KFC Smuggling-Service of Gaza
Im Gaza-Streifen kann man sich als wohlhabender Palästinenser seit neuestem auch Zinger Sandwiches und Drumsticks durch die Schmugglertunnel bringen lassen. Kostet das dreifache und dauert drei Stunden, aber ey, wenn’s halt unbedingt Hot Wings sein müssen! Ich kann das ziemlich gut verstehen.
For six years, Rafat Shororo longed for the taste of a KFC sandwich he had eaten in Egypt. This week, he got his finger lickin’ fix at home in the Gaza Strip after a local delivery company managed to smuggle it from Egypt through underground tunnels.
The al-Yamama company advertises its unorthodox new fast-food smuggling service on Facebook. It gets tens of orders a week for KFC meals despite having to triple the price to 100 shekels ($30) to cover transportation and smuggling fees. The deliveries go from the fryers at the Al-Arish KFC joint 35 miles away to customers’ doorsteps in about three hours.
KFC smugglers bring buckets of chicken through Gaza tunnels (Image via Shutterstock)
Palestine Activists send Message to Obama: We want 3G!
Klare Ansage von Aktivisten aus Palästina: Wir brauchen hier endlich mal ein vernünftiges mobiles Netz!
“This initiative was an individual effort aimed at sending two main messages to Obama about the Palestinian people’s conditions under occupation,” says Mahir Alawneh, one of the three young Palestinian men behind the initiative.
The first message, he says, highlights the fact that the Palestinian people have been deprived of the right to have 3G telecommunication technology because they compete with Israeli companies. “The idea crossed our minds thanks to a situation president Obama went through, when he insisted on using his BlackBerry smartphone” after his election, Alawneh says.
Palestine Town sprayed with Skunk Gas:
Dass Israel selbst angerührtes „Skunk“-Zeug gegen Demonstranten einsetzt, wusste ich. Dass sie die Stinkbomben jetzt auch gegen palästinensische Nachbarn von Israels illegalen Siedlungen einsetzt, ist mir neu: Israeli pours putrid skunk gas over homes in occupied Palestine.
Palestinian Missile Perfume
Der Hit unter den palästinensischen Duftwassern: M75, benannt nach den Raketen, die sie auf Tel Aviv gefeuert haben. Die spinnen doch alle.
“M-75″ perfume, which comes in men’s and women’s fragrances, is named for the missiles Hamas Islamist militants shot at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in an eight-day conflict that killed more than 170 Palestinians and six Israelis, ending with an Egyptian-brokered truce.
Hipsters at War in Palestine
Surreal genug, dass der offizielle Twitter-Account des israelischen Militärs ihren jüngsten Krieg gegen Palästina live twittert (und damit wahrscheinlich gegen Twitters ToS verstößt), jetzt posieren die Soldaten auch noch auf’m Hipsterchannel Instagram. Buzzfeed hat eine kleine Sammlung: „As drama unfolds between Israel and Hamas — both in real life and over their Twitter accounts — young soldiers Instagram photos of themselves at ease“: Surreal Instagrams From Israel Defense Forces Soldiers
This Land Is My Land: Nina Paley animates the History of Palestine
Vimeo Direktland, via Cartoonbrew
Nina Paley (Sita sings the Blues, Copying is not theft) animiert „A brief history of the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant.“ Und alles nur wegen ein paar Bullshit-Mythen.
Auf ihrer Website gibt’s noch ein „Who’s Killing Who?“ von den Kanaaniten, Ptolemäern über die Römer und Ottomanen bis zu den Terroristen und Freiheitskämpfer und dem Angel of Death. History is Fun!
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
GEMA and Youtube bullshit Nina Paleys „Sita sings the Blues“ for fraudulent Bullshit
Sita sings the Blues – Die Story eines Animationsfilmes und seines Copyright-Blödsinns
Redesigned Middle-East Cyberwar
Schöne Idee der Agentur McCann Digital Israel und der Designschule Habezefer, die 50 gehackte und defaced Websites aus Israel redesigned haben – weil ehrlich: Ich mag Hacker-Ethik und den ganzen Schnickschnack, aber Techies haben echt keinen Sinn für Design und die Anon-Maske zählt nicht, die stammt von Alan Moore, obwohl natürlich andererseits schickes Design dem Online-Aktivismus auch wieder eher hinderlich wäre… aber die Yes Men… egal, jedenfalls: Die haben defacete Websites redesigned und die Ergebnisse an die Hacker aus Saudi Arabien per Mail zurückgeschickt. Ich finde leider keine Galerie oder Website mit allen 50 Redesigns, aber dennoch: Nice one!
