August 2011
12 posts
WatchWe attended a wedding our first night filming in the Kathputli Colony. Which producer do you think did best? Many thanks to Will Basanta for saving face and filming this idiocy.
“There are no telegrams on Tralfamadore. But you’re right: each clump of...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse FIve.
Hint: we’re conceptualizing our interactive narrative concept.
Mumbai's slum solution? →
Listen to this 2008 BBC report about the planned resettlement of Mumbai’s Dharavi, perhaps the world’s most famous slum; it provided many of the locations for Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire.”
Save Chandigarh
Chandigarh is the capital of both Punjab and Haryana. India’s first planned city, established following Partition in 1947, it is the masterpiece of Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier.
In addition to years of neglect, the city, a gem of modern architecture, has recently become the target of art buyers and auctioneers. Local architects and art historians have since been fighting to...
Get-together of street magicians planned in city →
“A rare get-together of street magicians from across the country and their ‘modern’ counterparts is planned in the capital city as part of ‘India Jaal,’ a joint initiative of the State Tourism Department and Magic Academy, Thiruvananthapuram.”
Street Dreams →
Some choice selections from Satish Sharma’s collection of Indian studio photographs. Sharma’s definitive collection is made up of studio portraits that he stumbled upon at flea markets in India during the 1990s:
“This selection of street images from The Satish Sharma Collection reveals the popular face of photography in India. These are the signs and icons of their times. This...
India Conquers the World →
With a geographic mass one-third the size of the United States, India will have the largest population in the world by the late 20s (and by 2020 have the most English speakers).