Mike Arauz's Blog – The Archives

My favorite links, photos, and videos from the past 2 weeks on my Tumblr blog.

Michael Jackson Billie Jean live




An excellent anonymous first-hand account of the June 15 rally in Tehran, Iran from The New Yorker Magazine.

On June 14th, two days after the election that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is alleged to have stolen from his main challenger, the reformist Mir-Hossein Moussavi, I hurried back to Iran from a trip abroad. The next day, the day of the Azadi Street march, I had lunch with a journalist friend. In view of the election fiasco and the coverage that it had received abroad, my friend told me, the authorities were now trying to curtail the activities of the Western media. “If you want to write for a foreign magazine,” he said, “do it without a byline.” The authorities were refusing to extend the visas of most visiting foreign journalists; several Iranian journalists had been thrown in jail.

Clay Shirky talks about how tools like Facebook and Twitter have changed our world.




Mos Def is releasing his new album as a T-shirt.

Mos Def is releasing his latest album, The Ecstatic, as a T-shirt. How does that work? The T-shirt has The Ecstatic Killer of Sheep-interpolating cover art printed on the front, song titles on the back, and a download code for the album on the hang tag.

Henry Jenkins talks about Transmedia:




PS22 Chorus “JUST DANCE” by Lady Gaga




Photos by Cristin Sloan.




Anti-drug PSA starring a young Helen Hunt + Keyboard Cat + Hall and Oates =