Alternative Media Gathering this weekend

May 1st-3rd - new media gathering on Raven’s Ait Island.

The imminent commercial collapse of mainstream media, and its replacement by PR-driven news, threatens the journalistic integrity and independence necessary for a free society. The next generation could be without the 4th Estate. And new media has not yet realized its potential to fill this space.

Old media and new media need to gather together, sharing skills, resources and experience to create the media of the future.

We invite:

Geeks, web designers and programmers

Traditional media people

Alt-media people

Media students

DIY culture practitioners

Indymedia people

Documentary filmmakers

Print journalists

Radio journalists

Citizen journalists

The conference will concentrate on the audio-visual side of media, with space for break-out groups for print, radio and web.

The space: an eco-conference centre on an island in the Thames 20 mins by train from central London. http://ravensait.org.uk

We have a large hall, a cinema room, and 3 conference rooms. There is basic crash space for 40 people over the weekend. The conference will be run on an “un-conference” format, and will be funded by contributions for the space and meals.

The gathering is organised by visionOntv (http://visionon.tv) – an undercurrents project (http://undercurrents.org)

To book a place – please edit this wiki page http://barcamp.org/visionOntv

Morgancomputers

Having problems getting a computer I bought from http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk repaired under guaranty. Took it in on 21 March over a month later and 7 phone calls I still have no guaranty of its return. The latest is that it is beyond economic repair (the hard drive failed) and they will replace the PC, but no guarantied date yet, always tomorrow each time I call. This Box was our test server for our http://visionon.tv project and we need it back, or to buy a replacement, but hard to do that when Morgan’s keeps fairy tailing about a replacement tomorrow. Be wary about buying from http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk seams to be the moral of the story – will update with outcome hopefully soon.

UPDATE: they got a replacement PC in this afternoon, better speck then the one it replaces, I picked it up and am now installing Ubuntu and liferay on it.

"Rap Chop" featuring Vince (Slap Chop remix)

OK this is well done, make me wont to buy one (:

FOOD, inc (trailer)

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising -- and often shocking truths -- about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

Tags: visionontv, frendlyfire, food

G20 Climate Camp in the City

A Film by Emily James and James Bayliss-Smith. To read witness statements from people in the incidents shown here , go to www.climatecamp.org.uk and click on the 'legal report' link.

Tags: uklegalobserver, climatecamp, climatechange, police, policewatch, g20, visionontv, visionon.tv, grassroots

Ravensait News (2)

First show from the visionOntv studio at Ravens ait island. Update on were the eco-conf center project is.

Tags: ravensait, grassroots, visionontv, visionon.tv, squat, london, uk

オオカミはブタを食べようと思った。Stop motion with wolf and pig

cute

Somali rapper Knaan tells the truth about the pirates

Somalian born rapper Knaan gives the real story about Somalia's infamous pirates.

Tags: visionontv, visionon.tv, globalviews, knaan, daveyd, breakdown.fm, somalipirates, hiphop, somalianpirates, somalia, environment, toxicwaste, corporatewatch, corporate

Nanotec Angels

One of the favorite films I have made from 2005 The Heavenly Righteous Opposed to Nano-tech Greed manifested at a conference of potential investors in the nano-technology industry today. Harry Swan, once in charge of PR for Monsanto and now trying to sell nano-tech to investors, was presented with a Can of Worms Award.

Tags: grassroots, plugandplay, visionontv, visionon.tv, nano-tech, technology

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND - Give Us Back Our F****** Money

If you go to work everyday, 9-5 and then hand over about a quarter of your income to the government every month and you're not angry about the current banking F-up, then youre either one of the financial or political elite that have been ripping off the world since time immemorial, or youre a snivelling, subservient little slave and you deserve all the subjugation you get. In a follow up to our Fishing for Bankers film we decided to have a whip-round outside the offices of RBS for a new charitable organisation called GBFMYC (Give us Back our Fucking Money You Cunts). Full article here: http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/progress/royal-bank-of-scotland---cash-back

Tags: grassroots, visionontv, rbs, scotland, bank, bankers, thieves, bonus, bailout, crooks, credit, crunch, funny