Monika’s Pensieve

There’s a slew of TV spots of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince coming out. Most of them are very boring (the same footage rehashed over and over) and only a few are moderately interesting IMO.
This one captured my interest because it’s Draco-themed and because of the Carry Out the Deed line. Helena Bonham-Carter delivers [...]

For the first time in the history of Kuwait, women have been voted into parliament :)

Warsaw reminds me of 80s London these days in terms of the amount of smog that’s in the air. Quite seriously, I think these days the Warsaw smog is worse than the air in today’s London. And London is 3 or 4 times the size of Warsaw, so maybe we should start worrying about this [...]

Abdul Salam Rocketi (the man in question) talks about the importance of including the Taleban into Afghan politics. He talks about the mistakes the US has made and how the peace process is not possible without including the Taleban in Afghan politics.

An interesting article I think.

This video is a bit of a running joke in my BA project group - all three of us have this problem. Does anybody else find the events portrayed in this video familiar? ;)

This is a report on people being forced out of their houses by corporations.

{FILM DIARY}
De verloren kolonie (Netherlands, 2008)
Seen: Wednesday, 13th May 2009 (cinema, Planete Doc Review)
Runtime: 70′
Director: Astrid Bussink
Production House: Zeppers Film en TV BV, NPS Television
Plot: A documentary about the first Primate Research Centre in the world, which happens to be in Abkhazia. It has a very glorious past - it is, for example, where the [...]

Latawce (Poland, 2007)
Seen: Wednesday, 13th May 2009 (cinema, Planete Doc Review)
Runtime: 80′
Director: Beata Dzianowicz
Production House: TVP, Eureka Media
Plot: The makers of the film organize a documentary film course in a Kabul art school. What kind of films will the students come up with?
Trailer
Haven’t found any sort of clips of this on-line, sorry.
Impressions In Short
The film [...]

{MONTHLY SUMMARIES}
I should probably call these mid-monthly summaries :] Oh well, maybe I’ll get the timing right next month ;)
My Month in Brief
April has been a month of finally trying to get things together. There’s a lot of minor things to do and I’ve been trying to plan and do them. For example I got [...]