Babies 03/27/2010
 
via kottke: Babies is a documentary that follows the lives of four newborn babies for the first year of life...in Namibia, Mongolia, Japan, and San Francisco.
 
 
Trailer for the upcoming Jonathan Demme directed Neil Young concert doc.
 
Bob Dylan 03/23/2010
 
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Obama rallies the troops at George Mason University.  Love that guy.  Related.
 
Peter Sellers 03/16/2010
 
A chronological portrait of Peter Sellers four wives.
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Culture 03/15/2010
 
 
Husbands 03/13/2010
 
A painfully long and wrenching scene from the painfully long and wrenching John Cassavetes film.
 
 
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In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

Read more here.  

 
 
God bless this man.
 
Bird Song 03/05/2010