Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts

Everything is a remix: System Failure (15min)

Our system of law doesn't acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren't so tidy. They're layered, they’re interwoven, they're tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality... the system starts to fail.

Banksy's incomplete guide to total anarchy (47min) *UPDATED*

An hour-long special charting the history of behaving badly in public, from anarchists and activists to attention seeking eccentrics.

Fox News report on trolling (4min)

"They lurk in chatrooms or on youtube until they unleash mean-spirited, menacing attacks on unsuspecting victims."

What really motivates us (11min)

Animation accompanying a great talk about motivation in the workplace. Every big company in the world should see this.

Perfect Storm: The England Riots (29min)

This mini-documentary film looks at the initial causes and wider context surrounding the recent England riots.

Movie: Slacker (100min)

Directed by Richard Linklater, who also made the classic Dazed and Confused and the surreal Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. A review at IMDB calls it "one of the great defining films of Generation-X, along with Trainspotting, ClerksTrue Romance, and Reality Bites".
 It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.

Copyright: forever less one day (5min)

Fast talking guy perfectly explains what's wrong with today's copyright laws.

Gestures across cultures (9min)

In Turkey they apparently use their arms to symbolize an aggressively erect penis...

Tribe meets white Man for the first time (40min)

The first time a tribe from Papua New Guinea sees a white man. Very interesting footage from 1976.

the U.A.E. from above (26min)

Slightly cheesy video showing off the most impressive scenery and architecture in the United Arab Emirates.

Florence Fight Club (89min)

A cool tradition in Florence, Italy: Gladiator rugby.

American Media through British eyes (15min)

BBC's Charlie Brooker and his views on the worst of American media.

Pop culture Japan docu (71min)




Culture Japan is a program which brings Japanese Pop Culture to the world.

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