Well, here is wishing and hoping that you all had a fantastic Easter week-end.
It's amazing the things you just happen to 'see'. I arrived at Durban International airport early for a flight so I thought a newspaper and cup of coffee would be in order. Stopping in at Exclusive Books for a newspaper, I noticed another newspaper and it's headline, as per the scanned image, at the counter while paying for The Mercury. Anyway I think it makes for interesting reading and am quite amused that probably not a single word was said in protest, neither was there anything actioned by Exclusive Books to reject the sale and display of this particular edition. I wonder what would have happened had the headlines been reversed. What are your thoughts?
Cyclone Irina brought so much rain, and superb surf to the Durban basin. Plenty of standouts in the big surf so check out the upcoming editions of our local surfing magazines for more on that. The wave of Llewellyn Whittaker at Tiffanys Reef in the wrap video is about half the size of some of the sets that came through that day. So solid!
Flying back into Durban from another production had us all on a flight with a group of people who were flying in to join one of the shipping cruises to our nearby islands. Boy did I envy them. The stills image in the beginning of the wrap video gives you a good idea on the conditions around the Tinley Manor area and those same conditions that they would sail through. H.D. Ackerman was flying back with us and got a serious briefing on how to operate the emergency exit. Really, one of the most serious briefings I have ever seen. He was so concerned about the flight that he just had to immerse himself in RED by Gary Neville.
The UCI World Downhill Mountain bike event held in Pietermaritzburg recently was another cool production to work on and as with such events, there are always spectacular crashes and jumps. Sometimes it looks like the guys were breaking the sound barrier. Not as many crashes as last year though, people were losing teeth and all sorts. Ouch! Check out some of the scenes in the wrap video.
Please feel free to check out http://richimagesproductions.co.za/ for the latest and final film of Dimity EcoBride. This is a wonderful culmination and brilliant video of the Dimity EcoBride range.
See richimages in action in this article with Ryan Logie. Images by richimages.
As extreme as headlines can be, I'd prefer to be able to see what mad men around the world are saying than have someone decide what they think I should be able to read. journalists and news papers have a duty to report what craziness these politicians are up to even though we may not like what we read.
ReplyDeletethe headline itself should also be contextualized in order to make sense. the context for me is simple, on planet earth in 2012, racism is about the oppression of non white people around the world by a world economy born out of imperialism and colonialism. globalisation is where the new exploitation and brutality of third world people's plays itself out. Racism is about power and who has it. the tin pot dictators certainly aren't the one's with real power on the global stage.
Hi Dieter, lovely response and I have to agree with you. My thoughts were that in a racially sensitive country such as South Africa, Exclusive Books should have pulled that edition.
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