Enjoy this “remix” of Alan Watts talking about “The Real You”. Incidentally, the “I always though existence, as such, was weird” sample that opens up the DisinfoCast them was sampled from an Alan Watts lecture.
Via The Teeming Brain.… Read the rest
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Jim Swill: Screenage Angst
Another video production from one of my favorite multimedia artists, Jim Swill. Learn more about Swill’s work at www.jimswill.com.
An Over-Looked Classic
The above video is a brilliant piece. In a sense it’s already very much of its time but this works as a reminder of the fast moving nature of the interbutts.
For me this video hammers home the fact we live in an era where the “New Media” is now outgrowing the old. You are unlikely to understand most of the references in it, if you’re not part of the internet’s growing subculture, and frankly that’s what I love about it.
Nick Margerrison (my twitter)
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Amazing Video: Riding the Shuttle’s Booster
A movie from the point of view of the Solid Rocket Booster with sound mixing and enhancement done by the folks at Skywalker Sound.
‘Africans for Norway’ Sends Up Well-Meaning But Clueless Western Charities
Africans are reaching out to poor, cold Norwegians through Radi-Aid, a charity effort that seeks to place radiators in the homes of Norway’s frigid families. Okay, well maybe not. It’s actually a send-up of similarly myopic Western charities that treat Africa as some kind of homogeneous mono-culture:
The song and video were actually made by a Norwegian group, The Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund, with African help: The music was written by Wathiq Hoosain, the lyrics by Bretton Woods and the video was produced by Ikind Productions. The point they are trying to make is how tunnel-vision Western images of Africa are.
“Imagine if every person in Africa saw the ‘Africa for Norway’ video and this was the only information they ever got about Norway. What would they think about Norway?”
Read more about the video and its creators at the Daily Dot.
Ohioans At A Mitt Romney Rally Voice Their Concerns
In preparation for tomorrow’s festivities, New Left Media visited a massive political rally (culminating in a Romney endorsement by the singer Meatloaf) in the key swing state of Ohio to find out what issues will decide the presidential election. Namely, the impending Buddhist takeover:
