BOARDING an overnight flight from Washington to Germany three years ago, I settled in, ready to sleep or dig into my bag of video and audio amusements, when a middle-age man climbed into the seat next to me.
Unlike in the 1980s, when the crisis was defined by AIDS patients or men who slept on church steps, these days it has become more likely that a seemingly ordinary family, rushing about on public transportation with Elmo bags and video games, could be without a home.
In this formulaic but fairly informative documentary, to be shown on PBS stations tonight, the students pack their bags, watch video of the World Trade Center attacks on the bus and reflect on the fact that the tallest building in their hometown is four stories.
In terms of lifestyle, for this maverick creative – who lives by the motto 'individuality is the new wealth' – mixing incongruous elements like Hermès bags and video games is the spice of life.
For example, at one of their events last year, artist Macylyn Milsark created an installation out of strips of cut-up white plastic bags, which video artist John Backstrom project-mapped visuals onto.
Through the years, he continued creating content, producing a number of grab-bag comedy videos on his YouTube channel, and later porting the Potter Puppet Pals series to its own channel, where the series would continue until 2015.
And so the Strand traded the bag check for video cameras and plainclothes security.
Glass bottles and fireworks will be banned and revellers subjected to bag searches and video surveillance.
The same holds for private detectives, subterfuge, a video bag – whatever you want to talk about.
Elton Mathis, the Waller County district attorney, told a news conference on Thursday the autopsy report found that Bland died from asphyxiation, that she hanged herself using a plastic bag and that video from the jail showed that no one went in or out of her cell until she was found unconscious on Monday morning.
