More Rob Newman - A History of Oil

Watch the very funny and bang on Rob Newman on Peak Oil show made for More 4

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7374585792978336967

Doc-Film-Net News

Its been a busy time behind the scenes at Doc-Film-Net, controversial
not least.

Some of you will have seen the Origins of Aids documentary and will
understand how important it is that this film is made available to an
audience given the fact that it is yet to be aired on UK TV despite
its awards and more than 3 years on from its conception.

This documentary is surrounded in controversy and many legal assaults
have been made by the man implicated in this doc as 'the starter of
the Aids epidemic' against those who have tried to screen it.

Doc-Film-Net has also been threatened with legal assault and as a
result have had to cease and resist. The bottom line is that with the
aid of the mighty power of Google we are able to point you in the
right direction once again.

http://www.documentary-film.net/search/video-listings.php?e=5

Reverend Billy's 9/11 Peace Revival Monday night September 11th at 6 PM, join us in song and fabulous prayer in the Spiegeltent at the South Street Seaport. The award-winning "Stop Shopping Gospel Choir" backs the Reverend in an evening of appreciation for those who have found a way to Peace from our tragedy of five years ago. Peace candidates such as Malachy McCourt and Jonathan Tasini will speak between hot gospel hits like "Back Away From That Wal-Mart" and "The Beatitudes of Buylessness." The Spiegeltent, an antique European tent once used by Marlene Dietrich for her Blue Angel hymn "Falling in Love Again," is rounded by teak and stained glass. Set up behind the Fulton Fish Market, it is the stage for some 90 artists performing in August and September. The 9/11 Peace Revival will be the 5th of a series of eight shows for the Church, concluding on October 1st. This fall will see the release of What Would Jesus Buy? (Reverend Billy Saves Christmas from the Shopocalypse), Morgan Spurlock's second feature film after Super Size Me. The film will be released before Buy Nothing Day, the high holy day of the Stop Shopping Church. A book of the same title, written by the Reverend, is also forthcoming from Public Affairs Books. Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir Spiegeltent, Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport Monday September 11 2006 at 6pm Directions: Take the jmz, 456, ace to Broadway/Nassau/Fulton Ticket info: $15/$12 in advance. $10 Discount Tickets available at http://www.revbilly.com/events (to remove yourself from this list reply with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. Photo credit: Fred Askew Photography)

mass lone demonstration

A fun and exciting demo organised by mark thomas

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/apathy/story/0,,1857016,00.html

LIVERPOOL LIVE 06

LIVERPOOL LIVE 06
A FESTIVAL OF URBAN APPARITION
Liverpool City Centre
26-29 October 2006

Four days of interventions, occurrences and happenings that punctuate the shifting landscape of the city centre.

Responding to the idea of Archipuncture, proposed by Manray Hsu for Liverpool Biennial's International 06 programme, Liverpool Live will trace, re-examine, interrupt and ultimately re-energise the routes, buildings and landmarks of the changing city.

Through performative walks, radio interventions, guided tours and sited performances the artists invite you to look again at your urban landscape:

Take a trip around a roundabout, look again at the local shops, double-take at passers-by, look under the floorboards of a local landmark. All may not be as it seems.  Then rest your weary feet in a recreation of a good old fashioned social club environment with a variety of entertainments.

Artists include: Action Hero, the fictional dogshelf theatre company, Jo Docherty, Mat Fraser/Max Zadow,  FrenchMottershead,  Sean Hawkridge, Kazuko Hohki, LIGNA, Lone Twin, Hayley Newman, plan b, the vacuum cleaner, Qasim Riza Shaheen, Joshua Sofaer, Andrea Sonnberger/Gustavo Ciríaco, Until Thursday, Wrights and Sites, Marcus Young

To request a brochure or information phone:  0151 709 5297     
or e-mail: marketing@bluecoatartscentre.com              www.bluecoatartscentre.com

Rob Newman on Peak Oil

http://www.robnewman.com/peakoil.mp3

well worth a listen

Our latest mail-out

(if you've got this more than once, it's because you're special. if you can't read this email follow this link http://thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/daytodaydirt/)

Suckers, Here's another random email subjecting you to some of the stuff we've been up to.

