Mindestgage wäre das mindeste - deutsche Dokumentarfilmer sind das Prekariat des Fernsehens. Eine neue Studie macht die ganze Misere deutlich: Viele können von ihrer Arbeit kaum leben. Demnach verdienen etwa Dokumentarfilmregisseure im Schnitt 1380 Euro netto im Monat, rund achtzehn Prozent der für die Studie befragten liegen sogar unter dem zu versteuernden Minimum von 636 Euro netto im Monat. Nur fünfzehn Prozent der Dokumentarfilmer können von ihrer Arbeit leben, alle anderen verdienen Geld in anderen Jobs und sind auf finanzielle Unterstützung angewiesen. Weniger geht nicht.

Joy Division is a 2007 British documentary film on the British post-punk band Joy Division. The film assembles TV clips, newsreel, pictures of modern Manchester and Manchester in the late 1970s, and interviews. Filmmaker Grant Gee speaks with now-deceased Factory Records founder Tony Wilson; legendary producer Martin Hannett; surviving Joy Division band members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Peter Hook; and the late Ian Curtis's Belgian lover Annik Honoré in order to offer a vivid snapshot of the fleeting moment in time when Manchester's Joy Division changed the face of modern music.

"Prenzlauer Berg – Begegnungen zwischen dem 1. Mai und dem 1. Juli 1990" liefert Bilder aus dem Leben der Kiez-Bewohner in den letzten Monaten vor der Währungsunion. "We need revolution" singt "Herbst in Peking" aus dem Prenzlauer Berg in den Trümmern der Mauer am Rande ihres Stadtbezirks. Dabei ist im Mai '90 schon fast alles gelaufen. Im "Prater" schwooft Knatter-Karl mit seiner Freundin. Frieda und Gerda im "Hackepeter" sind erschüttert; denn gleich nach dem Fall der Mauer wurde im Tierpark ein Papagei gestohlen. Die Polizei jagt bewaffnete Männer, während Näherinnen erklären, warum die Vietnamesen zuerst entlassen werden. Ein einsamer Gast aus dem "Wiener Cafe" singt zum Abschied das Lied von der Heimat, während die rumänische Combo zum Balkan-Express zurückeilt. Die Hausbesetzer träumen von Anarchie und Frau Ziervogel, Inhaberin von Berlins berühmtester Würstchenbude, segnet das erste Westgeld. Der Tag der Währungsunion ist da. Filipp Moritz besetzt den Prenzlauer Berg.

The police chief said the reform to the Public Security Law, which is being studied by the Interior Ministry, would seek to “strike a balance between the protection of the rights of citizens and those of members of the security forces. Only in recognition of the immense labor of the security forces are we able to progress toward achieving a more just, safer and peaceful society.” Cosido was speaking at a meeting with the Independent Labor Union of Public Workers (CSI-F), the Spanish Confederation of Police (CEP) and the European Confederation of Independent Labor Unions (CESI), which was convened to analyze the effects of the economic crisis on the operation of security forces. The measure, Cosidó said, is designed to protect the privacy of officers and their families and guarantee their rights of honor and image. The government, he said, will be able to “take a step forward” in providing the police with more safety to go about their work, “with strict compliance with the rule of law.”

Mogadishu, Somalia's capital when Somalia was still a nation, is the poster city for what WikiTravel.org calls "the most lawless and dangerous city on Earth... Even with guards, the likelihood of being injured, kidnapped, and/or killed is still very high, including potentially by said hirable guards... Traffic drives on the right." As far as I could tell, traffic went every which way—and yes, I grant you that Mogadishu's walls are bullet-pocked in three sizes: thumb size for AK-47s, fist size for .20 caliber, and both fists for .50 caliber.

Interview mit Hans-Ludwig Kröber, einer der gefragtesten Gerichtspsychiater Deutschlands. Seine Gutachten entscheiden mit darüber, ob ein Schwerverbrecher wieder in Freiheit kommt.

