Tag: Adam Curtis
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The Rise, Lies, & Demise of Jan Hendrik Schön
I rarely ever watch documentaries on YouTube. Even rarely a science documentary. Never a documentary about…falsifying data and research?! Sounds boring right? Wrong. I just spent nearly two hours watching these. This is the story of how Jan Hendrik Schön became a Physics superstar, on the way maybe to a Nobel prize…until it all came…
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Norman McLaren & Geoffrey Jones
The names of Norman McLaren and Geoffrey Jones pop up quite a lot especially given my love of Len Lye – but apart from Geoffrey’s Snow I’d not seen their work. How wrong I was! These films would be dead certs for VJing sets, if I was still doing it. Proving that Oramics was around…
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London on film
I’m on a local history kick at the moment, so watched the London on Film series from 2012, recently repeated. Love The Suburbs and East End ones, and West End for a view into am older Soho, long gone…funny to hear Jeffrey Bernard complain about advertising executives and film people spoiling the place, because they…
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The Dream of Freedom
Adam Curtis, he of the Power of Nightmares has a new documentary out (All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace which I heartily recommend), so while I waited for it to download I watched the first episode of his last series called The Trap…about how the game theory and the cold war changed the…