Sehr schön meta, Brannans Video zu “Beautifully“: Musikvideodreh im Musikvideo, Brannan in verschiedenen Rollen, Überzeichnung von Setting und Plot… Fehlt eigentlich nur, dass jemand Star-Spangled Banner anstimmt. (Sorry.)
[This is a post for historians of the future, when Wikipedia, after it will have been forbidden entirely (like all major "anarchistic" publications of the early years of the State-Grid-Halliburton-Google-Web (called World-Wide-Web back then)), will also have been systematically purged from all archives.]
Users at the time were not fully aware of the threatening danger posed by a legislation influenced by state politics/old-ecomnomy oligarchs/criminal syndicates to free speech, network neutrality, accessibility of internet services, … (plus the once in a century chance to change the whole planet for the better), worldwide. Therefore, they, instead of joining the protest, rather switched off JavaScript on Wikipedia.org and complained about those political nerds/idiots. Could they actually be so naive to believe that they could possibly change anything?
In case you don’t know the songs listed as part of the annual reincarnation of the baby boomers’ perfect Christmas, have a listen. This is all from the 1950s.
Really worth having a look at this Australian commercial against sex-based marriage discrimination. Next to the wonderful music and images, the speed of the narrated time together with fast cutting puts viewers readily into the perspective of the focalizer, who is one part of a young couple living their life together. In the end, the other half proposes… And the viewer can decide whether to accept or not…
["It's Time," Get Up! Action for Australia, YouTube, Music Oliver Tank ("Last Night I Heard Everything in Slow Motion"), 24 Nov. 2011, via]
Background is that the majority of Australian voters support marriage equality, but PM Julia Gillard opposes it on grounds of the usual Christian-fundamentalist-based ideas of the inequality of men and women…
Learn about the history of English in ten minutes: Much faster and funnier than e.g. Baugh and Cable–but, alas!, probably not sufficient to pass your BA exam. Anyway, have a look:
…scheint mir der Ruskin überaus lesenswert und höchst aktuell. Vielleicht sollte man Politiker und Wirtschaftsfunktionäre zur Lektüre solcher Texte drängen? (Das ist möglicherweise ein Vorteil der konsekutiven Studiensysteme, in denen als BA so etwas sinnvolles wie Literatur, Kultur oder Philosophie und als MA dann berufliches Handwerkszeug wie Wirtschaft oder Jura studiert wird…)
So far as I know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, “Buy in the cheapest marekt and sell in the dearest,” represents, or under any circumstances could represent, an available pinciple of [...] economy. (John Ruskin, “Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy” (Unto this Last and Other Writings; Hg. Clive Wilmer; London: Penguin, 1997; 155-228; Print; 187))
…Mal so ganz aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen. Sorry. Müsster selber lesen!
Another example from the very helpful YouTube channel of Pronunciation Manual.
Nah, you’re right. This is taking the piss out of the weird channel of Pronunciation Book–and they really mean it. “This video shows you how to pronounce ciabatta. Learn the correct American English pronunciation of the Italian bread.” Have a look:
I know it is not CCTV, but still an interesting story about, perhaps, UK’s first spy pictures ever. A couple of years ago, the National Archives uncovered how the police spied on the suffragettes. You can read about this here: Dominic Casciani, “Spy pictures of suffragettes revealed,” BBC News Online, 3 Oct. 2003.
How to Be a Retronaut have just posted a whole section of these photos that were used by police officers to identify suspects. Now, it seems to be a gallery of pride in the fight for women’s rights.
[Unfortunately, I cannot give full credit to the photographers. However, due to crown copyright regulations, the photo is in the public domain.]
Ganz Großbritannien spricht über den Abhörskandal um News of the World.
Ganz Großbritannien?
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Ja, ganz Großbritannien! Sogar Dan und Dan. Und sie haben eine Geschäftsidee…
“Thrush” ist übrigens “Soor”, also eine Pilzinfektion der Mundschleimhaut.
There is an episode of the CollegeHumor Show that uses the same kind of idea. Instead of an office environment, its setting is based on the first shot of Inglourious Basterds. It might be worth comparing (especially the focus of the grammar (in the wide sense) corrections). Anyway, *schnöff* their channel doesn’t allow embedding.
Wenn es so schüttet wie heute, ist Summen angesagt…
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Whow! Race relations, incest, drugs, homophobia, violence, North/South issues, …, in the USA. Everything you always wanted to see in one film. There you go:
It is a bit too much at times. Timing of the scenes and something else (that I can’t really put my finger on at the moment) slightly off beat all the time. However, well acted, wonderfully picturesque setting, camera showing the right perspective, the right angle, very subjective… (The end is crap, though. I would have wanted the three of them to leave and to go into the woods. Some classical ending. Yes, there is the baptism scene, but that hardly suffices.) Well, good to get a glimpse of some contemporary, provincial American, subjective point of view of everyday life (however specific it might be). A recommendation.
There’s all kinds of political comments in Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden (the whole text is stance against the Persian Gulf War of 1990/91 (at least)). The different forms of these are especially interesting. This is a poem therefrom:
Hear it comes again, riverRerun past towering erections of the five Cousins with but one middle initial among them. I’ve seen The Best Minds of My Generation but I should’ve waited for the sequel. Revenge, renege, regain, once more around the bases.
Doesn’t nobody on this bus know any new jokes—Of course not, O Fool, for this is America I here singing: New Boston, New Trier, New London, New Berlin, New Hiroshima, New Victorygarden, New Jeruseylem [sic]. All’re bored!
Life mag say Mars Is Our Next Home (gee ‘n’ I can’t afford the one I ain’t got now) we’re gonna take that red planet & paint the town blue & we shall build an urb upon that orb & its name shall be calléd [sic]: SeemYouLackerTM : Registered Treadmark [sic] of the New and Improved Babylon.
