tagged w/ Social Commentary
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George Carlin on the freedom of speech: the famous "seven words" that cannot be uttered on the public airwaves in America.George Carlin on the freedom of speech: the famous "seven words" that cannot... more
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Hitler has been dreaming about the day that Apple's tablet will be announced. That day has come and he is not pleased. This is one of the best Downfall parodies I've seen yet.Hitler has been dreaming about the day that Apple's tablet will be announced.... more
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George Carlin notes (among other things) that "there are no losers in America anymore" -- so how the fuck did I miss out on that valuable experience?George Carlin notes (among other things) that "there are no losers in America... more
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Doze Green merges influences from his East Coast graffiti and b boy background with a painting style he refined on the West Coast. The resulting artwork is complex and intensely symbolic, serving as a means of both social commentary and self-awareness. His interest in the duality of the human condition is reflected throughout his pieces. Doze Green's work has been displayed in cities across Europe, Japan, Australia, and the United States. Watch the interview, available for the first time to the public for free, on Walrus TV.Doze Green merges influences from his East Coast graffiti and b boy background with a... more
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This video parody brilliantly dissects the average television news report. It is not only hilarious, but it's unfortunately too true, and for this reason alone, should alert video news teams that their craft is in jeopardy because of its stunning inanity and predictability. This should be required viewing for all journalism classes.This video parody brilliantly dissects the average television news report. It is not... more
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Rights are cute ideas. Rights aren't rights at all if someone can take them away. 'God-given rights' are due to the god excuse: if god really gave you rights, he would have given you the right to have food every day and a roof over your head. But god is not (obviously!) taking care of you at all.Rights are cute ideas. Rights aren't rights at all if someone can take them away.... more
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Here's George Carlin's brilliant and witty commentary about baseball (which only serves to further elevate his comedic status in my opinion).Here's George Carlin's brilliant and witty commentary about baseball (which... more
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George Carlin can make anything funny. No, seriously.
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George Carlin, a comedic genius, makes a few priceless (and disturbing) observations about America's fondness for war.George Carlin, a comedic genius, makes a few priceless (and disturbing) observations... more
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As wildfires fires continue to rage in the Angeles National Forest, polar glaciers melt, ocean levels rise, and hurricanes grow more powerful as the world gets warmer, we are looking not only at The Age of Stupid, but the rise of Dystopian Cinema.
A Dystopian world is the opposite of a Utopian one, basically: usually miserable, poverty-stricken, and dehumanizing. Last year Wall-E proved a surprise blockbuster, while 2009 brought us Alex Proyas’s Knowing, starring Nic Cage as a man facing a grim forecast for the world, McG’s Terminator Salvation, set in the future as John Connor (Christian Bale) rages against the Machines, and Neill Blomkamp’s sleeper hit District 9 with its insect-like aliens living in a fetid South African slum. Still to come: Shane Acker’s animated 9, John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the British documentary hybrid The Age of Stupid, and the latest sky-is-falling installment from Roland Emmerich, 2012: dystopian movies all.
If we’re not scared yet, we should be.
Filmmakers have been imagining the end of the world and what life would be like for its survivors since William Cameron Menzies’ 1936 H.G. Wells adaptation Things to Come. The nuclear age brought 1959’s On the Beach, followed decades later by George Miller’s 1979 Mad Max and its sequels, Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner, and more recently, Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men (2006) and Will Smith in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (2007).
Opening September 9, the animated 9 pits friendly humanoid robots against deadly monster-bots. Set to open October 16 after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival, The Road stars Viggo Mortensen as a father trying to protect his young son (Garret Dillahunt) in a hostile, fire-ravaged world inhabited by gangs of cannibals scavenging for food. Here’s the Apple trailer. (@ link)
UPDATE: Another movie coming up that fits the bill is the Hughes brothers’ Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington as yet another warrior in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The Guardian has theories about this trend.
The post-apocalyptic disaster movie is one strain of the genre. Armed with the latest VFX, will 2012 prove as successful on November 13 as Emmerich’s other destroy-the-Earth scenarios Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow? Here’s the 2012 trailer: (@ link)As wildfires fires continue to rage in the Angeles National Forest, polar glaciers... more
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19 minute film endeavouring to capture the festive atmosphere and some of the colourful characters of the G20 demo in the City of London on the eve of the G20 Summit. By photohumourist, Paul Treacy. If you like it, please pass it on. Thanks.
