Been here nearly a week now and I’m starting to get a very limited sense of this incredible place. I have a few random thoughts and notes, offered up as they come to mind. *** I visited The Apartheid Museum today. The museum sits next to a small amusement park with roller coasters and helicopter rides. The screams from the roller coaster and the thwapping of the helicopters could be heard at the museum and had the unnerving effect of recreating the soundscape from the late 1980s when the state of emergency was in effect here and helicopters and screams …
A quick break from being unplugged to point you to my friend John Engle’s blog from Haiti. John is an Open Space colleague who I have known for nearly ten years now. He is in Haiti, where he lives with his family, assessing damage and needs for Haiti Partners, the NGO he works for. Here is his blog. Consider donating to his work.
Goodness: Links Heather Haley, friend and neighbour, extends a conversation some of us were having on west coast music. Nice stories about the west coast punk scene of the 1980s and later. Another friend and neighbour, John Dowler: a photography site with questions. From Common Dreams, 12 things from the last decade that could save us Metafilter post on the ironically inimitable Harry Dubin. Franke James draws Canada’s problems with greenhouse gases. (via facebook friend Amy Robinson) Audio Frozen Silence, a new age/ambient project from Finland’s Matti Paalanen. Piano and guitar music for winter mornings. Tim Hart singing the Ploughboy …