http://blog.ahoracuba.com Wandering The Island... Unnoticed. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:14:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been doing some video work at home for an unrelated project, and came across some footage that I shot just over a year ago in Cuba. I wanted to use it as the beginning of a documentary about Cuba, a sort of question and answer session with everyday Cubans ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/03/19/20/13/faces-of-cuba-footage-and-interviews-from-the-island This is the Havana chapter of the footage from "Faces of Cuba I", a documentary which I decided not to release. Instead, I'm putting the raw footage up into the public domain. Hopefully someone will find it useful and / or interesting. http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/03/19/19/49/faces-of-cuba-1-havana-cuba-2 This is the second chunk of lightly edited footage from the Faces of Cuba I reel. It is from Trinidad de Cuba and the surrounding area, just over a year ago. It is in the public domain. http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/03/19/19/46/faces-of-cuba-2-trinidad-de-cuba The third and last piece of footage from Faces of Cuba I. This was filmed in Villa Clara (mostly Santa Clara). It's released into the Public Domain. http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/03/19/19/40/faces-of-cuba-3-villa-clara Not having posted anything here in over a month - and not having posted anything of substance in longer than that - I've been feeling ambivalent as to how to continue writing about Cuba, which is ironic because I've never been short of words in the past. I've already said that ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2007/11/22/22/14/turning-the-page BBC NEWS | Americas | Many killed in Cuban train crash At least 28 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in Cuba after a train collided with a bus at a level crossing, official media say. The accident - which is the worst in Cuba for years ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2007/10/07/16/49/train-crash-in-cuba BBC NEWS | Americas | Cubans treat man who killed Che Cuban doctors working in Bolivia have saved the sight of the man who executed revolutionary leader Che Guevara in 1967, Cuban official media report. Mario Teran, a Bolivian army sergeant, shot dead Che Guevara after he was captured in ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2007/10/02/19/06/cubans-treat-man-who-killed-che According to a friend of mine in Cuba, some items which were previously illegal to bring to Cuba are now being allowed. I don't have a copy of the old pages (the Cuban customs regulations pages change several times a year), but you can, for example, compare the page from ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2007/07/05/16/28/ease-on-cuban-import-restrictions I haven't posted here in over 3 months. I could make excuses about why, but the truth is far simpler - politics. I find it near impossible to talk / think about Cuba without talking about politics, which is something I've wanted to avoid doing here. I'm also a bit ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2007/03/25/23/53/nothingness Being of Iraqi-Assyrian descent, it's understandable that I was caught by surprise walking down the Prado in Havana and seeing arabic script on some signs, or noticing the moorish influences on so many of the buildings. But the arab influence in Cuba goes beyond merely architecture; indeed, Arabs had a part ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2006/12/18/01/36/arabs-in-cuba