Comments on: If this is spam then I think they’ve won http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2004/07/if-this-is-spam-then-i-think-theyve-won/ hmmn: musings from the far east(erwood) Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:42:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mark http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2004/07/if-this-is-spam-then-i-think-theyve-won/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 mark Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:32:28 +0000 http://72.18.130.52/~zxmarkxs/hmmn/?p=423#comment-1096 I'm not sure how much time this Linda Ronstadt episode will get on the Japanese channels especially seeing how little press Fahrenheit 9/11 has received (in Japan that is). I was invited to the private press screening last night in Roppongi as press photographer to shoot for the Democrats Abroad Japan. Mr. Moore was not in attendance, though I though I spotted him early on but turned out to be just some fat guy that hadn't shaved in a few days. Great film, but horrible night for me photography speaking. My camera started giving me attitude, film advance lever coming undone and kept triggering the multiple exposure button. Then my scanner produces the worst scans I've ever seen (prints from the lab were fine). I've decided to sell the thing and go a little higher end with a CoolScan. I’m not sure how much time this Linda Ronstadt episode will get on the Japanese channels especially seeing how little press Fahrenheit 9/11 has received (in Japan that is). I was invited to the private press screening last night in Roppongi as press photographer to shoot for the Democrats Abroad Japan. Mr. Moore was not in attendance, though I though I spotted him early on but turned out to be just some fat guy that hadn’t shaved in a few days. Great film, but horrible night for me photography speaking.

My camera started giving me attitude, film advance lever coming undone and kept triggering the multiple exposure button. Then my scanner produces the worst scans I’ve ever seen (prints from the lab were fine). I’ve decided to sell the thing and go a little higher end with a CoolScan.

]]> By: Dirk http://www.easterwood.org/hmmn/2004/07/if-this-is-spam-then-i-think-theyve-won/comment-page-1/#comment-1095 Dirk Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:06:50 +0000 http://72.18.130.52/~zxmarkxs/hmmn/?p=423#comment-1095 Agree on the last part. Saw Columbine last week, interesting but not a revelation (would love to read the culture of fear book, the aspect of US culture that attracted me most). His interview and general rhetoric technique seem a bit blunt (a shame really because Heston for example at least at the decency to let him in, but not much was made of that), but then on the other hand, consider the topic of "Fahrenheit", so is that of his nemesis. Moore is also incredibly popular in Germany, same situation. He appeals to the masses, and has been called populist just the same as the "bad guys". But I suppose he has his place. A phenomenon nonetheless, I hear he is also made responsible for a new documentary film popularity boom in the US ("OutFoxed", "My Super-Size Life"). Agree on the last part. Saw Columbine last week, interesting but not a revelation (would love to read the culture of fear book, the aspect of US culture that attracted me most). His interview and general rhetoric technique seem a bit blunt (a shame really because Heston for example at least at the decency to let him in, but not much was made of that), but then on the other hand, consider the topic of “Fahrenheit”, so is that of his nemesis.

Moore is also incredibly popular in Germany, same situation. He appeals to the masses, and has been called populist just the same as the “bad guys”. But I suppose he has his place. A phenomenon nonetheless, I hear he is also made responsible for a new documentary film popularity boom in the US (“OutFoxed”, “My Super-Size Life”).

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