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Ways of Seeing

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A groundbreaking TV documentary about Art and Modern life and an award-winning BBC series with John Berger, which rapidly became regarded as one of the most influential art programs ever made.

At 28:48 Berger presciently predicts Internet commentary, but today, ironically, the dialogue has again become impossible.

Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb.

The idea of reproduced images, re-purposed as language elements in a conversation seems especially relevant in the age of Memes.

In the first program, Berger examines the impact of photography on our appreciation of art from the past.

It is interesting that he mentioned the ability to reply in the modern age. That’s what we’re doing now.

WE must have access to television that must be extended beyond its present narrow limits huh?

Like…. THE INTERNET?

Berger’s scripts were adapted into a book of the same name.

The book is required reading in even slightly artistically leaning classes

The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images.

The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.

My favorite part of the series was the school children interpreting the Caravaggio.

I love Berger’s attitude to art “experts.”

If an expert were to be there with the children instead of Berger, maybe there would have been a look of discomfort on his face as the kids got it all “wrong,” in his own educated mind.

Maybe educated people should make people feel freer to think, not afraid to.

Of course, when you’re doing hard history, there is always accurate and inaccurate, but is there really a right or wrong?

LOL… Seize the means of reproduction!

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We Call It Toonami – An Unofficial Toonami Documentary

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The History of Toonami from the people that made it happen

Explore the history of everyone’s favorite action cartoon block, Toonami!

Hear from the professionals behind the block, from those who’ve been there since the beginning to the new talent that keep Toonami working as hard as ever.

A really great documentary! Nice editing and very interesting insight given by the crew.

This is something not only fans will enjoy but it also serves as a good intro for people who might be unfamiliar with Toonami, to see what all the hype is about.

I remember really liking some of the shows on Toonami, but I couldn’t have cared less about the Toonami block itself.

Like how they actually had an ongoing storyline that revolved around TOM and that spaceship he was on.

Apparently that all meant a lot to some people though.

Toonami’s “storyline” basically amounted to “the network has mandated that we have to update our packaging and logo once a year, so let’s hype it up like crazy by having it somehow be the consequence of TOM fighting a space monster.”

And amazingly, it worked.

The bumpers/trailers/commercials/show openings they made were great, as was the music they used.

In Sailor Moon (lesbians turned into cousins and boys transforming into girls turned out were girls that just liked to dress as boys all along).

And the Tenchi Muyo censoring with digital bikini’s

But, cable networks regulate themselves, but America can’t handle bare breasts on television without making it headline news for a year.

If you’re going to broadcast anime that has a hot springs scene you can expect the number of edited frames to equal how much the Bible Belt goes apeshit over tits.

Despite the censoring it was a lot of people’s first and only exposure to anime back then.

Toonami was the first thing cartoon network ever had a streaming service for way back in 99 or whatever. A crappy little webplayer they called the ‘toonami reactor’.

Also, back around 1999 the animatrix debuted its shorts in a crappy web player before the DVD release, and kept the web 1.0 site with videos up for like 10 years.

R.I.P Matt Elias who made this video.

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Witch City Documentary

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An edited excerpt from the 1998 documentary “Witch City” featuring Laurie Cabot – the “Official Witch of Salem.” Historian Stephen Nisenbaum and Rev. Russ Ely dispute links between the practice of witchcraft today and the victims of the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692.

He has a point, though. What happened in Salem – indeed, what happened in every witchcraft incident during pre-modern times – has no meaningful connection, on any level, to Wicca. Wicca is a thoroughly modern invention, and a pagan like Laurie Cabot trying to claim victim status over the Salem trials makes no sense.

LOL… The witchcraft she has adopted is only 20 years older than Kwanza.

But, I wonder what doctrine of her religion demands that she dress like a batshit crazy old cat lady

I believe it’s the “look at me! Somebody! LOOK AT MEEEeeeee!” doctrine.

But, But, But…. look at the wacky robes and hats in the Vatican, the squiggly sideburns and bowler hats of the Hasidic, and the beards and turbans of the Sikhs.

Modern “pagan” types are pretty insufferable. They moan about Abrahamic religions and all the awful things they’ve done to the world, then replace it with an equally ludicrous religion that forces itself into everyone’s faces in a way that comes off so forced and embarrassing.

And also, just like mainstream monotheists, they usually haven’t a clue about the history of the doctrines, deities, and symbols that they are liberally borrowing from all throughout history and culture.

What’s especially funny is that they’ve borrowed so many of the trappings of so-called “witchcraft” right out of the lore of Christianity.

It would be like a black person saying they’re deeply into “black culture” by dressing up and acting like racist caricatures from the films and advertising of the 1920s and 30s.Show less

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