Anthony Bourdain: "Does the camera always tell the truth?"
Roberto Salas: "No, the camera is one of the worst liars in the world."
Anthony Bourdain: "I wouldn't have expected you to say that. Why do you...? What do you mean?"
Roberto Salas: "Because the mind that's behind the instrument is what goes into the image. I don't deny the fact that at the beginning I was totally enamored of the whole system of what was happening in Cuba. My images reflect that. Fidel for me is an exceptional individual. If I didn't feel that way, maybe I wouldn't have taken the pictures that I took of him."
Quick blurb about The Miracle of Freedom by Chris and Ted Stewart on Entertainment Weekly's "Nonfiction Top 10" list for July 22, 2011:
"Freedom, written by a pair of brothers, outlines seven key historical steps toward the development of a free society, but strangely the abolition of slavery is not one of them. Sales of the book have skyrocketed since Glenn Back gave it a shout-out."
Product description from Amazon:
"In The Miracle of Freedom, Chris and Ted Stewart make a strong case that fewer than 5 percent of all people who have ever lived on the earth have lived under conditions that we could consider free. So where did freedom come from, and how are we fortunate enough to experience it in our day? A deeper look at the human record, write the authors, reveals a series of critical events, obvious forks in the road leading to very different outcomes, that resulted in this extraordinary period in which we live. They identify and discuss seven decisive tipping points: 1. The defeat of the Assyrians in their quest to destroy the kingdom of Judah 2. The victory of the Greeks over the Persians at Thermopylae and Salamis 3. Roman Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity 4. The defeat of the armies of Islam at Poitiers 5. The failure of the Mongols in their effort to conquer Europe 6. The discovery of the New World 7. The Battle of Britain in World War II The journey to freedom has been thousands of years long."
The Stewart brothers are also the authors of Seven Miracles That Saved America.
"-The unlikely discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
-How (and why) desperate English colonists were able to survive the starving time at Jamestown
-The Battle of New York during the Revolutionary War
-The miraculous creation of the United States Constitution
-Abraham Lincoln's desperate prayer that turned the tide of the Civil War at Gettysburg
-How a series of extraordinary events changed the Battle of Midway during World War II
-The preservation of Ronald Reagan's life from an assassin's bullet, allowing him the time he needed to help extend freedom around the world"
Links:
No Reservations, the Cuba episode - http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Anthony_Bourdain/Episodes_Travel_Guides/Cuba
APB Speaker Profiles - http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/roberto-salas
What He Saw at the Revolution - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/arts/design/12gran.html
Entertainment Weekly - http://www.ew.com/ew/books/
GlennBeckBookList - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP89kL8mLIo
Amazon Product Description - http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Freedom-Seven-Tipping-Points/dp/160641951X
Amazon Product Description for Seven Miracles That Saved America - http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Miracles-That-Saved-America/dp/1606411446/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311470559&sr=1-1
What, John Wayne isn't mentioned once?
ReplyDeletePep (Nor Arnie)
PS I'm having trouble tracking down this "Glenn Back" chappie too.
More seriously, I would offer the creation of the Web by that nice young man from Oxford, Tim Hyphen-Hyphen, as the technological act that finally offered intellectual ("Intellectual"? Well, if you take a liberal interpretation of the word.) freedom to the modern world.
ReplyDeletePep (He walked the walk after Apple merely talked the talk with all that bollocks about "information wants to be free".)
Information may want to be free...but Apple's computers fucking well don't.
ReplyDelete:-)