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Me: Ugh, what are you watching?
Lady: 30 Rock.
Me: I know, but…do you notice anything weird about it?
Her: No.
Me: You see that big, black border around the whole thing, and how it looks and sounds all cruddy?
Her: No. I don’t.
Me: Really? You don’t see how the picture is all shrunk down in the screen and everything’s a little chunky and blurry?
Her: No. I don’t care.
Me: Okay, watch this. [Goes through the guide up to the 400s where the HD is.] Okay, are you watching?
Her: [Not watching. Playing with the dog and laughing because he did something cute.] Me: Okay, are you watching? [Swaps channels, engulfed in a glorious wave of fidelitous sound and image.]
Her:…
Me: You see that?
Her: No. I don’t care.
Me: …
Her: …
Me: I love you.
Her: [Laughs at the stupid dog.] |
✖ Via lonelysandwich: “A glorious wave of fidelitous sound and image”, August 6th, 2010 Same thing goes with aspect ratio. I know people (whom I love and respect) who are able to watch a whole film in the wrong aspect ratio (they’ll watch 16/9 in 4/3). You’ll tell them: “Those cowboy sure are thin and tall…” and they’ll go “Huh?”
Lonely Sandwich is Adam Lisagor Tumblr blog. Alongside Merlin Mann and Scott Simpson, Lisagor runs You Look Nice Today “an audio-based Journal of Emotional Hygiene” (more about it). |
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The Big Brother isn’t a person as it turns out, it’s the collective consciousness that watches us. […] It’s not that living in public is going to be impose on us. We’re going to be conditioned to ask for it. |
✖ Via Josh Harris has he appeared in Errol Morris’ series First Person (season2, episode 01).
“The 3rd millenium has been ushered into existence. No apocalypse. No Four Horsemen. No en to the world. No nothing. Nevertheless, Josh Harris, Internet entrepreneur and aspiring artist has decided that the 2nd coming is at hand. And “the new Messiah” is none other than Gilligan, that’s right, the Gilligan, from Gilligan’s Island. No, not Bob Denver, that actor playing Gilligan. He is but an avatar or the messianic life force, which is Gilligan himself. For Harris, life is a sad tug-of-war between those who control reality and those controlled by it. The weapon is media. And Harris, in an all-out onslaught on the world, has decided to make his own torpid existence into a new religion.” (errolmorris.com)
See also the documentary We Live In Public (Ondi Timoner, 2009) |
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Milgram found that 62.5% of his subjects could be encouraged, browbeaten or intimidated into seeing the test through to its conclusion by delivering scores of shocks of increasing intensity to the maximum of 450 volts. In Game of Death, 81% of contestants went all the way by administering more than 20 shocks up to a maximum of 460 volts. Only 16 of the 80 subjects recruited for the fake game show refused the verbal prodding from the host — and pressure from the audience to keep dishing out the torture like a good sport — though most expressed misgivings or tried to pull out before being convinced otherwise. |
✖ Via Time: “Game of Death: France’s Shocking TV Experiment” by Bruce Crumley, March 17, 2010 Learn more about the “Milgram experiment” on Wikipedia. |
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It sort of makes sense, actually: Junk food consumption is correlated with violent crime. Virtually all the criminals in prison across the country are nutritionally imbalanced due to their consumption of processed junk foods and their lack of sufficient nutritional supplementation. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if a study revealed that fried snack foods like Doritos are a favorite food among violent criminals. These are, after all, the kind of people depicted in some Doritos advertisements.
In my view, the violent Doritos commercials accurately reflect the senseless, violent behavior that typifies people (younger males, mostly) who consume large quantities of processed junk foods, sugary soft drinks and gimmicky “sports drinks.” These are the people who end up being put on antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs, after which they sometimes end up in a school shooting rampage.
It might make a good Doritos commercial, actually: A kid grows up on junk food and diet soda laced with aspartame. He’s drugged up on Ritalin and Prozac. One day he brings a semiautomatic rifle to school, barges into a classroom and opens fire on his classmates, shooting and screaming, “I WANT MY F*@!KING DORITOS!” |
✖ Via NaturalNews: “Doritos ads represent sick, demented nature of junk food companies and their products” by Mike Adams Feb. 27th, 2010 I’m not sure if he meant to say TV cause violence or junk food cause violence. The two are probably linked (as previous studies already suggested). I’d really like to get my hands on the correlation coefficients used for this “analysis” though. Food consumption may be part of the explanation, it may also be a side effect caused by other factors (the same goes for television). Furthermore, I’m not very confortable with the whole scapegoating practice : blame it on the Doritos. Somehow, I doubt Doritos alone explain those (and I’ll avoid the cliché consisting in naming famous killers who were vegetarians).
Mike Adams is the Editor of NaturalNews.com. You can read his bio on his official website.
Learn more about Doritos’ latest marketing campaign Viralocity. |
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