Maureen Bond
double exposure film swap
In the words of The Kinks “It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world”.
The Danube and the Elbe have burst their banks and muddy brown waters cover swathes of central Europe. Drought continues to ravage the Western U.S. wildfires rage in Colorado.
There are riots over bus fares in Sao Paulo, while in Istanbul, after talks with protesters, the Turkish government says it will suspend plans to develop a city park.
The NSA can spy on ordinary American people, and apparently most ordinary American people don’t have a problem with that.
In Australia a radio presenter repeatedly asked the Prime Minister if her partner was gay, and claimed that he had to be “because he was a hairdresser”. Elsewhere in the world there have been naked bike rides.
An under 14’s soccer team in Quebec all donned headscarfs to protest a ban of turbans by the Quebec Soccer Association. In Brussels the city has rescinded a six year ban on wearing the hijab.
The Greek Government closed ERT the public broadcaster without warning. The budget for the first season of “Game of Thrones” wasUS $50–60 million
There are claims, and denials, that sarin has been used by the government troops in Syria.
A Chinese company is planning to construct a canal through Nicaragua, to rival the Panama canal. Back in China industrial pollution is being outsource to poorer regions in order to meet carbon emission targets.
The US supreme cout says DNA cannot be patented, and a federal appeals court knocked down a quixotic legal campaign against Monsanto’s biotech patents this week.
Mixed up, muddled up, shook up.
Then in one small corner of the world a woman called Clara wrote “double exposure film swap?” And the people who read it thought “Very cool…Musst Du fragen? I’m in … I’d be happy to join… sounds like fun…” Some thought digital, some thought film, some frolicsome types thought both.
This is one of the lovely results of their film mixing. However mad and messed up the world seems to be, there are good people doing good things. Thank you Maureen, Phillip, Clara and everyone else who took part.
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