My work on this site is not normally focused on breaking news, but this one just came out an hour ago and it involves the Plesner v. Louis Vuitton case we've been discussing over the past weeks. The judge in the Hague ruled today in favor of Plesner's right...
Nadia Plesner is a concerned citizen of the world as well as an artist, and she's deeply troubled by what has been happening in Darfur. She's also frustrated with the lack of media coverage the topic recieves, while showbiz news has no such shortage of attention. In her painting...
I've never been to a court house in the Netherlands, in my 9 years in this country, somehow I never had cause to enter one. After weaving through some of the plethora of government buildings one can find in the Hague, I somehow managed to find the courthouse,...
La Tabacalera de Lavapies has long been important site for both workers and the community around it in Madrid. So when it stopped being a factory, members of the community occupied the building and started developing social services, education, arts, gardens, eating establishments and an ever expanding...
Bangkok posting will be postponed today as the world lost a very special person just days ago. My idol, inspiration, and historical guide in this life, Utah Phillips, has died. Words cannot describe how this man and his music shaped and shape my thinking and my understanding of who...
