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Month: October 2006

  • Nick Broomfield

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I bought a series of six of Broomfield’s documentaries and I watched one of them today. Chicken Ranch is interesting because Broomfield lets the camera appear in shot, through mirrors and more. He also allows himself to appear, although only fleetingly, at least in this documentary. He makes observational documentaries…

  • Bad organisation

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen you’re the producer one of the first things you do is make sure that the person you’re meant to be filming is at the location where you want him at the time you would like him to be there. A few days ago though, when someone else was producing the…

  • New York

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80. The doors open. I walk forward a little more, a picture is taken, go up another 6 floors and I’m on an observation deck. That’s the experience people get as they go up to the observation deck of the empire state building. It’s…

  • New York

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was photographed: Series of photographs

  • Plane crash

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI saw the aftermath of the plane crash which occured today in New York. I took some video of people on phones, asking to reach loved ones and commenting on what they saw. It’s a small cessna aircraft with a yankee star that crashed killing two people.

  • Empire State building

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere, it’s been done. I’ve been to the 86th floor of the empire state building and looked down without getting fear of heights or anything.

  • Third day in New York

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I’m going to Statten Island in New York. It’s the third day I’ve been here so far and I’ve already visited the UN, Battery Park, Central Park, Times Square (at night), and other locations. I transited through Amsterdam from London, stopping there for a few hours. The flight was aboard…