THE CORPORATION..
HELLO blog.
The year is 2006.
I spent my new years day watching the documentry “The Corporation”. Has anyone seen that? That is a long ass docu’. Some 2.5 hours long, but really good in a kind of depressing human way. Its a flick I think all the local friends should see, especially Clint, and Mike, Nik and so on, good conversational fodder there. …. and if you dont know… its:
SYNOPSIS
THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.
Winner of 24 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, 10 of them AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS including the AUDIENCE AWARD for DOCUMENTARY in WORLD CINEMA at the 2004 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. The long-awaited DVD, available now in Australia and coming in March to North America, contains over 8 hour of additional footage.
The film is based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan.
Now before you get all fussy and think “great another psycho babble dan flick” well it could be just that but hey its pretty darn entertaining as well. Over the past year or so I kept seeing it at blockbuster, the one lone copy on the shelf and it was always out. Visit after vist after visit.. dang, still out. Had to pick it up when i saw it.
It is a bit depressing to watch at times and it seemed to go on and on and on and on, still one little thing kept nagging me, is that documentry voice chick the same voice on the Animatrix DVD? Ya know the cyber computer voice? It seemed awfuly close. Anyways, some cool research studies in there as well, like the nag factor which isn’t suprising but i guess I dont want to think that its really crafted and sought out to do. Seeing all these power point slides that show how to manipulate childern into nagging for better increased sales is pretty sad. Its that part of research thats a bit of a bummer really.
Ya know the web is pretty hilarious at times. I did a quick search on the nag factor to get some linkage here and then i across a site called word spy.. had to look further.. HA! Check out this hilarious word… “time porn”
time porn (TYM porn) n. Television shows and other media that portray characters as having excessive amounts of spare time.
Too funny.
So ya, go catch the Corporation, lemme know what you think.
TESTING TESTING
I am testing the new firefox plug in, well not on this post, but soon to be other posts for the blog via the new plugin “performancing..”.
Let’s see.. whats new in blogosphere.
BLOGWATCH!
Ya know I heard Google was up 7 frickin bucks.. SEVEN.. to a mere 400+ change? LOL thats crazy. Go Google.
One of the best blogs to watch during 2005 was, is, and shall be, Design Sponge. Tons of great craft ideas on that gals site. Calssic stuff goes there. Go get now, go see. Love it!
I love the “Enemy of BIll Gates” poster.. LOL
Creating Passionate Users is another awesome blog filled with these perdictions for 2006 and a post that led me to The Book of Cool, which i need to get for office folk.
Jo Ito is the man to watch if yer interesting in conferences that you thought never before existed. This guy is everywhere. He’s one of the prime navigators of the blogosphere, in Dune he’d be one of those spice gobbling space worm things that say things like “no.. paul atradies… we want him KILLED…”. Actually I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but bow before this man’s connections is what i mean. All over the map. I dare yee to follow Jo for a month or so and u’ll see.
HobbyPrincess was one of the better read blogs of 2005. A new comer to the flooz list the princess delivers on multiple angles. At first yes, its crafty, and we like that, DIY is good, but then you get a taste of tech, and then deep thought on tech and craftyness. Good stuff.
Take the Web 2.0 quiz!
Ok its not a blog but Nokia’s site is on eof the coolest most impressive mondo data sites i’ve seen on the web. I love thier design, their imagery, their message, everything. And did I mention I think I want a new phone?
AlarmClock is that cool IPO to be / who’s buying who site out there. I love that blog. Today’s digs on it included ScanR which I recall seeing awhile back, very cool and LifeSize a “life size” video conferencing type system. Now why do we care about these techs? Its not that we care, its that someone cares enough to funnel oooodles of millions into them as to why we should then care and follow and see.
One thing that rings in my head from last year is Innovation. Clearly one of the bigger buzz words of 2005. Everyone had a taste of it, from Apple to Google to Web2.0 etc.. from metacool today I come across it again.
On the social gaming side of things, Terra Nova goes off to do what i’ve wanted to do for a long time. I too have wondered what it would be like to have this mystery account just sprung on you, the disorientation of “ok this is who i am..” could it be like buying idenitiies online? Cool research material.
Top 50 Music Videos of 2005 while yer at it, love Jason.