Over at BOWL OF NOSES there is a post of Charlie Chaplin’s Eating Machine from Modern Times. With it’s robotic Rube Goldbergian complication, it delights me in it’s misguided quest for efficiency.
Not eating your vegetables? Not a member of The Clean Plate Club yet? Better hope the parents don’t pull a page out of the Modern Times guide.
Looks pretty simple and quick. We have yet to try it at home though…
Only one candidate is committed to a free and open internet.
I am tired of watching one Indie masterpiece after another filmed in yet another director’s kitchen. Although the cost of travel, crews, lights, and pesky things like visas prohibit immediate satisfaction, a producer can dream can’t he?
Last Monday I was on a panel on Net Neutrality at Independent Film Week in NYC that was moderated by David Rosen. David knows of what he speaks. He recently penned an article in Filmmaker Mag that is available right here.
“Net neutrality is a distraction,” argues Bruce Kushnick, of Teletruth, a broadband customer advocacy group. “As long as the telco and cable companies control the infrastructure and are allowed to vertically integrate all products (i.e., offer local and long distance, connection to the Internet, broadband and even wireless), they can control any activity or any competition over the networks, including all video. The only next step is to have common carriage returned: While the underlying infrastructure may be controlled by the incumbent, all applications and services should be allowed by all parties.”
On one hand it’s absurd, what with the country in the shape that it is in, that anyone would need further incentive to vote. On the other, sometimes people need to pledge things to their friends and family in order to actually go out and do them.
