Ahmet Alphan Sabancı
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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı
Video stars: the booming VJ scene localising Hollywood films for Ugandans
Carlos Mureithitheguardian.com
“VJs, who liberally translate movies and TV shows for local audiences, have become an integral part of TV and film culture in the east African country.
Part-interpreters, part-comedians, they often simplify scripts and frame them in a familiar context – for instance by changing characters’ names to those of local people or replacing western concepts with Ugandan examples.”
The Atlas of Economic Complexity by @HarvardGrwthLab
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Hava Kirliliğini Gösteren Kartpostal • Bigumigu
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Future awareness games
futureawarenessgames.wordpress.com
An interesting card game to think about the climate futures.
Have some ambition. Write something long. Something messy. Something sprawling and ambitious that refuses to fit into a timeline. I know it’s not very popular thing to say but i think people should take up space online. There’s a reason 8 hour long deep dives into a video game or whatever get millions of views on youtube, and 3 hours podcasts have ... See more
Have Some Ambition - thejaymo
Why might you want a Malkovich then?
If you (from this world) hold the paper (from that world), then from the fingers up, you are knowing holding it as a futures exercise.
You will read it peering through the cracks in its construction, like watching Penn & Teller trick in a see-through box. And that is not really what it is for.
Instead, give pe... See more
If you (from this world) hold the paper (from that world), then from the fingers up, you are knowing holding it as a futures exercise.
You will read it peering through the cracks in its construction, like watching Penn & Teller trick in a see-through box. And that is not really what it is for.
Instead, give pe... See more