Hip hop was my first love, the first music that I embraced without guidance from my parents. It was the early 1980s and whilst the culture had been born a decade earlier in New York City, it was still a mere shadow of the global phenomenon it would become in later years. Rock n’ roll still dominated the airwaves, but if you lived in the inner city, hip hop was king. Read more »
Edvard Kardelj – Directions of Development for the Political System of Socialist Self-Governance (1978)
Edvard Kardelj is the father of self-governing socialism and was the top diplomat of
Josip Broz Tito about the unity of the republics and Yugoslav identity
“None of our republics would be anything if we weren’t all together, but we have to create our history — our Yugoslav socialist history, that is unique, in the future — that is our path; not touching the national rights of the some republics to preserve their own traditions, not at the expense of, but in the interest of the whole community, to mutually complete each other. That is what we want, and not the destruction of our unity.”
− Josip Broz Tito, Split, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (1961). On the picture 📸 is Saddam Hussein lighting Tito’s cigar in Baghdad, Iraq (c. 1979)
Delicatessen
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher’s daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes. Read more »
Taste of Cherry
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry shows a middle-aged man from Tehran, Mr. Badii, has decided to end his life and is searching for someone to bury him afterward. As he drives through Tehran, Badii, who appears to be financially well-off, approaches several people, including a Muslim student, offering them the job. However, he struggles to find anyone willing to take on the task. Finally, Badii meets a man who agrees to do it, motivated by financial need. But as they spend more time together, his new companion begins to try to persuade Badii to reconsider his decision to commit suicide. Read more »
The Ghetto Review of the new Mac Mini M4
Kontroll
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception likable characters, a rival ticket inspection team and racing along the tracks – and a tale about love. Read more »
The difference between digital and analogue mastering limiter
Tools, tools, tools. We music producers should be so grateful to have so much built and developed for us to use, that I believe since the first times I started crafting sounds to now, I learnt how to shape even the slightest of frequency thanks to lots of hard work by the Logic Pro developers, but also my eagerness to learn dubbing appropriately with full passion ahead. Read more »
Hotel Yugoslavia
A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija. In this emotional documentary and political allegory, the film’s Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières, who spent his childhood summers in his mother’s native country of Yugoslavia, tells the sad history of Hotel Jugoslavija (Hotel Yugoslavia), the most luxurious hotel ever built in the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade during the communist rule, which then suffered the same fate as the country that built it. Read more »
Murdering human rights and privacy to deal with script-kiddies? We can’t wait for EU!
Oliver Spasovski has literally went public and said all people who use VPNs are targeted and could be suspects for being cybercriminals, this is not hybrid regime, this is a fascist dictatorship.
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