http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/atom_6325.xml 2008-07-05T04:04:31Z Expressions Photoblogging http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295955 Boris 2008-07-04T16:00:57Z 2008-07-04T16:00:57Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295955" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1212898999.jpg"/></a><br> http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295954 Boris 2008-06-30T16:01:17Z 2008-06-30T16:01:17Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295954" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1212898888.jpg"/></a><br> Read this essay by Errol Morris on the most analysed photograph of modern times & to gain an understanding of how evil and corrupt American power became under GWB. http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295864 Boris 2008-06-26T16:01:01Z 2008-06-26T16:01:01Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295864" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1212804970.jpg"/></a><br> http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295863 Boris 2008-06-25T16:01:02Z 2008-06-25T16:01:02Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295863" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1212804152.jpg"/></a><br> http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295861 Boris 2008-06-20T16:00:57Z 2008-06-20T16:00:57Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295861" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1212803595.jpg"/></a><br> http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295860 Boris 2008-06-16T16:01:00Z 2008-06-16T16:01:00Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295860" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1212803124.jpg"/></a><br> http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295091 Boris 2008-06-12T16:00:59Z 2008-06-12T16:00:59Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295091" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1212333276.jpg"/></a><br> A wonderful piece in the Guardian by Haruki Murakami on running and writing. 'Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day. How much can I push myself? How much rest is appropriate - and how much is too much? How far can I take something and still keep it decent and consistent? When does it become narrow-minded and inflexible? How much should I be aware of the world outside, and how much should I focus on my inner world? To what extent should I be confident in my abilities, and when should I start doubting myself?' http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295043 Boris 2008-06-08T16:00:57Z 2008-06-08T16:00:57Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295043" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1212288197.jpg"/></a><br> http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295042 Boris 2008-06-05T16:01:01Z 2008-06-05T16:01:01Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/295042" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1212288059.jpg"/></a><br> Robert Fisk in the Independent, an intelligent voice that should be heard: 'I open my Arab papers each morning to find new reasons why the Bin Ladens of this world will not go away. Take the story that came out of Gaza this week. Eight Palestinian students won grants from the Fulbright scholarship programme to study in the United States. You'd think, wouldn't you, that it was in the interest of America to bring these young Muslim people to the land of the free. But no. Israel won't let them leave Gaza. It's all part of the 'war on terror' which Israel claims it is fighting alongside America. So the US State Department has cancelled the scholarships. No, it's not worth turning yourself into an al-Qa'ida suicide bomber for such a nonsense. But it would be difficult to find anything meaner, pettier, more vicious than this in yesterday's papers. Does Mike Hayden read this stuff? Or is he, like most of Washington, so frightened of Israel that he wouldn't say boo to a goose? Doesn't the CIA realise – or imagine – that as long as we allow the Middle East to fester under a cloak of injustice, al-Qa'ida will continue? Why are our forces – and this is a question I was asked in Baghdad – in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria (yes, US special forces have a base near Tamanraset), Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Tajikistan? (Yes again, French bomber pilots are based at Dushanbe to fly 'close air support' for our lads in Afghanistan.) And as long as we have stretched this iron curtain across the Middle East, we will be at war and al-Qa'ida will be at war with us. This new iron curtain, by the way, starts up in Greenland and stretches down through Britain and Germany, through Bosnia and Greece to Turkey. What is it for? What's on the other side? Russia. China. India. These are questions we do not ask; certainly they're not the kind of questions that The Washington Post would dare to put to Mike and his chums at the CIA. Yes, we huff and we puff about democracy and freedom and human rights, though we give little enough of them to the Muslim world. For the kind of freedom they want – the kind of freedom that allows outfits like al-Qa'ida to flourish – is freedom from 'us'. And this, I fear, we do not intend to give them. Mike Hayman may think the Muslim world is 'pushing back' al-Qa'ida's 'form of Islam', but I doubt it. Indeed, I rather suspect al-Qa'ida is growing stronger. Mike says they're defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. But are they defeated in London? And Bali? And in New York and Washington?' http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/291914 Boris 2008-06-02T16:00:57Z 2008-06-02T16:00:57Z <a href="http://igloomelts.my-expressions.com/archives/6325_1869187992/291914" style="border:0;"><img src="http://my-expressions.com/up_media/4668/pblog/6292/1210387671.jpg"/></a><br> For some peculiar reason I have received a prize for one of my images in a National University of Singapore photography competition. Here's the link to the Montage 2008 prize winners. Guess which one's mine. I've also created a Facebook Group for this photoblog if you'd like to join to make witty & whimsical comments about street photography.