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Undercover WIFI

Note to self: if you're on a stakeout for the Feds, don't call your van's WIFI network FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN. Luckily this douchebag didn't put two and two together.

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22nd Aug 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Dinner For Five

The show never really made it over here in the UK (was showing on the Film 24 channel), but Jon Favreau's Hollywood-insider show Dinner For Five makes for an interesting watch, with many episodes on YouTube. Kevin Smith hosts the episode above, with Jason Lee, Stan Lee, Mark Hamill and JJ Abrams shooting the breeze.

See Will Ferrell and Eddie Izzard amongst the guests in the clip below.

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17th Aug 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Skate or die: Barbarians at the Gate

Great slice of 90's skate action with Josh Beagle, Ronnie Creager and Heath Kirchart leading the charge in this Spike Jonze-related skate classic which sends the under-age drinkers on an irrsponsible road-trip accross America. It starts with a ridiculous Land Rover jump and heads downhill from there, beautifully soundtracked along the way.

I've been Googling for this skate video classic every 12 months or so, and finally some conscience-free skate fan has had the decency to dump the whole thing onto YouTube as a playlist. My US NTSC VHS copy was getting a little unplayable.

Via Skate.ly - an awesome archive of online skate movies.

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12th Aug 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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10 Minute Film School with Robert Rodriguez

I'd forgotten all about Robert Rodriguez's excellent 10 minute film school videos, which are inspriring and influential in a way that his actual films have always failed to be. Also check out his excellent book Rebel Without A Crew.

Via Chase Jarvis

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11th Aug 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Secret Stasi Photos

Fascinating set of photos over at www.simonmenner.com where the photographer has curated photos from the vast, formerlly secret archive of East Germany's Stasi secret police.

"In a time that is more and more defined by mechanisms of surveillance the "gaze of the Big Brother" seems ever more omnipresent. This brings me to the point to ask myself what it really is that the Big Brother sees. Can the terror such a repressive system spreads be found in these images? Or is the "gaze of evil" pretty banal and we have to attach the terror ourselves?

Mostly the results of surveillance remain hidden. An outstanding exemption is the work of the East German Stasi, which has been made widely accessible after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I believe that these archives can broaden our understanding of the function of surveillance and repression."

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10th Aug 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet