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I contributed a little something to FAQ Magazine; a nice online thingy that each issue has a theme based on FAQ-style questions. The theme this time is “What’s the meaning of life?”

Fairly tough question to answer. What I thought, though, was that it’s kind of a good idea to not ignore the real shitty stuff that humans do; but also not to forget that humans can do things that make us happy, too.

Anyway, the issue is online now, and there’s plenty of other cool stuff on there too, so maybe you might enjoy popping along for a little visit.

Written by Craig

January 27th, 2008 at 1:11 am

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  1. Here’s a list of the events shown. (The film stops in 2006, btw, because I made it in April/May of 2007.)

    1970: Kent State shootings
    1971: Attica Prison riots
    1972: Munich Olympics massacre
    1973: Yom Kippur War
    1974: Birmingham pub bombings
    1975: Khmer Rouge take power
    1976: Soweto Uprising
    1977: German Autumn
    1978: Jonestown Massacre
    1979: Iran Hostage crisis
    1980: Bologna massacre
    1981: El Mozote massacre
    1982: Sinking of the Belgrano
    1983: Aquino assassination
    1984: Ethiopian famine
    1985: Heysel Stadium Disaster
    1986: Chernobyl disaster
    1987: Iran-Contra Affair
    1988: Halabja gas attack
    1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill
    1990: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
    1991: Rodney King
    1992: Bosnian War
    1993: Waco Siege
    1994: Rwandan Genocide
    1995: Tokyo sarin gas attack
    1996: Qana massacre
    1997: Algerian Civil War massacres
    1998: U.S. embassy bombings
    1999: Columbine massacre
    2000: Shooting of Muhammad al-Durrah
    2001: 11 September 2001 attacks
    2002: Moscow Theatre Seige
    2003: Occupation of Iraq
    2004: Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse
    2005:

    Craig

    27 Jan 08 at 4:24 pm

  2. I really liked it, and now I have a new online arty page to look at while I should be working! Yea!

    lisa

    28 Jan 08 at 1:44 am

  3. Good stuff, Craig. I like how it reminds me of the shocking truth of the fact that life on a small scale goes on and on regardless of what happens on the big scale. And the other way around too: since you are the center of your own life, you could consider your own scale the bigger one, reducing world misery to other proportions. Etc, etc.

    I like a lot of the stuff on there and the video’s being so short makes for good browsing. Very inspiring.

    Impa

    28 Jan 08 at 11:41 am

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