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‘The Quest’ for iPad: some more editing considerations and organising it

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

See also: ‘The Quest’ for iPad: why?, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: the team, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: organising content, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: about editing Right, now there are about 750 pictures in the edit for ‘The Quest’ for iPad, spread across 20 different chapters. That is a lot of material. Much more than for [...]

I told you they’d be there

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Yes, the women from Boeung Kak Lake and from Borei Keila did march the unauthorised march on International Women’s Day….

Khmer Women’s Day

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

This is dedicated to the Khmer women who are ALWAYS at the forefront fighting injustice…

‘The Quest’ for iPad: about editing

Monday, March 5th, 2012

See also: ‘The Quest’ for iPad: why?, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: the team, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: organising content Editing, selecting the photographs: we do it all the time. It’s the trick of our trade. It starts before we even take a picture, out in the field, choosing what to photograph, deciding what we will [...]

Springville Middle School Sends Ripples to Borei Keila

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

The ‘ripples’ are school stuff bought with money collected by American schoolchildren: pencils, notebooks, blackboards. Most of the Borei Keila children had theirs buried amidst the rubble during their eviction. Some of them now live with their parents in the market stalls located under the Phanimex buildings because they can at least still go to [...]

‘The Quest’ for iPad: organising content

Monday, February 27th, 2012

See also: ‘The Quest’ for iPad: why?, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: the team. So how the heck am I going to condense these eleven years of work for ‘The Quest’ and that sizable amount of content (3,500 photographs directly related to evictions, at least 18 different evictions) into a digestible package? The fact that it [...]

Boeung Kak Lake to Court (again)…

Friday, February 24th, 2012

A little less than 100 Boeung Kak Lake residents showed up at the Municipal Court in support of 4 of them having to answer questions from a Judge… Lots of praying, screaming and crying. And lots of umbrellas against the blistering heat… And if you had any doubts about the disappearance of the Boeung Kak [...]

‘The Quest’ for iPad: the Team

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

My competences as a writer or an application developer are rather limited. I need some help to put the iApp for ‘The Quest’ together, both for writing the text that has to ‘go along’ the pictures providing a broader viewpoint, and for pulling the ropes in the navigation and coding that’ll give access in a [...]