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Uncensored – Three Different Kinds of Bulls**t

“The best defense against bullshit is vigilance.” Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart describes different types of corruption and lies and then calls on the audience to take action. (4:29)

]]> 1539 Stock Lives https://schoolofnomedia.com/2015/06/06/stock-lives/ Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:45:02 +0000 http://schoolofnomedia.com/?p=1363 The insights from this video can be extended to any ad.
It is not a question of using stock footage or not.
Every ad appeals to a great variety of clichés.
To plug into you, ads (and most media) tap into what has already been said
– what is taken for granted –
and call it: “communicating with an audience.”


“This Is a Generic Brand Video for Generic Lives”

Original Texy by Kendra Eash published on Timothy Mcsweeneys.Net

We think first
Of vague words that are synonyms for progress
And pair them with footage of a high-speed train.

Science
Is doing lots of stuff
That may or may not have anything to do with us.

See how this guy in a lab coat holds up a beaker?
That means we do research.
Here’s a picture of DNA.

There are a shitload of people in the world
Especially in India
See how we’re part of the global economy?
Look at these farmers in China.

But we also do business in the U.S.A.
Or want you to think we do.
Check out this wind energy thing in Indiana,
And this blue collar guy with dirt on his face.
Phew.

Also, we care about the environment, loosely.
Here’s some powerful, rushing water
And people planting trees.
Our policies could be related to these panoramic views of Costa Rica.

In today’s high speed environment,
Stop motion footage of a city at night
With cars turning quickly
Makes you think about doing things efficiently
And time passing.

Lest you think we’re a faceless entity,
Look at all these attractive people.
Here’s some of them talking and laughing
And close-ups of hands passing canned goods to each other
In a setting that evokes community service.

Equality,
Innovation,
Honesty
And advancement
Are all words we chose from a list.

Our profits
are awe-inspiring.
Like this guy who’s looking up and pointing
At a skyscraper or a kite
While smiling and explaining something to his child.

Using a specific ratio
of Asian people to Black people to Women to White men
We want to make sure we represent your needs and interests
Or at least a version of your skin color
In our ads.

Did we put a baby in here?
What about an ethnic old man whose wrinkled smile represents
the happiness and wisdom of the poor?
Yep.

To time to read again Mythologies by Roland Barthes?

]]> 1363 In Between https://schoolofnomedia.com/2015/04/20/in-between/ Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:58:06 +0000 http://schoolofnomedia.com/?p=1063 In between the beginning & the ending… from Silent Light – Stellet Lijcht – Luz silenciosa (Carlos Reygadas)

]]> 1063 Wittgenstein’s Descent https://schoolofnomedia.com/2015/04/11/wittgensteins-descent/ Sun, 12 Apr 2015 02:34:21 +0000 http://schoolofnomedia.com/?p=1048 — Related to the School of No Media Quotes —

Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ben Richards

Ludwig Wittgenstein by Ben Richards

This aspect of Wittgenstein’s writings befits the School of No Media.

  • The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
  • Language disguises the thought.
  • Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
  • We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
  • ‘You’d be surprised’ wouldn’t be a bad motto.
  • An entire mythology is stored within our language.
  • Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
  • One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I.’
  • At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
  • You can’t think decently if you’re not willing to hurt yourself.
  • A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
  • What can be shown, cannot be said.
  • Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
  • Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
  • In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
  • The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
  • When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
  • Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
  • How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!
  • The human gaze has a power of conferring value on things; but it makes them cost more too.
  • Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
  • Only describe, don’t explain.
  • I want to regard man here as an animal; as a primitive being to which one grants instinct but not ratiocination. As a creature in a primitive state.
  • When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote.

 

]]> 1048 Words and Concepts that Blind Us https://schoolofnomedia.com/2015/04/07/words-and-concepts-that-blind-us/ Wed, 08 Apr 2015 03:46:44 +0000 http://schoolofnomedia.com/?p=1041 [Partial translation into English]
Gébé from "Cracher dans l'Eau"

Gébé from “Cracher dans l’Eau”

Original in French

Gebe Pancartes

Original en français par Gébé dans “Cracher dans l’Eau”

]]> 1041 Unlearning Gun Culture https://schoolofnomedia.com/2015/03/24/unlearning-gun-culture/ https://schoolofnomedia.com/2015/03/24/unlearning-gun-culture/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:11:06 +0000 http://schoolofnomedia.com/?p=1034 GUNS WITH HISTORY (from States united to prevent Gun Violence)
Opening a gun shop in NYC for first-time  gun owners.


We all have history…

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An Honest Liar Trailer

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