Jill Walker’s Definition of a weblog is fairly impressive from a narrative inteligence point of view:

Weblogs are serial and cumulative, and readers tend to read small amounts at a time, returning hours, days, or weeks later to read entries written since their last visit. This serial or episodic structure is similar to that found in *epistolary novels or *diaries, but unlike these a weblog is open-ended, finishing only when the writer tires of writing (see narrative structure).

Many weblog entries are shaped as brief, independent narratives, and some are explicitly or implicitly fictional, though the standard genre expectation is non-fiction. Some weblogs create a larger frame for the micro-narratives of individual posts by using a consistent rule to constrain their structure or themes (see Oulipo), thus, Francis Strand connects his stories of life in Sweden by ending each with a Swedish word and its translation. Other weblogs connect frequent but dissimilar entries by making a larger narrative explicit: Flight Risk is about an heiress�s escape from her family, The Date Project documents a young man�s search for a girlfriend, and Julie Powell narrates her life as she works her way through Julia Child�s cookbook.

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Filmed by a bunch of hip gentlemen down in Sri Lanka, this film portrays the darkest of human nature with a fine twist towards the end. We promise this thriller will keep you on the edge from the word…….GO!

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This turtle really wants to eat the tomato being offered.The feeder is trying to play games with it. Does he think the turtle doesn’t know that?!

Watch woefully, humans, as the wise, old turtle outwits the feeding hand and bites off what it wants to. ‘Nuff said.

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I’ve been studying and looking for insights into the life of the genius Claude E. Shannon, the father of Information Theory and inventor of some intriguing toys. One of them is the Shannonizer, which takes any text and edits it as if written by some late author, for example, if Edgar Alan Poe were to edit the following text from WNYC Radio Lab’s website:

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity may have implications on the concept of choice. Namely, that there is none. Do we choose what movie to see tonight? No. (It’s already been chosen, some say.) Do we choose to wiggle our finger? No. (Already wiggled.) This hour of Radio Lab features conversations with scientists and an entire cast of characters who are all waging battle against time – or at least the common sense view of time. We’ll visit a particle accelerator where scientists recreate the moment just after the beginning of time…and also a Dublin artist whose life is a 19 century time-experiment. We end in the Mojave desert, where geologic time flows like a frozen hourglass.

…once passed through the Shannonizer’s algorithmic machine, it appears like this:

Einstein’s Theory of unutterable fear to name– and laugh– but now an entire cast of time…and also a 19 century time-experiment. Do we choose to see tonight? No. We’ll visit a Dublin artist whose life is a ghastly river, where scientists and an entire cast of my bed were in the thing on the common sense view of time flows like a hideous throng rush out; their flames went utterly out; the hot breath of the common sense view of Relativity may have implications on the moment just after the deepest slumber– of Relativity may have had no power to see tonight? No. But with a 19 century time-experiment. Do we choose to repeat, stay! I felt that there had the beginning of the pale door, that there had I had the moment just after the common sense view of Relativity may have rid myself of agony; I shudder to wiggle!

Behold the Amma, South India’s famous hugging mother! After a brief appearance, we see the grandeur of the ceremony and the miles of people assembled to pay their respects to the woman who hugs for a living. Some freaky dances and costumes, and even a few bands perform too. And the twist at the ending, the outside…

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This video shows a PETA (People For Ethical Treatment Of Animals) demonstration in Ahmedabad, India, with a grim Reaper trying to kill a cow with his sickle of death. Leather is murder, the onlookers are told.

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The Box Maker, as you will realise after watching this film, is not a human being at all! It is a humanoid box-making machine that sits and makes boxes all day. Kindly notice that the speed of his hands is not a special effect by Soumyadeep Paul, the film-maker. The shot is presented to you as-is and wondrous! Download here.

Salvador Dali used to say that his moustache was antennae for alien signals, the way he recieved messages from outerspace. Check out this video clip to see the longest, coolest, funkiest, hairiest moustaches on the blue-green-gold planette!

A film by Soumyadeep Paul. Download HERE.

This film is a montage of footage shot in Pushkar, Rajasthan.With no particular focus the film shows you images you might otherwise miss in the crowded streets…

A film by Soumyadeep Paul. Downloads HERE.