Hello everyone. I am going to change formats a bit and create pre-recorded episodes, rather than live. I will start by re-releasing new versions of my previous 3 shows with many more to come. Please check back towards the end of March 08 for the first of a series of new shows.
Thanks!
Toby
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
The Tank Man
Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the Tiananmen Square protests on 5 June 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks, preventing their advance. The most widely reproduced version of the photograph was taken by Jeff Widener (Associated Press), from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile (800 m) away, through a 400 mm lens.
Another version was taken by photographer Stuart Franklin of Magnum Photos. His photograph has a wider field of view than Widener's picture, showing more tanks in front of the man. Franklin subsequently won a World Press Award for the photograph. It was featured in LIFE magazine's "100 Photos that Changed the World" in 2003. Variations of the image were also recorded by CNN and BBC film crews, on videotape, and were transmitted across the world.
The still and motion photography of the man standing alone before a line of tanks reached international audiences practically overnight. It headlined hundreds of major newspapers and news magazines and was the lead story on countless news broadcasts around the world. In April 1998, the United States magazine TIME included the "Unknown Rebel" in its 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/
Another version was taken by photographer Stuart Franklin of Magnum Photos. His photograph has a wider field of view than Widener's picture, showing more tanks in front of the man. Franklin subsequently won a World Press Award for the photograph. It was featured in LIFE magazine's "100 Photos that Changed the World" in 2003. Variations of the image were also recorded by CNN and BBC film crews, on videotape, and were transmitted across the world.
The still and motion photography of the man standing alone before a line of tanks reached international audiences practically overnight. It headlined hundreds of major newspapers and news magazines and was the lead story on countless news broadcasts around the world. In April 1998, the United States magazine TIME included the "Unknown Rebel" in its 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/
Century Of The Self
If you have an interest in mass psychology and the power of advertising, this is a remarkably eloquent and epic 4 part series from BBC 4 and director Adam Curtis which explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis and Edward Bernays’ PR techniques in shaping western mass media, politics and consumer culture.
If you can look past the dark and ominous veneer and sit through the 4 one hour segments – it will provide some truly relevant back story for anyone involved in the advertising industry and especially those that use powerful empathy tools like personas.
More details of each episode below ...
Episode 1: Happiness Machines
The story and relationship between Sigmund Freud - the father of psychoanalysis, and his American nephew Edward Bernays – one of the architects of modern ‘public relations’ in the 1920s. Bernays’ techniques of mass-consumer persuasion were deeply influenced by Freud’s work and applied successfully by many companies to systematically link mass-produced goods to the unconscious desires of the population at large.
Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent
This episode explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to suppress the savage potential lurking within each individual. If left to its own devices – the population would revert to the irrational instincts that resulted in the previous decade of war in Europe.
Episode 3: The Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
In the 1960s, radical psychotherapists like Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud’s, challenged influence of Freud’s ideas in America. Rather than pursuing repression and control of the unconscious, this alternate school of thought encouraged self-expression. This resulted in the atomization of the traditional ‘self’ in popular culture and gave rise to the Me Generation. Businesses soon adapted to this change but still used psychoanalytic techniques and researcg methodologies proposed by groups like Stamford Research Institute’s VALs system (Values and Lifestyles) to read the inner desires of the New Self.
Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
This final episode reveals how politics has applied the same principles explored in the first 3 episodes to understand and read the desires of the emergent self.
Tomas Roldan
http://threeminds.organic.com/2007/07/century_of_the_self.html
If you can look past the dark and ominous veneer and sit through the 4 one hour segments – it will provide some truly relevant back story for anyone involved in the advertising industry and especially those that use powerful empathy tools like personas.
More details of each episode below ...
Episode 1: Happiness Machines
The story and relationship between Sigmund Freud - the father of psychoanalysis, and his American nephew Edward Bernays – one of the architects of modern ‘public relations’ in the 1920s. Bernays’ techniques of mass-consumer persuasion were deeply influenced by Freud’s work and applied successfully by many companies to systematically link mass-produced goods to the unconscious desires of the population at large.
Episode 2: The Engineering of Consent
This episode explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to suppress the savage potential lurking within each individual. If left to its own devices – the population would revert to the irrational instincts that resulted in the previous decade of war in Europe.
Episode 3: The Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
In the 1960s, radical psychotherapists like Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud’s, challenged influence of Freud’s ideas in America. Rather than pursuing repression and control of the unconscious, this alternate school of thought encouraged self-expression. This resulted in the atomization of the traditional ‘self’ in popular culture and gave rise to the Me Generation. Businesses soon adapted to this change but still used psychoanalytic techniques and researcg methodologies proposed by groups like Stamford Research Institute’s VALs system (Values and Lifestyles) to read the inner desires of the New Self.
Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
This final episode reveals how politics has applied the same principles explored in the first 3 episodes to understand and read the desires of the emergent self.
