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REALLY? Magazine Uses White Model For 'African Queen' Editorial

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Framing the Other. A 2012 film showing how people truly never change.

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Cannibal Tours Review

"The metaphorical statement O'Rourke is making is typified by eh American tourist at the end of the film stating she'll be back again next year with a truck to take away all the artifacts. She is carrying with her several wooden phallic objects a sure analogy for the white corporate raiders who have taken the manhood away from the locals" IMDB Review of Cannibal Tours

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This moment was definitely the most disturbing moment of the film for me. What is so interesting about a man?! How have these tourists been convinced so strongly that these people are to be considered "other"?!

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Is Molotov Alva "real"?

As I was watching Molotov Alva a few thoughts entered my mind; the most prominent question I kept asking myself was "is this real?" This question led to a series of answers all based on different definitions of "real." First off, documentary is supposed to be a work of fact. Alva was filming his Second World avatar, but because it's a controllable avatar it seemed to be a form of acting, rather than filming a real experience. I am not arguing Second Life is not a real livable experience, but questioning if it is documentary because it is not a true representation of the person - in my opinion. Becoming an avatar allows you to do things and say things you wouldn't be able to in real life. Quite often it seems to be an alter ego of the person in some ways. 

My second thought of is this "real" came from the fact that many people have two computers and can therefore create two avatars. People have been known to fabricate many aspects of documentary to make them more interesting. Is it not possible that Alva created Abighal or even Orhalla? 

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Carpenter's Fashion Returning?

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"You need to let go when you let someone else paint you"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpaOjMXyJGk This image really reminded me of the Dove Commercial from 2013 (link above). The idea, for the commercial, was that a forensic artist would come in and do a drawing of someone, based on their own description of themselves and then a stranger's description of the same person. The results (if they were real) were miraculous, not only did the stranger's descriptions provide more accurate drawings, but the subjects of the drawings felt more beautiful in that drawing, which the stranger described, as well. I believe the interview subjects don't always know how interesting they are; this is why Stud's Terkel edits and produces the interviews in his own manner. Terkel produces people in the way he believes they are and sometimes that's a more flattering view than the subject's own. It's been said that "you're your own critic," so why not let someone else critic you, but in a positive light?

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Working People Ebook

I found the ebook a little difficult to read. The "preview" of the e-book on Google Books is quite good for those who are wanting a clearer copy to read and I posted the link above (It's free). Google Books usually takes out sections so that you have to actually buy the book, but I haven't come across any part that has been taken out of the online version. 

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To simply summarize Gates of Heaven… #mit3832 

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If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful. Cinema exists because there are elements of both in everything. There are elements of both in documentary. There are elements of both in feature film-making. It’s what makes, I think, photography and film-making of interest. Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

Errol Morris (via veracity24)

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Billy on the Street gets real reactions from people by not allowing them to think of their answer. In many cases people don't necessarily answer the question, but show a little bit more of what Morris would believe is their "true-self" in their reactions.

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This video featured on BBC shows the way pictures/images can truly be misleading. 

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"Moreover, Wiseman consistently juxtaposes the callous force-feeding of the emaciated with images of this same man after death"

- Henri Colt, The Picture of Heath: Medical Ethics and the Movies The already horribly unethical scene of force-feeding from Wiseman's film is made out to be even more horrible when you realize that the juxtaposed scene is of the same man: comparing his life pre and post-death. The man who was force-fed in unsanitary conditions, while being treated like nothing more than a rag doll, continues to receive unjust treatment after his death when his body is prepared to look "presentable."