At my place of employment there is actually a divide between the smokers and non-smokers. Smokers can only go smoke in a single spot at work, so they all know each other well.

>> ^westy:
lol what a mupit
, how can you claim that preventative care would cost more mony? i mean what the fuck research is that bassed on.
im fairly confident that if u prevented cancer detected it early in just 10% more than what u get now from that alone you would reecoperate all costs.
although having sead that i guess now people just have it and die as they cannot afford insurance or basic helth care in usa.


The reason why preventative care for cancer can cost more is exactly because it prevents people from dying young. This is why smokers on average cost our system less than non-smokers. Many of them develop lung cancer before they're retired, and die of it quickly. They pay into the system while they're young and healthy, and skip over the last few decades of life when they would need the most care.

Of course, I'm not using any of that as an argument against preventative cancer screenings or anti-smoking campaigns. We just have to remember that the point of health-care is to improve and save our lives, saving money is secondary.

...and people wonder why a 64-year-old non-smoker buys a carton a day.

Vimeo: Filmed at the end of the 2 day F-Stop Academy Cinematography workshop in Dublin when we were in wind down mode. Shot on a pre-production Canon 7d.

I took the Canon 7d, Zacuto Tactical rig, Z-Finder V2 and one lone lens, a Canon 35mm f1.4, which becomes more like a 50mm lens on the 7d. So a bit like what I did with Sofia's People (but I didn't have the Zacuto rig for that).

I shot 1/50th of a second as I was shooting 24p and to match the 50hz frequency of the artificial all around me in Temple Bar.

I also shot some stuff 720p 50p with shutter at 1/100th to get the slow motion shots of the juggler which were conformed to 23.98p in Cinema tools to create the beautiful slow motion.

Sound on the last bit was just the internal mono cam mic as I didn't want a big mic on top of the camera.

Big thanks To Darragh and Emma for organizing the workshop. To all the people attended and especially the people who came to the intensive 1 day Cinematography practical workshop on Sunday. Jala (from Germany), Cathal (from N. Ireland) and Jean-Jacques (from France) stayed on another night and joined me for the night shooting. We had a great time. You may also spot my partner in crime Den Lennie a couple of times here.

Music is appropriately by the great THIN LIZZY and is of course Whiskey In The Jar.

Minor colour balance grading was done. That's all to take out the yellow of the sodium lights.

Smoking may look cool on camera kids but it's bad for you! The reason so many smokers in this? All the smokers are outside, all the non smokers are inside due to smoking ban. I hope you notice the one in my mouth was not lit! :-)

More info on my blog at philipbloom.co.uk/2009/09/07/dublins-people-shot-on-a-canon-7d-in-native-24p/

fstopacademy.com

More workshops coming to you soon!

If you cannot download it anymore as their is a daily limit on vimeo, you can download it from here too as long as you are a free member: exposureroom.com/dublinspeople

I'm late but I am playing!

Favourites

1) Season--Fall
2) Place in the world--Museum of modern art where I could touch stuff, smoke, drink coffee and bring my kid
3) Children's book--the pokey little puppy
4) TV Series--six feet under
5) Word--douche
6) Film--this is a hard one.. maybe Reservoir Dogs? Boondock Saints?
7) Curse--Fuck!!
Creature--one that doesnt hurt/kill me
9) Past time--talking all night
10)Person--my kid

Which one?

11) Dog or cat--dog
12) Sweet or savoury--sweet
13) Cereal or Toast--cereal!!
14) Tan or pale--pale
15) Shoes or barefoot--barefoot
16) Desktop or laptop--laptop
17) Drive or walk--walk
18) Drama or comedy--comedy
19) Sex or food--sex sex sex
20) Futurama or Simpsons--simpsons

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission--http://www.videosift.com/video/Beulah-Don-t-Forget-to-Breathe#comment-845060
22) A great comment on one of your vids--Call me crazy, Inflatablevagina, but I think you have "Penis Envy!"
23) Most off the wall member--yoghurt.. i like almost everything he/she does and I have never spoken to them
24) Favourite user name--mine
25) Your most used channel--rocknroll
26) Personal dumbass moment--everyday... cant pin point to just one thing...
27) Best avatar--schmawy
28) Partner in crime--bea
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem--some of them.. mostly no.
30) Idea for the site--my idea is to give me gold so I can promote

About you

31) Where do you live-Texas
32) Smoker/non-smoker--sometimes smoker
33) Left or right handed--right
34) Hair colour--blonde
35) Relationship status--married
36) How tall-- 6 foot...seriously
37) Children--1
38) Ever had an operation--no
39) Best feature--my eyes
40) Use four words to describe yourself-- uncomplicated,sincere,loyal,charming

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead--Silvia Plath
42) Give 50 grand to any charity--something for mentally challenged kids
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon--i dont want to do that
44) Relive a moment in your life--when my kid was born
45) Have a superpower--see peoples insecurities and then fix them
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know--i dont know..
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to--being groped.
48) Be president for one hour-eww...no.fucking.way
49) Delete a period in history-nah it all makes this time what it is
50) Achieve one thing--raise a sane happy loving child

Health "crises" are just another way the fascists are trying to subjugate freedom.

