The Debt Crisis as Just Another Story – Challenging the Need for Cuts

Here is another video about the cuts, via Indymedia Bristol. While it is very interesting, sadly the talk is quite boring, and hard to not get distracted from. Visually it seems to be some kind of powerpoint presentation.

It’s well worth a watch though! Taking this content and actually making it into a film could be a very interesting start for a project. It’s got all the content, only needs some scripting and working on voiceover, pacing and visuals.

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cogito ergo seditio

Here we are, let’s see where it takes us. I’ve tried starting a blog before. A few times. Some I never did anything with. Other’s prospered for a while and then fell apart. One reason was that I have been inherently incomfortable setting up a blog hosted on corporate services. It’s just so cumbersome. They log my IP address and I have no idea who they could be passing this information too. They also log the readers IP address. They could take down my blog or suspend it at any time, and there is no way to dispute this. All I would be able to do is appeal to their good will. While they can find out about me, including where I live and other personal information, I have to deal with an anonymous and unaccountable organisation. And it is a corporation. While I do not necessarily want to get paid for the creative work of writing and maintaining a blog, publishing pictures and video, I just don’t like the idea to let others make money on the back of this labour.

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