For those of you less than entertained by “Baby Safe Haven” check out this very entertaining video on You Tube: Spousal Safe Haven. It must be knicker-wadding time in Boston. Too bad Bastardette doesn’t have a video camera.
For those of you less than entertained by “Baby Safe Haven” check out this very entertaining video on You Tube: Spousal Safe Haven. It must be knicker-wadding time in Boston. Too bad Bastardette doesn’t have a video camera.
This one is going to be seen far and wide.
The only question is, why did it take you so long to find this?
And you missed the one on Google video??: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1922853591088648284&q=baby+safe+haven&hl=en
You know what they say, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
From these two videos we know that our public relations campaign has gotten the word out, and is working.
Next we’ll flood You Tube and Google video with more and more PSAs, promos, and educational information.
Ms
Well, not all of us are rich enough to have wireless or high speed. I’m not at home and have wireless access tonight, which lets me look at You Tube.
You call lit imitation I call it parody. Funny thing how there’s all sorts of blogs and comments out there about how stupid an racist your BSH rap is.
We guess you, and your blogs, are putting down a group of very talented kids from the Boston Arts Academy: http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4617/heraldmarch70bh.jpg
They wrote, produced, and starred in the Baby Safe Haven Rap PSA. We’ve gotten to know some of them very well. Attended concerts together that promoted Baby Safe Haven. Are you saying that they’re racist?
Two of the writers/producers/stars of the three TV PSAs are pictured on your own blog, with Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey!
Talk about clueless!?!
Ms
Link to above picture of students who wrote, produced and performed the Baby Safe Haven Rap PSA:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4617/heraldmarch70bh.jpg
http://www.weeklydig.com/news_opinions/articles/saving_babies_murdering_hiphop
It appears that deep seated belief on the part of the students was not necessarily the motive for this PSA. I think it is cynical to mention the “young talented students” without mentioning the 200 K budget and publicity for the school and students.
Maybe you already know that as a student progresses through art school they are taught to develop a detached, clinical view of art making. Choice of material and choice of subject matter are almost moot. The point of high school and undergrad art education is formality, or the physical existence of the art work. How well made is it?
Young students are often encouraged by their professors (I among them) to make art about subjects which do not interest them. This removes the emotional content and allows the students to concentrate on the technical aspects of art production.
It is not until graduate school and its accompanying mastery of a medium that an emphasis is placed on individual voice — which includes subject matter near and dear to an artist’s heart.
These kids aren’t in grad school. They are kids. YOUNG students. Learning to master their craft. Producing a PSA as an assignment, for a grade, would be part of an arts curriculum.
I do understand how this video could be considered racist. Since it is so botched, it could be interperted as an insult to hip-hop. (Something akin to vomiting blue dye on a famous museum painting, and calling it performance art.) Hip hop and rap are overwhelmingly black art forms, K-Fed not withstanding. Insulting the art is like insulting the culture. This video can also be construed as classist, for the same reasons.
Of course the kids who were involved with the production aren’t racist. But the aesthetics of their video may have that bias.
They can’t be blamed for that – they are kids – young students.
They don’t know enough to have made a consciously racist production. They are kids.
The production, though, does disturb for many reasons, and the (imo) unintended insult to the subculture is one of them.
K-Fed, a rapper????? Even Eminem would be a better example.
Your logic on why the Baby Safe Haven rap is racist stretches logic beyond the tensile strength of any substance known to mankind.
Your illogical rant is also extremely disrespectful to the intelligence of the young people, and the hard work they performed, who sought to help their fellow students.
Ms
Ms:
Your disrespect for adoptees, abandoned babies, and the truth knows no bounds.
And you dare chide Bastardette about her disrespect of bad propaganda?
Your illogical rant is also extremely disrespectful to the intelligence of the young people, and the hard work they performed, who sought to help their fellow students.
Whatever, dude.
I do apologize for not being more simple and direct in what I wrote. I assumed I was speaking with an educated adult capable of critical thought. Now I realize I had you confused with Marley.
My bad. I apologize.
I retired from a 20 year career as a critical care nurse in my 40s and spent seven years in art school, earning two degrees. Now, in my mid 50s, I am an art professor and practicing filmmaker.
I’m also the mother of five. So I’m more than qualified to remark on your efforts.
That you can’t understand the simple idea that student art work (like your PSA, for example) is an assignment done for a grade, is your shortcoming, not mine.
You imply an altruistic motive for these kids but fail to mention the enormous budget, the publicity the school and kids would get from it, and the involvement of an ad agency.
Why?
