I talked to my friend today:
He has peed with Salman Rushdie and got to know him in Toilet.
It has made his day – to pee with the classic of post-post-post colonial literature.
They have exchanged few words while peeing:
Discussed Puchini at Metropolitan Opera, Mayor Bloomberg’s Presidential aspirations,
Wall Street and Morgan Stanley, and having all vegetable diet.
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Or how I’m getting to know my neighborhood from the ground up and share it with the world.
Decay + DC (a Tumblr photoblog http://unrestmag.tumblr.com) began as an attempt to understand my new neighborhood. After two years of the suburban sterility of Arlington, Virginia I relished the opportunity to move back to a city, particularly one as diverse and rich in history as Washington, DC. One might be tempted to dismiss the significance in a move of only seven miles; one would be mistaken.
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For many, summer holidays involve camping in a national park, tanning on a beach, or perhaps soaking up culture in a European city. If this sounds a little tame, why not consider using your vacation to summit a mountain covered in landmines and visiting a thousand year old temple that marks the frontline of an active international conflict? Unbelievable, impossible, or plain irresponsible? As Tom Richardson writes, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
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The testimonies of these 13 women from different parts of Colombia strikingly reveal how the country’s ongoing armed conflict has affected the bodies, spirits and lives of its women and girls. It is an effort to make the conditions these women cope with visible, reflecting their faces, their words and the places where they currently live, and showing the fear and pain that Colombia’s ongoing armed conflict has made them endure. In these pages, 13 indigenous, urban, peasant, artisan and Afro-descendant women weave a tapestry of women’s history in times of bitter confrontations.
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We, too, know that sometimes one has to pay too high a price for freedom,
We, too, have lived through poverty, beggary and hunger,
We, too, have fought for survival, for days and nights, hoping that one day we could also be free,
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We drove through Over-the-Rhine on a cold Sunday morning a few weeks back in December. If Cincinnati is empty during the business week, it looks like a ghost town on weekends. I wanted to see if any murals were left from Shepard Fairey’s retrospective Supply and Demand at the Contemporary Art Center. Fairey installed a score of them as part of a huge street-meets-gallery-meets-endearing or not-so-endearing public showing in the city. The murals are dispersed throughout the metro and surrounding areas. Controversy waited eagerly for the exhibit and some pieces were painted over hours after they were put up for being…well…controversial and thought provoking. As art should be.
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