Curious's Journal

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Took some pictures at Kenilworth Aquatic… using this post as an excuse to test flicker’s “to blog” feature.

Feel free to check out the complete set of pictures.

www.flickr.com/photos/jcurious/sets/72157620885286617/

When I found out that MTV put up a massive collection of music videos online, I was curious to see if they would edit the videos and if so, how. Well, I decided to pick the most challenging video to censor, which is Bjork’s Pagan Poetry… the video shows nipples displays sex in a uniquely distorted. This video played uncensored on MTV2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan_Poetry. The first  scene to get censored was a cut to her face… with a large black square :

MTV:

UnCensored:

Why the face? Maybe because she looks like she is enjoying herself “too” much? I don’t know…

Btw here is a screenshot of the distorted sex scene.. if it wasn’t for wikipedia, I never would have known for certian what was being shown during these scene: (note: these scenes are not censored at all on MTV’s site)

MTV censored the nipple, ear, and back piercing as well… I can understand the nipple, but ear and back?

come on…

MTV:

UnCensored:

Other quick findings…
Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls” has the word “suicidal” completely removed from the song

they don’t have:
Rape Me
Smack My Bitch Up

So, just like I never buy music from Walmart, I won’t be getting my music videos from MTVmusic.com

Sources:

Bjork’s “Pagan Poetry”:
MTV: www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=14354
UnCensored Video:http://www.showstudio.com/projects/031/031_movie.html?

Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls”

www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=160446

UPDATE:

The censorship may also tied to brand names… MTV bleeped “Burger King” from the line “I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom”

www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=100380

Ohhh! and “girls’ pants” from the line “I’m still gettin’ in the girls’ pants” – censored as well…

I thought the below comic was hilarious… but the folks at work just didn’t seem to think it was funny or didn’t get…

Btw I expect A LOT of people to not understand this comic, but I work with a group of people that do system/network security for a living!

bah humbug…

From wired:

found here

Thanks to yahoo news for finding it

So, this is supposed a fake turd? Either way… it amuses me to see Epoch associated with Turd, even if I still miss working there…

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2007/07/fake_turd_actually_a_flashlight.html 

This one did…

the image was found within this story:

wii.qj.net/On-high-schools-and-Counter-Strike-maps-a-blogger-s-two-cents-worth/pg/49/aid/91207