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Friday, 22 April 2011
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes-Exclusive first look & Behind-the-Scenes Interview with Andy Serkis
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An exclusive first look & behind-the-scenes interview with Andy Serkis (Caesar), Joe Letterii (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor), and Dan Lemmon (Visual Effects Supervisor) at Weta Digital in New Zealand.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) offers a quality selection of independent, innovative and experimental cinema, video and media art. During twelve festival days, hundreds of filmmakers and other artists present their work to a large audience (2010: 353,000 admissions) and 3,000 film professionals in 25 screening rooms on 8 festival venues. The 40th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam starts today i.e Wednesday January 26 and will run till Sunday February 6, 2011.
Bright Future
This section presents idiosyncratic and adventurous new work by novice makers. The section mainly consists of first or second films.The Tiger Awards Competitions for first and second features and for short films are part of Bright Future.
Spectrum
This section presents new and recent work by experienced film makers and artists who provide, in the opinion of the IFFR, an essential contribution to international film culture. Within Spectrum, the Shorts section comprises some 400 titles screened during the first festival weekend.
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Signals
This section presents a series of thematic programs and retrospectives offering insight in topical as well as timeless ideas within cinema. This 40th IFFR, Signals comprises oeuvre screenings by filmmakers F.J. Ossang (France), Agusti Villaronga (Spain) and Nathaniel Dorsky (USA) as well as the theme programs Red Westerns (a choice of westerns produced between 1924 and 1980 in the USSR and former countries of the communist Bloc), Out of Fashion (a program about the flourishing interaction between fashion designers and independent filmmakers) and Raiding Africa (a program about Chinese-African relations including new works filmed in China by African filmmakers). More Signals-programs will be announced later.
IFFR 2011 presents a special Jubilee program titled XL, referring to the festival’s fortieth edition as well as ‘extra locations’. During the festival period, the IFFR embraces its home base, the city of Rotterdam, with film screenings, exhibitions and events on around forty locations in downtown Rotterdam, including the recently opened new building of longtime IFFR venue LantarenVenster. As part of the jubilee program the IFFR welcomes its future audience for Not Kidding, a playful location and program suitable for kids from 4 years and up. Additional information about XL and Not Kidding will be available close to the festival period.
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For more info Please visit : International Film Festival Rotterdam
YouTube is now mainly commercial junk. The "YouTube HomePage does not promote Individual Videos." (Is The YouTube SEO Guy Smoking Crack?)
You try to watch a YouTube video which is 'non-commercial' and find that it buffers and buffers and buffers.
You switch to a YouTube video that is 'commercial' and find that it plays beautifully.
You Google 'CIA, Tunisia, voltairenet' and on the first page you find no mention of voltairenet's article on the CIA's role in the Tunisia coup.
You Google 'Tunisia revolt' and you are unlikely to find any mention of Soros or the CIA.
The CIA and its friends appear to be constructing a two tier internet.
Commercial stuff is in the top tier.
The rest is in the bottom tier and will be difficult to find and slow to upload.
At PCPRO, on 21 January 2011, the question is asked: Is the internet as we know it dead?
The answer involves:
"Websites and services that are willing to pay" being "thrust into the 'fast lane'".
"Those that don't" being "left fighting for scraps of bandwidth or even blocked outright."
According to Andrew Heaney, executive director of strategy and regulation at TalkTalk, Britain’s second biggest ISP:
"We have a .... differentiated network at all levels, with huge levels of widespread discrimination of traffic types..."
( Zen Internet doesn’t employ any traffic shaping across their network, and Zen has won the PC Pro Best Broadband ISP award for the past 7 years - Zen Internet)
Streaming video is the largest single category of internet traffic.
"Broadcasters willing to pay will be put into the 'fast lane'; those who don't will be left to fight their way through the regular internet traffic jams."
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Anonymous brings our attention to: "Why does Google block "Bilderberg" from auto-complete?".
"I would like to know why Google blocks 'Bilderberg' from auto-complete when it has over 2 million search results. Could this have anything to do with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, reportedly being in attendance for the 2009 Bilderberg meeting?"
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THE CIA WAS INVOLVED IN THE TUNISIA REVOLT - THIERRY MEYSSAN OF VOLTAIRENET .
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011
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The much hated Google deserves to go bust.
Users visiting YouTube today will see a message telling them they MUST link their YouTube account with their Google account.
Here are typical comments from the public (YouTube wants you to link your Google account The Web Services ...):
1. "This is the most idiotic thing Google/YouTube ever did.
"Now, there are thousands of us that cannot access our YouTube accounts anymore.
"This is an absolute train wreck...
"Time for millions of users to leave google and go to another video hosting service like blip.tv
"Many of us are fed up with Google's privacy invasion and data mining, and have gone to Startpage Search Engine
"See you in Hell Google/YouTube."
2. "What a idiocy and arrogance!
"They do not allow direct access to our youtube accounts?!?
"This is playing with users patience...
"I hate it when someone else decides what is better for me...
"Google/youtube it is time to say goodbye."
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3. "I am looking for an alternative.
"This is insulting to me... my account is years old.
"There is no need for Google to know what I do on YouTube aside from tracking my every move.
"Screw them."
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"The account linking blip comes in the wake of the site's redesigned user homepage, and coincides with the movement to boycott YouTube today in protest of the website's increasing commercialization." (Google Forces YouTube Account Linking)
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Twelfth Bough: some problems are unpatriotic
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Saturday, 8 January 2011
Sundance Institute have announced that 12 short films from the Sundance film festival 2011 will be available on YouTube screening room for public viewing.Along with that 8 classic short films from the institute alumni and earlier festivals will also be screened.Screening started January 6, 2011 and will continue to screen through February 3, 2011.Each YouTube Screening Room series is scheduled to run for a span of six weeks.
Sundance film festival director of programing Trevor Groth said "We are thrilled to be able to share a selection of short films free online on the YouTube screening room with the broader public."
The YouTube Screening room {screeningroom} is a curated wing of YouTube
