November 2011
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WatchBeing a documentary filmmaker is hard work. Beauty just happens all around us and it is impossible to capture it all. People are expressing themselves constantly, both intentionally and unintentionally sharing their experiences with people around them. They make statements about their environment and reveal something about their values. As a documentary filmmaker, I am most interested in...
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WatchIt was revolutionary in the 60s and it is revolutionary today. This process of documentary filmmaking is rare. Few people follow it. And the fruits of the process are unlike that of any other.
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Responding To Oppression With Arrogance
I was at Occupy Boston last month. Meeting a young woman I had met before, I told her that I had recognized her. She said “you’re just another white boy with a camera” and I was really stunned. Would it have been acceptable for me to remind her that she’s not the only young woman who thinks she shares the wit and sensibility of Jane Austen?
If we can move past...
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WatchPennebaker directed his first film, Daybreak Express, in 1953. Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of the same name, the five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City is the earliest known example of Pennebaker’s penchant for blending together documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques.
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WatchI’m going to see this movie tonight. Kind of excited.
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WatchI met Raouf Zaki at an event last night. He told me about his documentary “Desert Stars” and the unreported violence that followed the Arab Spring this year. It should come as no surprise: the revolutionaries are persecuting the fundamentalists.
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WatchThis is an apt metaphor for being careless with your valuable digital data. If you don’t have backup copies of everything you want to keep, you are punching yourself in the balls. You have dumb boxer shorts. Your hat is even more retarded. And if you complain about it on the internet, you are exactly like this kid. Your broadcasting your idiocy to the world. Congratulations.
Today, I...
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WatchBrilliant little short film. Hope it inspires you.
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“…he had been interrogating Iraqis and using what he describes as...”
– http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/at-occupy-camps-veterans-bring-the-wars-home/248220/#
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WatchSometimes saying ‘thank you’ just doesn’t really say enough. So I’ll let John Prine do the talking for me on Veteran’s Day. My buddy Marty died of a heart attack four years back. He got out of bed to have a midnight smoke on the front porch. His girlfriend found him there in the morning, hunched over a half drunk can of Milwaukee’s Best. He served 2 years in...
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WatchI love the guys going on about the triumph of the individual. They work for The Federal Reserve.
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“Roughly 80 percent of millionaires in America are the first generation of their...”
– The real “1 percent” http://bit.ly/ul3WkA
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WatchI took some snapshots from the set of this commercial a while back. I remember committing a faux pas and playing with the PC laptop. It really is as fun as it looks!
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I don’t have the patience to fix my m istakes.
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WatchThey do the Matrix thing to people on surfboards. Awesome.
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WatchOscar The Grouch is the original hipster.
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“People at the bottom will have access to food, healthcare, and electronic...”
– What If Middle Class Jobs Disappear?
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Watchnativeshoes: Native Shoes featured on 6 Days To Air: The Making of @SouthPark documentary!
