Friday, June 11, 2004
Take five...
OK so this blog hasn't been updated in almost a month. We're going on indefinite hiatus until the bloggers decide to put more time into this little here project. UN Notebook archive will however continue to be updated. (7/1/04: new link here)
So, goodbye for now.
So, goodbye for now.
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
remember when...?
Whatever happened to the Iraq Stabilization Group that was supposed to run the reconstruction from the White House?
Monday, May 03, 2004
War President: tribute or satire?
This was just too intriguing to pass up. It's a mosaic made of pictures of casualties (US and Coalition) from Iraq.
As the author says:
I'd also like to point out that 'War President' is an image. It is not a textual statement or rhetorical argument. An image is like an empty room and any message that one reads in that room necessarily came in the baggage one carried when one walked in the door. If I made a mosaic of George Washington composed of images of the American dead from the revolution, would viewers likely take that image as an indictment of Washington? I submit that they would not. It would be viewed as a monument to the dead and a celebration of a great leader, a somewhat maudlin monument maybe but surely not offensive. The fact that 'War President' is not viewed such a manner is not due to any intrinsic property of 'War President' but lies somewhere else.
Full explanatory note here.
Higher resolution images available here and here. Source images from CNN.
"War President" by American Leftist
As the author says:
I'd also like to point out that 'War President' is an image. It is not a textual statement or rhetorical argument. An image is like an empty room and any message that one reads in that room necessarily came in the baggage one carried when one walked in the door. If I made a mosaic of George Washington composed of images of the American dead from the revolution, would viewers likely take that image as an indictment of Washington? I submit that they would not. It would be viewed as a monument to the dead and a celebration of a great leader, a somewhat maudlin monument maybe but surely not offensive. The fact that 'War President' is not viewed such a manner is not due to any intrinsic property of 'War President' but lies somewhere else.
Full explanatory note here.
Higher resolution images available here and here. Source images from CNN.
Saturday, May 01, 2004
The Fallen
From last night's Nightline:
US Casualties, March - May, 2003
US Casualties, June - August, 2003
US Casualties, September - December, 2003
US Casualties, January - April, 2004
Thursday, April 22, 2004
What the government would prefer you don't see
AP photo from 2002 of a US casualty coming home
The picture that got a defense contractor employee fired
Fallen GIs return unseen, Newsday, 4/19/04
Images of war dead a sensitive subject, Seattle Times, 4/22/04
Woman loses her job over coffins photo, Seattle Times, 4/22/04
Powerful photograph offered chance to tell an important story, Seattle Times, 4/22/04
The somber task of honoring the fallen, Seattle Times, 4/21/04
The 361 Dover AFB photos obtained under a FOIA request, from The Memory Hole
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
UPDATE: UN Notebook archives
Remember last year when I began to archive Barbara Crossette's UN Notebook columns from UN Wire? I'm still doin' it. Now go read, dammit.
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Escape from DC...
