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  • Deathbed Recommendations

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    I had to go to the hospital a few weeks ago, so a doctor could put a camera up my urethra. There was a very small chance that what he found was going to be the death of me…

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  • The 360-Degree View: Documentaries.

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    (Panning montage of serious-looking people talking, national institutions, angry fingers being pointed, people walking around and behind things.) (Tenor voice-over). “It’s a blight on the national psyche, an easy way out for hundreds of people who want easy answers. Politicians condemn it, Doctors say it destroys lives. But what does documentary-making really do to Britain?

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  • Fuck Provenance

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    To the tune of: The Durutti Column – Trust The Art Not The Artist Fuck provenance. The joy of many modern critics seems to lie in the attribution of intention to the auteur, or at least cause to the auteur, focusing on the backstory more than the object of study; the importance of something is

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  • This is Turning into a Video Blog

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    http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5606758&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world (Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo. Bloody Twitter and work are stopping me blogging, grr.

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  • Newswipe with Charlie Brooker News Clip

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    http://youtube.com/v/l8rMYyegT5Y The UK news is not only voyeuristic, it’s also nationalistic and enormously biased towards the increased value of a white, English middle-class life. I’m rather tired of it.

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  • Beatiful Tilt-Shift Movie

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    http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3156959&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. These are real people, the video’s just been sped-up and tilt-shifted.

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