Die Bundesregierung wird auf dem Europäischen Rat weitergehende Reformen vorschlagen, um die Euro-Zone institutionell zu stärken. Wie Bundesfinanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) auf seinen Rückflug aus Asien mitreisenden Journalisten sagte, will man unter anderem die Rechte des Währungskommissars spürbar stärken. Er soll künftig ohne Rücksicht auf die übrigen Kommissionsmitglieder die Prinzipien der Stabilitätsunion durchsetzen können - nicht zuletzt, indem er Korrekturen in den nationalen Haushalte erzwingen können soll, wenn die Defizit zu hoch auszufallen drohen. „Ich habe schon in der Euro-Gruppe gesagt, wir müssen den Währungskommissar stärken“, berichtete Schäuble. „Er muss den Haushalt zurückweisen können an das nationale Parlament.“ ... „Er muss weltweit so anerkannt sein wie der Wettbewerbskommissar, der respektiert und gefürchtet wird.“ Dazu sollte er allein in den Fragen zu den Defiziten entscheiden können. „Er muss einen Haushalt zurückweisen können, sowohl nach der Aufstellung als auch nach seiner Verabschiedung.“

A portrait of Trash Talk, featuring skating, graffiti, weed, Odd Future, and mayhem.

Kano first became known in the UK grime scene for his work with his original group, N.A.S.T.Y. Crew. From this springboard he was signed as a solo artist and began work on his debut solo album Home Sweet Home. He went up against Wiley on Lord of the Mics 1 in one of the most recognised grime clashes, despite only being 17 at the time and after being persuaded by Jammer, a well-known grime MC and producer.

"Die Studie ist interessant, d.h. ich kann einzelne Phänomene, einzelne Tendenzen, da kann ich mir die Schuhe durchaus anziehen. Sie kommt bloß für meine Begriffe zu dem Ergebnis - ohne dass das da drinsteht, aber ich muss als Zuschauer zu dem Ergebnis kommen: eigentlich kann ich jede Talkshow vergessen oder auch jede Gesprächssendung. Und das glaube ich nicht." Günther Jauch, Pressekonferenz am 5. September in Berlin

A 2009 survey by Trend Monitor, a market-research firm, suggested that one in five women in Seoul had gone under the knife. [...] There are seven times more buttock operations in Brazil than the top-25 country average, and five times more vaginal rejuvenations. In Greece, penis enlargements are performed ten times more often than the average.

Exclusive Footage of KAWS tearing it up on the streets of NYC and Tokyo in 1997. This is his first bus-stop in NYC, a bunch of pieces in Tokyo, along with some great commentary by fellow artist Ron English.

Exclusive Footage of KAWS tearing it up on the streets of NYC and Tokyo in 1997. This is his first bus-stop in NYC, a bunch of pieces in Tokyo, along with some great commentary by fellow artist Ron English.

In any sensible world, when researchers are conducting trials on a new tablet for a drug company, for example, we'd expect universal contracts, making it clear that all researchers are obliged to publish their results, and that industry sponsors – which have a huge interest in positive results – must have no control over the data. But, despite everything we know about industry-funded research being systematically biased, this does not happen. In fact, the opposite is true: it is entirely normal for researchers and academics conducting industry-funded trials to sign contracts subjecting them to gagging clauses that forbid them to publish, discuss or analyse data from their trials without the permission of the funder.

MC Basstards Werdegang ist unweigerlich verknüpft mit der Gruppe BC - Berlin Crime, denn seit dem 15 Lebensjahr übernahm die Gang seine Erziehung, zumindest lautet so eine Textzeile aus dem Lied "Gehasst von vielen". Über den heutigen Hauptmann und Autoren Arye Shalicar alias Boss Aro kam der junge MC Basstard zu BC, außerdem verleihte Aro dem Tun der Jungs Struktur, lehrte sie gehorsam und Loyalität. So formierte sich mit der Zeit rund um Basstard, Mc Bogy, Manny Marc und Frauenarzt die Gruppe Berlin Crime. Eine Truppe aus Berliner Jungs die gemeinsam abhingen, malen gingen und um die Häuser zogen.

