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Photo op/visual metaphor/music video locale/nude model hangout: Detroit’s Michigan Central Station

The state of journalism in the US is a mess; what sells is often put ahead of the real news. Money (desire for/lack of) drives the system. If I want good international reporting, I tend to stick with the BBC. Domestically, it’s more fluff than not.

Here’s Vice magazine’s take on journalists descending on abandoned buildings in Detroit because they’re really good photo ops. Really.

Found via Twitter.com/okayokay

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‘For the past fifteen months I’ve created artwork in hopes of shedding light on the plight of innocent civilians under modern warfare. In this video I put my art to the music of Pink Floyd’s Goodbye Blue Sky.’
– posted by Marc Levine on MySpace, September 1st, 2008

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Google conspiracy theory animation by Ozan Halici & Jürgen Mayer. Bachelors’ Thesis at the University of Applied Sciences, Ulm, Germany.

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From 2003: What Barry Says by Simon Robson & Barry McNamara. Short anti-US fascism animation. This controversial film won Best Animation at the Brooklyn International Film Festival in 2004.

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At the beginning of 2003, I got involved with Another Poster For Peace, a group of graphic designers who did not agree with the Iraqi war. It just didn’t make sense to us, so we created copyright free protest posters that anyone can download and use. It wasn’t popular sentiment at the time, but was the right thing to do.

When the war started, I was following a blog of a young student in Baghdad; who was photographing and watching the skies, waiting for what was going to come. I followed up until the time his blog stopped reporting, then went down. I wonder what happened to him.

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Music: Lustmord’s Immersion

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster left behind radiation, death and an abandoned city.

This video gives more explicit detail  . . .

Another photo essay by George Borman here.

Videos originally posted as part of a bulletin on MySpace by d++

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What’s going wrong: Here’s a link to the world wide Emergency and Disaster Information Service Map. Live.

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The work of artist Mark Bovey.

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Chris Hipkiss lives in a small village in England. And he does large, fanciful pencil drawings. Interview here. Website here.

Found via Book By Its Cover

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Details on my Twitter page here.

Just do what it says (you’ll need a Twitter account, of course). Contest ends Monday September 7, 2009 at 9 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.

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The Greater Sacramento Metropolis: A bird’s eye view from the Sacramento River by mehallo. Graphite illustration, available as a high resolution poster or framable print here.

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