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alias_sqbr1) Our web server is going down for a week to protest the $^%&$& internet filter omg. This is more Cam's protest than mine but I'm in favour of it and I thought anyone who might encounter the website should realise it's down on purpose.
2)I just finished Disk 1 of The First Australians. It's a sobering antidote to the view of history and colonialism in stuff like regency romances and Avatar. It's a bit slow, but the choice to tell the stories of individuals, as much as possible in their own words or from the POV of their descendents, and let the facts of history come up naturally when relevant rather than dryly telling the "overall" narrative from on high makes it very compelling. It's often very sad of course: so many leaders as brave and determined as any Braveheart whose works are thoughtlessly destroyed by the settlers and government. But they also make a point of telling the stories of the modern descendants who have overcome the odds to preserve and celebrate their culture (including Aboriginal Tasmanians, despite "common knowledge" being that they all died out) . I've been watching it in bits over a month or so while I sew.
I know this sort of thing normally goes on my dw but it's so specifically Australian I deiced it should go on the journal with more of an Australian readership.
2)I just finished Disk 1 of The First Australians. It's a sobering antidote to the view of history and colonialism in stuff like regency romances and Avatar. It's a bit slow, but the choice to tell the stories of individuals, as much as possible in their own words or from the POV of their descendents, and let the facts of history come up naturally when relevant rather than dryly telling the "overall" narrative from on high makes it very compelling. It's often very sad of course: so many leaders as brave and determined as any Braveheart whose works are thoughtlessly destroyed by the settlers and government. But they also make a point of telling the stories of the modern descendants who have overcome the odds to preserve and celebrate their culture (including Aboriginal Tasmanians, despite "common knowledge" being that they all died out) . I've been watching it in bits over a month or so while I sew.
I know this sort of thing normally goes on my dw but it's so specifically Australian I deiced it should go on the journal with more of an Australian readership.
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Date: 2010-01-25 11:23 am (UTC)I agree, it is slow going but I think it was an amazing and excellent stylistic decision to film and produce in this way. It makes it really engaging and certainly for me a lot easier to remember.
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Date: 2010-01-25 11:31 am (UTC)I'm renting it from Quickflix, though it takes me so long to watch it might be cheaper to buy it :)
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Date: 2010-01-25 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-25 12:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-25 12:04 pm (UTC)2) been meaning to watch that for ages.
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Date: 2010-01-26 06:43 am (UTC)2)Do!
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Date: 2010-01-25 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-26 06:44 am (UTC)