Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Deep Listening: Bérangère Maximin Interviewed

Watch GIF-iti Artist INSA Create the World’s Largest GIF

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Jesse Ting: Swans @Corner Hotel Melbourne (20/1/15)

Auschwitz: Drone video of Nazi concentration camp

Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today - 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a World Heritage Site and is visited by thousands of tourists and survivors every year. Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans during World War II. More than a million people - the vast majority of them Jews - died there between 1940, when it was built, and 1945, when it was liberated by the Soviet army

Zen Paradox - Bed 16

Recorded in bed in Rockhampton Base Hospital, Nov 2012, after Steve Law was admitted for a fractured spine following a car accident. All sounds recorded in the ward on Macbook Pro built-in mic

Adam Curtis: The Mayfair Set (1999)

A conflict of interest: the Saudi state and the UK’s Ministry of Justice

Monday, 26 January 2015

Black Cab - Live @Shebeen Melbourne (25/1/15)

Closing Ceremony
Supermadchen
Combat Boots
Kornelia Ender
Victorious
Go Slow
My War
Sexy Polizei
Dream Baby
586
Underground Star
Hearts On Fire
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Recorded on my trusty Tascam

Adam Curtis: Bitter Lake

Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
Bitter Lake is a new, adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can’t really see the world any longer.
The narrative goes all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia - but the country at the heart of it is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted our politicians with the terrible truth - that they cannot understand what is going on any longer.
The film reveals the forces that over the past thirty years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to understand the world. And it shows the strange, dark role that Saudi Arabia has played in this.
But Bitter Lake is also experimental. Curtis has taken the unedited rushes of everything that the BBC has ever shot in Afghanistan - and used them in new and radical ways.
He has tried to build a different and more emotional way of depicting what really happened in Afghanistan. A counterpoint to the thin, narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power today.