Author: pkoner

Here is a short yet paradigm shifting piece about the future of online film and video, success, constraints, quicktime and racism. Just kidding about that last subject. Peep it here…

www.kamuflage.com/balloons

(by Paul Kamuf / music by Jeff Rabb)

You know that Dunkin(g) Donuts ad slogan you see everywhere? I am amazed that it is almost identical to the one featured in the first television ad. Maybe it is some kind of “reference” to it. In 1941 Bulova ran a commercial, considered the very first TV ad, with the slogan “America Runs on Bulova Time”. Where’s the Bulova legal department when you need them?
While we’re talking about biting, those Sprint ads… well maybe it’s not a bite, we all drew words in the air with sparklers, but… Turner Classic Movies did a similar thing a few years ago with spots featuring Vincent Gallo. Here’s a link to a page from a great book, “On Screen, In Time” with some images from the original campaign… http://www.onscreenintime.tv/002.html

Hey! The ACLU made a cousin to the doomsday clock. It’s a countdown to when you have zero privacy.

You can count most of the videos on youtube and the pix on flickr as contributing to our surveillance society. It also occured to me that a lot of the emails you are currently sending will probably turn up in public sometime in the future. Maybe your grandkids will sue to get the rights to them or maybe an investigation of a corporation or ISP will make them public. Remember when they posted the Enron emails (FERC site)?

6 minutes to midnight. Don’t be late.

You probably saw this… Anderson Cooper interviews Cam’ron on 60 Minutes.

“If there’s a serial killer living next door to you, though, and you know that person is, you know, killing people, would you be a snitch if you called police and told them?” Cooper asks Cam’ron.

“If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me?” Cam’ron asks. “No, I wouldn’t call and tell anybody on him. But I’d probably move… But I’m not gonna call and be like, you know, ‘The serial killer’s in 4E.’”

Granted, that is kind of a dumb question (and you didn’t think there was such thing as a dumb question?) and Stop Snitching has complex roots in tough and often unfair relationships between communities and police. However, I think we can say that at this point, it’s not very productive. There is a similarity here to the testimony of Alberto Gonzalez. Are these people that stupid? Or are they protecting something they think is important? (AG = his boss, Killer Cam = his sales)
Full 60 Minutes report