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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

' an error occurred in the plug-in on this page' :(

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Quicktime hates you.

Thankfully, there's still GoogleVideo.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject:

that is a great short film right there.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject:

a day in the life of north korea

i'd like to see the whole thing, but i haven't been able to track down any info on it. the filmmaker was dutch, iirc.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Le Grand Content
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

This Faithless video features images from the documentary A State of Mind, about the North Korean mass gymnastics.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject:

cool. i'll see if my dude at nyu can help out since the website only sells a pal version (wtf?)
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject:

Funny!

-Wes
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, Alexander Korda's adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come and Errol Morris' Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr..
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Warriors of the French Foreign Legion

This is hardkore!
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dhex · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:52 am Post subject:

u.s. distribution of a state of mind
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I highly recommend everyone seeing this at least once (if not owning it) if only for the footage of the Mass Games which is some of the most amazing feats of human effort I have ever seen. I mean, take away all the anti-US propaganda, all the suffering of the people masked by this ridiculous ceremony of exuberance, and just watch it as a completely captivating beautiful act.
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

MC NUMBER 6 IN THAT HIZZY!

I'd weep if it wasn't so fun.

EDIT: First time machine?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

This is the best portrayal of Satan I've ever seen on film. In a children's film, no less.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject:

watch jesus camp in its entirety

it suffers from the sort of problems you find in certain kinds of documentaries (michael moore, for example) except it's a bit more subtle. though it certainly wears its heart on its sleeve. kind of disjointed, however, but worth watching. i'm a bit jaded, so i'm not terribly phased by teaching kids to parrot slogans and religious beliefs (i went to public school so i got FDR and earth day instead of the blood of christ). isn't that part of what being a parent is all about, meaning that serious beliefs should be transmitted?

i dunno. i live in a neighborhood where you can buy onesies for your three month old that have "george bush is not my president" or pictures of che on them. everyone's a fucking asshole in their own unique way.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

That was pretty decent dhex. A little too much agenda pushing at the end, but overall enough to remind me to get my voter registration shit ironed out soon.

Side note: not all of Missouri is like that.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I don't see how Jesus Camp is worth it unless you're already not convinced that supreme scary fucktards walk the same Earth as you.

The "gov'rmint" cup smashing is hilarious, though.

Oblivion and dominoes.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject:

well, as a friend of mine put it on another forum:

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Ship them to Sierra Leone.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:07 am Post subject:

sierra leone has enough problems.

short answer: we don't do jack squat.

on the other hand, pentacostals give to charity in far higher numbers than their secular counterparts, and are incredibly driven in many areas of poverty outreach and missonary work, so perhaps it's not such a bad thing after all.

dealing with ecstatic religions is difficult if one doesn't take religion very seriously, because that's the nature of revealed religious experiences. liberal catholics, for example, have a hard time with the ecstatic facets of catholicism because their own religious experience is not revealed, but thought out. similarly, in my own experience only a small thread of the vast array of new age/neopagan/occult religious moments in north america are oddly quite similar to the liberal catholics, despite being (ostensibly, not historically) tied to various ecstatic traditions from europe and elsewhere (but mostly europe). it's a social bonding exercise rather - even if it's just a subcultural sense of separation from "the herd" - than a relevatory faith.

i could go on about this for hours. new thread?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

1951's sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.

And a demo of the Euphoria physics engine. Looks promising, but still needs work as far as I can tell. Specifically, the sound effects, the lack of animation in affected models and the use of R2-D2 figurines feel off (The latter because I picture them as plastic crap things, not heavy or powerful like, say, a bullet or bat, so I'm given no sense of weight to the breaking of physical objects).

This is bound to interest a few: Footage of a Half-Life 2 Wiimote mod, here demonstrated under the brilliant Minerva: Metastasis mod by Adam Foster.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:37 pm Post subject:

Satan Rides The Media, which is a documentary about the Norwegian black metal scene in the early 90s.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Inside Edition - Bill O'Reilly Super Mario Brothers Report

A look at Nintendo of America back when it had complete monopoly over the home console market. I don't know what's sadder- that those Nintendo helplines still exist, or that I actually rang one two years ago when I was stuck on Pokemon Ruby.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Fuck Fox News. This is awesome footage.

If you need context, read this demented babble.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject:

whatever happens, i feel my hair is safe.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

That one guy isn't funny at all. In fact, he is trying so hard to be funny he just makes me feel bad because I know he thinks he's funny and trying very hard to get a part in a comedy TV show. It's sad really.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Neither of those two vids were particularly funny. The first one is great because of how prissy the journalists get. The second one, I only posted for the extra info.

It's the event itself, and the coverage ("ATHF? Never heard of!"), that's ludicrous.

I mean, two weeks.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject:

i laughed, but only because i know what he's doing. he's pissing on them. that's what makes it funny.

but i enjoy a good taunt.
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject:

it's incredible how they're just talking about hair and it's making all the people around them totally unhinged.

the media are casting their lite-brites as "hoax bombs", and they're refusing to play along. the situation is a joke and they're treating it as such.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject:

what's really incredible is how well the boston pd has spun their utter fuck-up into someone else's fault.

i think a lot of good lessons will be learned here. and a bunch of not so good lessons, of course, as urban "guerrilla marketing" techniques become the tactic du jour for firms across the country.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Conan challenges Serena Williams to Wii Tennis
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Howard Beale - The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves

David Bowie's Dead Man Walking done acoustically.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject:

it's too bad network is so tedious, since it has such great setpieces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjESY-1grfk

this made my pants hurt, like that billy squier video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiCPOmLWttI
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

JESUS FUCK THIS DOG IS GOING TO GIVE ME NIGHTMARES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLXHvBFG-CI
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject:

heh, walks like the dogs from achewood.

apparently he's a vet school case study as an outer limits - isn't this neat - sort of thing.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

So, how do you like find these full movies on google video?
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Mister Toups · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: