Also, this isn't really a conspiracy, but the video is kind of amazing.
I also really like the info given:
ALMOST ON DVD! I'm working on it! Please message me to request one.
Feel free to download at:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0mjhwx2gng0
This is a Paul Washer sermon that I added sound, pictures, and animated text to for a school project. Music is "Lost Dreams to a New Beginning" from newgrounds.com by MilkMan-Dan. This is not actually on the history channel, this is a fictional commercial.
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"this is a fictional commercial."
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
03 April 2009
New Documentaries to Watch
It's been a confusing day on YouTube.com for this blogger. I've been reading a lot recently, which sort of means that I haven't been watching conspiracy movies, but I did find a book called The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories, so I remembered about this whole thing.
That Obama movie is by Alex Jones, who I've been aware of for a long time, but was never really that interested in. He's a journalist who might be considered ever so slightly more respectable to mainstream journalism than say, whoever that guy who made YouTube about Masonic architecture in DC, using white text on a blue screen. But he has a big website and is probably pretty influential within the actual conspiracist community (which still hasn't reached out to me). Anyway, I got confused because I found this movie, which features Alex Jones, but isn't actually about him or made by him:
Which I only really figured out by reading the user comments on the YouTube, so that's not exactly a reliable source. Anyway, I'm excited about watching both of them (full versions also on YouTube), and possibly blogging about them.
Also, I'm excited about this movie, because while watching most of the trailer, for some reason I had the idea that it was a documentary about conspiracist "film makers", which would have been awesome, and something I probably should have thought about doing, but I think it's actually just a movie about the New World Order.
Alex Jones' site.
That Obama movie is by Alex Jones, who I've been aware of for a long time, but was never really that interested in. He's a journalist who might be considered ever so slightly more respectable to mainstream journalism than say, whoever that guy who made YouTube about Masonic architecture in DC, using white text on a blue screen. But he has a big website and is probably pretty influential within the actual conspiracist community (which still hasn't reached out to me). Anyway, I got confused because I found this movie, which features Alex Jones, but isn't actually about him or made by him:
Which I only really figured out by reading the user comments on the YouTube, so that's not exactly a reliable source. Anyway, I'm excited about watching both of them (full versions also on YouTube), and possibly blogging about them.
Also, I'm excited about this movie, because while watching most of the trailer, for some reason I had the idea that it was a documentary about conspiracist "film makers", which would have been awesome, and something I probably should have thought about doing, but I think it's actually just a movie about the New World Order.
Alex Jones' site.
05 May 2008
Youtube
This video was sent a few days ago by a friend:
It's pretty funny, though gets kind of boring. The payoff is definitely not worth the buildup. But it is successful in its attention to detail, like the fake URL at the end, and the way it imitates the the grammatical constructions of "real" 9/11 conspiracy videos. I'm not sure if this is intended, but I think it is accurate in its mocking of making vague claims that aren't actually corroborated by the video--I'm never really sure what it is I'm supposed to be looking at in videos like this one:
(Interesting detail: the URL in this vid is also broken).
Like other, longer format documentaries, I am forced to question the motive behind these kinds of videos, the "real" ones at any rate. Real meaning they aren't jokes, like the first video. This video is so annoying to watch, with its glitch-y editing, it seems more like a stylized video art project than anything else.
The juxtaposition of these videos seems to capture the dichotomy of responses to the art of conspiracy theory. I find that most people are either quick to believe conspiracies, if not all, then some, while others are even quicker to make some sort of "mature" analysis like this one which was added by the editor to my brooklyn rail article: "Like all conspiracy theories, it taps into the powerlessness felt by the masses." I guess if I really had to think about it, I would probably be on the side of the editor, but I like to at least entertain the possibility of conspiracies before asserting my intellectual superiority over those who invent them. If nothing else, the creators of conspiracy theories, at least decent ones, are magnificent story tellers and fabricators, worthy of that much more praise for convincing at least the gullible among us that what they say is real. Much better than this guy anyway.
It's pretty funny, though gets kind of boring. The payoff is definitely not worth the buildup. But it is successful in its attention to detail, like the fake URL at the end, and the way it imitates the the grammatical constructions of "real" 9/11 conspiracy videos. I'm not sure if this is intended, but I think it is accurate in its mocking of making vague claims that aren't actually corroborated by the video--I'm never really sure what it is I'm supposed to be looking at in videos like this one:
(Interesting detail: the URL in this vid is also broken).
Like other, longer format documentaries, I am forced to question the motive behind these kinds of videos, the "real" ones at any rate. Real meaning they aren't jokes, like the first video. This video is so annoying to watch, with its glitch-y editing, it seems more like a stylized video art project than anything else.
The juxtaposition of these videos seems to capture the dichotomy of responses to the art of conspiracy theory. I find that most people are either quick to believe conspiracies, if not all, then some, while others are even quicker to make some sort of "mature" analysis like this one which was added by the editor to my brooklyn rail article: "Like all conspiracy theories, it taps into the powerlessness felt by the masses." I guess if I really had to think about it, I would probably be on the side of the editor, but I like to at least entertain the possibility of conspiracies before asserting my intellectual superiority over those who invent them. If nothing else, the creators of conspiracy theories, at least decent ones, are magnificent story tellers and fabricators, worthy of that much more praise for convincing at least the gullible among us that what they say is real. Much better than this guy anyway.
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