I watched Torturing Democracy last week and was quite stunned on how thoroughly the Bush administration violated international law.
See for yourself:
• Click here to watch the 3-part documentary on-line
• Click here to check your local listings
• More about the National Security Archive at the George Washington University.
• Torturing Democracy’s film credits.
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9/16/2006 || 9:24 pm
ABC 7 Covers the D.C. Colonist…
albeit for a brief moment outside with the largest DC flag…
it’s so annoying when they have 30 minutes of footage, but cut it down to 5 seconds. I wish I could have that footage. It’s not like the footage will be used anytime soon….Sam and his camerawoman were the only news crew to cover the antics outside two hours before the hearing began.
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7/31/2006 || 8:55 pm
Tucson Arizona recap
Since Wednesday I’ve been in lovely Tuscon, AZ for the Green Party National Convention. I was the elected delegate from the D.C. Statehood Green Party and represented roughly 5,000 registered D.C. Statehood Greens. I didn’t have access to MySpace while there, so this posting is a condensed recap. Suffice it say, I had an absolute blast.
Here are some highlights:
— Liberated a lonely bicycle that had the same sticker as my own bicycle in DC: “Please don’t steal my bicycle. Thanks” and drove it around the town- all around town. You know how I roll. the bike is now rests in the same place i found it, waiting for a new rider
— Went to a restraurant owned by the family of one of my good friends 3 times- ate stewed cactus, spinach & pine nut tacos, and an amazing chimichanga. La Indita - Young Indian Woman…
— Walked across the border into Mexico at Nogales for the last time before a Visa is required to leave America (starting 2007 yo) and had a few beers and walked back. Customs only asked what country I reside in and in a Fruedian slip I said “Washington, DC.” - no documentation was ever made by either government of my departure and my return to the United States. And to think I walked back over with a person who has an FBI file related counter-recruitment. Well maybe I do too. I digress.
— Went to a Casino on the way back from Mexico and won $30 at Blackjack. Walked in with $30 and left with $60 but all the while knew that gambling is a tax on people who do not know math. The next day I met a Green Party mayoral candidate who for 30 years has been a slot machine repairman in Reno, NV.
— Made it to about 12 different bars on the historic 4th Ave strip of Tucson, AZ and figured out where I would have spent my Friday nights if I were to have gone to the University of Arizona. I went to Buzz instead…
— Saw MXPX, Whole Wheat Bread, Arlington View, and Transition (not my scene, but ethnographically intriquing) at the Rialto Theatre. The irony of an Arlington View in DC and Texas abounds.
— Went to the Saguaro National Park - West
— Went to Catalina State Park and saw a roadrunner — meep meep. Oh yeah, I saw a lot of cactus- but for the first time realized the beautiful biodiversity of the desert.
— Discovered how dangerous intermittent streams can be when you are in the desert’s rainy season. think desert tsunami, seriously
— Made a cameo in the Tucson, AZ Fox News affiliate’s segment on the Green Party National Meeting:
http://www.fox11az.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=78277&catId=142
(click the image to be taken to the page)
— Met a lot of great lawyers from around the country who specialize in a quite a few different legal arenas
— Came up with a few gimmicks using google maps for Green candidates around the country
— After reading thousands of e-mails from over 150 leaders scattered around the country, I finally got to make the human connection with a conversation. Made a lot of friends, mostly older in age, and considerably wiser.
Now it’s time to get back to the work that I missed out on….
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11/13/2005 || 11:55 pm
Wal - Monster
Screen shot from NBC of me protesting Wal-Mart in suburan Virginia. Watch the video clip:
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7/2/2005 || 10:13 am
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
Video footage from the OSCE Demonstration at Freedom Plaza.
My account of the day:
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5/11/2005 || 6:38 pm
DC Colonists video clip
I finally got this clip on-line from the DC Fox Five 10pm newscast on April 3rd, 2005. The same clip was rebroadcast on the morning of the 4th. If you look closely you can see me dressed as a colonist. We are going to have another outing at RFK stadium next month. I can’t wait!
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4/26/2005 || 9:55 am
Warning Shots Video
My favorite local producers Thievery Corporation have just released the video for “Warning Shots” off of their new album “The Cosmic Game“. The video was actually filmed across the street from my office in front of the “House of the Temple,” otherwise known as the massive Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Temple on 16th St. The video premiered on MTV2 on Sunday night, and I sincerely hope it gets more airtime because the “The Cosmic Game” CD is one of their best yet. One can listen to their entire CD and not really get a feel for its underlying subversive nature. For instance, I got a bootleg copy of “Amerimakka,” and I loved it from the get-go, but it wasn’t until I obtained the CD and read over the lyrics did I realize 1) the name of the tune 2) what all the lyrics meant 3) how much I liked it after finding out about 1 & 2. Read over the lyrics from “Warning Shots” and then watch the video.
They try their best just to mash up the resistance
Warning shots and sirens from a distance
Riot gear and barricade for an instance
And the words from mi mouth, mi nuh response
Hollywood sending signals of destruction
Stereotype the ghetto youths as the bad man
Overcome the rough times and we grow strong
Step up in a life, now them want to shake we handWe are eternal, made of the creator
Won’t fall to the soul-less devastators
Divide and conquer, and try to separate us
Up to this day, them still try fi rape us
(If you want to listen to “Warning Shots” but do not want to watch the video, click play on the “Render Radio” in the upper right hand corner of your screen. I’ve had a copy of “Warning Shots” on my website since I picked up the CD.)
