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that moment when you talk to people
who you haven’t spoken to in months and months
and you realize
they’re doing exactly what you thought they’d be doing
and the fact that nothing changed
and they’re still the same
and that’s exactly what you’ve been waiting to come back to;
a place where time might as well be
standing still.
Egyptian Filmmaker Uses Social Media To Create Documentary - Gaia could have seen this at the film festival in Ankara, but it only played in Istanbul. She’s a big pissed.
Fast Company : Egyptian Filmmaker Uses Twitter To Gather 300 GB of Activist Video
BY TIM CARMODYMon Jun 13, 2011
Flimmaker Amr Salama is working on a movie about the Egyptian Revolution. Where better to turn for footage than the people who were there?
“The role of social media is to get everyone to know that we all share the same problems, we all share the same needs, we’re all asking for the same rights,” says Amr Salama. After using social media to follow and participate in demonstrations that ultimately helped topple former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian filmmaker has now used Twitter to gather over 300 gigabytes of documentary video of demonstrations at Tahrir Square and elsewhere as part of a new film about the revolution that may soon be making the rounds at film festivals all over the world.
Salama’s project capitalizes on the new democratic possibilities unlocked by rampant adoption of both handheld video and social media. “Everyone was using cell phones to shoot pictures and videos and put it online; everyone was making videos to show how the regime was corrupted and tell how they were dealing with it,” he told Beet.tv:
Especially after that special case of Khaled Said, the young man that was killed and tortured by the police. It got everyone together. There was a page called “We Are All Khaled Said” that got everyone connected on the Internet. At the same time, those who weren’t on the Internet shared the same problems and shared the same needs as well. They just weren’t as connected.
Social media also gave demonstrators the jump on the government’s efforts to crack down on the Internet. “The government didn’t know which [Internet] carrier was providing all these videos,” Salama explains. The activists were quickly able to share this information among themselves to continue to broadcast videos over the Internet. Likewise, photographers were able to directly share their videos with Arab news channels, delivering them by hand to offices and contacts. And now, in the wake of the revolution, and with society in many ways still in anarchy, social media has allowed for the beginning of creating a true archive of the events.
The film, Tahrir Square: The Good, The Bad, The Politician, is a collaborative project by Salama and two other filmmakers. Salama is making the third segment, The Politician, about Egypt’s revolution from the politicians’ point of view. His film tries to understand “how the decisions were made, how Mubarak turned into a dictator, and how dictators fall eventually by the power of the people.”
The bulk of Salama’s footage, primarily interviews of people who had been working closely with Mubarak, was shot after the revolution. But it’s augmented by the hours of videos from Tahrir Square, all contributed via his open call over Twitter.
Mitt Romney will NOT REST until you eat a pastry. Here’s an excerpt of a Phil Rucker’s pool report from a flight between Charleston and Greenville Friday:
Before take off, Mitt Romney walked down the aisle with a large box of assorted pastries from Panera Bread to pass out to the passengers (including the governors and press).
What follows is a transcript of his exchanges.
“Come on, Kasie, dig in,” Romney said to Kasie Hunt of the Associated Press. “Pain au chocolat. Smart move.”
“Ashley?” Romney said to Ashley Parker of The New York Times.
“Can you just grab me something?” Parker asked, turning to her seatmate, Kasie Hunt, who was holding the tongs poised over the basket.
“What do you want though?” Romney asked.
“Um…” Parker said. “The popover thing?”
“The popovers?” Romney asked.
“Thank you very much,” Parker said.
“Sticky bun?” Romney asked other reporters. “There you go.”
“Snack time! Nothing? Just, you know, use your fingers,” Romney said, struggling with the big box. “The heck with this. There you go.”
“Come on, Emily, dig in here,” Romney said to Emily Friedman of ABC News. “Fingers are fine. We’re among friends.”
“Sarah, you want one? What do you want?” Romney said to Sarah Boxer of CBS News.
“I don’t know,” Boxer said. “What’s in there?”
“We’re gonna solve problem one here by getting rid of these ridiculous things here,” Romney said, handing two pairs of black plastic tongs to the flight attendant behind him.
“Rucker, come on Rucker,” Romney said to Philip Rucker of The Washington Post. “Oh, he makes a good move for the cheese. Take two.”
“No, no, no,” Rucker said.
“Look it, there’s so much in here,” Romney said. “Come in, take more. No, take more than one. Take two, take two, Ruck-man. Come on.”
“Where’d you get it?” Matt Viser of The Boston Globe asked Romney, referring to the pastries box.
“We found it on the floor up there,” Romney said.
“Do you want another one?” Romney asked Sara Murray of The Wall Street Journal.
“No, I’m good, but thank you,” Murray said.
“Who wants some more of these?” Romney said. “Look at this. This is good stuff. This is from Panera. Very high-end.”
“Pain au chocolat in there,” Romney continued. “Look at the sticky buns. Those are the best.”
“Hey, Rucker, there’s still some more of those cheese cake babies in here,” Romney continued. “No? You only had one of these. Come on, Ashley.”
“Alright,” Romney said. “We’ve got to get seated.”“Look at the sticky buns. Those are the best”—amazing. (Photo: Charles Dharapak/AP)
Yup.