The remark about K-Fed is a comparison that went straight over your head, evidently. K-Fed is a failed rapper, just as your example video is a failed rap.
Your failed rap makes a mockery of the most successful black art form in American history. It’s an insult. It’s a bitchslap. It spits the face of the hip hop subculture, because it is so bad. For that reason, it can be considered racist.
The kids can be forgiven for that because they are kids. The adults behind it really should have known better, in my opinion.
BTW, I wonder how the kids who worked on that video are going to feel in twenty years when they realize they were encouraging their peers to go through an entire pregnancy and give birth unattended. You do know that sometimes mothers and babies die in childbirth, don’t you? Sometimes babies are born with a correctable condition and will survive only if they receive immediate, state of the art medical care. Receiving care can make the difference between life and death. Giving women an “out” like BSH only encourages women to hide their pregnancies and give birth without care.
That’s immoral, imo.
Why not direct your energy into encouraging young women to do the right thing ? To not
hide their pregnancies? To
give birth in an attended setting, and engage in a rational approach in planning their course of action?
Simple enough for ya now?
Hey Kid,
Not a penny was spent on the video, it was done entirely as volunteer work. No grades were given as it was extracurricular.
So much for your highly uneducated guess.
Because they were minors there was parental permission. We got to know one of the parents, a nurse at a highly prestigious hospital — over 20 years, who couldn’t be more proud of what her daughter has done with all the videos and advocating for the Baby Safe Haven law.
The K-Fed remark was in our sites, as your rant is as bad as his rap!!
Try again, but next time do your research as you are in way over your head.
Ms
“Not a penny was spent on the video, it was done entirely as volunteer work. No grades were given as it was extracurricular.”
Maybe you missed this from your own cited article?
“This “rap” commercial is one of two television spots that promote the Commonwealth’s new Safe Haven law, which became active last October along with a $200,000 wad of cash earmarked for an advertising campaign.
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“As soon as the law went into effect, the Department of Social Services’ Denise Monteiro began weekly meetings with Newton-based Buyer Advertising and a handful of high school students from the Boston Arts Academy (BAA), a public performing arts high school, to develop ads.”
“Maybe you missed this from your own cited article?”
We didn’t “cite” the article, just posted it. Doesn’t mean we had anything to do with the writing of the article.
Doesn’t mean that the article is anywhere near 100% correct.
You should know that.
You call yourself a “filmmaker?”
Do you shoot 35mm?
Or is more like home mini-DV distributed on cable access channels?
Having been in the major market and network TV production business for over 20 years, thousands of hours of on air credits, I guess I should also call myself a successful “filmmaker?”
Nahhhhh!
Mr. M
“We didn’t “cite” the article, just posted it.”
Duh.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cite
2. to mention in support, proof, or confirmation; refer to as an example: He cited many instances of abuse of power.
” You call yourself a “filmmaker?”
Do you shoot 35mm?
Or is more like home mini-DV distributed on cable access channels?
Having been in the major market and network TV production business for over 20 years, thousands of hours of on air credits, I guess I should also call myself a successful “filmmaker?”
Nahhhhh! “
Yawn.
The Blair Witch Project was shot on prosumer cams, the same cams I use, and the same cams our local TV networks sometimes send out to cover events. The same cams, in fact, that were used by the national network pools to shoot the Branch Dividian compound burning to the ground (Oh, those long lenses.)
Additionally, and perhaps you have noticed, that power (including the power of the camera) has been given to the people. You mention You Tube but seem to have no grasp of its reach or meaning.
IOW, you’ve been obseleted by a bunch of engineering geeks who have given the power to publish — to the world! — to anyone who wants it. Oh, those geeks! Guess they took John Lennon seriously when he sang, “Power To The People, Right On!”
Have you noticed? Naaaaah. Probably not.
BYW, why are you avoiding my and Lainie’s other criticisms?
Chicken?
(( “Power To The People, Right On!”
Have you noticed? ))
Hey Kid,
I noticed a lot of people making local cable access TV programs calling themselves “filmmakers” and saying stupid things like “Blair Witch Project” was made that way.
Your whole rant above this has been just one fantasy after another.
We choose to live in the real world, where the power is in the hands of the people because they know how to use it, not fantasize about it.
Mr. M
“I noticed a lot of people making local cable access TV programs calling themselves “filmmakers” and saying stupid things like “Blair Witch Project” was made that way.”
It was made that way.
