Last week members of the blind community announced that they would be boycotting the movie Blindness (although how you boycott a movie no one cares about, I DON'T KNOW) because they thought that it promoted negative stereotypes against people with... CONTINUE READING WHERE IS THE BLIND COMMUNITY'S PROTEST AGAINST THE BLINDNESS VIRAL WEB CAMPAIGN?»
Posted on October 9, 2008 in
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Tags: Beastie Boys | Blindness | Bonnaroo | Coachella | Fleet Foxes | Jose Saramago | Julianne Moore | Mark Ruffalo
The novelist José Saramago won the Nobel Prize in 1998 following the publication of his book Blindness, which has just been adapted into a movie starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. It's a beautifully written but terrifying dystopian allegory about... CONTINUE READING SOMETIMES A VAMPIRE IS NOT JUST A VAMPIRE (NOT THAT THE BLIND COMMUNITY ARE VAMPIRES)»
Posted on October 1, 2008 in
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Tags: Blindness | Jose Saramago | Julianne Moore | Mark Ruffalo | Protests | TV On The Radio
Citizen Marketing is where we catalog our favorite baby-Banksy agit-prop defacements of public advertising campaigns. Please send your own Citizen Marketing to tips@videogum.com. THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TUMBLR'D! Haha. True. That's just true. When the global pandemic of blindness, which... CONTINUE READING CITIZEN MARKETING: BLINDNESS»
Posted on September 8, 2008 in
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Tags: Blindness | Jose Saramago
Blindness trailer, guys: In the kingdom of the blind, Julianne Moore is wrong. So many scarier things. For example: aliens. For example: sharks. For example: alien sharks. I read Blindness: The Book, and there's a reason that José Saramago won... CONTINUE READING NO, JULIANNE MOORE, THE ONLY THING MORE TERRIFYING THAN BLINDNESS IS ZOMBIES»
Posted on April 23, 2008 in
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Tags: Blindness | Julianne Moore | Mark Ruffalo | Zombies