Much like how the freest people on earth are now blamed for the weather and being dictated to how to use energy and what to drive, once this evil government get its filthy paws on the health care system you'll see the banning of tobacco and fast food overnight.

The rationing of health care might be based not on availability but on compliance with fascist health laws (e.g. the non-smoker gets heart surgery before the fat guy and the smoker). It's easy to picture these vermin banning guns as a 'health issue', and using the mental health system to lock up dissidents, just like they do in Red China.

Government is the problem. It is a necessary evil, and ultimately when you strip all the bullshit away behind every law is a man with a gun pointed at you. Government is force, not reason, not charity, not wisdom. Government creates nothing, it can only destroy, through the power of taxation.

If you want to quit, I can't agree more with btanner. "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" is an amazing book. The reason? It sounds dumb, but it's 250 pages of Allen Carr writing positively about stopping smoking. You may think that's ludicrous, but if you think about it, you never really hear people talk positively about quitting. They talk about how bad smoking is for you. They talk about how you shouldn't do it. They talk about how hard it is to quit. They talk about everything negatively. This stresses smokers out. You know what smokers do when we get stressed? That's right, we smoke.

Do you ever see ad campaigns aimed at getting you to stop smoking? Do they make you feel like it's something positive that you can accomplish? No. They make it seem like a daunting task, or they show you horrible pictures of what you're doing to your lungs. None of this works. If you want to quit, I highly, highly, highly recommend "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking." Heck, even if you don't want to quit I recommend it because you'll want to by the time you're done reading it. You can quit. It's not difficult, and it will make you a happier person.

I tried quitting in college. I made it 24 hours and I was confined to my bed for a large part of that, pulling my hair out. After reading the book I have stopped smoking for numerous months on multiple occasions. For this reason, I recommend (as does Carr) that you do not lend out your copy of the book. I would still be a nonsmoker if I reread the book when I started to falter. But I'm prone to mood swings and getting self-destructive. I just can't say enough about the book. Actually, this has encouraged me to read it again. And the next time I do, I'm going to keep it on the coffee table instead of putting it back on the bookshelf.

>> ^Enzoblue:
>> ^Bidouleroux:
This is pretty much exactly like religion vs. atheism, with religion being of course smoking.

Anti-smoking is by far the more religious. Smoking is blamed for a host of sundry afflictions with scientific support that no one has the courage to challenge. People want it to be evil and that's what they get. No serious scientist would do any unbiased research, because if he found anything remotely pro-smoking the political fallout would ruin his career overnight.
Our surgeon general states that 70% of lung cancer victims got it from smoking, but lung cancer continues to rise with nary a blip - even though smokers per capita have fallen under 25% and have been there for a decade. If you want me to support this claim with data, sorry I can't. Neither the CDC or the ALA, or any other site I could find, will release any data cross referencing lung cancer victims and smokers. You can easily find how much carcinogens a black single mother of 2 will inhale in a 12x12 room with one smoker, but a table lookup of smokers v lung cancer victims will get you a 404 error. Try it.
That's religion. People needing an evil, ignoring the facts, suppressing the research of facts, all holding hands and attacking with fervor.
P.S.
My lungs get a clean bill of health every year, even though I've been smoking for over 20 years, simply because I've never tell the doctors I smoke. Ask your smoking friends to try that, it'll give them a chuckle.


You obviously didn't look very hard for data then. With almost zero effort I just came accross this in a high-profile peer-reviewed medical journal. There are hundreds of studies comparing mortality rates between smokers and non-smokers with data going back 100 years. I just want to point out the data in that study was from 1951-2001. In "survival rates from age 35" the difference in survival rates between smokers and non-smokers increases to about 20% difference by age 70. That is, you are looking at about 20% of all non-smokers being dead and 40% of all smokers dead. You can always look at the graphs for much more information than I can type here, but it's all very damning.

"But cancer continues to rise!" I hear in a myriad of different "X does or doesn't cause cancer" topics. What you mean to say is cancer diagnoses have continued to rise. 50 years ago we knew a fraction of what we know now about cancer. This is just one example of why statistics is a profession. There's so much to it I can't begin to describe it here.

Yeah, he said slavery. I don't smoke but have friends that do. From my perspective as a non-smoker, I do see them as slaves to it, and I don't think anyone could see that unless they are a non-smoker. It goes like this "This is pissing me off, I really need a cigarette." Actually needing something as a response to a hardship with the hope of obtaining relief from it, is very much slavery. Call it an "addiction" but the chains that bind are the same none-the-less.