Here’s a nice article from Popular Mechanics:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/1564332.html
“George Lucas always hated making movies the old-fashioned way. He has compared traditional, film-based movie production to wearing handcuffs and waging war. But instead of just complaining, Lucas decided that there had to be a better way–and he has dedicated much of his career to finding it. From the digital cameras that are replacing film cameras on movie sets, to the way movies are edited, to how special effects are created, to the sound we hear in theaters and at home, and even (soon) to the way movies are distributed to theaters, Lucas has led the way in adopting innovative technologies.”
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SO LONG, CELLULOID
“Nothing divides filmmakers like the double-edged sword of digital cinematography. Many cinematographers maintain that digital tape can never match the luster and warmth of 35mm film. Lucas is on a mission to prove them wrong.
“Star Wars: Episode II–Attack Of The Clones” was the first major live-action movie to be shot entirely digitally, using cameras Lucas helped to develop with Sony and Panavision.
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Audiences apparently found that the digitally captured “Star Wars” episode compared favorably with earlier ones shot on film. Not so cinematographers. Wally Pfister, director of photography on “Batman Begins” and “Memento,” praises the skill of “Episode II” cinematographer David Tattersall, but believes that the digital recording medium is not yet up to par.
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What about the last stage of the process? Lucas looks forward to the day when movies are beamed directly to theaters and projected digitally, but concedes, “It’s going to take awhile.”
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“Eventually, most films will be shown digitally, and a few will be shown on film,” Lucas says. “Then, at some point in the future–between 10 and 20 years–there probably won’t be any more film.”
(Emphasis added by me.)
Better get with it, old man.
BTW, why are you avoiding my questions?
“And why do the Ms avoid discussion of those girls and women who they are encouraging to give birth without medical assistance?
“What about them?”
Great question.
I must know a hundred people by now who do have the same experience that Ms claims to have, and not one of them feels competent to be giving medical advice.
If women are in fact capable of absorbing a Baby! Safe Haven! message, then they are just as capable of absorbing a Baby! Safe Delivery! message.
It just doesn’t make any sense to fund and promote a message laden with risk to mother and child. Doesn’t it make more sense to get a message about safety for mom and child out to these women?
This effort really should be directed to getting pregnant women proper care so they and/or the baby don’t die or suffer serious damage from complications in childbirth.
Right.
If these folks were really so concerned about women giving birth to children when they were unprepared to do so, they would be pushing a message that giving birth in a bathroom is dangerous. They would be hammering into young women’s heads that childbirth carries with it numerous risks, particularly if the mother is very young or has other health problems. They would be encouraging women and girls to get prenatal care and to go to a hospital when they started to experience labor pains.
They don’t do this, though. They just encourage women and girls to dump the babies anonymously. They don’t even encourage women to see a doctor afterwards.
I don’t approve of anonymous relinquishment of any sort, but if SH supporters wanted to be responsible, they would revamp the laws so that they only cover women who give birth in a hospital. But they aren’t going to do this: They don’t much care if women die, and another dead baby will bolster their cause. How convenient.
( Better get with it, old man. )
Hey Kid, I’m way ahead of you. I’ve shot in HD (not to the home vid junk), and have been a beta tester for AVID in the post for broadcast (25 years in major markets and networks), not your cable access stuff.
( They just encourage women and girls to dump the babies anonymously.)
Not in New England. We use the hotlines to get counseling well ahead of an abandonment to utilize full adoption or parenting programs. 21 in MA alone have done this. They are also encouraged to leave med histories and all background info, can’t say who has due to confidentiality.
So much for your uneducated speculation.
M
“Uneducated Speculation” nothing.
Safe Havening encourages unattended birth and baby dumping. Hotlines are great, so why aren’t efforts made to expand the hotlines which will offer real, safe, and ethical options? Why divert resources into promoting SH?
I do believe our “Ms” are some of the most despicable people I’ve run across…and after years in and out of adoption reform, that is saying something.
Hey Kid, I’m way ahead of you. I’ve shot in HD (not to the home vid junk), and have been a beta tester for AVID in the post for broadcast (25 years in major markets and networks), not your cable access stuff.
You’re nowhere but threatened, old man. The kids are coming and they are wired. There are 18 year olds around here who own AVID systems and make several shorts a year– when they are done with their homework. The high schools here all have them, and run their own TV stations internally. The kids share video of their marching bands and their school plays with their gaming friends in Singapore — and they aren’t doing it over local access cable.
The kids use video toasters, they use Shake, they use HD prosumer cams… and they don’t watch TV. My two almost forty year old daughters still watch TV – mainly cable, I might add- but my 20 somethings don’t even own TVs.
If there is a hot clip from the Daily Show or The Colbert Report or Countdown, they watch it on the web.
