A prophetic video from eight months ago on the tragic closure of Bosnia’s National Museum. For the latest, see my article here.
Videoblog
The day I became a robot
According to the blurb on YouTube, this is an “experiment in virtual agent news production”. Watch and enjoy! The original on which it is based can be found here.
One-man anti-EU campaigner takes his protest right to the top
. Note the nonchalance with which Marcello Di Finizio scales the railing round the dome of St Peter’s. He stayed there until today when he was pulled to safety by two firefighters.
Catalan independence march takes place in Barcelona
Over 1.5 million took part in a mass rally in Barcelona to support Catalonia’s independence from Spain.
Benedict XVI receives electric car
Pope Benedict airs his green credentials again, taking delivery of an
electric car.
‘Spanish Robin Hood’ continues march across Andalucía
Fascinating to see the way the economic crisis in southern Europe is
giving new life to parties and politicians who, until just a few
months ago were on the fringes of the debate … Syriza and Alexis
Tsipras in Greece, Beppe Grillo and the Five Star Movement in Italy,
and now Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, the mayor of Marinaleda in Spain
whom I must have interviewed for the first time back in the 1970s when
he was campaigning for the rights of Andalusia’s downtrodden
day-labourers, the ‘jornaleros’. There’s more on him in this report by
my Guardian colleague, Giles Tremlett,
and for a video of the sacking of the supermarket:
http://gawker.com/juan-manuel-
The parrot-pigeons of St Mark’s Square
Red pigeons … blue pigeons … pigeons that look more like Amazonian parakeets: the results of a controversial performance by Swiss artist Julian Charrière for the 13th architectural Biennale. Tourists fascinated. Animal defence activists indignant (http://www.ecoblog.it/post/
Aerial political warfare
Applause as a plane flies over holidaymakers on the Adriatic Riviera trailing a banner that reads “Don’t come back, Silvio. Thank you”: a plea directed at Italy’s former (and future?) Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
The stunt was funded collectively by members of a Facebook group in response to a similar aerial banner commissioned the previous week by one of Berlusconi’s senators, that read “Come back Silvio” (See photos here: http://www.repubblica.it/
“Greetings to the guests of the state”
Controversial footage of Raffaello, the Neapolitan singer who recorded the opening theme of Gomorrah (http://youtu.be/lqTfiJcTy14), at a concert in Palermo.
Prompted by members of the audience, he first of all (at 0.17″) relays greetings to “the guests of the State”, (i.e. the inmates of its prisons), and provokes ecstatic applause from the crowd. Then (at 2.00″), he sends “thanks and best wishes” to Luigi Abbate, who may — or may not — be ‘Ginu ‘u mitra’ (Gino the machine gun), alleged ‘godfather’ of the Kalsa distict in which the concert was held.
Corriere del Mezzogiorno (http://
Shares are not the only thing plunging in Portugal
Footage from the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2012 in Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo, Portugal