Kathleen Stachowski Other Nations It’s summer, and summer means rodeo. Crowds buzzing with excitement; the sound of groans, gasps, and cheers filling the dusty rodeo grounds; pretty rodeo queens waving to wide-eyed kids, and neck-snared calves hurtling through the air and slamming to the ground shaken, terrified, and sometimes injured. You can’t get family entertainment [...]
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Donna Oakes Last week’s post about The Ghosts in Our Machine featured insightful and thought provoking remembrances of the ‘aha’ moment from 3 of the project team members – Jo-Anne McArthur, Liz Marshall and Ananya Ohri – Those remembrances were so honest and inspiring that I found myself going back to the post and reading them [...]
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Anonymous Earlier this week New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a bill that imposes a mandatory five (5) year sentence without parole for killing a police dog. The introduction of this law brings with it a mix of cautious optimisim and trepidation. Initially, it’s encouraging to see a law with force behind [...]
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Donna Oakes I first read about The Ghosts in Our Machine this past May. It is described as “A film & web narrative in development about the individual animals used within the machine of our modern world”. This project reminded me of how important images (whether in photographs or film) are in eliciting that “aha” [...]
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Kathleen Stachowski Other Nations I’m steamed. Simmering. Approaching a boil. Turning red. Feeling crabby as all get-out. Over what, you ask? Over crabs. Yeah, those funky, scuttling crustaceans. Not that I ever felt much affinity for crabs. They and their brethren seemed so alien–so lacking in mammalian familiarity (claws! shells! eye stalks!)–that it was hard to muster [...]
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Kathleen Stachowski Other Nations Four performances, four protests. Our numbers ranged from three at one show to as many as 10 at another. The Carson & Barnes circus arrived in Missoula, MT for shows on July 9th and 10th, and no show went without protest. You might know C&B from the eye-witness account of one ex-employee. [...]
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Kathleen Stachowski Other Nations The online etymology dictionary tells me this about the word “game”: game (n.) O.E. gamen “game, joy, fun, amusement,” common Germanic (cf. O.Fris. game “joy, glee,” O.N. gaman, O.S., O.H.G. gaman “sport, merriment,” Dan. gamen, Swed. gamman “merriment”), regarded as identical with Goth. gaman “participation, communion,” from P.Gmc. *ga- collective [...]
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