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By: This is really happening. » Blog Archive » Many to Many

This is really happening. » Blog Archive » Many to Many — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:19:03 +0000

[...] eeley from the Open Source radio show.Â Brendan recently wrote a nice note about the film here. Tags: many to many| global voices| social media| open source [...]

By: neha viswanathan

neha viswanathan — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:47:26 +0000

Brendan: Thrilled that you got my spelling right! Martin was so easy to talk to – that I got all animated as usual. When I compare myself to everybody else – who appears to beautifully composed – my own thrashing limbs and blinking eyelids seem a bit overdone. Heh!

By: cheesechowmain

cheesechowmain — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:22:40 +0000

I forget to mention the other odd thing about my experience; besides the Terry Gilliam meets Kafka part. After a few minutes, the crew really did become like wallpaper. People behaved completely natural with all the flaws and beauty they do under *normal* circumstances. I’d always wondered how film crews were able to record people behaving so naturally, and sometimes quite poorly, in front of a camera. Well, I now understand. A good crew really does become fairly unobtrusive and leaves plenty of room for normalcy. Strange. Very strange.

By: cheesechowmain

cheesechowmain — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:55:30 +0000

I was involved in a high-profile start-up a few years back. One day, without notice or explanation, a Canadian film crew showed up at my office and spent time filming me work and asking me random questions. If I hadn’t been so busy and working under tremendous deadline pressure, I would have found the whole thing very unsettling and Kafka-esque. At the time it just seemed to line-up with all the other unpredictable weirdness floating around. Luckily, I wore clean underwear and brushed my teeth. I wonder what happened to this documentary? Probably in my personnel file in some cavernous expanse.