2009 – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com Inspiration for a Sustainable World Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:56:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/sublimemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sublime_Logo.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 2009 – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com 32 32 243252845 BFI 53rd London Film Festival https://sublimemagazine.com/bfi-53rd-london-film-festival/ https://sublimemagazine.com/bfi-53rd-london-film-festival/#respond Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:52:03 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/bfi-53rd-london-film-festival/ AJAMI A collaboration between Israeli Director Yaron Shani and Palestinian Scandar Copti, Ajami tells the story of a Jaffa neighbourhood rife with tension amid a hostile mix of Muslim, Jewish and Christian families and local gangs. The story is narrated by Nasri (Fouad Habash), a teenage boy whose family’s life is turned upside down when his...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/bfi-53rd-london-film-festival/feed/ 0 12349 Child’s Play https://sublimemagazine.com/childs-play/ https://sublimemagazine.com/childs-play/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/childs-play/ One of my favourite quotes I was lucky enough to hear in person. It was imparted by one of my favourite people: David Attenborough, the famous naturalist and owner of a voice that sends women over 60 weak at the knees – at least in my mother’s case. Asked when he first became interested in...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/childs-play/feed/ 0 12082 Hoping Against Hope https://sublimemagazine.com/hoping-against-hope/ https://sublimemagazine.com/hoping-against-hope/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/hoping-against-hope/   Every couple of months we Sublime regular contributors get an email from the lovely editor that contains a theme or statement that is intended to stimulate us to produce our column. This time it went: The theme of the November issue is People of Hope. People of Hope will talk about ‘changemakers’, the raising...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/hoping-against-hope/feed/ 0 12074 Dancing On The Ceiling https://sublimemagazine.com/dancing-on-the-ceiling/ https://sublimemagazine.com/dancing-on-the-ceiling/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/dancing-on-the-ceiling/ Governments and businesses are letting people down left, right and centre. They have brought the world to the brink of utter financial disaster by unleashing virtually unregulated trading powers, motivated by greed, in the false belief that free markets know best.

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/dancing-on-the-ceiling/feed/ 0 12075 My Natural Habitat https://sublimemagazine.com/my-natural-habitat/ https://sublimemagazine.com/my-natural-habitat/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/my-natural-habitat/ November 09: the Gucci Group – owners of designer brands Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga – announces that all the paper used in the company, from copy paper to shopping bags, will not be sourced from endangered forests in countries like Indonesia.   For a company the size of Gucci to commit to...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/my-natural-habitat/feed/ 0 12077 Just War? https://sublimemagazine.com/just-war/ https://sublimemagazine.com/just-war/#respond Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/just-war/ War is millennia old. The oldest-recorded war, c. 2525 BC, between the ancient Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma, is depicted on the Stele of Vultures, which shows soldiers organised in phalanx formation with spears, helmets and shields – and war was not new even then. Archaeological evidence points to earlier wars, predating the invention...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/just-war/feed/ 0 12080 Goodbye Solo https://sublimemagazine.com/goodbye-solo/ https://sublimemagazine.com/goodbye-solo/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:35:45 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/goodbye-solo/ It’s 20 October, and Solo (Souléymane Sy Savané), a taxi driver from Senegal with a cheery disposition, is offered $1,000 to drive William (Red West) to Blowing Rock, a jagged rock high up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the only place in the world where snow has been recorded to blow upside down and back...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/goodbye-solo/feed/ 0 12348 Master Of The Arctic https://sublimemagazine.com/master-of-the-arctic/ https://sublimemagazine.com/master-of-the-arctic/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/master-of-the-arctic/ It all began with one man’s passion, a few friends and a boat. There was no grand plan to speak of. ‘When I started I was just going to go with a small group of artists,’ David Buckland enthuses about his Cape Farewell project. ‘Organising a boat of 20 people up to the Arctic was...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/master-of-the-arctic/feed/ 0 12065 The Original Copy https://sublimemagazine.com/the-original-copy/ https://sublimemagazine.com/the-original-copy/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/the-original-copy/ On a recent visit to the Tate Modern gallery a security guard came over to ask me politely but firmly to stop taking pictures. The irony is that I was photographing No Ghost Just A Shell initiated by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, a work exploring the subject of replication and intellectual copyrights. They had...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/the-original-copy/feed/ 0 12066 Super Super https://sublimemagazine.com/super-super/ https://sublimemagazine.com/super-super/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/super-super/   Attaining UN emissions targets is no mean feat, and the Copenhagen conference is unlikely to make it any easier. With world energy demands on the up, and climate change looking inevitable, an increase in renewable energy use is essential. But if renewable energy is to become a large-scale reality, then it needs a large-scale...

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