Might I also point out that the last election was more heavily influenced by Jon Stewart than by David Letterman. Cable v. network.
Network TV is on its way out. You just don’t know it yet. You’re a dinosaur, and like a dinosaur, you have no clue that winter’s coming.
The era of information control is over. That means for you, too.
You’d think that someone who boasts about flooding Google Video or You Tube with his PSAs would grasp that.
The discussion above all hinges on the fact that you’re an aging techie who defines film as a physical, technical medium and not as a communication vehicle. That’s your definition. Film as a technical miracle available to only the privileged few film acolytes, who are usually old white men.
That’s simply no longer true.
1950 is GONE, dude.
Not to mention that your tradeschool approach to film doesn’t even begin to consider things like content.
Now….what about the fact that you are encouraging women to give birth unattended?
How many babies have died from unattended births who would otherwise have survived?
You have no idea.
How many women have developed damaging post partum complications because you encouraged them to hide their pregnancies and go it alone?
You have no idea.
Nothing in your background qualifies you to make statements about medical care, or the outcomes of what it is you are peddling.
What about that?
( The discussion above all hinges on the fact that you’re an aging techie who defines film as a physical, technical medium and not as a communication vehicle. That’s your definition. Film as a technical miracle available to only the privileged few film acolytes, who are usually old white men. )
Hey Kiddie, For the very last time.
Fifteen years ago I beta tested tapeless acquisition formats to nonlin post that do exactly what you are miserably trying to preach. The goal was not network news/sports but in home distribution via the web.
It’s still cable access, because you have access to the cable/wire to transmit to anywhere you want with no professional abilities, if you like. I’ve taught more people how to transmit their “films” then you since then.
Two of my kids work with the national media/film industry.
Our expertise in BSH is in passing three state laws in NE, maintaining a public relations footprint, education of the laws, and maintaining the hotlines that do the great counseling needed to help avert tragedies.
We have the medical profession, adoptees, police and fire fighting professionals backing us.
Too bad that you oppose them.
M
“Hey Kiddie, For the very last time.”
Hey, old man – glad to hear you’re giving it up, since you’ve already ceded so much territory in this fight that you’re going to wind up on the moon.
You’re a tad confused, which is understandable for a n00b like you. It can be bewildering to be lost in a forest of technology.
You’re just confused.
You confuse a 35 pound camera with technological expertise. Those cams aren’t needed any more. A good friend is a news reported for a local affiliate. He shoots on little Canons all the time.
If I personally felt I needed an old heavy cam, I’d rent one and an operator for the shoot. Speaking of which, what are your rates? Do you perhaps have a card for my files? I probably won’t call, but I’ll put you into my deck of losers.
You confuse big network access with credibility. A few words for you: Bill O’Reilly, Shaun Hannity, Ann Coulter. ‘Nuff said.
You confuse a tradesman’s skills with an educated point of view.
You confuse money with altruistic motive.
You confuse Old Media with New. Old Media is as dead as the dodo, and with it, those who control access to Old Media access.
I see no medical credentials in your post that qualify you as competent to speak about the medical issues involved. Yet speak you do.
The expertise you cite in your post is the expertise of a snake oil salesman, not the expertise of a physician or child welfare expert. You got nuttin’ dude….
except perhaps the blood of babies whose mothers avoided proper medical care, on your hands.
BTW I hear the Sea of Tranquility is lovely this time of year. Maybe you can buy yourself a timeshare.
Lainie:”If these folks were really so concerned about women giving birth to children when they were unprepared to do so, they would be pushing a message that giving birth in a bathroom is dangerous. They would be hammering into young women’s heads that childbirth carries with it numerous risks, particularly if the mother is very young or has other health problems. They would be encouraging women and girls to get prenatal care and to go to a hospital when they started to experience labor pains. “
It just makes sense, doesn’t it?
To give a message about safety to these women?
Sounds like common sense to me.
“You confuse big network access with credibility. A few words for you: Bill O’Reilly…”
Kiddie,
The joke’s on you. If you believe that you’re in the same league as folks like O’Reilly, ED Hill, Myles O’Brien guess again. BTW, they’re all old colleagues of mine from the Boston TV news station days.
Just keep posting your little tiny unwatched “films” on unwatched web sites and the folks above will be strolling by as the laugh all the way to the bank, with all their millions of viewers of their work thanking them for their efforts.
Or as Bill would say, “The spin stops here!”
M
It seems like common sense to me too. Unfortunately, common sense doesn’t make for good PR for politicos. It also doesn’t make for a good cause for fetus-fetishizing “activists”.