Welcome to hell
VBS travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14(!) years of civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust. America’s one and only foray into African colonialism is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed. In Part 1, Vice’s own Shane Smith provides a brief history lesson and some essential context for understanding what caused Liberia’s civil war and how things got so bad. Liberia was originally planned and founded as a homeland for former slaves back in 1821. But fast forward a bunch of years and a military coup and you find the First Liberian Civil War in 1989: yet another third-world regime change in which the US-backed opposition, led by Charles Taylor, overthrows a government unfriendly to US interests. Once in power, Taylor’s corrupt, dysfunctional government quickly finds itself under attack by local warlords, leading to the Second Liberian Civil War ten years later. From there things go from bad to total shit.
Since Och has been on bikes and boats, I thought we just needed the air too. Turns out, I by chance got the opportunity to fly with the kind people of Kammair. They offered a trip over the harbor (the second maas grounds) and over the city. Sounds good.
Howevah, the flight initially didn’t seem to going take place. It was almost three times canceled: Once because of internal affairs, second because of carnaval (too wasted) and almost third because ..the other passengers were too heavy. Just when you thought the fat air-tax was avoided. However, Kammair offered an earlier flight and free extra passengers! Meanwhile the sun came up and the sky turned blue and we were off for 45 minutes of air: Continue reading ‘Och tocht-ies: Luchtruim Rotterdam’
Als je denkt alle goede series te hebben gezien komt gelukkig Carnivale op je pad. Deadw00t en The Wire waren natuurlijk al fantastische HBO series, deze voegt zich comfortabel in het rijtje.
Een beetje de sfeer van The Kingdom en Twin Peaks (vooral omdat die dwerg meedoet) gekruisd met Deadw00t.
Lijkt me voldoende aanbeveling om het eens te checken.
Downen maar!
(niet de meest gebruikte torrent, wel goede kwaliteit en subs)
This weekend you can sit down for an eclectic and nice story. Nina Paley intertwines her own pinkbird broken heart story with the ancient stories of the Rmayana, the habit of debating the true versions of it and the beautiful smartful songs of 1920’s jazz vocalist Annette Hanshaw -”cheeks like peaches and a voice of honey“.
Continue reading ‘Weekendmovie: Sita sings the blues’
Geil, customizable, but still a sleurhut. Desing has reached almost every layer of our society, so now even the most hated icon of traditionalism and conservativeness has undergone a thorough redesing. It looks quite nice, is even backed up by big automotive partners to get it beyond prototype.
But it is still the thing that will catch the wind and block your view on the freeways.
When will Top Gear get a hold of this one to destroy in a fashionable, desingy way?
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One man. One bike. One dream. To grow the biggest beard a cyclist ever had. To smash the record, Mark Beaumont must cycle eighteen thousand miles in just two hundred days. His epic journey will take him through floods, burning deserts, freezing winds, and desolate plains. The experience will push bike, body, and facial hair to the limit. It’s the ultimate endurance test. If he pulls it off, the world record will be his.
Watch Mark struggle to keep his bike, designed in Heerenveen and made in Pookiwookistan, rolling along Europe. See him blush over the compliments he recieves in India about his manly physique. How he rides the famous 90 mile straight, Australia’s longest straight road, with no hands. And his sufferings to keep his vegetarian body pedalling around the US on chicken and steaks.
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You can make on more ways than 1 360 degrees panorama’s. Teh simpleste and fastest way is to screw a ‘one shot adaptor’ on your camera.
The camera makes a foto from the mirror on the lens and with special software can you dewarp the foto to use as a 360 degree panorama.
Mr Fiero, the maker from devalvr ( a browser plugin for viewing not to equalize quality panoramas) got the sublieme idea to write simular software and let that loose on the mirror helmets from the NASA smurfs from the spaceshuttles. Now you are in state to look at things the same way the nasa dude did at the moment that the foto was made.
I shall say: download and install the (307 kb) plugin here and vermake you with the panorama’s here. Helaas for our starman from hell, on the moment works de plugin alone on windows. Don’t forget to use the full screen button..
Yeah! It’s time again for the Stripdagen Haarlem! Every year a great event for lovers of art, music, black lines, graphics and cult.
The home style of the festival this year is delivered by Roel Smit, also known as one of the lead singers of the legendary salon punk band Human Alert. Next to the whole festivals’ housestyle, he will also design the festival beer and will present his book “Rock and Roel” at the Patronaat in Harlem. I shall probably not attend this evening because of my expected personal delivery of vl0gje, but if he/she is still in the womb, I’ll be attending the festivals’ day programme.
Ikiro, gast and IPM alert: one of the themes this year is wheels and bicycles in the special.
Continue reading ‘Stripping days Harlem’
