Author Archives: Yan Sham-Shackleton

Short Documentary on the Dec 4th Democracy March (Plus me talking about a short film I made)

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong, The Moment Eye Team has created a podcast (ie. a short film you can see in itune) for the group. Within the podcast is a documentary on the 12.4 Democracy March. It’s fantastic. Otherwise included are other digital art and bits and pieces. Including me defending (hahaha) my short pieceContinue reading “Short Documentary on the Dec 4th Democracy March (Plus me talking about a short film I made)”

Be Part of History. The Fringe Club Time Capsule

You have been invited by the Hong Kong Fringe Club to contribute to their Memory Capsule during the City Festival 2006!What should we tell our great-great-great grandchildren about the good old days of HK?  Email us a photograph of your HK heritage choice(s) (it could be: a building, place, food, family, religion, object, music…NO restriction!)Continue reading “Be Part of History. The Fringe Club Time Capsule”

The “JT Leroy” Hoax: Creation of a 21st Century Fairy Tale.

Early this century I came across a thin book with a Barbie Doll dressed in a really short dress by a pick up truck in the book store. The title was "Sarah," the name of the mother of a transsexual teenage boy prostitute who narrates the novel. The book unlike what you may surmise isContinue reading “The “JT Leroy” Hoax: Creation of a 21st Century Fairy Tale.”

Corporate responsibility: Reporters Without Borders urges Internet users and bloggers to support its recommendations on freedom of expression

Corporate responsibility: Reporters Without Borders urges Internet users and bloggers to support its recommendations on freedom of expression Sign the petition on : http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16119 On 6 January, Reporters Without Borders issued six concrete proposals aimed at ensuring that Internet-sector companies respect free expression when operating in repressive countries. The organisation calls on bloggers and InternetContinue reading “Corporate responsibility: Reporters Without Borders urges Internet users and bloggers to support its recommendations on freedom of expression”

Notes: the Handmaid’s Tale

Notes on DOUBLE THINK Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s tale p38 39 America in the near future has been taken over by Christian Fundamentalists, the women are captured to be breeders for important Commanders in the country. The protagonist whose real name we never find out, shows that in a totalitarian regime, one can not tellContinue reading “Notes: the Handmaid’s Tale”

Reform Package. 800 voters for CE…Blah. 1600 Double Blah

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong The Democrat Alliance has stopped the new "reform" package from going through Legco. Supposedly this is this major reform package towards democracy. Firstly they will add 10 more seats to the legislature. I am not sure if it’s directly elected or functional constituency. The other is it will DOUBLE theContinue reading “Reform Package. 800 voters for CE…Blah. 1600 Double Blah”

Feeding Frenzy of the WTO Protest in Photos

Socio-Political Rants I came away from the WTO protests completely disillusioned. The following photographs explains why. There were more onlookers, journalists, and "photographers" than protesters, who were being cheered on like it was a gladiator fight. The real concerns of the farm subsidies and inequality of trade gets lost in this first world entertainment. IContinue reading “Feeding Frenzy of the WTO Protest in Photos”