Israel is under constant cyber attacks. Each month, dozens of israeli websites are being hacked by arab hacker groups and replaced with anti-israeli web pages. […] “Habezefer” School of art and advertising, cant end this cyber war. But they nocticed a pattern: all the hacker groups use the same ugly template in their replaced site designs: Black background, photos from google, bad fonts and low resolution. So they acted!
Ad agency McCann Digital Israel collected 50 hacked websites designs. “Habezefer” students and staff redesigned those web pages, making them gorgeous. They sent the redesigned work BACK TO THE HACKERS (by mail, hacker group forums) with clear message: “we would like to end all cyber wars. but in the meantime – if you must hack our sites, at least leave something beautiful”
Hezbollah vs Journalists Paintball-Match
Spannende Story auf Vice über ein Paintball-Match zwischen Hisbollah und ein paar Journalisten:
We figured they’d cheat; they were Hezbollah, after all. But none of us—a team of four Western journalists—thought we’d be dodging military-grade flash bangs when we initiated this “friendly” paintball match.
The battle takes place underground in a grungy, bunker-like basement underneath a Beirut strip mall. When the grenades go off it’s like being caught out in a ferocious thunderstorm: blinding flashes of hot white light, blasts of sound that reverberate deep inside my ears.
As my eyesight returns and readjusts to the dim arena light, I poke out from my position behind a low cinder-block wall. Two large men in green jumpsuits are bearing down on me. I have them right in my sights, but they seem unfazed—even as I open fire from close range, peppering each with several clear, obvious hits. I expect them to freeze, maybe even acknowledge that this softie American journalist handily overcame their flash-bang trickery and knocked them out of the game. Perhaps they’ll even smile and pat me on the back as they walk off the playing field in a display of good sportsmanship (after cheating, of course).
Instead, they shoot me three times, point-blank, right in the groin.
PAINTBALLING WITH HEZBOLLAH IS THE PATH STRAIGHT TO THEIR HEARTS (via Jason Kottke)
Surfing in Gaza
Andrew McConnell hat Surfer in Palästina fotografiert, wo sich mit internationaler Hilfe eine kleine Gruppe heimischer Surfer etabliert hat, die, weil sie aufgrund des Hickhacks mit Israel in ihrer Bewegungsfreiheit extrem eingeschränkt sind, auf einem Surfboard ins Meer abhauen… für ein paar Wellen zumindest. Surfing als politischer Eskapismus. Tolle Serie, für die er 2011 den Sopny World Photography Award gewonnen hat.
Freedom of movement for Palestinians living in Gaza Strip has been so restricted in recent years that the territory is commonly referred to as the “largest open-air prison on earth.” [...] In January 2000, before the Second Intifada, an average of 17,635 day labourers crossed from Gaza into Israel everyday. By 2005 that number dropped to 49, today it is zero.
To find the sport of surfing in Gaza is at once both surprising and completely natural. In a region where the common narrative is conflict and daily life is marked by constant struggle, surfing offers a means of escape.
Überhaupt hat Andrew McConnell ein ziemlich fantastisches Fotojournalismus-Portfolio am Start, meine Favoriten sind neben den Surffotos aus Gaza die Bilder der Rebellen in der Westsahara, Elektro-Schrott in Ghana und die Minensucher in Vietnam. (via We make money not art)
Joe Saccos „Footnotes in Gaza“ wird verfilmt!
Joe Sacco ist Comiczeichner und gilt ein bisschen als Erfinder der Kriegsreportage-Comics, am bekanntesten sind seine Bücher „Palestine“ und „Footnotes in Gaza“, letzteres wird jetzt als Animationsfilm adaptiert. Freut mich immer sehr, wenn ernste Comics umgesetzt werden und nicht nur Superheldenunfug über alberne Typen in Spandexhosen. Eine meiner Lieblings-Comicverfilmungen ist „Persepolis“ und auch wenn „Waltz with Bashir“ strenggenommen nicht auf einem Comic basiert, die thematische Nähe zu dem Stoff hier sind unübersehbar.
