The HBO Original docuseries Telemarketers chronicles the 20-year journey of two unlikely employees who stumble upon the murky truth behind a seedy New Jersey call center. With raw eyewitness footage and a comedic cast of characters, this three-part documentary takes you from an anarchic boiler room filled with booze, drugs, and debauchery to the halls of the United States Senate as a billion-dollar telemarketing scam unravels.
https://www.hbo.com/telemarketer
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28498
Becoming is a short film about the miraculous genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the ‘making of’ a salamander in its transparant egg from fertilization to hatching.
The first stages of embryonic development are roughly the same for all animals, including humans. In the film, we can observe a universal process which normally is invisible: the very beginning of an animal’s life. A single cell is transformed into a complete, complex living organism with a beating heart and running bloodstream.
The salamander embryo (an Ichthyosaura Alpestris) was followed very closely in a combination of timelapse and film. All stages of embryogenesis can be seen in this film: cleavage, gastrulation, neurulation and organogenesis. Time was condensed from about 3 weeks to 6 minutes.
Benedict Wells mit einer kleinen (unvollständigen) Geschichte der Coming-of-Age-Klassiker:
https://benedictwells.de/notizen/coming-of-age-filme/
Can I show you my favourite piece of pixel art?
Four-Byte Burger by Jack Haeger (1985) / Stuart Brown (2023):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4
From Psychonauts 2’s earliest days as a Fig project and all the way to release, the fine minds at 2 Player Productions have been running their cameras and capturing every moment of the process. It’s been years of documenting that’s led to over five thousand hours of footage to edit and shape into a full documentary. The result is thirty-two episodes of excitement and anxiety.
https://www.doublefine.com/news/behold-the-psychodyssey
The very existence of booming billionaires and record profits, while most people face austerity, rising poverty and a cost-of-living crisis, is evidence of an economic system that fails to deliver for humanity. For too long, governments, international financial institutions and elites have misled the world with a fictional story about trickle-down economics, in which low tax and high gains for a few would ultimately benefit us all. It is a story without any basis in truth.
It is a story, and an economic system that has left us without the tools or even the imagination to face this new age of crisis. It is a system that is largely discredited, yet continues to monopolize the minds of our leaders. It is a system that continues to work very well indeed for a small group of people at the top – predominantly rich, white men based in the global north.
https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/
Is Inequality Inevitable? Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/
Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of [a] huge space station!
