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I met briefly with We Live in Public director Ondi Timoner and her five-year-old son Joaquim early this afternoon inside the Manhattan offices of Murphy P.R. Her film, which won the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize, is about living virtual at the expense of natural, and how we're all sinking deeper and deeper into it. (It's certainly the story of my life, I can tell you.) We Live In Public is showing at New Directors, New Films this week. I'll most likely run the piece along with the audio tomorrow.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 30, 2009 at 4:44 PM

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D.Z. says ...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i8f701cf03395decaeb9a8a8aa7b50411
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118001901.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
http://tv.yahoo.com/the-o-39-reilly-factor/show/32608/news/urn:newsml:tv.reuters.com:20090330:us_oreilly__ER:48523
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/28/AR2009032802066.html?nav=hcmodule

Posted by D.Z. at March 30, 2009 9:16 PM

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astrophore says ...

It's true -- the Internet has taken hold of our lives in an amazingly brief period of time. I fear that we are losing contact with our essence, and that technology may ultimately be enslaving us all. Worst of all is my fear that we are complicit in our own dehumanization, and that, in using the Web to seek out human contact, we paradoxically push real humans away. And if we all live in public, where is our privacy?

But I do recommend that everybody check out the movie's cool website, where you can look at the Twitter photos or link to the Facebook and MySpace pages. You can also stream the director's speech from YouTube or join the e-mail mailing list.

Posted by astrophore at March 30, 2009 9:31 PM

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D.Z. says ...

So much for the Republicans "capturing" one or more of the houses in '010...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090331/pl_nm/us_obama_poll_economy

Posted by D.Z. at March 31, 2009 2:55 AM

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D.Z. says ...

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/videogaga/15694/dance-dance-de-evolution-dumbest-dance-fads/

Posted by D.Z. at March 31, 2009 3:16 AM

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JChasse says ...

Webster defines irony as opening a link to a page about a film dealing with "living virtual at the expense of natural", and finding three of the four posts ahead of mine dealiing with internet links to things that have nothing to do with the original story.

Oh, what? Webster doesn't define it as that? Well, he should.

Posted by JChasse at March 31, 2009 4:04 AM

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Howlingman says ...

... and DZ proves the point beautifully.

Posted by Howlingman at March 31, 2009 5:04 AM

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JT says ...

MILF

Posted by JT at March 31, 2009 9:20 AM

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frankbooth says ...

She's the director of DiG!? I realize that it was can't-miss subject matter (Anton is a walking Irwin Allen film) but that was an insanely entertaining doc. I have to see this.

As for the internet, it's a great way to meet someone you can hole up with and ignore the rest of the offline world. And then you can order movies online, which you can watch and discuss with people you've never met. I'm still not sure if this is good or bad. Probably good, because MilkMan and Burma and Prager don't care if I've brushed my teeth.

Posted by frankbooth at March 31, 2009 10:20 AM

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Edward says ...

You not only don't have to brush your teeth, but you don't have to watch and you can interact in the all-together!

Posted by Edward at March 31, 2009 1:20 PM

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frankbooth says ...

And I usually do, though I sometimes get funny looks at internet cafes.

Posted by frankbooth at March 31, 2009 11:32 PM

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MilkMan says ...

But I do care, Frank. I'm serious. I have grown attached to a lot of people at this site. I am curious about all of you and who you are and where you live and what you do for a living. I consider a lot of people here my friends. That's not sad. It's not pathetic. It's evolution. No one said it was going to be pretty or poetic. I think the key to living is to try and stay open to what is happening, not deny it. The world is much different place now than it was 30 years ago and the world we live in thirty years from now is going to seem just as foreign. I think, if you are lucky enough to live a long time, eventually the world is as incomprehensible as it would be if you were an infant. It has to be. Otherwise death would be even more intolerable than it is.

Posted by MilkMan at April 1, 2009 1:00 PM