Paul Treacy19 minute film endeavouring to capture the festive atmosphere and some of the... more
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In an effort to raise a little capital for urgently needed new gear, I have put together two galleries of my street photography in hopes of selling some open edition prints. They are not expensive and would make for excellent gifts or an exciting addition to your print collection.
Images approximate between 12x8 and 13x9 inches on 11x14 inch Fuji Crystal Archive stock and sell for £35 apiece.
I need to raise an additional £500 to get video and audio equipment by summer's end for a series of short films I'm developing. I'm relatively new to motion capture but I see it as an increasingly important part of my professional activities going forward.
If you know anyone who might like some off-kilter street photography for their walls, then please let them know about this material. I would be enormously appreciative.
Many thanks.
Paul TreacyIn an effort to raise a little capital for urgently needed new gear, I have put... more
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After visiting a Denny's Restaurant, President Obama was visibly shaken and disillusioned; and plans to abandon complex policies on emissions, clean coal and refocus on achievable goals like applying deodorant daily, and learning what to say when you burp.After visiting a Denny's Restaurant, President Obama was visibly shaken and... more
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Let’s get the hoary ol’ cliche out of the way right off: sex sells. That’s a formula relied upon by anyone involved in the media — including podcast producers hoping to up their hit counts (and thus, permit me a moment to address the search engines directly: sex, sex, sexity, sex, sex, sex. And, in conclusion, boobies) — and it’s certainly something wholeheartedly embraced by the practitioners of burlesque. Thing is, as revealed by director Deirdre Timmons in her new documentary, A WINK AND A SMILE, contemporary burlesque has started throwing a little post-modern self-awareness into the stew, making performances both the rip-roarin’ celebrations of undulating flesh they always were, and more knowing send-ups of the self-same celebrations, calling into question notions of beauty, eros, and the proper deployment of brightly dyed feathers.
Fortunately, Timmons — who herself has spent some time strutting the stage — knows enough to balance her doc’s intellect with the stuff that gets the (fully clothed) butts into the seats: performances that range from the genuinely erotic to the raucously satirical (better brace yourself for Ernie von Schmaltz, a cross-dressing female performer who flaunts a prosthetic pot-belly and prodigious faux chest hair). Come for boobs, hang around for the brains — now that’s what I call a full-service documentary.
Click on the above link to hear my interview with Timmons.Let’s get the hoary ol’ cliche out of the way right off: sex sells.... more
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Photo by: psd http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1806225034/
I had a question posed by a friend, and I’d thought I’d seek your advice (mine is usually worthless anyway).
“What would you do if you had added a friend on Facebook whom you had known many years but when you read their page you saw lies and embellishments on their alumni status and degrees that you know for a fact they didn't get? In my case this person to which I am referring works for a CHURCH! I am so stunned. How can a person live such a lie?! Do you think it's just the social networking disease where people think they have to portray their lives much better than the reality to create a facade?? What's totally ironic (or not) is that in the description of herself this person refers to [themselves] as "for real" and "authentic". I am disturbed but don't know if I have any responsibility to keep my mouth shut or write the person or their employer?! I have lost alot of respect for this person and am mulling over what to think...”
What do you think? Is there a 'moral' responsibility?Photo by: psd http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1806225034/
I had a question posed... more
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Check out this newly launched magazine, curated by Magnum Photo's David Alan Harvey. Some of the finest photojournalism being done today is and will be here;
http://www.burnmagazine.orgCheck out this newly launched magazine, curated by Magnum Photo's David Alan... more
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A short, hectic, stop motion freecording of me and my sons going to school.
Shot with a Nikon D200 and spliced together in iMovie 08.
If this piece makes it to TV it can be prepped for HD.
Music by Matt Messina used with permission.
http://paultreacy.comA short, hectic, stop motion freecording of me and my sons going to school.
Shot... more
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The newer, lovelier version of my 2006 book. Lovers of street photography, visual wit and dogs will appreciate this book. I guarantee it.
http://photohumourist.comThe newer, lovelier version of my 2006 book. Lovers of street photography, visual wit... more
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The Tsunami of Legacy will Move the Obamas to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
There's JOY in her voice, JOY in the song and a JOYOUS election.The Tsunami of Legacy will Move the Obamas to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...... more
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