Author Archives: Cimaxion
Visions of the Jinn: Illustrators of the Arabian Nights (Studies in the Arcadian Library)is a massive volume written by Robert Irwin and published by Oxford University Press that provides an overview of illustrated versions of The Tales since the first Dutch images of 1714 by an artist named David Coster.
Visit our Arabian Nights page.
Police in Anaheim California Attack Children at Protest
People gathered to protest suspicious shootings by the Anaheim, California police and were brutally attacked by police wielding non-lethal weapons which included a dog being sent in at children. There simply comes an obvious time in the life of a civilized nation when the people must stand back and take a very good look at the savages that have been allowed to overrun police departments.
Vivian Maier, Photographer: A Short Film by Michael Bullis
Vivian Maier, Photographer is a short film about a nanny who took magnificent photographs that went undiscovered for over forty years. The film was made by Michael Bullis.
http://vimeo.com/45967951
A Clockwork Orange: BBC Radio Drama of the Novel by Anthony Burgess
This is a BBC radio dramatization of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. The book is still a shocking satire of Western culture gone to the youthful dogs of violence and mayhem. Burgess played with language by inventing a detailed and comically expressive slang for his criminal hero and the gang he leads.
The best info I can find about this recording dates it somewhere around 1997. It stars Jason Hughes as the murderous 'droog,' Alex.