26 October 2007
WKW for Phillips
Wong Kar-Wai’s new short film, made for Phillips. In French and Russian.
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17 October 2007
The War on Terror, 1952
1952 magazine ad from the Natural Rubber Bureau, 1631 K Street, Washington DC:
Six Million Malayans… are your friends and allies
They Share Your Faith in Democracy
You Are Their Best Customer
Rubber Is Their Chief Cash Crop
The Rubber Planter Has Fought the Reds for Four Years
The Rubber Planter
Unsung hero of a four-year-old HOT war against Communism in Malaya, maintains an Outpost of Freedom in Southeast Asia.
THE STRANGEST WAR in the world is being fought with increasing ferocity in Malaya. Thousands of Red bandits hide in the jungle, make daily hit and run attacks on the rubber plantations. After four years, the Red strategy is plain — kill the planters, strike fear into the rubber workers, disrupt rubber production by tree slashing. The aim is to wreck the rubber-dependent economy of strategic Malaya, and to deprive America and other free nations of one of the world’s most vital commodities — natural rubber. One of the reasons this plan has not worked is the Malayan rubber grower. He has refused to be licked. He has produced near-record tonnages of natural rubber for our strategic stockpile. He holds a front line in the FIGHT for FREEDOM.
Ad from 1951:
The rubber tree means more to more people than any other tree in the world. From it comes the milky juice that provides a key to modern living. It is a vital raw material which the creative skill of the American rubber manufacturers turns into thousands of rubber products from latex foam mattresses to giant truck tires.
To the millions of people of Southeast Asia, the rubber tree is the chief cash crop. Their standard of living depends upon it.
This tie between Asia and America was never more important to both than today — when Communisum threatens the free world. For four years, Malayan growers have faced Red bullets and Red propaganda without flinching — while producing more rubber than ever before.
The rubber trees of Malaya are a fortress of freedom in Asia for all free nations.
10 October 2007
Cornell at SFMOMA
Bah! 200 works at the only West Coast venue this durned show is traveling to. It ends Jan 6, 2008 and will not come down here. Instead we get this crap.
