WikiLeaks has been all over the world news headlines this past week after the Daily Beast reported that Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning released 260,000 classified documents to the controversial journalism network. Wired.com has followed up on story with reports about Manning’s conscience and WikiLeaks’ intention to provide him with legal help. In related news, [...]
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WikiLeaks: The Beginning of the First-Ever Golden Age of Journalism
Now that I’ve emerged from my symbolic journey through the desert that took place over the last few months, I need to start cracking away at a variety of topics that have sparked my interest lately. The timeliest of those topics is WikiLeaks, a site that I heard about a few weeks ago via an [...]
When the Going Gets Alien, the Humans Get Stupid
About a month ago I visited a local theater to see District 9, a “summer blockbuster” that I thought was directed by Peter Jackson. While I don’t give Jackson as much credit for King Kong as the rest of the viewing population did, his work on The Lord of the Rings was nothing short of [...]
Che Guevara: The Jungian Interpretation
I recently watched both parts of Che, the 2008 biopic of Ernesto “Che” Guevara starring Benicio Del Toro and directed by Steven Soderbergh. I don’t intend to comment extensively on the quality of the film. However, its overall impact is questionable; that’s evident by its average score of 64 (out of 100) on Metacritic.com. I [...]
The Philosophy of Remix Culture
On Saturday, March 28, 2009, the Ann Arbor Film Festival hosted the second public screening of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, a new documentary by Canadian filmmaker Brett Gaylor. Normally I’d put the video trailer at the end, but for those of you who haven’t seen it (or who aren’t familiar with these issues), I’d like [...]
Springing Free From The Trap
It’s probably no mystery by this point that I think documentaries are really valuable. In fact, I think their value will steadily rise over the next decade or so, now that the Internet has opened up film distribution in amazing new ways. One such example is the duo of Zeitgeist (2007) and its sequel, Zeitgeist: [...]
2008 Election Endorsement: Abstinence
Since this is sort of a publication, and many other publications — like newspapers, for example — offer election endorsements, I thought I would do the same. Hence, the official Supraterranean.com endorsement for the United States election in 2008 is…..(drum roll)…..total abstinence. I know what you’re thinking. “Abstain from voting?! But that would mean surrendering [...]
