Favourite Documentaries? [Archive] diablo75 December 18th, 2008, 02:55 AM +1 for Steal This Film 1 & 2 +1 for This Film Is Not Yet Rated +1 The Corporation +1 Outfoxed +1 Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price I've not yet seen The World According to Monsanto, but I'd bet The Corporation encompassed a good chunk of it (as does someone I know who used to work for them) I've also not seen "The enemies of reason" so will have to check that out. +1 "The god who wasn't there" (I could have sworn the same person who made this also did the Zeitgeist films) +1 "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" (It's much easier to watch than that Nova documentary about string theory) +1 Planet Earth +1 Revolution OS Documentaries that I like a lot that haven't been mentioned yet: Status Anxiety - discusses the desire of people in many modern societies to "climb the social ladder" and the anxieties that result from a focus on how one is perceived by others. (3 parts)
Animated Short Movies » Life-Changing Arts Movie shorts, or short animations are a unique form of art, which can inspire and enlighten just like any other art form. Sometimes even more so. Here is a selection of inspiring, or for some reason animated short movies, here shown in their original full length. Thanks to all the visitors who have contributed with their detailed suggestions! That is why there are now two pages of great animated shorts! If you think there is a short animated movie that should be added, let us know which, and why. The below movies are not sorted in any particular order. French Toast Written and directed by Fabrice O. The Lady and the Reaper Written and directed by Javier Recio Gracia Get Out By Charlotte Boisson, Julien Fourvel, Pascal Han-Kwan, Tristan Reinarz and Fanny Roche Granny O'Grimm Directed by Nicky Phelan, produced by Brown Bag Films Oktapodi By Julien Bocabeille, Francois-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier and Emud Mokhberi Big Buck Bunny Life Line Created by Tomek Ducki
15 Amazing Bicycles For the Future of Seoul 15 Amazing Bicycles For The Future of Seoul Seoul is one city that is conscious of the fact that we need to ride more bicycles and loosen up the traffic congestion. To advocate their intent Seoul Design Fair hosted the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010, where entries from around the world we welcomed. Main Features: comfortable ride with energy leveling and the stepless gearbox, option of adding seat-tube battery for speed, two wireless control-units (that work with two wireless rings on the handlebar) help control your ride. 14) Beik by Lukas Jungmann Main Features: Audi branding, folding mechanism, articulated frame steering and the untypical frame setup. 13) Tribune by Thüring Lukas, Lukas Thüring & Florian Vecsey 12) Ridenpush by You Ho Jeon Main Features: a riding cycle with a wagon can transform into a push cart when heavy, intended for the elderly. 11) Ufold by André Costa 10) Full Circle by Sanghyun jeong & Jun-Tae Park 9) Molecule by Yongjin Lee 8 ) Helo by Junkyo Lee Bonus Entry!
Turntable Kitchen :: June 2012 Mix June 21st, 2012 I prepared this month’s mix with the specific goal of providing myself with a little traveling music for our vacation. In other words, these tracks are the ones I’ve been meaning to spend a little more time with. Turntable Kitchen :: June 2012 Mix (.zip file) POP-ETC – Keep It For Your Own 02. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 non-fiction book co-written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, wherein the authors argue that the mass media of the United States "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion".[1] Government and news media[edit] Editorial distortion is aggravated by the news media’s dependence upon private and governmental news sources. Editorial bias: five filters[edit] Herman and Chomsky's "propaganda model" describes five editorially distorting filters applied to news reporting in mass media: Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation: The dominant mass-media outlets are large firms which are run for profit. Recent developments[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Herman, Edward S.; Chomsky, Noam. External links[edit]
5 Classic Cartoons They Don't Want You To See Who doesn't love cartoons? The Man, that's who. They insist on editing away those wonderful animated moments of horrifying violence, profanity and outright bigotry that cartoons from all eras like to slip in from time to time. Typically they only get to slip it in once before parents and advertisers drop the hammer and get the episode pulled forever. Here are some of the moments they don't want you to see... though upon further review, we're thinking they may have been right. Donald Duck Gets in Der Fuhrer's Face The Cartoon: Donald Duck was basically the anti-Mickey Mouse. What many people don't know is that Donald Duck's rise to fame came in 1943 when Disney decided to him dress up like a goddamn Nazi and make fun of the Axis in the animated short "Der Fuhrer's Face": What The Fuck? Yes, this cartoon makes fun of Nazis, but it's still pretty fucking offensive. "Der Fuhrer's Face" was just one in a line of seven Pro-US and Pro-Army shorts done by Disney at the time". The Fallout: Holy shit.
Everyday Objects Stash Money, Secrets, Drugs, IDs Yiting Cheng just finished up a master's degree in design, but she could already teach James Bond a thing or two about stashing valuables. For her thesis project, Cheng designed a series of eight objects that ingeniously store secrets--from passwords to money to drugs to IDs. And you can see all of them in this nicely shot video (our favorite is the secrete drawer, hidden in the edge of a table, which is only accessible when attach a magnetic pull): According to Cheng: This project is about concealing valuables, secrets, bad habits and personal information in our workplaces. In other words, she hides things in plain sight, by hiding them inside objects so familiar that you'd never question their integrity.
Outfoxed Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism is a 2004 documentary film by filmmaker Robert Greenwald that criticises the Fox News Channel, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, claiming that the channel is used to promote and advocate right-wing views.[1] The film says this pervasive bias contradicts the channel's claim of being "Fair and Balanced".[2][3] The documentary enjoyed a limited theatrical release,[4] was distributed in DVD format by the Political action committee MoveOn.org, and was sold online through Internet retailers such as Amazon.com, where it was a top-seller in July 2004.[5] MoveOn.org had helped promote the DVD release by taking out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times.[5] Following the release of Outfoxed, Greenwald and Brave New Films produced a related series of anti-Fox viral videos, collectively entitled Fox Attacks.[1] Synopsis[edit] Some of Outfoxed's coverage includes: Reviews[edit] Fox News and Rupert Murdoch's response[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]