Archives for 16 April 2003

De allerbeste basketballer aller tijden neemt morgen (weer) afscheid van het basketball. Bij Vak M een voorbeschouwing, zou iemand deze kunnen tapen voor mij? Mijn video doet de laatste tijd zo raar.

Moore is, in short, a documentary filmmaker who makes fictional documentaries. That’s right, fictional documentaries; it’s a pretty well-established genre, with some especially good work done by Dziga Vertov in the Soviet Union and Leni Reifenstahl in Germany. Granted, it might be saying something that they were working under Stalin and Hitler, respectively, but I digress. Moore, from his initial film, Roger and Me, to his most recent, Bowling for Columbine, has repeatedly misrepresented events and chronologies, baldly edited speeches and conversations to produce his desired effect, lied pathologically in his narrations, and, at times, has outright staged scenes for better cinematic effect. Since Bowling for Columbine won an Oscar this year for best documentary, let’s take a quick look at some of his more vagrantly disgraceful documentary techniques with which Moore uses to gleefully piss on the memories of those shot on that day…

It took 24 hours to destroy thousands and thousands of years of history housed in the Iraqi antiquities museum, along with the written legacy of ancient civilizations destroyed in the Iraqi national library and religious texts:

“This morning, the ashes were still smoldering at the Ministry for Religious Affairs, where a building housing thousands of Korans, many of them illuminated and hand written, several a thousand years old, had been burned to a charred shell. It was another severe blow to Iraq’s 10,000 years of cultural history, along with the looting of the National Museum and the burning of the National Library, in which countless priceless artifacts and books were lost.”

This devastation of loss to mankind merited barely a word of acknowledgment in the daily Don Rumsfeld disinformation briefings. Instead, he ridiculed coverage of the destruction by dismissively claiming that the television stations were showing the same young man carrying the same vase over and over again…

VSOP – Achter De Vuurlinie. Ga dan ook effe naar www.funx.nl om op deze gasten te stemmen.

Een berichtje op admanager.nl:

De internetgemeenschap Focus-In stelt vanaf 14 april haar hoofdpagina ter beschikking aan de bezoekers van de site. Door middel van een weblog, de Focus-In Metablog, krijgen talentvolle Focus-Inners de kans om hun schrijf- en surfkunsten op een veelbekeken podium te tonen.”

OK, leuk, goed idee! Ik ben benieuwd of deze groeplog het wel gaat volhouden…

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Lekker festival bij onze oosterburen, Nature One.
Iemand misschien al eens geweest, ervaring daar?
Lijkt me toch wel een erg vet festival!
Wie gaan er mee?