extra-ordinary feeling
by jebni on June 28, 2006
Oh yeah, about that Videopower screening. There were two sessions: a set of shorts about the anti-WTO actions in December 2005, and their fabulous documentary about the Lee Tung St residents’ action campaign against their eviction by the Urban Renewal (…)
language debts, language terror
by jebni on June 25, 2006
There’s a sense of intimacy and immense debt when someone translates for you — especially if they do it well. Even if they’re acting as your interpreter for a discussion in a political/intellectual forum (no, perhaps especially if that’s the (…)
always a newbie
by jebni on June 23, 2006
I always thought of myself as a canny user, if not actually a “power user”. I’ve set up my PowerBook to always ask for a password once someone opens it. I’ve got a personal firewall set up in stealth mode, (…)
we shall overcome. someday.
by jebni on June 23, 2006
This was the first street protest that actually moved me to tears. Migrant workers from the Cordillera region in the Philippines met to mourn and protest the state-sponsored killing of comrades from the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance. (The Flickr photoset is (…)
so nice and warm
by jebni on June 15, 2006
Just when I’m getting used to Hong Kong being twice as hot as Sydney right now, I present an encore download of Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” — because here, it’s super-cold inside. (Also: whenever I (…)
love street
by jebni on June 9, 2006
The other day our minds were completely blown when we saw the Love Street exhibition at the UMA Gallery in Wan Chai. A response to the redevelopment of Lee Tung Street in Wan Chai by Hong Kong’s “Urban Renewal Authority”, (…)
the pentecostal code
by jebni on June 5, 2006
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they (…)
the kids aren’t all right
by jebni on June 4, 2006
Today we met Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris at “Kids, Politics and Our Future”, an event organised by Lingnan University’s Cultural Studies Department. There was a weird collection of people there, from people who were obviously activists, to strangely obedient-looking (…)
self-portrait
by jebni on June 1, 2006
Taken at the interactive Chinese opera display, in the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. It’s only now that I realise that my eyes are somewhat uneven. [ tags: hong-kong, museum, vanity ]