Month: March 2025
Armstrong Williams adds MAGAvoice to Tiresome Conversation
The arc of historical capitalism is bending down, way down from its dizzying heights of its golden age, between 1945 and the early 1970s. By the early 1990s, when liberal capitalism stood triumphant, there was a general sense among people who shared ideological solidarities and affiliations, that the war was over and the good people…
Calls for Appeasement and Status Quo Patriotism are growing louder and bolder
President Cyril Ramaphosa seems to have accepted the dismissal of Ebrahim Rasool without question, and seems to suffers from the same fear of Trump affliction that has debilitated CEOs in the USA, and driven them into what has been described cowardice. The dismissal of South Africa’s ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, from Washington is brightening the light…
Chickens in Peril
I ventured into Siti Khadijah Market in Kota Bharu, and emerged with a bad (airborne) virus that laid me down for a week, and a set of pictures made with the mirrorless Nikon Z6ii. It felt good to be behind viewfinder, again. Some way to go, yet, with the “post-production” options, filters and frames. I…
Seeing what may come from a photograph
This is a very ordinary, everyday scene in a building.
Back at the muddy confluence of the Klang and Gombak
The picture, above, is of a view (and angle) of the city of Kuala Lumpur I had not seen before…. The skyline represents the growth of the city over the past 34 years since my first visit. There was a time, in the late 1990s, when the KL tower and the Petronas Twin Towers were…
The image in support of text
One of the issues I am currently writing about, and that I will include in the current project, is the way that parts of the cities, of the built-environment, in Kota Bharu and Kuala Terengganu, are dying, or left to decay. This death and dying, and what is probably wilful neglect, or considered unimportant, is…
Wall Art in Kuala Terengganu
The Palestine Art Corner: Outdoor Gallery of Wall Art in Kota Bharu
The outdoor Palestine Art Gallery brings the suffering of Palestinians to the public in an alley in, Jalan Dato’ Pati, in Kota Bharu, in Malaysia.