March/April - Connecting People

At the beginning of March we got a new Nokia mobile phone, by the end of the month we were in Finland feeling guilty about it. (Nokia is Finnish, not Swedish or Japanese as some thought) The film we made of our journey and musings can be found here.

(http://connecting-people.org)

May - First F.R.E.E Bus

The beginning of May was spent with Klepto and 17 excellent students from the Drama Dept at Bristol Uni. Together we created a prank on First Buses, who run the bus monopoly there. The website, video and some of the press can be found here  - 40% fare increase 100% entertainment! 

(http://www.firstfreebus.co.uk)

June - Experiment 3 and 13 Morsels To Suck On

In June we were with the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination in London @ PSI 12, a conference/festival on performance and human rights (or human liberties, as someone rightly pointed out). We presented a paper on Public Relations, took part in the Manifesto Room and did an installation in the Gallery of Utopias in which we gave away £500 - the Lab of II website, with images of the installation, will be updated soon.

The following week we went to Amsterdam for CASA (Cultural Analysis Summer Academy) that looked at Structuring Social Change. We did our 13 Morsels to Suck On performance/screening presentation. It was a great event.

Continued

Our "Body Shopper' letter writing campaign continues. Our first proposal to the Body Shop seems to have fallen on deaf ears. We will continue to try and engage (enrage). Detail of its success or failure will follow soon.

Final touches have been put to the chapter we wrote for 'Everyday Revolutions' a book/diy manuel on social and ecological change, edited by T.R.AP.E.S.E and published by Pluto. Our bit is on pranks and art activism, the book is due out later in the year.

We've also done some website design and/or video editing for artists Grace Surman, Nic Green and Leon Baugh - have a look here. Contact v@very.org.uk if you want anything doing.

peace and love

the vacuum cleaner

http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk

http://www.labofii.net

http://www.starbuckscoffee.org.uk

"Possibly messier, certainly cheekier than Live 8" The Guardian

“In the juvenile camp” Scotsman 

Post 9/11 Blues

great and funny track from riz mc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKTsJpfC0IQ

 

video of political tourism in barcelona

In July 2005, comedian Leo Bassi brought the Bassibus to Barcelona at the InnMotion festival (see the festival at: http://www.conservas.tk/pages_en/PAGES/2005.htm).

This journey of political tourism took us to the very heart of property speculation in the city, where we met some of the key people involved.

Here the video of this experience, produced by Interven.tv and Conservas, a very usefull tool to talk about speculation and the agents of gentification in the contemporary cities.

Download it and see for yourself…
https://video.indymedia.org/es/2006/05/374.shtml