>> ^rottenseed:
I *3 u, Bill.


I'm not sure Bill would appreciate being multiplied by 3.

Favorites

1) Season - Spring
2) Place in the world - TBD
3) Children's book - The Slant Book or Inside, Outside, Upside-down.
4) TV Series - I don't watch.
5) Word -
6) Film - Unbreakable
7) Curse - Fuck
Creature -
9) Pastime - Hiking
10) Person - TBD

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Yes
12) Sweet or savory - Whatever
13) Cereal or Toast - Cereal
14) Tan or pale - Pale
15) Shoes or barefoot - Shoes
16) Desktop or laptop - Yes
17) Drive or walk - Walk (see 9)
18) Drama or comedy - Drama
19) Sex or food - Sex
20) Futurama or Simpsons - Futurama, I guess.

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - That's tough... I feel like I have such an inconsistent collection. I'll have to go with http://www.videosift.com/video/Wassup-Holmes-the-illest-detective
22) A great comment on one of your vids - none spring to mind.
23) Most off the wall member - I'm gonna go with Karaidl, though it was totally in a good way.
24) Favourite user name - videosiftbannedme is good for a chuckle.
25) Your most used channel - comedy
26) Personal dumbass moment - don't think I've had any significant ones on the sift.
27) Best avatar - rottenseed, schmawy or perhaps the aforementioned videosiftbannedme
28) Partner in crime - N/A
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - I don't have a problem.
30) Idea for the site - See my sift talk posts and comments.

About you

31) Where do you live - Sullivan County, NY; home to the original Woodstock Festival... and nothing else.
32) Smoker/non-smoker - non-smoker like woah.
33) Left or right handed - righty
34) Hair color - Started life blonde but I've slowly shifted to what can only be called "field mouse brown".
35) Relationship status - perpetually single
36) How tall - 5'11"
37) Children - I often refer to my roommate as my son since I'm always cleaning up after him.
38) Ever had an operation - no, but I've had endoscopy twice which is considered a "surgical procedure".
39) Best feature - beats me
40) Use four words to describe yourself

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Perhaps Einstein as Zifnab said.
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - I'm not that charitable and I really don't like working.
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Only one?
44) Relive a moment in your life - I met an incredible girl a few years ago and completely blew it. I'd sure like a do-over on that one.
45) Have a superpower - spacetime manipulation might be too much power. perhaps just teleportation.
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - Probably everything behind the JFK assassination.
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to -
48) Be president for one hour - No thanks.
49) Delete a period in history - that would undo the lessons learned
50) Achieve one thing - find the girl I can spend my life with.

It's funny, but my first joint wasn't much different except that I had the sense to not try to play it cool. When I was in Amsterdam at first, my friend wanted to smoke in a coffee shop and I was like "uh, no, I'm gonna cough and splutter so at least let me practise at the hotel". We did, I coughed and cried, but soon got the hang of it. Like this guy (presumably), I'm a non-smoker so it's rough at first. After a couple I'd got the hang of it, I'm sure I looked like a newbie when we did go to coffee shops but nothing too tragic. Hash still makes me cough something awful.

Damn I want to go to Amsterdam so much. It is the best place in the world and not (just) because of the coffee shops.

@aceofkidneys - like me, he'll hardly have got anything from that. He coughed it out as soon as it hit the back of his throat, it doesn't look like any got into his lungs, never mind holding it.

Oh, he was fine, probably a non smoker.

Favourites

1) Season - Fall, when Delta Burke comes out to see her shadow.
2) Place in the world - In the bushes outside of KP's house, watching him watch me on his live-feed broadcast.
3) Children's book - Encyclopedia Brown or George W. Bush's biography
4) TV Series - South Park and the episode of To Catch a Predator with blankfist.
5) Word - scrumdiddlyumptious
6) Film - American History X
7) Curse - FUCKING COCKSUCKING MOTHERFUCKING BITCH ASS CUNTLICKING SONOFABITCH
Creature - duck-billed platypus
9) Past time - Trivial Pursuit
10) Person - My best friend, who continues to lurk, without joining VS.

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Tiger
12) Sweet or savoury - This would be a great question for Jeffrey Dahmer.
13) Cereal or Toast - Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal
14) Tan or pale - Fluorescent
15) Shoes or barefoot - Socks
16) Desktop or laptop - special underwater goggles with high-speed wireless Internet
17) Drive or walk - bicycle
18) Drama or comedy - dramedy
19) Sex or food - Why can't we combine them?
20) Futurama or Simpsons - Futurama

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - McCain's Press Conference in Front of a Cheese Case, or Tool's Sober
22) A great comment on one of your vids - "More proof god hates orphans." From blankfist, on my post about the orphans.
23) Most off the wall member - QM, if that wall is made of rationality
24) Favourite user name - schmawy
25) Your most used channel - comedy
26) Personal dumbass moment - I only get one? Hmm. Probably when I mocked the brother of Soulja Girl, and bi-polar sufferers everywhere. Good times.
27) Best avatar - Emperor Blankfist
28) Partner in crime - I have so many circle jerk partners. Where to begin?
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - my lurking best friend does. And my other friends know I love the site.
30) Idea for the site - Give me a crown, and a jar of marmalade.

