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September 4th, 2006
05:13 pm - Koyaanisqatsi: A film review
 Made in 1983, Koyaanisqatsi (Hopi for "Life out of Balance") is a documentary on the interplay of technology and civilization. Using a non-narrative structure with no dialogues, the film uses s series of images and accompanying music. Starting with native American paintings on caves, we are taken through a myriad of images each showing a progressive "intrusion" of man into nature. Ultimately what is left is only a man-made environment and nothing of nature. City scapes seen through fast forward photoraphy leading to macro- images of the electronic circuits.
Koyaanisqatsi gives you a new perspective on our civilization and it's inevitable "progress".
Highly recommended viewing.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
Official Site: http://www.koyaanisqatsi.com/
A glimpse of the images: http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/koyaanis.aspx
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August 21st, 2006
11:58 am - (Trying) Google's related links.
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August 16th, 2006
03:06 pm - Happy Independence Day
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August 11th, 2006
02:19 pm - Worst music video ever.
An 80's Finnish music video called "I Wanna Love You Tender" by Armi & Danny
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8610362188397291938&pl=true
You..
You love me tender
How can I be sure you're not pretender
You love me today ...
But what about tomorrow ?
hehehe...
Current Mood: corny
Current Music: I love you tender
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July 28th, 2006
02:17 pm - To my blogspot friends
A few of my friends shifted from lj to blogspot for god-only-knows what reasons.
Now that the government thinks that blogspot (along with geocities and typepad) are a threat to national security, it's time they come back to government friendly politically correct platforms that only livejournal provides. I am sure that your politically incorrect comments will be suitably modified to please everyone, even terrorists !
from here...
Quite a few Indians would probably not mind compromising on some of their civil liberties if it helped in the fight against terrorism, but this move by the government is just an attempt to appear to be doing something, and displays their ineptness.
http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Bypassing_The_Ban
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July 19th, 2006
06:51 pm - Indian government blocks blogspot.
Is this for security reasons or to stop people from venting anger against the govt ?
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July 12th, 2006
09:13 pm - Mumbai bomb blasts. 190 dead. Over 700 injured.
I have nothing to say.
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May 31st, 2006
03:23 pm - Crow and cloudy sky
Taken from my rooftop.
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February 3rd, 2006
06:50 pm - Testing slide.com slideshow scriptlet
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December 12th, 2005
06:39 pm - Mr. Miyagi passes away
Pat Morita, 'Karate Kid's' Mr. Miyagi, dies
Friday, November 25, 2005; Posted: 7:25 p.m. EST (00:25 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actor Pat Morita, whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 73.
Morita died Thursday at his home in Las Vegas of natural causes, said his wife of 12 years, Evelyn. She said in a statement that her husband, who first rose to fame with a role on "Happy Days," had "dedicated his entire life to acting and comedy."
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December 8th, 2005
11:34 am - Deep Blue Shark
Test: blogging from flickr.
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December 7th, 2005
04:08 pm - My pet pingu
From: http://bunnyherolabs.com/
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December 5th, 2005
07:45 pm - IT Survivors - Staying Alive In A Software Job (mail fwd)
Before I started working for myself, I spent some years in some of the top IT companies in India and still have many friends working in various software companies. I wrote a blog Recruiting like crazy, about the same time last year about how Indian companies are recruiting like there's no tomorrow and the possible consequences. However I was avoiding writing this particular piece as it
seems like an unpatriotic thing to do, to tell the world how bad the working conditions in software companies in India have become. And there's always the risk of excerpts being used out of context to bash up IT in India.
I am now writing this because I just keep hearing horror tales from the industry and it doesn't seem like anything is being done in the matter, so I thought I will do my bit and write.
( More... )
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November 30th, 2005
06:55 pm - 404 file not found !
From :http://www.ibiblio.org/404.html
( :) )
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November 28th, 2005
02:39 pm - Use deepest sender (from Firefox)
http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/
Posting to LJ via deepest sender.
Opens neatly as a sidebar on firefox. Really neat to use.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) amused
Current Music: Bach - Suite 1
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November 25th, 2005
05:48 pm - Flickr does my name
      
From here:http://metaatem.net/words/
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November 17th, 2005
08:44 pm - Nirmal Verma passes away
[A bit outdated but I didn't know this until yesterday.]
I really admired Nirmal Verma for his short stories. Still in the process of reading one of his works.
