Blair post’s about creating timelines got me all excited to make my own - so I did!

Instead of focusing directly on a social issue, I focused on a sequence in a film I love - Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Lola. The film is a satirical critique of greed, development and capitalism, which relates to quite a few social issues of the day.

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I’m a big fan of Flickr.com. I discovered the awesomely user-friendly site when I was first blogging and needed a place to upload photos. Since then, Flickr has become a place for me and my community of photo snapping pals to share images and create cool photo projects. And now I love Flickr even more because they are giving away free Flickr Pro accounts to nonprofit and other good causes.

As explained on the Flickr site: A photo gives us the ability to see what goes on in the world, but can also move us to care, or motivate us to help. Many individuals and organizations use Flickr to share their mission to make the world better, and this is just a sample of what’s going on on Flickr.We’ve partnered with TechSoup, a US-based non-profit technology resource, to donate 10,000 1-year Flickr pro accounts for good causes. TechSoup and its international partners will distribute these to qualifying non-profit organizations.

One such powerful shot is the one above taken by Jakob Dall of the Danish Red Cross. The International

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The trailer for the Silver Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival, Errol Morris’ Standard Operating Procedure, is out! I’ve been waiting for it for quite some time. Watch it below (or for a more high quality version go HERE ).

Also, be sure to to learn more about the film and how you can take part!

Also of note is a great article that Errol Morris wrote for this week’s issue of The New Yorker called Exposure : The woman behind the camera at Abu Ghraib.

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