Scene 1: Street in Dalston Opening shot: Busy street in Dalston with normal people. Gradual transition: One hipster appears, then two, then a few more, until the street is filled with hipsters. Focus: Establishing the hipster vibe of the neighborhood. Scene 2: Café (Otto) Camera tracks: A line of hipsters waiting to be served by…
Were do I come from politicly
Published Date 1/2/12 7:04 PM Thinking were we come from… mainstream bohiminasm, hippy drop-out culture, Greenham, CND, vagabond, labour party, student, squatting culture, protest camp culture, DIY community group organising, undercurrents, internet utopian’s, Anti-GM direct action, coupuratewatch, risingtide, indymedia, summit hoping, anti-war direct action, mainstream alt-tv, rescuing/ running a community centre, European social forum/SWP, visionontv,…
Stupid individualism and Re creating the Soviet Union
Published Date 1/2/12 5:52 PM This is from 07/03/2005 You can go on this journey and find these things out, thus creating a possibility, or you can push them under the surfaces, smother or bash them every time they spring or seep out of our subcultures. The lack of any group memory In activist cercals…
An idea for internet TV from 2001
The green, world approach and local approach. How this will work with broadband Internet TV Profiling In the mainstream the mantra of who, what, where is not new, though with interactive consumption it is taking on a new importance. Profiling is big on the NET, everyone is after personal information to…
History of The European Newsreel
Published Date 1/2/12 5:32 PM Hamish’s history of The European Newsreel The has been much talk about doing a European wide video newsreel for the last 10 years or so. Undercurrents, which grew out of the UK anti-roads movement, was in its latter additions an attempt at covering geographic wider story’s. However, it wasn’t till…
ENR the foundation report
Published Date 1/2/12 5:07 PM Report on Islip Gathering June 14th to 17th 2002 Introduction The gathering in Islip attracted an impressive attendance of representatives from a variety of alternative media organisations and independent video activists. Some had travelled from as far afield as Croatia and Germany. Eric Galatas, from the US-based FreespeechTV…
Some Old Photos
Published Date 12/18/11 8:20 PM Have been looking through an old hardive with the though of updating the Greenham film and came across lots of old photos from the activist world through the 1990’s – they would make a good bases for a series of articles. To set the seance here are is the camera man. In…