About you

31) Where do you live - A decent house in Boise in Ada county in Idaho in the United States of America in North America in the western Hemisphere in Earth in the solar system in the Milky Way galaxy in the universe in God's puckered anus.
32) Smoker/non-smoker - It depends on what we're smoking. I don't smoke cigarettes.
33) Left or right handed - LEFT. You know we're better!
34) Hair colour - Brown, with an ever-growing tinge of grey.
35) Relationship status - Single and stalking. I mean looking.
36) How tall - Taller than Jon Stewart, but shorter than Michael Jordan.
37) Children - Hell no. I can barely take care of myself.
38) Ever had an operation - On my left knee when I was ten. They let me watch. It was AWESOME.
39) Best feature - My ravishing blue eyes, or my tattoos.
40) Use four words to describe yourself - intelligent, sarcastic, procrastinator, under-achiever

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Bertrand Russell
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - Nope.
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Does the Bush administration count as one person?
44) Relive a moment in your life - [redacted] That is privileged information.
45) Have a superpower - Invisibility
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - Find out what would happen if Hitler had won World War II.
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - Getting a boner in public, in the most awkward of situations. Then trying to hide it.
48) Be president for one hour - FIRE ZEE MISSILES!
49) Delete a period in history - The fall of Greece to the beginning of the scientific revolution.
50) Achieve one thing - Write and publish a book.

Favourites

1) Season - Autumn (which intrigues me)
2) Place in the world - woods. coast. bluebells.
3) Children's book - Magnus Powermouse
4) TV Series - I collect them (alias/24/buffy/angel/babylon5/west wing) but possibly west wing if pushed. (edit FireFly)
5) Word - nembler
6) Film - LOTRO-(extended edition all 3 parts as 1)
7) Curse - bollocks. it sounds good. satisfying. improves with volume.
Creature - Smokey
9) Past time - completing System Shock 1 for the first time on 4/4/4/3
10)Person - ... I have many important people, but I would like to have 1

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Cat. Yes they are evil bastards. Evil bastards need love too.
12) Sweet or savoury - savoury. Take my chocolate and I will eat you for it.
13) Cereal or Toast - Hot toast with butter and things made by someone else is wonderous
14) Tan or pale - pale. I think. Try me.
15) Shoes or barefoot - barefoot when warm and soft and nice
16) Desktop or laptop - Desktop. Laps are for other things
17) Drive or walk - Drive. But walking to work is great.
18) Drama or comedy - Good drama lasts. Good comedy was funny.
19) Sex or food - Both (sex involves eating)
20) Futurama or Simpsons - Futurama. Simpsons hasn't been funny in a long time. it is tiered. it should mumble quietly in an old peoples home.

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - I love that this sifted
22) A great comment on one of your vids - This comment by Constitutional_Patriot
23) Most off the wall member - I dont keep my member on the wall? oh, VS, sorry...
24) Favourite user name -
25) Your most used channel - comedy/music
26) Personal dumbass moment - submitting a vid to rant about something, and then deciding the vid was itself guilty of thing it/I was ranting about and discarding it.
27) Best avatar - probably mlx or oxdottir
28) Partner in crime - my15Min for TED pimping might be closest
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - Yes. My t-shirt tells them so.
30) Idea for the site - Sifter dating.

About you

31) Where do you live - Penryn Cornwall, UK
32) Smoker/non-smoker - Non. Have smoked cigars for the taste. I stopped when passive smoking from friends ceased being unpleasant...
33) Left or right handed - right
34) Hair colour - brown. whats left. or strange colours in the beard.
35) Relationship status - interested
36) How tall - 5-10 with heals
37) Children - Not yet.
38) Ever had an operation - 6 ish. (and this isnt a pissing competition but for me septoplasty was the least. GA and a bit of bleeding)
39) Best feature - feel free to find out and complement me
40) Use four words to describe yourself - my dream was nice</yawning>

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Elvis. he could convince people he really died. only he could.
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - cancer research
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - me!
44) Relive a moment in your life - smokey
45) Have a superpower -
flight
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - did she?
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - gwizz mrfisk and farhad have this covered, but AC's would not be a fair exchange
48) Be president for one hour - release any sealed evidence on the bush years incompetence (including anything incriminating a certain my blair)
49) Delete a period in history - -10 AD to +10 AD and such like
50) Achieve one thing - contentment