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3/22/2005 || 4:03 pm
Two Years Ago today…
…was Saturday, March 22nd, 2003, and it was the day in which the first protest took place in DC after the invasion of Iraq had commenced. It was also the day that I made my first “newsicvideo” of a protest. Using my tiny, little Canon S200 digital camera, I filmed in 320X240 resolution, I recorded the protest that took place that day. After returning home, I took all the clips (I think there was in upwards of 50 or so) and I sequenced them together in Final Cut Pro and added DJ Shadow’s “You Can’t Go Home Again” tune to the footage. The final product was a ground-breaking creation because I felt that I finally was able to get my mind around the software, and more importantly I had documented a protest from start to finish. Alas, two years later, we are still in Iraq, and over 1,500 Americans have died and probably over 100,000 Iraqi civilians….
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2/15/2005 || 9:55 pm
the world in 7200 seconds
After watching 2 hours of international news on Mhz Networkand I change the channel to Fox News just in time to get Shepard Smith’s “the World in 80 Seconds.”
The difference in 7,200 seconds versus 80 seconds is amazing, absolutely amazing.
No mention of the high school students striking all over France…
#update# you can watch the footage here
No mention of the elections in Northern India. ( I saw some of that indelible ink! no purple revolution there!)
No mention of the fire at the Mosque in Tehran which killed 59.
No human viewpoint from the Lebanese who knew the former Prime Minister
(did you see the size of the crater that bomb left? I’ve seen a lot of footage of car bombs in the last few years, but that explosion left a m a s s i v e crater.)
Or about 7120 seconds of real information….
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12/13/2004 || 4:52 pm
one year ago today…
….Saddam Hussein was captured and I made a short, nifty, little video that made fun of the whole process. I guess not much has changed in Iraq over the last year… quagmire just keeps sounding cooler and cooler.
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9/3/2004 || 1:11 am
protestor at the rnc & climate change
Since I was recording the speech, I also recorded a protestor getting escorted out of the convention during Bush’s speech. There was another person who was escorted out as well, but C-Span did film them. I must give those people props for their deep cover operation, but its unfortunate they didn’t make a bigger ruckus. It would have made my night! Nonetheless, I am pleased to see that the convention is over. Its time for political harball…on two more months.
The next major news item will be the hurricane in Florida. I expect to see footage of the Bush boys helping out people who have had their lives changed dramatically by Nature instead of their misguided policies. Well actually their policies might actually be partly responsible. The Republicans (as well as Democrats) have done little to combat climate change in my lifetime. I mean in all honesty climate change is best defined as merely an increase climatic variability, and due to the unprecedented amount of CO2 in our atmosphere, its happening right the moment. So expect more hurricanes, monsoons, droughts, floods, and tornados. And look for politicians to be on the scene to console families, but don’t expect any policies that will help combat the issue, just a good photo-op for the newspapers (which will not be recycled).
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4/14/2004 || 11:47 pm
GWU Bhangra Blowout Logo
This is an digital adaptation of a picture I took of painting at the GWU Marvin Center. I ended up using it as the closing frame for the GWU Bhangra Blowout intro video I made.
It was ultimately viewed by 4,000 people in a sold out D.A.R. Hall.
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GW-TV
Using a Chromeo tune, I made GW-TV Commercial which played on campus television.
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12/16/2003 || 6:15 am
“Bad Santa”
Created a short newsicvideo called “Bad Santa Saddam” mocking both the search for WMD, the capture of Saddam, and CNN.
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11/17/2003 || 6:40 am
Bush’s Veteran’s Day Speech - Tweaked
::Repost from old website::
I tweaked CNN’s footage of George Bush’s Veterans Day speech using Final Cut Pro with some photographs that I supplied.
This video can also be found on my video player.
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4/28/2003 || 8:14 pm
Friseur
Made a short video called “Friseur” for the GWU’s Electronic & Computer Music concert. Friseur means hair cutter in German.
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11/30/04
Holly, my friend in the video, joins the German Electroclash band Electrocute.
6/24/04
The same source footage of George Bush was used in Fahrenheit 911 by Michael Moore
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4/11/2003 || 11:03 am
Critical Mass - “Cars”
Using Gary Numan’s 80’s tune “Cars,” I made a Newsicvideo documenting a Critical Mass ride through DC. This was sooo much fun 
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4/1/2003 || 10:58 am
Time has changed
Made a newsicvideo video documenting a march for affirmative action. I used Codec & Flexor’s tune “Time Has Changed” to show the inherent difference between Martin Luther King’s civil rights speech at the Lincoln Memorial, and today’s rally for affirmative action.
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3/22/2003 || 9:54 am
You Can’t Go Home Again
This is my first newsicvideo I made it to document the Washington, DC reaction to the illegal invasion of Iraq. All the footage is from Saturday March 22nd, the first weekend after we began our invasion. I used my Canon s200 digital elph’s 12 second recording ability to record about 60 clips, then spliced them together, added transitions (ad nauseum), and finally added DJ Shadow’s track “You can’t go home again.” This is one of my favorite historical creations.
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