Feb 15

Posted by Nathan on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

We’ll explore this subject more in depth at a later date, but I thought that this clip from the This American Life TV series is really interesting food for thought about how cameras change things. We act differently when we know we are being filmed. How does that change our society when suddenly we are being filmed all the time? That article is for another day… for now enjoy this clip:

What do you think? Do cameras change people’s behavior?

Jan 24

Posted by Nathan on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 at 1:56 am

A Scanner Darkly

Anyone that missed “A Scanner Darkly” when it came out in 2006 would be well served to check out the film. It’s the perfect combination of Richard Linklater’s Rotoscope animation style (developed on “Waking Life“) and Phillip K. Dick’s paranoid tale of drug hallucinations in a society obsessed with surveillance. The film is both highly entertaining and extremely thought provoking.


Hit the jump to see more clips from the film:
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