Jan 19, 2016 | Featured, Truth, Truth & Lies |
It turned out that public shaming had once been a process. A book of Delaware laws I discovered at the Massachusetts Historical Society revealed that if Jonah had been found guilty of “lying or publishing false news” in the 1800s, he would have been “fined, placed in...
Jan 13, 2016 | Truth, Truth & Lies |
When the permits arrived, they were beautifully sealed so that even a soldier who could not read would know that if we were not what we said we were, we were at least influential enough spies and saboteurs to be out of his jurisdiction. And so our boat was loaded,...
Dec 3, 2015 | Campaigns, Truth, Truth & Lies |
<image courtesy of the legendary Polyp> Triggered by Jason Hickel’s recent piece in the Guardian, Enough of aid – let’s talk reparations, it reminded me how long this conversation has been going on, and how little progress has been made towards a...
Oct 17, 2015 | Truth, Truth & Lies |
[Navarro Llanos] had recently given a speech at a United Nations climate conference in which she laid out the case for these kinds of wealth transfers, and she gave me a copy. ‘Millions of people,’ it read, ‘in small islands, least-developed...
Aug 3, 2015 | Travel, Truth, Truth & Lies |
A steep road takes our Land Cruisers north. Behind us the Great Himalaya cover the skyline, while ahead opens an orange and sulphur-coloured wilderness where the Karnali withers away. The 25,000-foot massif of Gurla Mandhata, detached from the Himalaya in its own...
Jun 10, 2015 | Featured, Geekery, Truth, Truth & Lies |
The best advice I can offer to those heading into the world of film is not to wait for the system to finance your projects and for others to decide your fate. If you can’t afford to make a million-dollar film, raise $10,000 and produce it yourself. That’s all you need...