The Yes Men Fix The World – P2P Edition

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About The Yes Men Fix The World – P2P Edition

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks. This peer-to-peer special edition of the film is unique: it is preceded by an EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of the Yes Men impersonating the United States Chamber of Commerce. Because the Yes Men are being sued for this stunt, p2p is the only way that this film will get seen.

Andi Wittmann Rider profile

Massimo Vignelli

Short documentary about famous designer Massimo Vignelli.

“Today Was A Good Day” Extended Version

skate – shot on red #1347 – 120 fps on Vimeo

Between Bears

Dawn of MIDI – Live at WFMU on The Long Rally with Scott McDowell 8/3/10

Dawn of MIDI - Live at WFMU

Dawn of Midi is a collective made up of Indian contrabassist Aakaash Israni, Pakistani percussionist Qasim Naqvi, and Moroccan pianist Amino Belyamani. Creating a bold face on the notion of idiosyncratic music, Dawn of Midi blends together the sentiments of many musical worlds. In this age of modern improvisation where the distinctions between musical normatives are blurred, DoM’s thematic and timbral approach is reminiscent of many genres bound in one simultaneous moment.

DoM’s sound-world is one of effortless juxtaposition; from the harmonic language of Debussy to the clammer and rattle of extended techniques evoking Cage’s piano preparations. In the global art music setting, one can sense a paradigm shift that veers towards an appreciation of timbre, color, and the silences that frame a musical offering. This new sensibility is immediately recognizable within DoM’s language. Dawn of Midi is creating a sound that connects with people who are unfamiliar with improvised music as well as highly adept listeners of more eclectic musical stylings.

Dawn of Midi

After working as a group since 2007, Dawn of Midi released their debut Album First in March of 2010 on the Accretions label. Since its release, the album has received unanimous high praise from critics around the world. Within six month’s of the album’s release, the group’s music was featured in The Wire Magazine’s 24th bi-annual compilation CD, The Wire Tapper, and a court-métrage was created for their piece ‘A way with words’ by French filmmaker and motion designer Maxime Bruneel. In 2010, DoM has performed in New York, Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Kyoto, Ohio and Chicago. In the spring of 2011, Dawn of Midi has been invited to perform at Gasteig in Munich (home of the Munich Philharmonic), Frankfurt, Niederstetten, England, Portugal, and Austria. Dawn of Midi is also in the planning stages of a Large-scale multimedia project, Kashmir, for which the organization Triple Canopy is acting as fiscal sponsor. Kashmir is a work exploring the acceleration of the recording and re-writing of history due to advances in mechanical memory, contextualized by the territorial conflict over the region of Kashmir. In preparation for the 2011 Copenhagen Lyd+Litteratur Festival, Dawn of Midi, in collaboration with German typographer and graphic designer Bernd Kuchenbeiser, is creating a performance consisting of a typographical/musical conversation centered on the text ‘In The Penal Colony’ by Franz Kafka.

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Tetris – From Russia with love [documentary]

Documentary about Tetris.

Jeremy Solterbeck – Moving Illustrations of Machines (2000)

Consider Moving Illustrations of Machines a revisionist animation. It ignores all tenets of traditional animation: color, hypernatural movement, and the depiction of vibrancy and life. The only characters as such are machines.

Work began on this film as a commentary on the 1997 cloning of Dolly the sheep. The goal was to visualize a hybrid world where the distinction between organic machines (such as cells) and their man-made counterparts (such as microchips) becomes unclear. A duality has crept into our technological consciousness: first, the idea that a living mechanism such as an ovum can be described as a machine, and second, the idea that man-made mechanisms with extreme complexity must at some point be considered alive. For instance, the CPU of your average desktop computer can now outperform insects in terms of information processing power. Does this suggest that microchips are in some way smarter or more alive than insects?

This new paradigm of the machine concept is here applied to a narrative that encompasses many of our emotional perceptions regarding cloning. Setting a provocative tone, the film opens with the mission statement of scientist and entrepreneur Richard Seed:

God made man in his own image. God intended for man to become one with God. We are going to become one with God. We are going to have almost as much knowledge and almost as much power as God. Cloning, and the reprogramming of DNA, is the first serious step in becoming one with God.

The film introduces this machine world in a series of images that depict simple motion, consisting only of the benign spinning and turning of various mechanisms. The world is designed to lack a sense of scale and orientation, to be surreal and mysterious, yet to also be beautiful. The second sequence begins with an unsettling image of worm-like machines. They appear more complex in form and motion, but still seem to be metallic and man-made. Then the ova are introduced and the rest of this sequence details their journey from being ÒhatchedÓ, to being inseminated by the mechanical worms, to being inscribed with information by the needle of an ominous cloning device. After we see a single egg being altered, the final sequence begins and we learn the rest of the eggs have been inscribed as well. They slowly conglomerate as the music builds, and in the end appear indistinguishable in a mass, an organic surface that is the accumulation of these hybrid organic machines.

Moving Illustrations of Machines wishes to reconsider what it means to be living. Has technology and cloning changed the definition of the word machine? Is the human machine open to revision by humanity itself? As our technology becomes unfathomably complex, will the human ovum become as eligible for alteration as any of our mechanical gadgets? This film doesnÕt propose to answer these questions, only to present them for the viewer’s consideration as cloning and related scientific issues continue to surge to the forefront of our ethical and moral quandaries.

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Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Work Better.

Astrospies

Very interesting documentary about “Almaz” and “MOL” secret USA and SSSR space programs that were developed secretly to launch first astronauts as spies. SSSR’s space station “Almaz” even had a machine gun turret to fight against USA’s satellites.

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty

BLU – Big Bang Big Boom

One more amazing work by BLU.

Moonwalk One

This documentary is an absolute gem, made in 1970. It tells a story about Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, but in many ways you probably haven’t seen before. The whole movie is hypnotizing, scenes and story flows somehow in a dreamy way. Much attention is paid to a sound – for example, when the rocket is launched and starts to go off, total silence is used rather than bursting sound of the rocket engines so you get a much better picture how monumental those steps were for mankind. At some parts you can hear pioneer synthesizers with “weird” and spacey sounds from that era, or you can even see a footage with women, grandmas who were knitting astronauts’ suits and hear their thoughts about Apollo 11 mission. No matter if you’re a fan of this subject or not, this documentary will tell you a story that you heard one billion of times but in remarkable, unique way. Also, it will show you how humanity became lazy in doing monumental things and moving forward and how we lost courage. 41 years have passed since those days, who would believe.

Although I don’t like the music, animation in this music video is excellent.