert Bernard Lietaer points out in his 2001 book The Future of Money, money functions through belief. You believe that everyone else believes that the money is valuable. What we are talking about here is belief about a belief. This collective belief contributes to economic stability, but it also fosters scepticism towards alternative monetary ideas. In his paper on the stone money of Yap (the inhabitants of this small island in Micronesia used huge stone wheels as a medium of exchange and as a store of wealth.) Milton Friedman suggests: 'Our own money, the money we have grown up with, the system under which it is controlled, these appear 'real' and 'rational' to us. The money of other countries often seen to us like paper or worthless metal.'
According to Houldsworth, the conservative nature of money explains why most market driven payments devices are focused on increasing efficiency of the current monetary system, rather than designing alternatives. His counterfictional design method acts thus as a tool to help shift the cultural design constraints surrounding money and imagine alternative systems, which would otherwise be impossible to envision.
Over a year ago, the designer illustrated the counterficitional design method with Walden Note money which explored the way money might function within a behaviorist society.
His latest project, Wealth Beyond Big Brother looks at what happens to trans-border exchanges when they take place inside highly unregulated states. The literary context this time is Orwell's book 1984. But instead of looking at the paternalistic control of Big Brother, the scenario takes place in the disputed territories that lie between the super states of Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.
In practice no on power ever controls the whole of the disputed area. Portions of it are constantly changing hands, and it is the chance of seizing this or that fragment by sudden stroke of treachery that dictates the endless changes of alignment.
Because each new invasion of these areas brings a new ruler, no trusted financial institution ever has the chance to establish itself. People living within these areas have thus developed a completely decentralised payment system which serves as both personal protection and a medium of exchange.
All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber.
Through continual war and invasion, the disputed territory regions have been depleted of most natural resources. Scarcity of even semi precious metals like copper has led to a high demand for such materials. Therefore, gold, silver and copper act as a standard 'store of value' and 'medium of exchange.'
People living within the disputed territories mostly trade with people they know and therefore these small groups operate through a type of gift economy. However, when a resource is needed from another area, trade with strangers is inevitable. Historically these trades have often ended in blood shed. Given the impossibility of establishing a state-controlled culture of trans-border commerce, the factions have decided to take matter into their own hand and cast their currency into the form of bullets, creating a payment system which acts as security and therefore helps contextualize the meaning of value. Both sides are forced to be civil to one another, with the potential for loss of life or livelihood playing a key role in maintaining harmony between people who have little reason to trust each other.
Individuals craft their own payment devices from reappropiated weapons left behind during the ongoing conflicts between the super states. As most of the components of these weapons were made under the guidance of big brother Ministry of Plenty, the gun parts are made from very cheap plastics, electroplated to look like gunmetal. They have little metal content and are in fact worthless compared with the small metal bullets used as a medium of exchange. The payment device has a groove cut out of the revolver section, without the need for the buyer to remove it from the breach.
During transactions, the buyer holds the device towards the seller, with all the bullets required during the transaction, loaded into the breach. When the buyer and seller have agreed on the price of the item being traded, the buyer takes the required amount of gold, silver or copper bullets from the guns breach and hands the unfired bullets to the seller in exchange for the goods.
Very rarely is the payment device used as a weapon. But occasionally transactions have been known to turn hostile and pressing the release catch to fire the gun becomes necessary. The bullets themselves have an electronic ignition, and are activated when the electrical contacts from the bolt touch the contacts at the back of the bullet.
I did have one last question for Austin:
That institutional control isn't always a bad thing. And a completely decentralised payment system can also produce nightmarish scenarios.
In light of the banking sector scandals. Decentralised systems like Bitcoin suddenly appear rather alluring. Yet financial institutions, I believe, can both represent individual interests and collective interests for the benefit of society. A financial institution like a bank or building society can set precedents on idealised behaviour both for the institution and individuals within a given context. Money by itself, doesn't often offer any ideological framework.
Therefore, perhaps remembering both nightmare visions within 'Nighteen Eighty Four,' the extreme control of 'big brother' and the dog eat dog environment of the 'disputed territories'.
