Category: Film & TV

  • CrisisWatch No. 32

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    From the International Crisis Group, the April edition of CrisisWatch: Clashes in Pakistan’s North Waziristan killed over 200 and threatened to spread to neighbouring tribal regions. In Uzbekistan, the government intensified its campaign on opposition activists and international organisations, expelling the United Nations refugee agency and sentencing dissidents to long prison terms. The situation also…

  • RSS feed fixed

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    Should work now.

  • Animated Soviet Propaganda DVD Set

    Animated Soviet Propaganda DVD Set

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    From Russiananimation.com: From 1924 to perestroika the USSR produced more than 4 dozen animated propaganda films. They weren’t for export. Their target was the new nation and their goal was to win over the hearts and minds of the Soviet people. Anti American, Anti Capitalist, Anti Fascist, some of these films are as artistically beautiful…

  • Missile Command documentary

    Missile Command documentary

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    Documentary by Jeremy Mack on one man’s attempt to break the high score on the classic arcade game Missile Command: One quarter. Two Days. No Pause Button. Here.

  • D for Vendetta

    D for Vendetta

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    From Wired: The plot doesn’t make much sense, either. V blows up a building, liquidates a bunch of high-powered enemies and threatens to overthrow the powers that be. The government’s response? To send two cops to track him down. Two cops! Some police state. Here.

  • Vendetta Behind 'V for Vendetta'

    Vendetta Behind 'V for Vendetta'

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    New York Times piece by Dave Itzkoff on graphic novelist Alan Moore, who created Watchmen and V For Vendetta, and lost the rights to his work. Here.

  • No more old stuff

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    That’s the last of the old content. I needed to have it all linked through the blog so that people can find it. Back to the new content.

  • Olbermann and O'Reilly

    Olbermann and O'Reilly

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     From MSNBC: Bill O’Reilly is threatening callers to his radio show who mention Olbermann’s name. Ted Baxter told uncooperative listeners that he’ll turn their phone numbers over to Fox security, and that Fox security will in turn contact the local authorities. Here.

  • The Web This Morning

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    Photography – Olivier Rebbot, gallery link after Peter Howe introduction Photography – John Ficara’s Black Farmers in America Photography Dispatch – Iraqi Special Police Commandos by Guy Calaf Film Review – Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye Photography – Idols + Believiers by Jocelyn Bain Hogg Artist – Christian-themed artist Thomas Kinkade is accused of ruthless…

  • The Web This Morning

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    Utah – ‘Super Dell’ rants as his business dies

  • The Web This Morning

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    Photography – Photo Mechanic 4.4.2 released Art/Graffiti – Banksy rocks Melrose NYT – David Lynch, still disturbing after 20 years NYT – What civil war in Iraq would look like NYT – Stephen Colbert NYT – Dr. Gervais’s Frankenstein, Karl Pilkington NYT – Book Review, Paul Bremer’s ‘My Year in Iraq’ NYT – Taliban spokesman…

  • The Web This Morning

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    Art – Streetsy, daily street art photography Art – Wooster Collective, street art, stencil, graffiti ICC – In their own words, reading the Iraqi insurgency For Ted & Alex & David – Captain Cosmic web page, with 2T2 NYT – US wants Germany to open up huge Holocaust archive

  • The Web This Morning

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    Music – More on kid-friendly version of Devo NYT – Artist Daniel Johnston NYT – Big Love, HBO’s upcoming polygamy show NYT – Photographer Richard Misrach

  • The Web This Morning

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    Photos – War photography shot within first-person-shooters Photos – Matt Holloway, a photo each day of the year Art/Video – The Twisted Films of the artist PES Humor – Despair.Com Demotivating Posters 🙁 NYT – Carlotta Gall: Afghanistan producing bumper crop of heroin NYT – Wal-Mart chief executive’s postings on internal management website

  • The Web This Morning

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    Photo – New free beta for Adobe Lightroom Punk – Boy Sets Fire interview Punk – New Anti-Flag song Photos – Beauty in the Apocolpyse by Anton Kratochvil NYT – Turkish Rambo film with American bad guys NYT – US, Israel looking to distabilize Hamas govt.

  • The Web This Morning

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    NYT sports magazine Play debuts Sunday White House News Photographers contest results Why US newspapers aren’t running offensive muslim cartoons Lovecraft’s Cthulu done in Lego Pac-Man tattoo History of cookie-monster death metal vocals, from the Wall Street Journal? NYT: Russia’s biggest film coming to US

  • Comments/Links fixed

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    It only took me twenty minutes to find the solution, but it looks like links to entries and comments are now working. Wish this wordpress stuff was easier to fix. Not like I’m an idiot on these computers, you know?

  • Stuff Busted

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    I know the blog is mostly busted. That’s why only a couple of you even know about it right now. I’m working on it.

  • The Web This Morning

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    What I clicked: Sundance: Good, Bad, Ugly Sundance: Paradox Oprah vs. Frey Mary Ellen Mark photographs JT Leroy Robben Island, photographed by Anton Kratochvil