Spiegel TV has tracked down rare Nazi TV footage, complete with everything from bizarre cabaret acts to interviews with people like Albert Speer. Pop culture done by Nazis, the banality of showbiz evil.
via Kottke
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The last real post on Your Daily Awesome:
“When I posted the clip from True Stories of David Byrne deadpanning his way through the history of Texas, I didn’t realize that it would be YDA’s last real post. But if pressed to choose a closing statement, I’d be hard-pressed to select something more appropriate to this blog’s sensibilities.”
Don’t be put off by the ‘Loaded’ style laddish presentation, the Vice guide to North Korea is very much worth watching. Fourteen, five minute segments where the Vice guys bribe their way into Pyongyang and are taken on a series of surreal tours to barren destinations throughout the failed state.
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Another very good video magazine from SexyBeijing is the Hard Hat show. Here, Beijing based English film maker, Nick Bonner talks about his films about North Korea.
Sexy Beijing is a videoblog, written and presented by a New Yorker (I assume), living in China, Anna Sophie Loewenberg. Its great, everything that video blogging should be, short, smart and funny. Collect them all.
A galaxy of Chinese stars (almost none of whom are recognizable in the West) sporting Zoolander haircuts and wearing the type of clothes that children’s TV presenters wear (hip, but very clean, and not too hip that you’ll scare the kids) sing an anthemic, fist in the air, Chinese pop song of the universal “We are the World” genre.
This is a fascinating glimpse of what an emerging, mainstream Chinese TV culture might look like, and you get to see all the cool new buildings that Beijing has built for the Olympics (the stadium, swimming stadium, national theater, Beijing museum and airport etc.) The lyrics to the song go something like this:
“When you see our Olympics on TV in America, you will shit your pa-ants. We take your capitalism, sell you plastic toy and build ourselves a free-eeway. There are a billion of us, we are very indu-ustrious, you can never wi-in. Repeat 78 times: There are a billion of us, you can never wi-in.”
Running time: 6 mins 50 secs
98 mins.
If you are like me and think that all current women’s fashion design looks like it was designed for heavily pregnant women by toothless fortune-tellers from Bucharest, then Moritz Waldemeyer’s forays into fashion for the likes of Hussein Chalayan, are a breath of modern, fresh air.
via: This is That
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Punk music did what intellectual, minimalist composers in the public funded basement of IRCAM could only wish for: extract the maximum amount of emotional energy from the minimal amount of notes. Steve Jones here proves that the Sex Pistols riffs could have been produced by someone with little or no musical training – but only if that person was a natural.