by Heather Hastie | May 28, 2015 | Freedom of Speech
I’ve finally done what I’ve been resisting for years and joined Facebook yesterday. It wasn’t all bad – the first thing I saw when I “found a friend” was a photo of my niece on her first day at pre-school. That was pretty cool. Then...
by Heather Hastie | May 14, 2015 | New Zealand
After spending two days writing about what atheists in Bangladesh have to deal with, I feel the need to indulge in another of Martin Heck’s time lapse videos of New Zealand. This one is slightly different from the others I’ve featured, in that it’s...
by Heather Hastie | May 14, 2015 | Atheism, Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Religion
On 21 April, Bangladesh’s The Daily Star published an opinion article entitled The extent of freedom of expression. It was written by senior law lecturer Mirza Farzana Iqbal Chowdhury of Daffodil International University, a private university in the Bangladeshi...
by Heather Hastie | May 5, 2015 | New Zealand
Called Agitation, Martin Heck of Timestorm Films released this time lapse video ten months ago. It was filmed over four months at various coastal locations around New Zealand: West Coast of the South Island, the Catlins (south-eastern South Island), Piha Beach (west...
by Heather Hastie | May 3, 2015 | New Zealand
Martin Heck of Timestorm Films has released a new compilation of his beautiful time lapse films of New Zealand. This one is a collection of some of his personal favourites from previous films. In the last two years his travels have included France, Tokyo, and Hong...