Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts

Mar 31, 2011

Three Big Pigs

The revolutionary movements of the Middle East, explained by the cast of the game Angry Birds in a retro-animation cartoon set to the tune of the Three Little Pigs.

Mar 15, 2011

Mar 5, 2011

What Shall I Do With My Money?

Pinstripes are so boring. Let's take my name to form the pinstripe!

"According to this unsourced photo-magnification, Hosni Mubarak's swanky pinstriped suits were made from custom fabric whose "stripes" were Mubarak's name, printed in tiny letters, over and over again. I have no idea if this is shooped -- on the one hand, it is the kind of thing a loony dictator might revel in; on the other hand, why wouldn't he get his name woven in Arabic script? (And on the third hand, maybe getting your name custom-woven into your suit's stripes in a foreign alphabet is the Egyptian dictator's equivalent to westerners who get random Japanese characters tattooed on their nethers)."


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Mar 3, 2011

Egyptian And Tunisian Revolutions In Carl Sagan's "Earth The Pale Blue Dot"

Footage of the Tunisian and Egyptian democratic revolutions mixed with timelapses and set to Carl Sagan reading from his book "Earth - The Pale Blue Dot."

Feb 11, 2011

Amir Eid - Music From Tahrir Square

As the anti-government demonstrations in Egypt stretch into their 18th day, singer Amir Eid has placed an anthem for them on YouTube, filmed in part at epicenter Tahrir Square. Its refrain sums up the mood: 'I’m Not Turning Around.'

Mubarak Refuses To Step Back


Feb 7, 2011

Oliver Wilkins - Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt

"On February 1st, British filmmaker Oliver Wilkins decided to head out into Tahrir Square, Cairo to document the protests. Based in Cairo for the past 12 years, he says that he has a "great love of Egypt and the Egyptians." That being said, he tries to stay clear of Egyptian politics. What has been happening in Tahrir, however, is so "totally unprecedented," that he felt compelled to shoot these scenes.

"It’s amazing to see people making signs from anything lying around them in an attempt to get their voices heard," Wilkins says."



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Feb 6, 2011

Egyptian's Internet Crackdown With Help Of UK & US Companies

"In Egypt this week, the Mubarak regime shut down Internet and cell phone communications before launching a violent crackdown against political protesters (watch Free Press' Timothy Karr discuss the use of technology in Egypt in the video below).

Now, Free Press has discovered that an American company — Boeing-owned Narus of Sunnyvale, CA — has sold Egypt "Deep Packet Inspection" (DPI) equipment that can be used to help the regime track, target and crush political dissent over the Internet and mobile phones."



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Feb 5, 2011