We Do This. We Do That.

I am So Excited to see this film this weekend.

MARCHING BAND
A documentary film by Claude Miller

French Release Date : August 5th 2009

2008: election of the 44th President of the United States. Within this context University College and campus bands called marching bands were more than ever involved within political rallies. Especially popular in the United States, they reflect values of all sectors of American society, white as well as African-American cultural expression. They offer their devoted public exhilarating parades, high in musical and visual color.
This film, boosted by the extraordinary energy of these marching bands, sketched a portrait of todays American youth and assessed the position of these students in the run up to a political decision that could change their life and the face of the world.

Also from 2006, kind of the definition of irony.  (Excuse the high pitched squeal from whomever uploaded this only copy of the PSA I could find.)

thedailywhat:

Logo Redesign of the Day: MTV stops pretending; drops “Music Television” from its logo in the channel’s first rebranding campaign since its launch in 1981.

RIP my childhood.

[thrfeed.]

Ah, this “rebranding” was totally introduced internally in, um, 2006, back when I daily trudged into 1515 Broadway.  Amazing that it took four years for it to officially be introduced.

Also?

“It represents a new visually defined MTV, stimulating its past, present and future and embracing it’s diversity. Everything from Jersey Shore, to the VMAs to collaborations with the MoMA. The logo is part of MTV’s re-invention to connect with today’s millennial generation and bring them in as part of the channel.” (via.)

Basically sums up why working for a corporate culture trying to be hip will never, in fact, be hip.

Oh, MTV.  Once upon a time about the music.

I am stranded in (newly) sunny LA, as DC’s snowpacolypse won’t let me fly in.  This is not a thing to complain about!

My mind has just been blown.  Above is a trailer for a new project that is word-by-word (!) re-enacting the recent Prop 8 trial in California, which the Supreme Court disallowed to be filmed.

This is incredibly, historically beyond belief.  Go forces of justice for first fighting to get the trial televised, and then being in the court room tweeting it play by play, and now taking the transcripts and having actors perform the entire trial, staged and filmed for public consumption!  Mark my words, this act will go down in history, as a major push for transparency of the federal branch, the work for civil rights, the democratic power of new media technology, and the ability of citizens to hold their government accountable.

Mind.  Blown.

You can check out their work done thus far, over here.

thedailywhat:

SOTU: /oblig.

[ontd_p.]