Die Produktion läuft grade erst an, bis wir den Film zu sehen bekommen, wird es noch ‘ne ganze Weile dauern, von Animationsfilme.ch: „Der kanadische Regisseur Denis Villeneuve, der aktuell mit seinem Film Incendies für einen Oscar® in der Kategorie “Bester fremdsprachiger Film” nominiert ist, wird die Graphic Novel Footnotes in Gaza von Joe Sacco als Animationsfilm umsetzen. Die Pariser Produktionsfirma “Tu Vas Voir” hat sich kurz nach der ersten Publikation (2009) um die Verfilmungsrechte bemüht. Produzent Amiel Tenenbaum habe bereits sehr früh Villeneuve als möglichen Regisseur im Kopf gehabt und nach einem Meeting zwischen dem Kanadier und Sacco, sei die Zusammenarbeit beschlossen gewesen. Footnotes in Gaza wird ein abendfüllender Animationsfilm, der sich von Saccos Schwarzweissbildern inspirieren lassen wird. Laut Tenenbaum arbeite man aktuell an einem Drehbuch und will im Sommer nach Koproduzenten suchen und sich um die Finanzierung kümmern.“ (via Graphic-Novel)
Footnotes erzählt die Geschichte um das Leben in der Stadt Rafah im Gazastreifen, in der wärend der Suez-Krise 1956 mehr als einhundert palästinensische Flüchtlinge in einem Massaker der israelischen Armee umkamen. Dieses Kapitel wird in der Geschichtsschreibung nicht erwähnt und gilt als „Fussnote“. Joe Sacco hat Überlebende des Massakers und Zeitzeugen befragt, woraus der Comic entstand.
Das Buch erzählt seine Geschichte über einen Zeitraum von mehr als 50 Jahren und ist nicht nur eine Wiedergabe der Ereignisse, sondern auch Alltagsdarstellung des Lebens im Gazastreifen damals. Vom Klappentext:
Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. On the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been bulldozed to rubble. Rafah is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in this bitterest of conflicts.
Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah—cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake—reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, Footnotes in Gaza captures the essence of a tragedy.
Bei Vimeo findet man noch einen einstündigen Vortrag von Joe Sacco über „Gaza“, das Buch sollte jeder im Regal stehen haben: Amazon-Partnerlink: Footnotes in Gaza
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Art Spiegelman-Interview auf Arte, Joe Saccos Gaza 1956
Interview mit „Palestine“-Autor Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco Interview (Teil 2)
Graffiti-Photography from Israel and the Westbank
Just war in den letzten Wochen in Israel und in der Westbank unterwegs und hat dort (nicht nur) Pieces und Writer bei der Arbeit geknippst. Das Layout auf seiner Seite ist ein bisschen verwirrend mit seinen unterschiedlichen Schriftgrößen, da gibt’s aber jede Menge weiterführender Links zu Bildern von Protesten und Aktionen, kriegt Ihr schon hin, hier die wichtigsten: ISRAEL – Tel Aviv (4) (On the Run with.. SMD) (Streets 2), ISRAEL – Tel Aviv (3) (On the Run with.. 035) & (STREETS 1), One Day in the Westbank.
Bookmarks for July 26th: The Strokes, CCC, The Golden Photocopier
Stereogum Presents… STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It – Stereogum: The Strokes‘ debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help us celebrate this 10th Anniversary, we asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection, STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It
Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas | ScienceBlog.com: Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society.
Mit dem Hacken davongekommen – einestages: Es war die Geburtsstunde des Chaos Computer Clubs: In subversiver Runde trafen sich im September 1981 in den Räumen der Berliner "taz" Nerds aus der ganzen Bundesrepublik. Bekannt wurde die Hackerverbindung allerdings erst drei Jahre später – mit einem Coup, der eine Hamburger Bank arm machte.
SLOW DEATH FUNNIES ~ #1-#9 ~ 1970-77 – Art by Irons, Corben, Holmes, Stout, McCarthy & Jaxon
Larry Todd
German designer Anke Domaske and her fashions made from milk | euromaxx – YouTube
‘Ecohols’ by JØRN: Wie sähen die Produkte der großen Spirituosen-Marken aus, füllte man sie statt in ihre markanten Flaschen in Getränkekartons? Zeiten ändern sich, was bleibt von der Marke?
