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Year: 2007

YouTube Censorship

While working on some WordPress plugins, I found some unbelievable news about abuse of copyright over on YouTube. From the world’s biggest pirate, YouTube has become an unbearable censor of personal expression and free communication. Chris Pederson’s private videos of motor racing were taken down – and he got some nasty legal notifications. However, in the last year I have had three videos removed by YouTube for copyright infringement under the DMCA. Videos The three videos are all of outdoor sporting events filmed as a spectator: two of motor racing at Brands Hatch in England and one of the Red…

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ImPulsTanz: Amjad – La La Human Steps

Amjad is what they have brought back for us. Lalala Amjad 1 If one was wondering what it might be like to live in the time of Tchaikovsky and go to the ballet, while ballet was new and alive (not so much a collection of worldwide museum pieces like Swan Lake and Giselle and La Sylphide and Don Quixote) – La La Human Steps offer us that excitement…. Part way through Amjad, Lock stops the dance to show us a film on three screens – to shoot the film Lock brought in award-winning cinematographer André Turpin, well known for the beauty and subtlety of his work in feature films like Maelstrom.

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ImPulsTanz: Snow White – Ann Liv Young

When the show starts Ann Liv Young is in a white leotard with her dark nipples visible through the white cloth and with an enormous pregnant belly…. You missed plastic horses You missed a Christian radio show bestrewn with live musical performance and obscene call ins. You missed small plastic horses across the stage with a wooden toy castle – the world of fairy tales.

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ImPulsTanz: Cat in a deep freeze – Saskia Hölbling/Dans.Kias

Despite her inadvertent role as a poster child for the current Vienna minimalism/conceptualist/anti-dance movement, Hölbling doesn’t feel any particular group affinity…. Any choreographer foolish enough to listen to what curators say, instead of his or her own artistic instinct, is putting not only artistic integrity but his or her work at risk.

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