Fuck The War



Fuck The War : The Movie is coming to DVD and torrents in November, 2010.

In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an "unexpected visit to the hospital", but a documentary maker, shooting interviews during the largest anti-war protests in Australian history, captured most of the interrogation on camera. Now, seven years later, the footage is being made public for the first time.

More Clips From 'Fuck The War' Here

"We Cannot Allow The Corporate Takeover Of Our Democracy"

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Oh yes, this is cynical, and even bitter, but it's also an excellent and short expose of the formula so many, many Hollywood films put into the market every year. In Australia, the pressure is on producers, screenwriters and directors to turn out pap exactly like this, in the belief that the only way to make real money in cinema is to apply The Formula.



It nuked every infuriating cliche of Hollywood cinema. It's every Become A Screenwriter Today! book ever written summarised in 3 1/2 minutes.

Fucking brilliant.

Bizarrely, as the United States descends into Third World status, Hollywood will only ramp up the production of Feel Good (Instead Of Feel Fucking Pissed Off) cinema. The movies that punch out The Truth, of course, will find their audiences and do very, very well.

Okay, Here We Go




Just launched the YouTube channel for FTW : The Movie

In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an "unexpected visit to the hospital", but a documentary maker, shooting interviews during the largest anti-war protests in Australian history, captured most of the interrogation on camera. Now, seven years later, that footage is being made public for the first time.

I'll be adding a new clip or two from FTW to the channel each week, leading up to the launch and the first screenings. Eventually, the whole movie will go up on this channel.

Here's a bit more background, and another clip, from FTW, if you need to know more.

You can also follow the progress of my attempt to self-release this movie here :

FTWTheMovie On Twitter

The launch of FTW : The Movie, that is the first time it will be screened online and be available on DVD and download, will happen in November.

No doubt my frustrations, fury, despair at trying to get an unknown movie in front of hundreds of millions of people (go big, or go home) will provide some entertainment between regular links to new photos, two or three clips a week, plus a whole bunch of other stuff.

Come On Over. This is going to be an adventure.

If Robots Design Their Own Religion, We Should Probably Evacuate The Planet

By Darryl Mason

Very impressive early generation of a homecare robot, loaded with sensors and wi-fi.

Not only can this robot get back up when knocked over, this story claims it as the first robot capable of recognising emotions in humans :

Nao is able to detect human emotions through a series of non-verbal “clues”, such as body-language and facial expressions, and becomes more adept at reading a person’s mood through prolonged interaction.

The wiring of the robot's “brain”, designed to mirror the neural network of the human mind, allows it to remember its interactions with different people and memorise their faces.

This understanding, along with a set of basic rules about what is “good” and “bad”....

Great. Robots will nag us with what they believe, or are programmed to believe, are our violations of proscribed morality. Which raises an interesting point. When it comes to programming morality into robots, will manufacturers use Judeo-Christian rules and standards? Will Jesus be the default setting? Well, wouldn't it depend on the religious beliefs of the manufacturer? Or the religious beliefs of those placing the order?

Will there be a market for robots that can home programmed with a religion of your choice? Or even better, a religion of your own design and creation? A companion robot that can cycle through the world's religions until you find one you like.

I'm surprised cashed-up Christian corporations in the United States are not already working on lines of Bible-quoting homecare robots. The demand will be huge. No doubt they will get around to the Christianisation of robots soon enough.

And what about the Islamisation of robots?

It would be the ultimate endgame of the pointless world military industry in the 21st century : Crusade vs Jihad robots, blasting fruitlessly away at each other in some barren Middle East wasteland, chewing through billions in bullets, bombs and missiles, generation 24 hours a day of spectacular 3D footage of the carnage and metal mayhem, no human bodies coming off the battlefield, just reams of shredded robot wreckage ready to be shipped homed and recycled into more warbots, for the next inevitable war.

But, in 2030, what will your emotional, empathic home companion robot make of your hypnotised fascination with yet another religious warbot conflict in the deserts of Jordan? Will it listen to your whoops of delight, and study your excited body language, as you stand amidst 'URThere! holograms showing robots launching suicide attacks on each other in vivid high definition?

What will an emotional robot think of humans who manufacture robots solely to be destroyed in manufactured conflicts?

If we give them the ability to do so, how will they judge us?



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The music of Inception gives everything a heavy, slightly sickening edge. Imagine it playing at a wedding. Or a funeral.