Previously: Walden Note money - How would money function within a behaviorist society?
Nearest Costco, Monument or Satellite does exactly what its title suggests. Its 14 colourful arrows point you with impeccable accuracy into the direction of the nearest Costco (a warehouse club chain popular in the U.S.), monument or orbiting GPS satellite.
Drawing from ideas in psychogeography, locative technologies and the human sense of location, the work consists of networked electronic pointing devices built into individual flight cases. Each case contains the electronics required to control a pointer arrow held above the case by a telescoping antenna. At its literal base, the cases contain and represent the rational, networked, technologized information available on place and direction. From this base, the antennas extend this information up into a swaying field of poetic movements, governed by materiality more than information.
The absurd piece turns the human sense of direction into a mechanical performance and critically comments on the way our daily perception of the environment is mediated by technology. Nearest Costco, Monument or Satellite will be part of the upcoming edition of the Sight & Sound, a festival that brings together digital artworks under a common theme. This year the festival explores the idea of being 'hyperlocal' and Daniel Jolliffe's piece responds well to S+S's exploration of the horizontality of networked art production and its contextualization within an ultra-localized setting.
Since i suspected that Nearest Costco, Monument or Satellite was more than the sum of its very humourous parts, i contacted Daniel Jolliffe to know more about his work:
Hi Daniel! One of the striking characteristics of the work is how cheerful and colorful it is. What made you decide to make the installation so visually appealing?
For a long time I have been making works that use sculpture as a kind of camouflage for the electronic systems that give rise to a piece. Partly, this is because I think the idea that plain, or exposed electronics in a work puts ideas about technology in the viewer's head that come mostly from movie clichés about futurist robots and the like. Most people, when presented with an electronic system that is all diodes and motors and integrated circuits have a hard time knowing what is really going on. This means in turn that the possibility of being critical about the ideas in the work gets eaten up by the complex cliché of the technical system. As an artist I would prefer to avoid the discussion of how something works on a technical level, and encourage instead the discussion of what issues the work explores. So, I almost always put the electronic systems I use into sculptural forms that act as a kind of camouflage for the technical system of the work. For "Nearest Costco, Monument or Satellite" (NCMS) I went to a lot of trouble to find certain colours for the sculptures and the cables in order to generate the visual feeling you are talking about-- the zone of technological encounter that is playful, non-threatening and hopefully beautiful. I think it also never hurts to employ some classic visual art strategies like colour to engage the viewer on a purely visual level to start off.
(Nearest) Costco, monument or orbiting GPS satellite(s). Why did you pick up the location of those three? Why not nail salons or art museum, for example? The answer to this threads into your first question, as the colour has a lot to do with humour. Lately I have been very interested in having some humour in my work. My performance/sculpture/web work One Free Minute had moments of humour, and I realized with that piece with how powerful it is to make make the viewer laugh. You can make them laugh, and then make them think. In NCMS, the whole premise of the piece is humorous: it's a kind of ridiculous system that actually works! It points to the nearest Costco (from the current show in Wroclaw, it is pointing to the nearest Costco in the UK), the nearest well-known monument (the Aleksander Fredro Statue in Wroclaw) and it goes into a third mode to track the orbiting GPS Satellites. You can, of course, find all these things in a few minutes on your cell phone. Even the current positions of GPS satellites are easily found online. On a more serious level, the three things NCMS points to are loose placeholders for the way we conceptualize places and location in the contemporary mind. Most people can conceptualize in their mind the route from their house to the nearest Costco, IKEA or major chain store. This is one way of thinking about location in the contemporary mind. Another is when you are talking to a friend on the phone or texting to arrange a meeting place: we could meet here, in front of this statue or there, in front of that yellow building. This is a kind of call to the collective memory of place. The third function-- pointing to GPS satellites-- tries to talk about how irrelevant that information is, and in turn about how abstracted and distanced we are from the machines that generate ideas of location in our minds. So the piece is kind of elaborate joke, but it's a serious one. I say this because I think that within the quick and efficient access to location data that we have on our cell phones, there is something lost in the human experience. This is really what this piece is about. It slows down the process of locating things, putting it into a ridiculous visual component form that hopefully makes you think about the the faster systems that we all actually use to find things in real life.
