![To This Day: A Video About Bullying by Shane Koyczan [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Shane-Koyczan.jpeg)
The following video about bullying is painful to look at. The easiest part about watching it was identifying with the protagonist. The hardest part of watching it is recalling the times I passed the pain on by becoming a bully myself to stay away from the bottom of the food chain. And the saddest part [...]
![The Man Who Had To Sing [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/The-Man-Who-Had-To-Sing.png)
The following cartoon is an animated fable by Milan Blažeković of Croatia. He made it back in in 1970 when Croatia was still part of Yugoslavia. It was produced by the famed Zagreb Film. Its original title: Čovjek koji je morao pjevati. Is the man just annoying, or is his song a variation of [...]
One of my big complaints about modern art is when it completely loses any resemblance to the world we see, such as with the art of Jackson Pollock. Another pet peeve of mine is the work of Andy Warhol, who managed to get thousands of dollars for painting a Campbell’s soup can. All too often, [...]
![The Art and Life of Ben Shahn [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/benshahn005.jpg)
Ben Shahn was born in Lithuania in 1898 to orthodox Jewish parents. Living under czarist rule gave him early exposure to brutality and injustice. Coming to America and seeing the impoverished flip side of America’s opportunities became a powerful influence on Ben Shahn’s social realist form of art. For Shahn, art was never separate from [...]
While looking for paintings of storms, I came across the paintings of Alexei Savrasov, who was was a Russian landscape painter who lived from 12830 to 1897.He started to show artistic ability at the age of eight, and eventually studies at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, from which he graduated in 1850. [...]
The history of censorship goes back to ancient Greece. Far from being the exclusive province of ham fisted dictators like the Nazis and the communists, even the United States has engaged in censorship for reasons other than reasons of profanity or sexual explicitness.Amazingly enough an ancient Greek play Aristophanes’s “Lysistrata,” written in 411 BC, [...]
![Yuri Norshteyn, Master of Animated Film [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Norstein2009-2.jpg)
Yuri Norshteyn is an animated film producer from Russia, who produced a great deal of work back when Russia was still the hub of the USSR. He was born in 1941 to Jewish parents who were fleeing deeper into the Soviet Union to escape advancing Nazi armies. When viewing Norshteyn’s films, one notes a fundamental [...]
![Film of the Day From Iran “Baran” [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/baran.jpg)
Iranian films are getting well deserved respect abroad. One critically acclaimed film is Baran, a 2001 film about a Kurdish worker who falls in love with an Afghan girl. The film reveals the ethnic divisions in Iranian society between different ethnic groups, as well as the tension between illegal foreign workers and the government. [...]
![Film of the Day Azucar Amarga (Bitter Sugar) [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Bitter-Sugar.jpg)
Globe Tribune.Info is pleased to present the 1996 Cuban film, Azucar Amarga (Bitter Sugar). IMDb summarises the plot as follows. “Gustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague. But his faith in the new Cuba is tested: his father, a [...]
![“Pulgasari”, North Korean Film Shows People Revolting Against Brutal Tyrant [Complete Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/PulgasariDoll.jpg)
A North Korean film from 1985 has been posted on You Tube with a plot that is described as follows. “In feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. He steals all the iron farming tools and cooking pots from the people so that [...]