Points of Departure: Today, there are more than 49,000 airports around the world. That’s a lot. But to give you a better idea of the current state of commercial aviation, take a moment to explore our map below and have a look at the 6,000 most popular airports on the globe.
Colour pictures revealed of London blitz from Nazi bombers in World War II | Mail Online: For many, photographs from the World War II have only been seen in grainy black and white. But now, new colour images have emerged that show the full horror of the destruction inflicted by Nazi bombings across London. The powerful images were released to mark the 70th anniversary of the launch of Winston Churchill's 'V for Victory' campaign on July 19, 1941.
Infinite Mario – HTML5: Based on Super Mario 3, this HTML5 Super Mario game goes on forever.
Dangerous Minds | Beat This!: A hip hop history: The terrific Beat This!: A Hip hop History takes us up through roots of hip hop culture starting in the late 1970s in the South Bronx and features Kool Herc, Planet Rock, Kurtis Blow, Jazzy Jay, Afrika Bambaataa, Malcolm McClaren and many more. Great vintage footage of Manhattan, the Bronx, beatboxing, graffiti and breakdancing. Directed by the British film maker Dick Fontaine.
Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Nits d’Estiu, july & august 2011 on Vimeo
GAZA STRIP on Vimeo: In early 2001 I spent three months in Gaza filming material for this documentary, GAZA STRIP, working with local fixer and translator, Mohammed Mohanna. The second Palestinian uprising against Israeli military occupation had begun in September, 2000, and there had already been large numbers of deaths in Gaza when I started this project.
Letters of Note: The Internet Tidal Wave: May 26th, 1995: Bill Gates sends a memo, entitled "The Internet Tidal Wave," to all executive staff within Microsoft. In it, he makes clear his intention to focus the company's efforts online with immediate effect and "assign the Internet the highest level of importance," going on to call it, "the most important single development to come along since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981."<br />
A few highlights from a long but highly quotable 16-year-old memo include: Gates forewarning, "One scary possibility being discussed by Internet fans is whether they should get together and create something far less expensive than a PC which is powerful enough for Web browsing"; the Microsoft boss later grumbling that after 10 hours of browsing the Internet, he "had not seen a single Word .DOC, AVI file, Windows .EXE (other than content viewers), or other Microsoft file format," then adding, "I did see a great number of Quicktime files"…
How To Assemble A Medical Training Device | English Russia: Welcome to one of the companies located in Saint-Petersburg that produces devices for rendering the first aid and plastic skeletons.
ROBOT DRUMMER.mov – YouTube: It started when our drummer drank all our beer.
50 Jahre Perry Rhodan: Opa from Outer Space – einestages: 2600 Hefte, 156.000 Seiten, eine 3000 Jahre umfassende Geschichte: Seit dem Bau der Berliner Mauer liegt die Science-Fiction-Serie "Perry Rhodan" am Kiosk, ein Heer von Autoren schreibt das Weltraum-Epos seit nunmehr 50 Jahren fort. Längst hat sich auch außerhalb der Hefte um die Serie ein bizarres Paralleluniversum gebildet.
How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song? : Planet Money : NPR: At a writing camp, a record label hires the best music writers in the country and drops them into the nicest recording studios in town for about two weeks. It's a temporary version of the old music-industry hit factories, where writers and producers cranked out pop songs.
Bookmarks for July 18th: iPhone Fireflies, Dune without Dialoge, Free Running in Gaza
Fireflies HD | crowdflow blog: The following videos show the movement of 880 iPhones in Europe in April 2011.
The story of 15 Second Copy for the C-64 « pagetable.com
The story of FCopy for the C-64 « pagetable.com
The Complete History Of Video Games On "The Simpsons" | Complex
AnonPlus – The Anonymous Social Networking Site.
Dune with no dialog – Boing Boing
A complete guide to the planets’ birthdays
This Is War: Watch the Libyan Revolution Explode through the Lens of a Helmet Cam — Part 4
Archive Gallery: Early Visions of Human Spaceflight | Popular Science
Ken Reid – World Wide Weirdies (1970′s): Ken Reid's "World Wide Weirdies" series was originally published in the comic Whoopee!
