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December 9, 2007

 

This is the best stuff I’ve seen, read, or listened to this week. Everything here is worth checking out and taking note of. Here we go…

Photography

3. Motels, 14 photographs by Marc McAndrews

2. Motherland, photographs from a year-long trek through Russia by photographer Simon Roberts.

1. Free and Uneasy: The First Year Out, The New York Times

This is a fascinating multimedia piece, with photographs by James Estrin, allowing Jeffrey Deskovic to tell his story. Deskovic spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of rape and is now adjusting to life in the outside world after DNA cleared him of the crime.

News & Journalism

30 Miserable Lives Lost in Greyhound Bus Crash, The Onion

Film

Darwin’s Nightmare, [rating:4/5]. It’s not an easy documentary to watch. Let’s sum it up by these images: Pilots landing huge Russian cargo jets in Tanzania, filling up their cargo bays with filets of fish from Lake Victoria and flying off to feed the European Union. The people of Tanzania left in miserable poverty with famine breaking out and maggot-ridden fish heads to eat. The oxygen levels of Lake Victoria dropping to dangerous levels, threatening dead lake status. It’s a monumental downer. But I didn’t really know how to feel about the film until the scenes of children breaking into fist fights over a handful of rice. The next scene: Billy Bass the Singing Fish on the wall of a decrepit office, singing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy!” It’s an indictment of us all. Netflix it here.

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