(Nearest) Costco, monument or orbiting GPS satellite(s). Why did you pick up the location of those three? Why not nail salons or art museum, for example?
The answer to this threads into your first question, as the colour has a lot to do with humour. Lately I have been very interested in having some humour in my work. My performance/sculpture/web work One Free Minute had moments of humour, and I realized with that piece with how powerful it is to make make the viewer laugh. You can make them laugh, and then make them think. In NCMS, the whole premise of the piece is humorous: it's a kind of ridiculous system that actually works! It points to the nearest Costco (from the current show in Wroclaw, it is pointing to the nearest Costco in the UK), the nearest well-known monument (the Aleksander Fredro Statue in Wroclaw) and it goes into a third mode to track the orbiting GPS Satellites. You can, of course, find all these things in a few minutes on your cell phone. Even the current positions of GPS satellites are easily found online.
On a more serious level, the three things NCMS points to are loose placeholders for the way we conceptualize places and location in the contemporary mind. Most people can conceptualize in their mind the route from their house to the nearest Costco, IKEA or major chain store. This is one way of thinking about location in the contemporary mind. Another is when you are talking to a friend on the phone or texting to arrange a meeting place: we could meet here, in front of this statue or there, in front of that yellow building. This is a kind of call to the collective memory of place.
The third function-- pointing to GPS satellites-- tries to talk about how irrelevant that information is, and in turn about how abstracted and distanced we are from the machines that generate ideas of location in our minds.
So the piece is kind of elaborate joke, but it's a serious one. I say this because I think that within the quick and efficient access to location data that we have on our cell phones, there is something lost in the human experience. This is really what this piece is about. It slows down the process of locating things, putting it into a ridiculous visual component form that hopefully makes you think about the the faster systems that we all actually use to find things in real life.
I had a look at the video of the work of course and believe it or not, i was actually amazed to see that all the arrows ended up pointing to the exact same direction. does it always work so flawlessly? Apologies for the dumb question but what happens when the nearest monument is actually 2 monuments located at the same distance from your piece?
I've just set it up at the WRO media art Biennale in Wroclaw, and watching it, I'm amazed too that it does indeed flawlessly point out the actual locations. The way it is programmed, it sometimes takes one or two of the arrow pointers a while to catch up. It's like the person in a group of people who finally agrees with the others about the right way to get to the restaurant. This makes me laugh almost every time.
There is no confusion about pointing to the nearest monument, and it does this spot-on every time. The way I get this information very low-tech. First I ask a number of local people where the most significant and well- known local monuments and meeting places are. Once i decide which one the piece will point to, I ask two or three local people to do that in real life. After that I turn the way they pointed with their arms (the angle, basically) into code for the piece. This way the arrows are just reproducing what a local person would do if you asked them.
Was there any challenge you encountered while developing the work?
About a hundred, but happily they are all behind me now! It took a long time to figure out how to get the arrows into the air and have them reliably point. I also did three different sculptural prototypes of the work before I came up with this one.
What's next for you? Any upcoming event, field of research or project you'd like to share with us?
I am working on some more work to do with humour. This piece is travelling a few places this year, to Montreal, then to the Museum of Nantes in France and finally to ISEA in Vancouver.
Thanks Daniel!
Check out Daniel Jolliffe's Nearest Costco, Monument or Satellite at the Sight & Sound festival in Montreal next week from 20 May until 24 May 2015. The programme is pretty good this year, Nicolas Maigret will launch another of his drone performances and Martin Howse will be doing a Earth Coding workshop.


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'I'm back Obama, and I'm back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic state, because of your insistence on continuing your bombings and … on Mosul Dam, despite our serious warnings.
You Obama, have but to gain from your actions but another American citizen. So just as your missiles continue to strike out people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.
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ISIS terrorists have killed Americans. Now they have to die. 'Jihadi John?' He's a dead man. ISIS terrorists? Dead. Anyone who's supporting them? DEAD.
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300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Cinema Review
Coming some eight years after the success of the theatrical adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300, which proved to be the breakout picture for Director Zack Snyder, Rise of an Empire seeks to re-claim some of the epic glory with an even more camp and bloodthirsty feature than the first.
Sadly, the highest entertainment heights of its predecessor are no match for the dull direction of Noam Murro, who exhibits none of Snyder's visual flair and whose previously most well-known title, 2008's i>Smart People, was a box office implosion that was sucked into its self-made black hole.
Unfolding roughly parallel to the events of 300 from a different perspective, Rise of an Empire follows Athenian General Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton) leading his army against skirmishes with the Persian Empire, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro).
Whilst launching an assault on the Spartans from the Aegean Sea, Naval commander Artemisia (Eva Green) attempts to use her feminine physique to convince Theristocles to defect from Sparta; when her advances are rejected, a more elaborate, more personal war begins, one which could cloud the judgment of both leaders in the high stakes battle for glory.
300 burst out of the ranks in 2006 to solid success while also permeating pop culture, including the film's iconic line, "This is Sparta!" Sadly, the sequel does little to leverage off the freshness of its predecessor, re-hashing much of the recognizable flourishes to diminishing returns, which themselves have been copied ad nauseam in the intervening years. All this leaves Rise of an Empire feeling rather stale. Even brandishing the wand of stereoscopic 3D has not helped, and, to be honest, it probably cheapens both the film and the format.
Despite small roles in films such as Gangster Squad and The Hunter, Australian newcomer Sullivan Stapleton takes pole position on the theatrical poster and while reasonably effective in the role, his lack of aggressive grunt leaves viewers pining for Gerard Butler's return.
Much more impressive is Eva Green who provides a manic edge to an otherwise uncompelling villain. Rodrigo Santoro returns in the eye-catching and interesting role of Xerxes, but his role has been significantly reduced and given essentially nothing to do, which is to the film's detriment.
The real fault of the film probably lies in the half-baked script, which was expected to be based off Frank Miller's unpublished graphic novel Xerxes but had to change course when Miller wouldn't put pen to paper. Coupled with this, Director Noam Murro provides little evidence of any of Snyder's visual acuity and seems out of his depth. Why Hollywood thinks giving $120 million plus to unproven directors is a great idea just leaves me scratching my head.
Whilst Rise of an Empire will probably make a profit, which in the eyes of many equals success, there is no altering the fact that the film is little more than pretty visuals in want of a meaty story. Simply transposing the same battles on the sea instead of the desert just doesn't cut the mustard, and fans undoubtedly deserve more.
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At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Adobe demoed an Android-based tablet to Zedomax that reportedly ran both Flash and Air "flawlessly". In addition, Adobe's station at the expo featured Android based mobile phones such as the Nexus One and the Droid. There wasn't an iPhone to be seen. Take that Steve Jobs.
The Adobe source at the Expo claimed that we'll be seeing a whole lot of Android-based tablets coming our way in 2010. No official word on who'll be making these yet though. It's also expected that we'll be seeing Flash 10.1 running on most Android phone handsets soon.
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Above: The Interventions attraction, temptingly considered to be the only dormant attraction at Disneyland
Before entering this ever-moving structure, the curious will find two displays of diversion. The first displays just released gadgets from mad scientists. On the second, kids can learn about technology in their lives, play audio games, or explore online communities like Pan Penguin.
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The Hell on Wheels season 4 finale, Further West, did what it needed to do to establish Season 5. In many ways, it was a lovely and emotionally satisfying episode, while in others, it was a little flat. Oddly, it played like the finale of a show whose fate was unknown. In such a case […]
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Nov 16, 2014
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Hell on Wheels: Anson Mount
Nov 12, 2014
So, on re-watching the Hell on Wheels episode Bleeding Kansas, I was struck by how damn good Anson Mount is. I rarely mention it, perhaps because my recaps are more involved in what's going on with the show and characters, and I don't talk about acting much at all. But Mount is worth mentioning because […]
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Nov 9, 2014
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Geneva, Switzerland - Fatima Khan's voice pierces the silence of Geneva's chilly streets as she runs after officials from the Syrian government delegation.