Visual.ly | Infographics & Visualizations: Infographics and data visualizations are shifting the way people find and experience stories, creating a new way of seeing the world of data. They help communicate complex ideas in a clear, compact and beautiful way, taking deep data and presenting it in visual shorthand. We’ve collected the best examples on the web and gathered them for you to reference, share, and enjoy.
The Final Image: This film blog is a collection of screenshots of the final thought, le mise-en-scene finale, or the final shot of films I've seen.
Little Annie Fanny – Episodes 18-21 ~ Playboy January-July/1965: Artwork by Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Jack Davis, Russ Heath and Frank Frazetta
A Geek’s Journal-1976: What if there had been blogs in 1976? I would most definitely have had one and this might well have been it. This blog is based on my actual journal kept in 1976.
HARREY PODDER: Say the Magic Word – YouTube: What would happen in the Harry Potter world if their spells didn't quite go the way they meant them to? Take a look and see.
Study Shows Parrot Parents Name Their Children | Geekosystem: Each parrot has its own signature call that others use to address it, which is the parrot equivalent of having a name. But where do these “names” come from? New research has shown that just like with human babies, parrot parents name their offspring, even before the babies can communicate themselves.
Sex-Ed DVD Selling Fast in Iran – The Daily Beast: Iran’s first-ever sex-education DVD is wildly popular. Babak Dehghanpisheh writes that the film’s success reveals a thirst for information inside the Islamic republic.
Free Running Gaza – Artscape – Al Jazeera English: Two young Palestinians embrace an art form and athletic discipline that offers an escape from life under occupation.
See something or say something – a set on Flickr: Where people post geotagged photos to Flickr from and geotagged tweets to Twitter from.
Study: why bother to remember when you can just use Google?: In the age of Google and Wikipedia, an almost unlimited amount of information is available at our fingertips, and with the rise of smartphones, many of us have nonstop access. The potential to find almost any piece of information in seconds is beneficial, but is this ability actually negatively impacting our memory? The authors of a paper that is being released by Science Express describe four experiments testing this. Based on their results, people are recalling information less, and instead can remember where to find the information they have forgotten.
Palestinian Passport Art
(Youtube Direkt, via Rebelart)
Schöne Aktion von Khaled Jarrar, der Pässe mit einem State of Palestine-Visa abstempelt. Der Mann ist derzeit in Berlin und stempelt am Checkpoint Charlie von 11 bis 19 Uhr (hier die Facebook-Seite), unterstützt von der Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Aus ‘nem CNN-Artikel über die Aktion:
“In the beginning, I was not expecting to stamp one passport. When I start with the first one I had really such a nice feeling. I proved that I can express myself by art. We can deliver a very strong political message about our life — that nobody can deny our existence as a Palestinian.”
The stamp he created features a Palestine Sunbird surrounded by flowers and encircled with the words State of Palestine in English and Arabic. It is purely symbolic and has no authority but it has become an evolving art project.
On Wednesday, Jarrar waited at Ramallah bus station in the West Bank and approached visitors with his stamp in hand. His plan: To see how many would accept a State of Palestine stamp in their passport and then chart their journey when they leave through Israeli immigration.
For each visitor that agrees, Jarrar takes a photo of them with passport in hand then scribbles down their email address in his notebook so he can maintain contact when they leave.
Hizbollah Disneyland
The Velvet Rocket hat einen schönen Foto-Essay über die Mleeta Resistance Landmark, einem Themenpark der Hizbollah in Libanon, das Ding wurde letztes Jahr anlässlich des 10jährigen Jubiläums des Rückzugs der israelischen Armee aus dem Süd-Libanon gebaut.
Regardless of where your sympathies lie in the various conflicts in the Middle East, the Mleeta Resistance Landmark is an interesting place to visit. Established by Hezbollah and opened in 2010, the Mleeta Resistance Landmark is Hezbollah’s presentation of their conflict with Israel and a celebration of their role in it. The “Tourist Landmark of the Resistance” has been dubbed “Hezbollah’s Disneyland” by the international press. […]
The circular area in the center of the opening picture above is “The Abyss.” This structural art piece is filled with Israeli military vehicles, helmets, boots, bombs and bullets captured from the Israeli army between 1982 and the July War of 2006. The display is intended to graphically represent the political and military morass in which Israel supposedly finds itself in regarding Hezbollah. At the center of the display is an Israeli Merkava-4 tank, with the barrel of its main gun symbolically tied in a knot.
