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looks like tomorrow’s the only day you can see the Onion mockumentary on Jeffrey Epstein, locally at Balboa Theater in SF or New Parkway Theater in Oakland https://theonion.com/badpedophile/

Bad Pedophile
America’s Finest News Source is proud to resuscitate the dying medium of film with a double-feature presentation beginning with their latest investigative documentary. Featuring never-before-seen interviews and footage, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile succeeds where hundreds of previous documentaries have failed, finally uncovering the truth behind one of America’s most notorious sex perverts. As an added bonus feature, […]

Hurricane Katrina's 20-year anniversary prompts at least seven new documentaries, as well as reflections on criticisms of the press coverage after the storm (Jon Allsop/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/hurric

Katrina and the Press, Twenty Years On
Race, climate, and the media legacy of an “unnatural” disaster.

Links to free Palestinian documentaries.
Requires Bluesky account, sorry.
#palestine

@… motion design/ animations for tv documentaries.
Would it look better in cycles ? Probably.
But I don’t have the time for cycle, eevee is much faster.
Also, 3d drawings scenes (npr) with no shadow/lightning but with camera movement.

All those “holodeck malfunction” episodes on Star Trek are actually documentaries about vibe coding

CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking
Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero, Ana Cristina Murillo, Eduardo Montijano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24921

CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become powerful tools across domains-from industry to the arts. In documentary filmmaking, they offer dynamic, otherwise unreachable perspectives, transforming how stories are told. Wildlife documentaries especially benefit, yet drones also raise ethical concerns: the risk of disturbing the animals they aim to capture. This paper introduces CineWild, an autonomous UAV framework that combines robotics, cinematography, and ethics. Built on model pr…

This is an interesting article about how videos for Will Smith's social media look like AI slop but there's a catch: the fans aren't fake. The origin of those short clips with the deformed faces are real, professional concert photos of an event that happened. They just asked some AI model like Veo3 to turn that still image into moving footage.
This is super creepy and will probably end up being used in all kinds of historical documentaries pretty soon.

Over the last few days, I've watched some really nice documentaries that I want to recommend, being the origin stories of:
Node.js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8KwiiUGy0
Python

Netflix's Sustainability Stories Collection: https://www.netflix.com/au/browse/genre/81639720

Sustainability Movies, Shows and Documentaries
Drama. Humor. Hope. Delve into sustainability with this diverse collection featuring natural wonders, heroic humans and fantastic creatures.

Today I discovered that overengineered machine for hanging clothes (that also serves as a stationary bike) has Bluetooth and I can pair it with KInomap so that I have visuals to get myself distracted.
Honestly though, I might soon switch to watching TV series or long documentaries while rolling.

#endBBsWar
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