Archive for the 'Media' Category
‘Act of Valor’: Top to Bottom U.S. Navy Propaganda Film, Uses Active Duty SEALs as Actors, Raw Footage Kept for ‘Training and Other Purposes’
February 4th, 2012Via: Wikipedia: Act of Valor began as a recruitment video for the U.S. military’s Naval Special Warfare Command. In 2007, Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh of Bandido Brothers Production filmed a video for the Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen SWCC which led the Navy to allow them to use SEALs for Act of Valor. None of […]
‘Gasland’ Director Arrested for Attempting to Film Congressional Hearing on Fracking
February 2nd, 2012Via: Politico: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Josh Fox was arrested Wednesday morning after attempting to film a House Science Committee hearing on hydraulic fracturing. Fox was led out in handcuffs by the Capitol police shortly after 10 a.m., before the hearing could be gaveled into order. The “Gasland” director was attempting to film the hearing looking […]
The Invisible War
January 26th, 2012Via: The Invisible War:
The Age of Transitions
January 23rd, 2012Via: The Age of Transitions:
Kill Hollywood
January 21st, 2012Via: Y Combinator: Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot […]
Side by Side
January 20th, 2012Via: Side by Side: Side by Side Official Trailer (2012) from Company Films on Vimeo. Related: Eastman Kodak Files for Bankruptcy Protection
It’s a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World
January 17th, 2012Via: Independent: It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters. The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 […]
TT3D: Closer to the Edge
January 15th, 2012Note: This has absolutely nothing to do with Cryptogon-related topics. My brother in law gave me TT3D: Closer to the Edge, but when I realized that it was about motorcycle racing, I almost didn’t watch it. I have no interest in motorcycle racing. I had never heard about the Isle of Man TT race before […]
George Lucas: Hollywood Wouldn’t Back Film About Tuskegee Airmen Due to All Black Cast
January 12th, 2012Via: Washington Post: In a series of interviews in recent days Lucas has said he himself had to bankroll “Red Tails,” a movie 23 years in the making about the Tuskegee Airmen opening Jan. 20. Lucas invested $93 million of his own money for the making and distribution of the film, according to “Speakeasy,” a […]
Ten Plotlines You’ll Find in Science Fiction — Over and Over Again
December 28th, 2011This topic needs a far weirder treatment than the khaki-clad nine-to-fivers at io9 are capable of providing. Maybe Brainsturbator will do this properly someday. For an unabridged version, see Secret Sun. Via: io9: Science fiction is a genre of limitless possibilities, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few ideas writers keep coming back to […]
