Category: books

Leonardo, chef

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Leonardo was a mad chef. He enjoyed kitchen contraptions, of his own designs; but, how would it run? “By wind or by water? By cogs and by cranks? By oxen or by peasant-power?”  In the late 1490s, most things ran via peasant-power.
Assassin’s  Creed did a good job shaping my image of Leonardo; I don’t see him as an old man anymore.  Leonardo in the game loves a puzzle, old language and of course, puzzles buried n old language. This blog  post on The Kitchen Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci , HarperCollins Publishers; First Edition edition (April 1, 1987), has also informed that image.

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‘Malcolm X’ by Manning Marable

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Thomas Powers reviews ‘Malcolm X’ by Manning Marable, in the London Review of Books – 25 August 2011.  I never read Autobiography of Malcolm X; I frankly I didn’t want to.  I will read this, though.

Did Malcolm Little really believe this?

Reginald reported that he had not only found but met God, whose correct name was Allah, and who inhabited the physical form of the Honourable Elijah Muhammad, a light-skinned black man with asthma from Georgia who understood everything.

Little, more than likely, understood injustice, power, ruling by fear and violence, so, he would have believed this point the deeds of devil white men.

Black men had been enslaved and deceived. History had been ‘whitened’ to expunge ancient black kings and civilisations.

Powers writes that Marable suggests that

…the Muslims he met on a trip to Mecca in 1959 were the first to tell him plainly that Islamic belief, the Shahada, accorded no special status to the Honourable Elijah Muhammad. The Quran was not ambiguous: ‘There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God.’ Elijah Muhammad’s claim was therefore false. All educated Muslims knew this…

MDPLS seems to have a copy.

LAND invites you back to the island…

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LAND invites you to view/download the island Ebook.

On December 3, 2010, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and OHWOW organized the island: a one-day, dusk ’til dawn exhibition during Art Basel Miami Beach. Seventeen artists created site-specific installations on Flagler Memorial Island located just a few minutes from the mainland in Biscayne Bay.

As the exhibition has now disappeared, ghostlike and mythical, into the Miami landscape, LAND invites you to view the island Ebook – a digital publication created by LAND to bring you back to the island.

 

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