Massive Sale on Books from Autonomedia

> The Brooklyn based radical publisher Autonomedia is having a
> massive sale to raise some funds for
> some new projects. There are lots of great titles on the
> Zapatistas, anarchism, pirates, heretical
> Islam, radicals arts and media, and titles by people like Hakim
> Bey / Peter Lamborn Wilson, the
> Midnight Notes Collectives, and David Watson. So here’s a chance to
> snap them up for a lot less
> than they would usually cost.
>
>
> **Please Forward Widely**
>
> Massive Sale on Books from Autonomedia
>
> This is just a short note to alert you to a huge sale we're having
> through the end of the month at
> the Autonomedia (online) warehouse. Nearly every Autonomedia title
> is discounted from 20-70%, in
> an effort to clear some stock off the shelves as well as generate
> some cash to pay the printers
> for our upcoming season of new titles. There are many, many hidden
> gems in our warehouse, and
> we're eager to use this sale to move them into your hands. Some
> examples:
>
> “This World We Must Leave,” a collection of essays from the
> challenging ultra-leftist
> French/Italian writer Jacques Camatte, for less than $5:
> http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?
> main_page=product_info&products_id=495
>
> “An Existing Better World,” a memoir of the Bread and Puppet
> Theater by George Dennison, a radical
> educator and long-term comrade of the ensemble, for $7.
> http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?
> main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=55
>
> “The Anarchists,” by John Henry Mackay, a great novel set in
> Victorian London at the time of the
> Haymarket riots. This book was originally published in 1891, and
> reissued by Autonomedia just over
> a century later, and it's under-read, to say the least. It's great!
> And we've got it on sale for
> $6 and change!
> http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?
> main_page=pubs_product_book_info&cPath=71&products_id=7
>
> And there are many more. Go to http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/
> index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7
> for a full list of Autonomedia books, and please consider picking
> up something you haven't heard
> of, and maybe another copy of a favorite book as a gift, or a
> charged object to be left in a
> public place...
>
> * * *
>
> Some new books you'll find in the bookstore:
>
> * The brand new issue of Cometbus mysteriously showed up in our
> warehouse, stinking of newsprint
> and old beer. This issue includes interviews with members of TV on
> the Radio, Low, Neurosis, The
> Evens, Casual Dots, and more, as well as bunch of new stories, a
> NYC Used Bookstore report, and a
> 26-page mini-book bound in the same covers. Your $2 copy awaits at
> http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?
> main_page=product_info&products_id=496
>
> * Walter Benjamin, “On Hashish.” Benjamin was no stranger to the
> hash pipe, and documented his
> experiments with hashish between 1927 and 1934, investigating what
> he called “profane
> illumination.” At issue here, as everywhere in Benjamin's work, is
> a new way of seeing, a new
> connection to the ordinary world. Under the influence of hashish,
> as time and space become
> inseparable, experiences become subtly stratified and resonant: we
> inhabit more than one plane in
> time. What Benjamin, in his contemporaneous study of Surrealism,
> calls “image space” comes vividly
> to life in this philosophical immersion in the sensuous. Yowza.
> http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?
> main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=487
>
> * Max Cafard, “The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto and Other Writings.”
> Regarding this inspiring and
> rollicking brew of surrealism, anarchism, Chinese philosophy and
> Nietzschean trouble-making,
> Andrei Codrescu wrote the following: “[H]is insurgent writing gave
> our readers the sudden frisson
> that they were in the presence of something new. One never forgets
> that frisson when first
> encountering Nietzsche, Cioran, Derrida, or Deleuze... The frisson
> is renewed by each encounter,
> but the original feeling of the discovery is unequalled. This was
> precisely my epiphany on
> encountering Max Cafard's manifesto: I am in a new place.” Only
> $12, and available at
> http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?
> main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=492
>
> * * * * *
>
> Please also make the Interactivist Info Exchange a regular part of
> your network browse. Some
> recent stories posted (at http://info.interactivist.net) include
>
> A powerful post-ceasefire account of life in Lebanon
> http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/08/15/236213
>
> A proposal to adopt the anniversary of the 2003 Blackout as an
> Unofficial Popular Holiday
> http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/08/14/0553217
>
> A very interesting call for submissions on the topic of anarchist
> propaganda
> http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/08/09/0626217
>
> A provocative essay analyzing how the tactics of the Israeli
> Defense Forces have been influenced
> by the writings of Guy Debord and Deleuze and Guattari
> http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/08/09/0626217
>
> And much more. The easy way to see a table of contents for the Info
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Fwd: Call for Participation: Select Media Festival 5

Select Media festival 5
CALL FOR PROJECTS, WORKSHOPS, VIDEOS AND ART ACTION
Deadline for projects: September 7, 2006
contact: edmar ed(at)lumpen.com
www.selectmediafestival.org

Select Media Festival 5 takes place Oct 13 to Oct 22, 2006 throughout Chicago.

SMF5: The DIY Academy
We are seeking documentaries, short films, animations, new media projects, workshops, skillshares, presentations and media to share and present.


Select Media Festival features video programs, brand new media, installations, performance programs, street art, public projects as well as experimental and advanced music. Our goal is to share innovative art and technology projects as well as culturally and socially charged work. The festival is produced by Public Media Institute and Lumpen. It is organized by artists and activists from Chicago.

This years festivals components include:

-The Film/Video Program: Docs, shorts, animation. kick ass work.

-TLVSN: we will be airing and creating cable tv episodes during the festival. You can send us your tv to air on cable access too.

-The Other net and The Brand New Media: Net based and technology driven projects, and the new media channels.

-Performance Program: Live music and performance.

DIY Academy : How to XYZ :: This year we want to share ideas strategies and practical applications for intervention, agitation and public. Workshops, skillshares, presentations and ideas on how to __ the __ are welcome.

Please help us re-ignite dormant forces.

www.selectmediafestival.org


Send material to:
Select Media Festival 5
960 W 31st St
Chicago Il 60608
U$A