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  • ephemera assemblyman: Film Poster Paintings from Ghana
    'In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.

    In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired – often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies.'

    (del.icio.us tags: Ghana Africa film posters )
  • Caustic Cover Critic: Tutis 3: The Tutising
    More amusing cover-design madness from a POD company that does overpriced editions of books that are out of copyright.
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  • Digital Sound Remedies

    ‘You’ve just found the place where you can actually
    “Listen to Medicine for Better Health”

    After years of research and development, we have perfected the process of capturing the precise energetic patterns, or vibrational signatures, of homeopathic remedies, herbs, supplements, and even medications.

    So why is this such a BIG DEAL?

    Because listening to the sound of a homeopathic remedy will produce
    the exact same effect as ingesting the original physical substance.

    Imagine how great it would be if you could listen to a sound for a few minutes, and your headache disappears, your acid reflux vanishes, or your allergy symptoms go away, and WITHOUT SIDE EFFECTS!

    Is this possible?
    ABSOLUTELY YES!’

    (del.icio.us tags: homeopathy quackery )
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Equal to the Earth by Jee Leong Koh

I know Jee on the internet — originally via PFFA, the online poetry forum, but also now through his blog, Song of a Reformed Headhunter — so I already knew I liked his poems. And as a bonus, Equal to the Earth serves as my book from Singapore for the Read The World challenge.

Jee is, to quote the blurb on Lulu, ‘a gay poet born and bred in Singapore, educated at Oxford, now living and teaching in New York.’ Which gives you an idea of some of the major themes: ethnicity, sexuality, the immigrant experience and so on. But that list of topics sounds worryingly like the poems might be painfully earnest, which they are not; they have a delicacy of touch, both in handling the material and the verse.

I’ve read quite a lot of them before, sometimes I think in earlier versions, but it was a pleasure to sit down and revisit them.

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