"Why did you kill my son?" she screams. "Tell me, why did you kill my son?"
She receives no answer. The officials walk away in haste, taking long steps while keeping their heads down until they reach a parked black Mercedes and are driven away.
Fatima Khan came to the Swiss city from Britain to seek answers as to why her son Abbas Khan, a British doctor, died in a Syrian government-run prison in Damascus.
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She says Abbas was a humanitarian worker who travelled to Syria for voluntary work before he was captured and put in jail.
His death was announced in December, just a few days before his scheduled release.
The Syrian government says he committed suicide in prison by strangling himself with his pyjamas. Fatima Khan accuses the regime of killing him.
She knows that coming to Geneva will not bring her son back. She knows that she will never get satisfactory answers.
But she still chased the Syrian delegation through the streets, in the hotel lobbies - and even at the UN headquarters where negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition were taking place.
"I want to embarrass them in front of everyone. Maybe they will now think twice before killing anyone in detention, maybe this will save another son's life," she told Al Jazeera as she tried to hold back tears.
Political detainees
The Syrian authorities are accused of holding tens of thousands of political detainees. New York-based Human Rights Watch says arbitrary detention and torture has become "business as usual for Syrian security forces".
Just a few days before the Geneva talks, a report emerged purporting to show evidence of systematic torture and killing of about 11,000 detainees.
The Syrian government officials on hand in Geneva denied the authenticity of the report. They said the images were fabricated by "the hostile" country of Qatar, which had commissioned the report.
I want to embarrass them in front of everyone. Maybe they will now think twice before killing anyone in detention, maybe this will save another son's life.
- Fatima Khan, mother of doctor who died in Syrian custody
The fate of Syria's detainees became a recurring topic as journalists confronted government officials at the peace conference.
In the media bar of the UN headquarters in Geneva, as Omran Zoabi, the Syrian information minister, leisurely sipped coffee in the company of a group of journalists, a reporter seated next to him asked: "What happened to Abdel Aziz al-Khayyer?"
Al-Khayyer, a prominent Damascus-based human rights activist, has been missing for more than a year. His opposition group, the government-tolerated National Coordination Body, has accused the intelligence services of detaining him.
Answering the reporter's question, Zoabi said: "You are talking about my friend, Abdel Aziz al-Khayyer. He is a friend.
"Even though we had differing views, we used to be driven back from conferences in the same car."
Zoabi continued: "I want him to be free. He wasn't arrested by the Syrian authorities. If we had information about his whereabouts, we wouldn't have waited until this noise happened."
Another journalist in Geneva asked Faisal Maqdad, the Syrian deputy foreign minister, about a list of tens of thousands of names of detainees provided by the opposition to the UN.
Maqdad said: "When we examined the list, we found that 60 to 70 percent of the people in it have never been in prison. Twenty percent were people freed from prison [already]. And the rest, we don't know anything about them."
Reacting to a claim made by a journalist and echoed by human-rights organisations, Maqdad said: "We do not have children detainees."
Fate of detainees
The negotiations between the two rival Syrian delegations were based on a communique from 2012 that lays out a political transition plan and calls for the creation of humanitarian corridors and the release of detainees.
For those whose family members are believed to be held in prison, nothing could be more ominous than the government's denial of the existence of their loved ones.
What you see in Geneva, it's just a theatrical play. The world is pretending to be doing something for Syria but they are wasting time.
- Sister of Ahmad Hilmi, missing Red Crescent volunteer
The sister of Ahmad Hilmi does not know the fate of her 25-year-old brother. Ahmad, a Red Crescent volunteer, was detained about 20 months ago.
"We continue to hear mixed reports. Some say he is still alive, while others told us he died under torture," she told Al Jazeera.
She was never optimistic that the peace talks in Geneva would lead to the release of her brother - or any of the other detainees.
She blames the international community for its "lack of seriousness" in putting pressure on President Bashar al-Assad's government.
"What you see in Geneva, it's just a theatrical play. The world is pretending to be doing something for Syria but they are wasting time," she said.
