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Hi bros

From mid 2012 aindreas will blog the best of aindreas.com movies, dance and music over on europafitness.com/aindreas.

The move is in part to just to stream line the stuff will blog about from 2012… my attempt at being more organized. I finished college in 2012 and am starting to hit the gym again and do more sports. Putting all my blog activity on the one network – europaFITNESS will FREE up more time!

Over on europaFITNESS.com/aindreas I plan on just blogging the best of what I’ve come across in movies, dance and toones. ie I won’t be throwing up posts for the sake of it!

Peace out and check it out!

x aindreas

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Joanne’s key note speech to the the 34th Session of the Committee on Information, New York 23 April to 4 May 2012, with the General Debate scheduled for 23 – 25 April 2012.
A previous Livestream broadcast below. ICT don’t seem to broadcast on the Livestream channel since 2010, hopefully they will Joanne’s speech. The first video stream is from the United Nations (Channel 3), the UN video stream website. They have a no. of channels and reckon will broadcast Joanne’s speech on channels 3 + 6. See http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/ for more.
The meeting starts at 10 am (est) NYC = 3pm utc (Ireland) time (, me tinks- coz NYC is 5 hrs behind Ire ie NYC utc = -5 utc… lol).

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Hi bros

Am currently doing exams/ my finals. Have also being tweaking europFITNESS.com. Have some news coming… Summer 2012 stuff.

Peace out

aindreas

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Zeitgeist, intr’westn.

His three films below, and a profile doc by Charles Robertson.

Peter Joseph, the creator of the Zeitgeist movement, has plans for a fourth film in the Zeitgeist series. Ref Nuvendigital
Film 1: Zeitgeist: The Movie – 2007 by Peter Joseph
‘Understanding money’
Skip 40 to 1.15 of video.

Film 2: Zeitgeist Addendum by Peter Joseph.
‘Crisis in consciousness’

Film 2: Moving forward
‘We live in a technical reality, not a monetary one’

Charles Robinson‘s mini doc on Peter
‘[...] people are locked into a box..’

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Am a fan of the ole 1940′s Bel Ami with Angela Lansbury, and the like. A few years back, the remakes of these great movies started agin. The remake of the Picture of Dorian Gray I think I watched 5 minutes of it, ’twas that bad.
So when it was announced a remake of Bel Ami was in the works, I groaned lol.
The thought of more pretty and vacuous wasted screen time was dread inducing.
But! The new Bel Ami hinted of an interesting choice in it’s director, and as it seems to have turned out, it’s cast.. I haven’t seen it yet. I think Robert Patterson is not just a pretty face, what with his choice of work (you could do worse than check out his film – Little Ashes, about Dali and his affair with the Spanish poet & icon Federico García Lorca set as it was, in the embryonic birth of cubism).
Have seen the trailers and TG it looks like it has gone in the right direction.. am looking forward to it now.
It tells the tale a fella who shags his way tru Paris in his corrupt rise to power. Based on Guy de Maupassant’s book. Bel Ami, History of a Scoundrel. One movie I wouldn’t have minded poking about on.

NB: Bel Ami is also an adult NSFW site so tweets below may refer to either.

The book from 1885, is available in english from Project Gutenberg here >>>. See embed below, enjoy.
Bel Ami

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Update: OMG – Go See IT
Sean Penn seems to have really made This Must Be The Place his own. From what I’ve seen, Exhibit one: the scene in the lift. Part of the movie was filmed in Ireland, Dublin and Sandymount, Blanchardstown and the like. Sean Penn plays Cheyenne, a bored, retired, wealthy American goth rock star living in Dublin who decides he’s bored and …
Frances McDormand plays his wife, and well Sean and Frances in a film = must see.

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Zerophilia – interesting movie, very original, Martin Curland’s debut from way back in 2005.  Has a neat hook on “Whom do you love?” with a very 80s feel to it.  Wonder why no follow up movie from Martin. Prob a sign of the times  + the difficulties with generating income from movies?  Still, why more diverse films like this  (and pretty all my films blogged about) are not screened on tv,  even a la Showtime is ? I can’t really talk -  what with not having a tv!

Well cast. Taylor Handley as Luke (pictured, Dustin Seavey as Keenan, Alison Folland as Janine. Kyle Schmid as Max. Super toones from Edie, Downtown Harvest, Edith Pijpers, Kevin Ray. (Last FM listing >>>)

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Neat piece of furniture: by Dublin based folks. The lego boardroom table made by abgc for boys and girls. Cool video too. “abgc are based [just up the road from me] in South Studios, a creative hub, comprising a variety of freelancers including, Fashion Stylists, Photographers, Graphic Designers, Illustrators and Publishers.
South Studios combines office space, with photography studios and exhibition spaces..”

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Alice and Bob learn how Cryptocat can make their online lives more private.

Pic (c) tailing d white wabbit

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Go see me Ste Patrick’s festivities round up first
Wouldn’t have believed this if it hadn’t been all over the Irish Times today.
Background: The Black and Tans were paid thugs imported by Britain to stamp out the popular rebellion in Ireland in the early 20th century. Think the fore runners of fascism and the gestapo.

… But! Nike have released a special edition Nike sneaker (for March 2012) called the Black and Tan for Saint Patrick’s Day.. Unbelievable. Who in their right mind etc… Can you imagine Nike bringing out a sneaker themed on fascism (ophs, they just did) …  There’s other easy comparisons that you could say besides fascism (already inferred) but I rather not offend folks (more than I have) with flippant comparisons. Seriously if you are gonna release a shoe for Ireland’s National Holiday, the one name you don’t call it is Black and Tan (, or anything drink related (Irish folks don’t like stereotypes as much as the next person for that matter. Seemingly they brought out a Guinness sneaker too! ). I want to know the fools in Nike responsible for the mess, I mean it’s Basic Advertising 101: Not To Do!

Anyhow expect a drop in sales in Nike in Ireland! And I know what the talk in the pubs will be tonite!

Update: was reminded of another prominent recent promo campaign that was pulled almost immediately. I think it’s a case of poor management that doesn’t vet the ads, ie more money than sense Am sure Nike didn’t mean to offend, still it’s more for folk doing thesis on PR faux pas. A college undergrad. interviewed me during the week on promotion v advertisement for her thesis, coincidentally between the two PR fracas. Looking forward to reading her essay…
Update 14 March:
Newsy have a good round up of the fraca.

Thanks Matthew

Update with CNN:

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One of the ads:

Nike Black and Tan sneakers for Saint Patrick's Day! Saint Patrick currently rolling in his grave.

Some Ste Patrick’s stuff:

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