Via Abu Muqawama, amaz­ing footage from a Nor­we­gian jour­nal­ist who embed­ded with the Taliban:

Artist’s talks—up for review, like a gallery show or spread in Art­fo­rum? A few nights ago I saw pho­tog­ra­pher, video artist, and film­maker Laurel Naka­date give a pre­sen­ta­tion on her work at SAIC, and it was one hell of a mind­spin. As I see it, Naka­date makes two kinds of work: the kind she’s in, and the kind she’s not in. Inter­est­ingly enough, I can’t seem to find any images of the latter on the internet—which prob­a­bly has some­thing to do with the fact that, when Naka­date puts her­self in front of her camera, she’s usu­ally wear­ing little to no cloth­ing, unless she’s dressed up in what I roll my own eyes to call Lolita-​esque getups.

Man, what I wouldn’t give for a Demo­c­ra­tic party that stopped whin­ing about town-​hall inci­vil­ity and started acting like Barney Frank.