Lindsay Brown

Cassandra. Design & politics. Recent article Upcoming book=@HabitatForum Vancouver/politics=@Lidsville NO LISTS

[Lindsay Brown @ounodesign]

@LennyNanZhou How did this snippy, internally inconsistent tweet work out for you Lenny? You're heading for a ratio here

[Lindsay Brown @ounodesign]

@GeoffGlave @fabulavancouver And the market has no interest in changing tack on that - luxury smaller condos is their bread and butter

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

EXPOSED: The Secret Israel Plot to Ban Palestine Action

“This is the story of how Israel got a protest group based in another country proscribed a Terrorist organisation”

@Lowkey0nline

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This dog must have an amazing sense of humor.

[Irish Examiner @irishexaminer]

Cork City Council to consider tiny statue honouring mosquito linked to Oliver Cromwell’s death https://t.co/mTcVClG3VK

[Fatima Menâl Akin 🍉 @FattumaMannul]

🎬 Gelin size Hollywood filmlerinde kamera ne zaman Meksika’ya, 'Ortadoğu’ya', Güney Asya’ya ya da Afrika’ya dönse ekranın neden aniden tozlu bir sarı tona büründüğünü anlatayım:

Sinema literatüründe "Yellow Filter" (Sarı Filtre) olarak bilinen bu uygulama, aslında sadece sanatsal bir tercih değil, modern bir oryantalizm ve sömürgeci bakış açısıdır. Breaking Bad ve Traffic’te Meksika’yı, Extraction ve Slumdog Millionaire’de Hindistan’ı, Black Hawk Down’da Afrika’yı ya da pek çok ajan filminde İstanbul’u ve “Ortadoğu’yu” sanki üzerine sarı bir sis çökmüş gibi görmemiz tesadüf değildir.

Bu görsel manipülasyon, Edward Said’in bahsettiği "Öteki"ni inşa etme sürecinin en kestirme yoludur: Batı dünyası parlak ve "soğuk mavi" tonlarla rasyonelliğin, ilerlemenin ve medeniyetin merkezi olarak sunulurken; "Küresel Güney" olarak adlandırılan ve tarih boyunca sömürgeciliğe maruz kalmış coğrafyalar sarı filtreyle boğularak "kaotik, tehlikeli ve durağan" birer suç mahalline indirgenir.

Bu durum, kolonyalizmin kurduğu o üstenci görsel hiyerarşiyi her karede yeniden üretir. Sarı ton; kuraklığı, fakirliği ve "eskiyi" sembolize ederek izleyiciye bu bölgelerin modern zamana ait olmadığı ve "ıslah edilmesi gereken, kirli bir geçmişte takılı kaldığı" mesajını bilinçaltından fısıldar.

Hikaye anlatma biçimi olarak bu filtreyi seçmek, o coğrafyanın gerçek renklerini ve modern dokusunu yok edip Batılı izleyicinin zihnindeki stereotipleri beslemektir. Sonuçta sinematografi, burada bir sanat dalı olmaktan çıkıp dünyayı "medeni merkez" ve "egzotik/vahşi çevre" olarak ikiye bölen politik bir araca, yani sömürgeci zihniyetin görsel bir mührüne dönüşür.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[𓆑 @becauseberkeley]

If Facebook is full of stodgy old boomers, the Bay Area ones are an unusual subset.

These are responses to @MLNow's story on the Molotov cocktail incident at Sam Altman's house.

[Habitat Forum @HabitatForum]

I'm headed to Baku, Azerbaijan for @UNHabitat World Urban Forum to speak on UN Habitat's famous founding conference, which was held in Vancouver in 1976.

It's the 50th anniversary of Habitat I this year!

https://t.co/wZYmRajhuy #unhabitat #cities #WUF13Azerbaijan

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Donald Trump is doing extrajudicial war the right way.

by Ezra Klein

[Lindsay Brown @ounodesign]

@BWeberD @TaraArmstrongBC She and her team of Ratchford and Thielmann are busy defending an *actual nazi*

Dude. What are you doing

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

A far-right party in Canada is imploding over a 22-year-old staffer’s extreme posting online.

I got my hands on audio from @antihateca that might leave Canadians asking how the hell someone like this got into politics at all.

It involves Diagolon, "remigration" and some trojan-horse-style plots:

[Lindsay Brown @ounodesign]

@BWeberD @TaraArmstrongBC Tara is siding with actual nazis, and I'm not using that term loosely

[Lindsay Brown @ounodesign]

@vick89024 @BWeberD @One_BCHQ @TaraArmstrongBC Please go read a book.

[Lindsay Brown @ounodesign]

@BWeberD @One_BCHQ @TaraArmstrongBC So you're picking one of the 2 white supremacists as leader of a provincial party. I see.

[Lindsay Brown @ounodesign]

@PeterDyakowski @One_BCHQ So you want known white supremacists in the BC Conservatives? Noted.

[Lindsay Brown @ounodesign]

@ZKCryptoX77 @wyatt_claypool @Dallas_Brodie Alberta made him! Someone has to take him

[Lindsay Brown @ounodesign]

@TaraArmstrongBC @Dallas_Brodie Are you not over face-tuned?