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I’ve been talking bout decentralized social networks for awhile, here’s a documentary about exactly that.
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Just watched this gripping doc on PBS “Better This World” that looks at two friends, Brad Crowder and David McKay, who are sentenced to jail for alledgedly plotting to use molotov cocktails on police officers to protest during the 2008 Republican National Convention.
It also tells the story of alleged agent provocateur Brandon Darby, an activist turned informant, and examines if he entrapped the two boys or simply worked to prevent them from killing police officers.
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Two young filmmakers went out during Hurricane Irene to document their Manhattan neighborhood.
(via brooklynmutt)
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Colin Hanks (Orange County anyone?!) just shared some of his favorite record finds with me over on the Kickstarter blog. He sent me photos from his collection, along with stories of acquisition, and my favorite bit (by far) is how he labels them:
… in an effort to avoid going stir crazy, I have created a tradition for myself as a means of getting out of my hotel room and exploring. I bring a portable turntable on location, but no records. Instead, I go out and buy records in each city. I then go to the super geek level and label each record according to the city in which it was purchased.
Delightful! (In your daily whimsy.)
This is great, click through and watch the video about Colin’s documentary that tells the story of the rise and fall of Tower Records and the transformation of the music industry.
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Morgan Spurlock discusses his latest documentary “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”
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Rachel Anderson, an American journalist who was embedded with several youth groups in Libya in Feb/Mar 2011, returns to document and file weekly reports on the real life experiences of how the revolution is affecting the young fighters and activists. From influential rap music, to new freedoms for young women, revolution manifests itself in unexpected ways.
By supporting Rachel as an independent journalist, you will be helping to provide for security, accommodations, daily living, satellite equipment, and a small communications team in the US assisting in logistics for 8 weeks. Any donations passed the goal will ensure a longer stay and continued coverage.
Donors will have a direct connection to the evolving on-the-ground events and personal stories via weekly video reports. Rachel is receiving communications and logistical support from One Day on Earth, who will host the video reports.
During the current wave of revolutions in the Middle East, Rachel has filed reports for PBS Frontline and HDnet. She holds a degree in Journalism from University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Project location: Benghazi, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
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from Trust Movies
Punchball and Slapball (joyous, simple and cheap: you just needed the ball - and the players); Kick the Can (and its various incarnations such as KTC Hide-and-Seek); Hit the Penny; Skully (also called Skelly, and the making of those bottle caps into functional works of miniature art); Ringo-Levio, with its hunters and hunted. Then come the games at which your mother would tell you, “You’ll hurt yourself!” (And of course you did.) Johnny-on-a-Pony (shown at bottom), War (shown above), Buck-Buck and more. Double Dutch jump-rope made use of girls and wordplay, while Posse was just another name for Hopscotch. And so far as Stickball is concerned, if you’ve ever wondered what a “three-sewer man” was, you’ll find out here.
Watching this right now on PBS, really great documentary.
(Source: neighborhoodr-newyork)
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Spending the next 46:22 watching this.
Overdose : The Next Financial Crisis
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Hot Coffee is another Sundance entry, associate produced by our own Erin Crumpacker (aka briefly-noted and @erincrum) about how access to the court system to seek remedy from large corporations is denied to regular citizens, using the famous McDonalds coffee case as a main theme.
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