There’s a very impressive collection of flags that has been circulating for some time, showing various interesting and disturbing facts about each of the countries involved. I saw it for the first time last night at ProState in Flames . A quick Google search identifies Icaro Doria , a young Brazilian designer, as one of the creators of the series called Meet the World. Doria says he and four others created it as part of an ad campaign for the Portuguese news magazine Grande Reportagem.
The flags spread around the world in an email chain letter that wrongly identified a non-existent Norwegian diplomat as the creator. The series has also become popular on blogs.
Doria says of the original ad campaign:
The idea was to bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today.
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We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colo...
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Blog noteFrom: blackandwhitecat.org
Post Date: 2008-03-03 19:27:01
Since I’m such an irregular blogger, it doesn’t make much sense to announce that I won’t have internet access for about a week, so there won’t be any more posts until I’m back. But I’ll say it anyway for the sake of the few poor souls who do (misguidedly) keep checking in to see if there’s anything new. I’m also putting the comments on moderation-only until I get back to keep out the spam that occasionally gets through the filter.
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more Truth and lies - Tibet and IraqFrom: blackandwhitecat.org
Post Date: 2008-03-20 11:19:17
There is some anger being expressed by Chinese citizens about foreign media reporting on the Tibet protests and violence. To a certain extent it is justified. Showing pictures of Nepali security forces beating Tibetan protesters and labeling those pictures as Chinese violence is at best sloppy, at worst a lie. And I keep wondering why so many writers can only bring themselves to say that Tibetan protesters have “attacked” Han civilians. Is “killed” too hard a word to w...
more Ethnic harmony - or notFrom: blackandwhitecat.org
Post Date: 2008-03-19 11:48:54
It’s been quite some time since Yahoo mercifully closed down its news discussion boards. Especially at times of crisis, whether real or perceived, they could make you lose almost all faith in humanity. Below is a translation of one Chinese person’s reaction, posted on Woeser’s blog , to the same phenomenon in China. Text in square brackets is mine, and does not appear in the original Chinese post.
Family relations established through rape
By a lonely Han
For days on ...
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