Jamie Oliver Gasses Chicks

June 1st, 2008 · 5 comments or link to (permalink)

I’m of the view that if you are going to eat meat, you should be prepared to kill it. At the very least you should be aware of what you are eating. In this clip, UK chef, Jamie Oliver presents one of those cushy awards style shows where people sit around round dinner tables sipping wine. He asks the guests to select the paler of a bunch of cute baby chicks and put them in a box (these are the males). He then gasses them, something that is done to all male chicks by egg producers around the world, organic or regular. Male baby chicks are disposable, non-financially viable assets. The guests are predictably and presumably hypocritically (if they eat eggs) upset.

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King Corn – extended clip

May 6th, 2008 · 2 comments or link to (permalink)

A voyage of discovery to see where America’s food comes from. This seems like a good topic, since where America’s food comes from has changed more in the last 20 years than the previous 100, replacing the bucolic ideal of the American cowboy rancher with giant agribusinesses and Yale graduate presidents in Stetsons.
(I like the idea of these extended clips for PBS documentaries)

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David Hockney on What’s Unphotographable

April 8th, 2008 · 30 comments or link to (permalink)

David Hockney on What’s Unphotographable

A nice clip from The New Shock Of The New, which I assume is an update to the classic Robert Hughes series of the 70s. The original series would rank in my top 10 all time TV programs, so I am now scurrying around trying to find a complete version.
via Andy Jones

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Cellular Automata edited version of Psycho Shower Scene

March 28th, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

psychoblurt666.mov

“Algorithmically generated hyper-edit of Hitchcock’s Psycho shower scene using cellular automata to determine sound and image.”
Hmm.

Maurice Methot 5 min 18 sec Jan 30, 2007

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Commercial break: Be Kind Rewind Style Remake of Be Kind Rewind Trailer

March 23rd, 2008 · 4 comments or link to (permalink)

Be Kind Rewind is about a guy who works in a video store who is magnetic, accidentally erases all the videos and decides to remake them himself. A bunch of French guys decided to do the same with the trailer for the movie itself. So deliciously meta.
Be Kind Rewind Sweded Trailer

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