Archive for January, 2009


Ustaaz in Palestine
Monday, January 19th, 2009

Raymond Prucher “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” – Desiderius Erasmus Images taken at the Qalandia checkpoint inside the West Bank, well beyond the ‘Green Line’ that was set up by the 1949 Armistice. I became a designer in Palestine. In 2003, three years after we’d met during our graduate [...]

Marley & Barack
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

David Stairs I was trudging through my local neighborhood big-box megastore the other day en route to my weekly rendezvous with groceries when I found myself in what passes for the book section. This isn’t a Borders experience; more somewhere between B. Dalton and the magazine rack at the local regional airport. So I wasn’t [...]