Adnan Haddad, a young Syrian activist, came from the war-torn city of Aleppo to observe that play in Geneva.
He sat in the press room watching the Assad government official as he dismissed the opposition-provided list of detainees as inaccurate.
"I'm not surprised," Haddad told Al Jazeera.
"If the regime admits to the presence of detainees, it would be condemning itself in front of the international community.
"This is simply because the regime killed a lot of them under torture. The rest of the detainees will be used as a bargaining chip."
Justice for all
Sitting at the doorstep of the entrance to the UN building in Geneva in freezing weather, Fatima Khan screams to passing crowds that she wants justice for all the detainees still alive in Syria.
"We are living in a civilised world and still the international community allows the Assad regime to get away with crimes," she says.
Fatima Khan was allowed by Syrian authorities to visit her son in prison several times during her five-month stay in Damascus as she tried to secure his release.
She said Abbas looked as malnourished as some of the men pictured in the report about detainee abuse.
"They starved people. He told me they tortured people for pleasure. How can we allow that?" she said.
On the day Fatima Khan thought she was going to meet her son upon his release, she brought the guards chocolates and sweets to celebrate.
"They told me my son committed suicide - while chewing the sweets I had given them."
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Former BYU star Kyle Van Noy won't be embarking on NFL career alone
Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
PROVO — Former BYU linebacker Kyle Van Noy is on the verge of realizing a childhood dream.
Van Noy is expected to be picked in the early rounds of the National Football League draft, which begins Thursday (6 p.m. MDT, ESPN/NFL Network).
But that's not the only big event in his life that's rapidly approaching.
And he's glad to know that he won't be embarking on this next adventure alone.
Van Noy and Marissa Powell, the 2013 Miss Utah USA, are planning to get married in June.
"I'm looking forward to that," Van Noy said this week. "Marrying my best friend is going to be a good experience. I'm happy that she said yes. She still loves me, so we're doing good."
Van Noy met Powell 3 1/2 years ago through mutual friends at a little party that Van Noy helped host.
"Nothing too crazy," she remembered.
At the time, they were young college students.
"It's kind of cool because I met Kyle before all the crazy stardom with his football stuff and we met before all the pageant stuff was going on," Powell said. "We've been able to grow with each other and we've known each other for so long that it's nice to have someone to have your back and has known you all along that can speak up for you and remember who you are. It's definitely been a learning process for us, learning about each other and learning about ourselves and what we want."
Fittingly, Van Noy and Powell got engaged in late November after the Cougars' regular-season finale in Van Noy's hometown of Reno, Nevada.
Since completing his Cougar career last December in the Fight Hunger Bowl, Van Noy has been busy preparing for the draft — working out, participating in the NFL combine, and visiting teams for pre-draft interviews.
Oh, and planning a wedding.
"It's been a roller coaster. I've been everywhere. I've been a freak traveler. I'm in airports all of the time, traveling," Van Noy said. "I'm trying to stay caught up with working out and doing a lot of media stuff. I've tried to balance everything and been busy. But it's been really good, though. It's been fun and it's been new and exciting. Being back on the field and in a team setting is going to be nice."
Van Noy has loved having his fiancee as a support system, and that will be even more important as he tries to maintain balance in his life as a professional athlete.
Powell is looking forward to supporting her husband-to-be.
"I'm actually really excited for him. I am glad that I've been around him through college and I know the time and effort he put into it," she said. "I know that's going to be magnified on the next level. I kind of know a little about what it takes. As a teammate, he brings his teammates up. I'm sure I'll learn a lot more once we get to the next level. I'm super proud of him and excited to support him through it.
"I'm excited to be there with him, going through everything together," she continued. "The first part will be supporting him, listening to him, and knowing what I can do to help him at home with preparing meals for him, making sure he's going to bed on time, and drinking a lot of water and keeping him healthy. Those are the little things I can take part in. I'm sure I'll learn a lot more."
During her reign as Miss Utah USA, Powell has been involved with several charitable organizations and causes, including Primary Children's Hospital, and she's looking forward to continuing to give back in her role as the wife of a professional athlete.
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