Immersion: Porn by Robbie Cooper - Created for wallpaper.com - highly voyeuristic, intense and possibly disturbing. People talking about their experiences with porn intercut with you watching them watching porn. You don’t see any of what they are watching, there is a subtitle telling you what it is. Yet, it seems more intimate than porn, an up close look at what is generally personal and private.

Article about the project here.

Robbie Cooper’s website here.

Previous projects are Alter Ego (photos of gamers and their in-game avatars) and Immersion (kids filmed while playing video games).

Found this via Kottke who notes this is “NSFW because it turns out that watching people watching porn at the office is no easier to explain to your boss/co-workers than actually watching porn at the office.”

All In This Tea

A feature documentary by Les Blank that follows world-renowned American tea importer David Lee Hoffman to some of the most remote locations in China in search of the rarest tea.  Hoffman seeks to link the farmer right with the tea drinker.

If you are interested in learning more about loose leaf tea or frequently drink great tea visit http://lightlycaffeinated.com and contact one of the contributors to be added as a group member.

Bumfights are a series of videos where vulnerable homeless men are coaxed into performing abhorent acts in exchange for money.

The first video, Bumfights: A Cause for Concern, was produced by Ryen McPherson, with friends Zachary Bubeck, Daniel J. Tanner, and Michael Slyman, as Indecline Films. Shortly after sales began to escalate, Indecline Films sold the rights to two investors who went on to produce three sequels.

The videos immediately gained criticism from mainstream organizations. The US-based National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) has stated that the Bumfights videos disseminate hate against the homeless and dehumanize them.

It’s disgusting how someone is able to coerce ex-veteran, alcoholic homeless individuals to hurt themselves and permanently mark themselves with Bumfights logos, while inebriated. But to make a profit by permanently scarring the vulnerable is just not human.

What’s worse? The kids who directed and produced these videos defend their product with no remose, or any emotion for that matter.

Above is the first part of the documentary that depicts the exploitation, Bumfights - A Video Too Far. Here is 2, 3, 4 and 5.

What’s worse worse? The offspring videos these Bumfights series inspired.

The Baseball Card Movie is a 10 minute documentary about Joe Rock and his store the Baseball Card Dugout in Brooklyn. I used to collect baseball cards as a kid, but apparently there are a lot of adults that still take it seriously. via kottke

In the early 1980s, the Canadian metal band Anvil wrote the thrash blueprint for followers like Anthrax, Metallica, and Slayer. While those bands went on to become metal titans, Anvil faded into obscurity–so much that decades later, the band’s core members–guitarist Steve “Lips” Kudlow and drummer Robb Reiner–work menial day-jobs even as they continue to churn out little-heard records and dream of rock-star success. Director Sacha Gervasi (who was once a roadie for the band) chronicles the duo’s efforts to regain their ’80s glory in the funny and touching documentary.

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Stop frontin! We each have a favorite Disney movie. I actually was also all about the cartoons that were on after my little sister and I came back from school. Remember ‘Duck Tales,’ ‘Goof Troop,’ ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Dark Wing Duck?’ Hells yeah!

Whether you realize or not, or accept it or not, the Disney conglomerate has had a gigantic influence on our culture for generations. ‘Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power’ tries to break down the negative influence that company has had.

The doc primarily focuses on how big the reach is of Disney, distortion of history, negative reinforcement of female self-image, and the reinforcement of racial stereotypes.

Above is the first of the five parts it is broken down on YouTube. Link: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.