When the human rights crowdsourcing website Movements.org met with World Knockout--a game mocking North Korea--the innovative result was a human rights-themed application now available to a global smart-phone audience.
If Zero Dark Thirty is about any one thing, it is about a girl, which is how then CIA Director Leon Panetta James Gandolfinii) and no less than President Obama himself (a voice on the end of a phone the audience never hears) dubs her.
At that show I attended back in 2013, I laughed hardest when he borrowed phones from audience members and mocked their texts — particularly at one poor sap whose clumsy hip-hop come-ons weren't just hilarious but uncomfortably familiar, since I was sitting beside someone who I knew had been on the receiving end of equally lame messages.
Soaps and drama can provide an entertaining format for subtle messaging while debates (ideally with phone-ins/live audiences) are useful in two-way communication, particularly in addressing political issues.
Do I come to your workplace and make phone calls?" The audience, semi-somnolent till then, woke up and laughed heartily.
The phone's target audience could be the two billion people who have limited or no access to electricity, the companies said.
Luckily, the shot of the man on the phone in the audience, prolly texting home to tell his mum that he loves her, brings everything crashing up to date.
The scene has become famous for a video clip captured on phone by an audience member in December last year of Christopher Tierney, the then chief stunt man, falling from the same perch – his safety rope hadn't been secured and he fell 30ft, fracturing his skull, several vertebrae, his shoulder blade, arm and four ribs and bruising his lung.
And, he went on to a stunned audience, "phone hacking is a perfectly acceptable tool," and the editors of tabloids who authorized hacking are "heroes of journalism".