Official obituary
# Credited with pioneering the new story movement in Hindi literature
# `His presence is through his words'
NEW DELHI: "Mere liye likhna aur lautna ek cheez hai'', he had once said. And as friends and fans remembered the distinguished Hindi author Nirmal Verma on this nippy November evening this Saturday, it was with the very words that Verma has left the world to remember him by.
An evening that brought back memories -- of long poetry-reading sessions under the sun and discussions and debates with friends, of struggling days and long due recognition -- the prolific writer who passed away recently was remembered at a memorial meeting at India International Centre.
While eminent writers like Prayag Shukl, Anaamika and Madhukar Upadhye paid their ode by reading out excerpts from Verma's books, Krishna Baldev Vaid and Krishen Khanna remembered him through the memories they now share.
Considered a luminary of Hindi prose, Nirmal Verma was credited with pioneering the new story movement in Hindi literature along with titans like Mohan Rakesh, Bhishma Sahni and Kamleshwar and Amarkant.
While his first collection of stories, "Parinde'', is seen by many as a milestone in the movement, Verma, who was an idealist, went on to win top honours for literature winning the Jnanpith and Sahitya Akademi awards for his contribution to Hindi literature.
While pointing out that Verma had contributed immensely to Hindi literature, poet and critic Ashok Bajpeyi said, "He still had a lot left in him.''
Showcasing his thoughts for his longtime friend, writer Krishna Baldev Vaid summed up his feelings through a letter which spoke of his first few of years of friendship with Verma and the slight separation that followed in the years ahead. "You broke new ground with your writing. A lot of people then called you a non-Indian and a foreigner... In the last 12 months of your life, you fought really hard... You will live on through your stories and novels,'' he said.
Seconding his view was artist Krishen Khanna, who felt that the country had not lost out on Nirmal Verma yet.
"I don't feel that I have lost him. Artists and writers manage to survive through their works. His presence is through his words and although I feel very sad at his demise, I also know that he will survive, although his physical presence may not."
A postgraduate in History from Delhi University's St.Stephen's College, Verma spent nearly ten years of his life in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he studied Czech and also translated a number of classics in Hindi.
From: http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/06/stories/2005110611990400.htm
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November 3rd, 2005
03:19 pm - Andy Warhol and my MSN display pic.
A few people have asked me what my latest MSN display pic (Warhols' Campbell soup painting) represents. So here's the deal:
 "Andy Warhol began as a commercial illustrator, and a very successful one, doing jobs like shoe ads for I. Miller in a stylish blotty line that derived from Ben Shahn. He first exhibited in an art gallery in 1962, when the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles showed his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans, 1961-62. From then on, most of Warhol's best work was done over a span of about six years, finishing in 1968, when he was shot. And it all flowed from one central insight: that in a culture glutted with information, where most people experience most things at second or third hand through TV and print, through images that become banal and disassociated by repeated again and again and again, there is role for affectless art. You no longer need to be hot and full of feeling. You can be supercool, like a slightly frosted mirror. Not that Warhol worked this out; he didn't have to. He felt it and embodied it. He was a conduit for a sort of collective American state of mind in which celebrity - the famous image of a person, the famous brand name - had completely replaced both sacredness and solidity. Earlier artists, like Monet, had painted the same motif in series in order to display minute discriminations of perception, the shift of light and color form hour to hour on a haystack, and how these could be recorded by the subtlety of eye and hand. Warhol's thirty-two soup cans are about nothing of the kind. They are about sameness (though with different labels): same brand, same size, same paint surface, same fame as product. They mimic the condition of mass advertising, out of which his sensibility had grown. They are much more deadpan than the object which may have partly inspired them, Jasper Johns's pair of bronze Ballantine ale cans. This affectlessness, this fascinated and yet indifferent take on the object, became the key to Warhol's work; it is there in the repetition of stars' faces (Liz, Jackie, Marilyn, Marlon, and the rest), and as a record of the condition of being an uninvolved spectator it speaks eloquently about the condition of image overload in a media saturated culture. Warhol extended it by using silk screen, and not bothering to clean up the imperfections of the print: those slips of the screen, uneven inkings of the roller, and general graininess. What they suggested was not the humanizing touch of the hand but the pervasiveness of routine error and of entropy..."
- From "American Visions", by Robert Hughes
From: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/warhol.html
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November 2nd, 2005
07:22 pm - Random weird image.
In 1995, NASA scientists seeking to measure toxicity relationships examined the webs of spiders dosed with various chemicals.
From www.Caffeineweb.com
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