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Uncertain Verification – Disperse Exclamatory Phase
The early and very interesting film project by the two italian artists Alberto Grifi and Gianfranco Baruchello, which hardly has been known to a wider public, recently got revived through an online presence initiated by the the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles. The group set up a downloadable database website which refers to the artists’ ...
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p2p microfinance
.. what an excellent idea! kiva.org works on the basis of a free loan by a private lender to the very poor, who plan or have some business to develop, but would almost have no chance to lend from a normal bank. The website is personalizing the contact between the lender and the entrepreneur through ...
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occupation 101
Described as a must to see: ... almost a year ago the film occupation 101 got its first – very positive – reviews (see imbd, my space ) by interested and some occasional movie goers on festivals. The documentation focuses on the palestinian-israeli conflict, and was done as their first film project after a visit ...
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Kubrick, Nixon and the man in the moon / The darkside of the moon
An intelligently and brilliantly done fake documentary (mokumentary) – a must for all interested in conspiracy theories. Furthermore a good lesson for the analyzis of perceptional strategies and their ‘trust’ in and construction on the expression of media ‘truth’: originally published in french under the title Opération Lune, Kubrick, Nixon und der Mann im Mond ...
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minor instincts / shock doctrine
The recent new book – and accompanying film – of Naomi Klein causes already a lot of discussion. And it is good that there are (semi*) open places like the Guardian mini-site to provide this. Sorrily I haven’t read the book, thus I can’t really decide on some raised detail information, also I can’t really ...
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Auf der anderen Seite / The Edge of Heaven
Film maker Fatih Akin gets a lot of credit here in Germany at the moment, and that is for sure what he deserves. As the magazine quantara.de outs it the ideas and views transported in his newest film ‘Auf der anderen Seite’ (The Edge of Heaven) – are indeed able to be Transcending Prejudice and ...
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inside insight view
“Honorable Doctor, I am sending with this, 3 page drawings. Thank you so much for the paper. Take a look at the letter if you have time… I have decided upon – Träume u. Schäume (Dreams and Foams) – or Schweisstropfen (Drops of Sweat) as a title. I hope you see the picture better than ...
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entertaining opticals
Just some easy stuff: view some basics in optical illusions: view via neave.tv as an entertaining spot – wba_cage For further interests in visual illusions – this page here has collected quite a serious amount. img via http://www.michaelbach.de/ot – Marcel Duchamp (Rotorelief 1949, from Robert Lebel, fig 40.) Related posts:.. again time to put some ...
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mindgap – taken literally
A suggested look into my brain – which I simply think fascinating and thus could not resist to put it here – wants to follow up eventual gaps in my mind .. So far gaping jumps occur only here on this blog ; ) ... and I hope they will be reduced from now on ...