In 2011 I watched a movie on cable TV called Sisters. It’s a very early (1973) Brian DePalma thriller/murder-mystery about a local Staten Island journalist (played by Jennifer Salt) who sees a murder from her apartment window—my apartment window! Well, my apartment window or the window of one of the other five apartments directly above [...]
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Brian DePalma filmed in my apartment?
Posted in Beyond Borders, border conflicts, Films, Popular Culture, tagged apartment, Brian De Palma, film, movie, real, Sisters, suspense thriller, time-space, twins, unreal on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Skin
Posted in Beyond Borders, border conflicts, Border Violations, identity, movies, politics, race, tagged Afrikaner, Apartheid, race classifcations, Sandra Laing, South Africa on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just seen the 2008 movie “Skin,” based on the life of South African Sandra Laing. And what a life she has lived! Born in 1955 to two apparently Caucasian parents in Apartheid South Africa, Sandra has decidedly non-white features and a skin color several shades darker than her Afrikaner parents. At a time when [...]
Pat Buchanan, Framed.
Posted in A Picture is Worth..., border conflicts, Corporate Media, Documentary, Multimedia, Popular Culture, Television, tagged Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Morning Joe, MSNBC, Pat Buchanan, politics, Popular Culture, Rachel Maddow, rightwing politics, The Left, The McLaughlin Group on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pat Buchanan’s recurring role on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” has got to be some kind of border violation. And I mean that in the best possible way! It’s great to watch Buchanan trying to apply nuance to his irrational, nativist positions in the face of thinking, intelligent people from both the left and the right. The [...]
Subway Advertising: It’s Graffiti to Me
Posted in border conflicts, Border Violations, Corporate Media, Design, Popular Culture, tagged advertising, commercials, commuters, graffiti, graphic design, MTA, New York City, noise, Popular Culture on October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
October 17, 2008—The Train Is Coming. And With It More Ads, a New York Times article, reports that the MTA plans to sell every NYC subway surface to the highest bidder. They need the money. Advertising — lots of it — is going to appear on every below-ground surface New Yorkers pass, from the round [...]
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