The video-links only thread

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This 1:48 panel discussion from Silicon Valley's Churchill Club features Daniel Ellsberg, Clay Shirky, Peter Thiel, Jonathan Zittrain and Neville Roy Singham on the topic of "WikiLeaks: Why it Matters. Why it Doesn't."

http://fora.tv/2011/01/19/WikiLeaks_Why ... _It_Doesnt

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Super Amigos

In Mexico City, five real-life "social wrestlers" have capitalized on the popularity of Mexico's larger than life Lucha Libre wrestlers to fight for social justice rather than trophies. Wearing custom masks, costumes and capes like the wrestlers who inspired them, these anonymous grassroots superheroes protect their metropolis against injustice. Super Animal challenges bullfighters to leave the bulls alone and fight him instead. After a savage beating kills his boyfriend, Super Gay becomes a champion of gay rights, fighting rampant homophobia. Ecologista Universal battles environmental destruction of every kind, all on foot. Super Barrio is the defender of poor tenants, helping them resist evictions by slumlords cashing in on gentrification. With a mixture of live action, comic book-style animation and a surf guitar soundtrack inspired equally by mariachi music and Batman, Super Amigos shows that with a little imagination, a good heart and the right mask, anyone can activate their communities to triumph over evil.

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Loved ^^^ that one, American Dream.

Strange Arrangements

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We wanted to make a series of moving sculptures that take inspiration from the great surrealists like Dali, and in particular his lobster telephone.

We have tried to build intriguing objects that leave you wanting more. The collection of textures, objects and their mechanical movements are at the same time organic.

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The Thomas Beale Cipher


[FROM WIKIPEDIA] The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold, silver and jewels estimated to be worth over USD$65 million as of 2010. The other two ciphertexts allegedly describe the content of the treasure, and list the names of the treasure's owners' next of kin, respectively.

The story of the three ciphertexts originates from an 1885 pamphlet detailing treasure being buried by a man named Thomas Jefferson Beale in a secret location in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1820.

Beale entrusted the box containing the encrypted messages with a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss and then disappeared, never to be seen again. The innkeeper gave the three encrypted ciphertexts to a friend before he died. The friend then spent the next twenty years of his life trying to decode the messages, and was able to solve only one of them which gave details of the treasure buried and the general location of the treasure. He published all three ciphertexts in a pamphlet, although most of the originals were destroyed in a warehouse fire.

Since the publication of the pamphlet, a number of attempts have been made to decode the two remaining ciphertexts and to find the treasure, but all have resulted in failure. More.

director, producer | Andrew S. Allen
film composer | Eric Goetz

instruments | trumpet, trombones, French horn, guitars
voiceovers | Richard Dusatko, Michael Falcone, Kevin Cox

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Train of Thought


A short film in paper by Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas

[NOTES COMPILED.]
Co-directed with Ben Thomas, Train of Thought was my graduation film from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth.

Although we used digital compositing software, all the animation and models were done by hand, not with CGI. The film took approximately 9 months to complete, from storyboards through to the final edit. It was a team effort, and it was great working with talented model-making students, and a mix of professional and student actors.

director, animator | Leo Bridle
music | Portico Quartet
music arranger | Jack Wyllie

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Horrendous atrocities in Ethiopian prisons
By Assefa Negash, M.D.

I searched for keywords at RI, and didn’t find related material. The following Vimeo podcast, posted thirty days ago, is a report recorded text-to-voice. The word count of the report is 15.4K, and approximates 1.5 hours of listening. The full text has been typed into the originator’s Vimeo page, and the EthioSun | Voice for the Voiceless appears as the web site of origin as of December 27, 2010. Frankly, I think the narrative is a faster read, although the material whether listened to or read might intrude upon some sensibilities.

Here is the third paragraph excerpted from the introduction.


“Shocking as the gruesome manner in which these Ethiopian prisoners were physically and psychologically tortured, any one who is aware of the hatred which some of these Tigrean ethnonationalists (the authors & perpetrators of the atrocities documented in this translated report) were brought up, hearing narratives of alleged victimisation of their ancestors by Amharas, cannot fail to fathom or understand their potential capacity and readiness to perpetrate such gruesome atrocities on Amharas and members of other ethnic groups (Oromos, Gurages, Somalis, etc). In addition to this, the ethnic ideology of hate they have embraced during the last 36 years of TPLF’s [Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front] emergence and its pervasive influence or hold on the psyche of its followers has made them to consider any one outside their ethnic group as a sub-human creature. Even a member of their own group, who does not subscribe to their ethnic ideology of hate, is considered as a sub-human creature (what TPLF has done to Mr. Ermias corroborates this fact).”

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Former Miss Canada finalist, Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy, 53, has become the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in The Beatles. REFER.

Turn Of The Wheel | Mary-Lu Zahalan





If I Had One Wish | Mary-Lu Zahalan

REFER.

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I just noticed still another video of Ken Robinson over at TED dot com. The February 2010 talk has been noted as a follow-up to the February 2006 talk. I’ve stacked them here for easy reference.

Sir Ken Robinson | Part One | Do schools kill creativity?

February 2006 TED Talk | RI PREVIOUS POST




Sir Ken Robinson | Part Two | Bring on the learning revolution!

February 2010 TED Talk




TED NOTES. In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning—creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.

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apologies if this has already been posted:
http://documentaryheaven.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-mr-leonard-cohen/

NFB production done in a sort of reality tv "day in the life" perspective re Cohen's early fame

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Margaret Atwood | Once in August


a National Film Board of Canada documentary

director | Michael Rubbo, 1984

NFB DOT CA NOTES. In Margaret Atwood: Once in August, filmmaker Michael Rubbo attempts to discover what shapes the celebrated writer’s fiction and what motivates her characters. As one of Canada’s most distinguished poets and novelists, Atwood is also one of this country’s most elusive literary figures.