They are sending missionaries to eastern Germany. A recent study called Beliefs About God Across Time and Countries found that 52.1% of people asked whether they believed in God identified themselves as atheists. This compared with only 10.3% in western Germany. Indeed, the survey was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 in eastern Germany who believed in God. Obviously there are some – I think I may have even met some once – but the survey was unable to find them.

Except for those few stones that have been destroyed, every diamond that has been found and cut into a jewel still exists today and is literally in the public's hands. Some hundred million women wear diamonds, while millions of others keep them in safe-deposit boxes or strongboxes as family heirlooms. It is conservatively estimated that the public holds more than 500 million carats of gem diamonds, which is more than fifty times the number of gem diamonds produced by the diamond cartel in any given year. Since the quantity of diamonds needed for engagement rings and other jewelry each year is satisfied by the production from the world's mines, this half-billion-carat supply of diamonds must be prevented from ever being put on the market. The moment a significant portion of the public begins selling diamonds from this inventory, the price of diamonds cannot be sustained. For the diamond invention to survive, the public must be inhibited from ever parting with its diamonds.

A$AP Rocky's A$VP C4 documentary was put together by Luke Monaghan for Channel 4 in the UK. In the doc, Rocky and his crew members A$AP Yams and A$AP Twelvyy take a look back at how the movement started, and tell the story behind the making of the "Peso" video. Rocky also talks about his first show in London, and growing up in Harlem in the 90's.

The Hollywood film-maker Lana Wachowski has described how she publicly came out as transgender while shooting the Matrix sequels with her brother Andy. The Wachowskis made their feature debut with the 1996 thriller Bound before scoring a global success with the 1999 science-fiction blockbuster The Matrix. But it was during production on the Matrix sequels, on set in Australia during 2002, that Lana began to struggle. "For years I couldn't even say the words 'transgender' or 'transexual'," she said. "When I began to admit it to myself, I knew I would eventually have to tell my parents and my brother and my sisters. This fact would inject such terror into me that I would not sleep for days."

Perhaps no other living director has done as much for the art of the title sequence as David Fincher. The filmmaker’s work inarguably helped kickstart the title design renaissance of the 1990s, a revival that the medium still enjoys to this day. From the slumberous doom of Alien³ and the meticulous grotesquery of Se7en to the dreadful reminiscence of The Game, the electrical inner workings of Fight Club, and the majestic imposition of Panic Room, the director’s title sequences are as distinct from one another as they are distinctly the works of Fincher.

Meet the dude behind The Dude! Sundance Award winning director Jeff Feuerzeig reveals the inspiration for the beloved central character in the Coen Brothers' cult-favorite film THE BIG LEBOWSKI. This documentary short follows Jeff Dowd to a Lebowski Fest offering a glimpse into this fascinating subculture and colorful real-life character behind the iconic mythical Dude and the secret to how he always abides...

Bike thievery is essentially a risk-free crime. If you were a criminal, that might just strike your fancy. If Goldman Sachs didn’t have more profitable market inefficencies to exploit, they might be out there arbitraging stolen bikes.

To cover London in CPUs roughly as powerful as the brains of the Android tablet I'm reading this talk from, to a density of one per square metre, should therefore cost around €150M in 2040, or €20 per citizen. To put this in perspective, in 2007 it was estimated that councils in London spent around £150M, or €190M, per year on removing chewing gum from the city streets. So for the cost of removing chewing gum, a city in 2030 will be able to give every square metre of its streets the processing power of a 2012 tablet computer (or a 2002 workstation, or a 1982 supercomputer).

Pigeon photography is an aerial photography technique invented in 1907 by the German apothecary Julius Neubronner, who also used pigeons to deliver medications. A homing pigeon was fitted with an aluminium breast harness to which a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera could be attached.