In Memoriam ~ 11 September 2011
Labels: Memorial
11.9.11
11.8.11
Norway's A-ha to Sing Again
Norway's pop band «A-ha» will reunite to perform during an upcoming memorial ceremony in Oslo's Spectrum concert hall for the victims of the 22 July attacks. They had split last year. The three musicians said that they were to get together to «honour those who have been torn away».The group said they wanted «to show appreciation to everyone who made an effort to help out on 22 July, and to express our sympathy to the survivors who now are left in sorrow» and that «On 22 July, we, like everyone else in Norway and the rest of the world, were shaken to the soul by these actions of cruelty and violent provocation against everything we stand for.»
You may read more on the Norway Attacks here at the Beeb.
23.7.11
In Memoriam: Amy Winehouse
11.9.10
1.8.09
Aquino, heroine of Philippine people power, dies
Former President Corazon Aquino, whose «people power» revolution swept dictator Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines, died on Saturday after a 16-month battle against colon cancer, aged 76. She had recently announced she was refusing further treatment. Her family reported Aquino was leaving her fate to a deity, which was certainly a big mistake since there aren't any.More at the Beeb and Reuters.
11.9.07
in memoriam
New Yorker covers editor Françoise Mouly repositioned Art Spiegelman’s silhouettes, inspired by Ad Reinhardt's black-on-black paintings, so that the north tower's antenna breaks the «W» of the magazine's logo. Spiegelman wanted to see the emptiness, and find the awful/awe-filled image of all that disappeared the on 11 september. the silhouetted Twin Towers were printed in a fifth, black ink, on a field of black made up of the standard four colour printing inks. an overprinted clear varnish helps create the ghost images that linger, insisting on their presence through the blackness.
Labels: Art, History, Memorial, Photography, Politics
11.9.06
remembering 11 September 2001
remembering the 3,047 people murdered in New York City, Washington, DC/Virginia and Pennsylvania on 11 september 2001.
during the last week the nation's media has broadcast a number of documentaries and dramatisations focusing on the grief of survivors, remembering the murdered, the results of the latest research into the destruction of the World Trade Centre and the re-development of Ground Zero. americans have been asked if we feel any safer today. i find it difficult to answer in the affirmative because hardly anything seems to have been done since the attacks to also reduce the root causes of terrorism and anti-Americanism. horrifyingly, it would seem that much has been done to fuel continued hatred towards us instead.
Labels: Commentary, Memorial, Politics