Tomas Roldan
http://threeminds.organic.com/2007/07/century_of_the_self.html
Sunday, February 10, 2008
9/11 1st Responders Money bomb Feb 16th 2008!
Reports say nearly 70 percent of 9/11 first responders have debilitating respiratory illnesses.
http://firstrespondersfirst.com/
http://firstrespondersfirst.com/
Unknown creatures found in cave
Eight previously unknown invertebrate creatures have been discovered in a cave in central Israel.
The largest is a white shrimp-like crustacean. Another resembles a species of scorpion and is blind.
The cave, near the city of Ramle, contains a lake and was uncovered during drilling at a quarry.
Scientists say it is a unique ecosystem that has been sealed off from the rest of the world for five million years and could contain other ancient lifeforms.
"The uniqueness is of the environmental conditions and of the palaeohistory," said Dr Hanan Dimantman, a biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
"The result of this is that the ecosystem is unique. We are sure that the eight species that were found are only the beginning of the story of this ecosystem."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5036618.stm
The largest is a white shrimp-like crustacean. Another resembles a species of scorpion and is blind.
The cave, near the city of Ramle, contains a lake and was uncovered during drilling at a quarry.
Scientists say it is a unique ecosystem that has been sealed off from the rest of the world for five million years and could contain other ancient lifeforms.
"The uniqueness is of the environmental conditions and of the palaeohistory," said Dr Hanan Dimantman, a biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
"The result of this is that the ecosystem is unique. We are sure that the eight species that were found are only the beginning of the story of this ecosystem."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5036618.stm
Europa
Galileo discovered Europa. A mission called Galileo was at the moons of jupiter in 1995 and discovered the value of Europa.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Europa
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Europa
Saturday, February 2, 2008
The Great Global Warming Swindle
First shown on in March 2007
This is the film that caused all the fuss. According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn't your fault and there's nothing you can do about it.
Since then, two of the scientists who took part in the film, have made public complaints about the way the film was made. They claim that the way the film was edited gave a misleading impression of critical data and their own viewpoints. There has been a storm of complaint from at least 37 other scientists.
In August 2007, Mike Lockwood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory published a study which may have put the final nail in the coffin for the anti-CO2 brigade. He has shown than since 1985, solar activity has run in the opposite direction to global warming and therefore cannot explain rises in average global temperatures. If this study turns out to the true, then the arguments presented in this film lose much of their strength
The Arguments;
Image from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA
Earth's 4.5 billion year history is one long story of climate change. This fact is pretty much accepted by those who think global warming is a natural process, and by those who think it's caused by man.
In more recent history there has been: a mini ice age in the seventeenth century when the Thames froze so solidly that fairs could regularly be held on the ice; a Medieval Warm Period, even balmier than today; and sunnier still was the so-called Holocene Maximum, which was the warmest period in the last 10,000 years.
This is the film that caused all the fuss. According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn't your fault and there's nothing you can do about it.
Since then, two of the scientists who took part in the film, have made public complaints about the way the film was made. They claim that the way the film was edited gave a misleading impression of critical data and their own viewpoints. There has been a storm of complaint from at least 37 other scientists.
In August 2007, Mike Lockwood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory published a study which may have put the final nail in the coffin for the anti-CO2 brigade. He has shown than since 1985, solar activity has run in the opposite direction to global warming and therefore cannot explain rises in average global temperatures. If this study turns out to the true, then the arguments presented in this film lose much of their strength
The Arguments;
Image from National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA
Earth's 4.5 billion year history is one long story of climate change. This fact is pretty much accepted by those who think global warming is a natural process, and by those who think it's caused by man.
In more recent history there has been: a mini ice age in the seventeenth century when the Thames froze so solidly that fairs could regularly be held on the ice; a Medieval Warm Period, even balmier than today; and sunnier still was the so-called Holocene Maximum, which was the warmest period in the last 10,000 years.
Friday, February 1, 2008
The Corporation
WINNER OF 26 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS! 10 Audience Choice Awards including the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.(source http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=2)
www.thecorporation.com
Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.(source http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=2)
www.thecorporation.com
The Real News
The Real News is a non-profit news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism. Our staff, in collaboration with ... www.therealnews.com/
Libby, Montana 04'
"In the small, blue collar community of Libby, Montana, hard working men and women have fallen victim to the worse case of toxic exposure in recorded U.S. history. When W.R. Grace came to Libby, the citizens welcomed them with open arms. It seemed that a corporation had finally taken notice of this iconic American town, and was prepared to invest in its honest workers and valuable resources. But then something went horribly wrong. Now, the citizens of Libby, Montana have finally found the courage to stand up to W.R. Grace, and attempt to hold the corporation accountable for their alleged transgressions. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
http://www.highplainsfilms.org/fp_libby.html
http://www.highplainsfilms.org/fp_libby.html
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