documentaries

[bitewerksMTB]

MANKIND: THE STORY OF ALL OF US

http://www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us#fbid=VzDvTIgJVbw

Final show is on Tuesday night about modern man, the less interesting.. Fave bits were about The Mongols & flinging diseased cadavers over city walls.

I'm a big fan of this show on Animal Planet:

http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/monsters-inside-me

Definitely will make you want to wash your hands after handling EVERYTHING & never, ever travel to third world countries.

[RyanWreck]

I didn't like Mankind much, but I have yet to see them all. All of the other stuff that production company had done, such as Planet Earth and the other one on Sci about the Solar System were really good.

[redswordwhiteplough]

Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog was interesting.

[Invisible War]

MARWENCOL

On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked outside of a bar by five men who beat him nearly to death. After nine days in a coma and forty days in the hospital, Mark was discharged with brain damage that left him little memory of his previous life.
Unable to afford therapy, Mark creates his own by building a 1/6-scale World War II-era Belgian town in his yard and populating it with dolls representing himself, his friends, and even his attackers. He calls that town "Marwencol," a portmanteau of the names "Mark," "Wendy" and "Colleen." He rehabilitates his physical wounds by manipulating the small dolls and props — and his mental ones by having the figures act out various battles and stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWFhplFSEQ

[tiny_tove]

this looks excellent

[Levas]

It's been rather boring for most of the time - too long and too much of nothing happening. Or my expectations were too high. talking for minutes about how he always wanted to wear high heels etc.

[online prowler]

ARNOLD

-pumping iron-

informative and fun - HA!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1-lIVHkfjA

[online prowler]

Henry Darger

-The Realms of the Unreal-



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlvDKcDvsI

[redswordwhiteplough]

Does anyone know if Slow Southern Steel has yet been released, and where could I get Romua, ruiskeita, rutinaa?

[bitewerksMTB]

"FrackNation"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/21/fracknation-documentary-attacks-critics/1851609/

Debunks a lot of the documentary, "Gasland" & its director.

[HongKongGoolagong]

"FrackNation"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/21/fracknation-documentary-attacks-critics/1851609/

Debunks a lot of the documentary, "Gasland" & its director.

They started fracking near here just lately and suddenly we had earthquakes for the first time ever. The local critics and campaigners are not your usual ecowarrior types, they are elderly and conservative farmers who've never done anything like political campaigning before. Don't know enough about the possible water poisoning issues to say anything and think the whole discussion is none too fascinating, just think it's funny how people suddenly get enraged when something encroaches on their own back yard.

[bitewerksMTB]

I don't know much about it either but GasLand makes it sound like the world is going to end (Some of the people in GL are really suspect intheir claims) & FrackNation makes it sound harmless. I'm sure the truth is in the middle- some places have issues, most do not. It's been going on in the US since the '40s- the process isn't new, just using it on shale is. The earthquake claims sound overblown; tremors would be more accurate & since fracking is all over the US, there doesn't seem to be much of them going on. I think natural gas sounds like the best bet over windmills, solar, or electric  cars (both use rare earth minerals that are hardly enviromentally friendly considering they come from China).

One comment in the docu is that the fracking process is only about 3 days out of everything else that is done. It isn't like it goes on forever.

Mentions earthquakes:

http://www.ohio.com/editorial/robert-w-chase-five-myths-about-fracking-1.257129

[online prowler]

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Tape loop mayhem.

Via ubuweb: The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create 'new kinds of sounds'. The Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake's Seven and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and charts its fading away in 1995 when, due to budget cuts, it was no longer able to survive.

http://www.ubu.com/film/alchemists.html

[HongKongGoolagong]

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Tape loop mayhem.

Via ubuweb: The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create 'new kinds of sounds'. The Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake's Seven and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and charts its fading away in 1995 when, due to budget cuts, it was no longer able to survive.

http://www.ubu.com/film/alchemists.html

Great documentary. Delia Derbyshire was quite the noise pioneer. Her incidental sound effect music which I have on various vinyl editions freaks out the cat like nothing else does but early Whitehouse.

[Jordan]

The New Sound Of Music 1979 (Part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MsyOe7xCqg

There's also this BBC documentary which is kind of related. It doesn't focus on any of the personalities of the Radiophonic Workshop, but rather the techniques employed there etc. Not nearly as interesting as The Alchemists of Sound, especially to people here who are familiar with the techniques employed, but a historical curiosity nonetheless.

Strangely enough, my cat, having been raised on a steady listening regiment of early Whitehouse and other high-pitched, feedback laden musics, only really has a problem with people playing guitar or singing in the same room as her. She'll put her paw over the fret board and plead-meow for the offender to stop. Or she'll just bite them. I can play with loud, amplified feedback to my hearts content, and it doesn't phase her in the least. Recorded sounds of people singing and playing guitar don't bother her either. Noise Cat.