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1. Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors
by Ben Mendelsohn
4 months ago
Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible.

Written and edited by Ben Mendelsohn
Shot and animated by Alex Chohlas-Wood

Featuring interviews with Stephen Graham, Saskia Sassen, Dave Timmes of Telx, Rich Miller of datacenterknowledge.com, Stephen Klenert of Atlantic Metro Communications, and Josh Wallace of the City of Palo Alto Utilities.

For blog hits, interviews and more information, visit benmendelsohn.com

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  • shannon mattern 4 months ago
    Fantastic, Ben!
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  • Victoria Nam 4 months ago
    WORD! xo, v
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  • cyberdoyle 4 months ago
    Fantastic! It is also important to get those pipes out to everyone, from the hubs to the furthest person so everyone can be part of the digital kingdom and global empire.
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  • maxarus 3 months ago
    cand you please let me make subtitles in spanish for this documental? if you can send me the entire text transcripted it would be easier to me. thank you!
  • Ben Mendelsohn plus 3 months ago
    Would love to get this subtitled! I'd have to update my script a bit, and not sure how quickly I can get that done, but I'll get in touch.
  • maxarus 3 months ago
    i've sent you a private message
  • Gabriel Shalom plus 3 months ago
    check out this tool for subtitling!
    universalsubtitles.org
  • maxarus 3 months ago
    thank you! it's amazing!
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  • martegod 3 months ago
    This is fantastic!
  • Ben Mendelsohn plus 3 months ago
    Thanks for watching!
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  • Alex Sánchez 3 months ago
    Nice work! I had some trouble focusing on the video because the intonation, perhaps you could have that into consideration for your next video!

    Regards!
  • Ben Mendelsohn plus 3 months ago
    Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for watching! Voice over is definitely not my favorite thing to do, and sound design more generally is something I want to develop more.
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  • Max Kusiawski 3 months ago
    Excellent!
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  • Zak LaJoie plus 3 months ago
    I really enjoyed this. Do you plan on doing more videos like this one?
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  • Ben Mendelsohn plus 3 months ago
    Thanks Zak! I hope so!
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  • David Stolarsky plus 3 months ago
    dear world, smoke a doobie and watch this. love, david.
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  • Stephen Williams 3 months ago
    This was an excellent documentary. It's truly eye-opening as well. It's amazing how these powerful hubs of information lay discreetly around us, and make our modern world possible. The connection with the telegraph was also interesting. I highly recommend a book called "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage as a fascinating history at how these global interconnected networks (and empires) first emerged in the 19th century.
  • Ben Mendelsohn plus 3 months ago
    Thanks, Stephen--so glad you liked it! I'm familiar with that book. It's fascinating how closely the global Internet map resembles global telegraphy.
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  • Jason Talley 3 months ago
    Absolutely loved this. As someone who has worked in the networking business for 15 years and who makes films, this was like the perfect storm.

    It's like a film version of one of my favorite pieces of tech writing ever: Mother earth Motherboard by Neal Stephenson.

    wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
  • Ben Mendelsohn plus 3 months ago
    Yea, I need to give that one a re-read! Thanks so much for the compliments, Jason I really appreciate it. Glad you like the video!
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  • Michelle Klein-Hass 3 months ago
    Impressive. Working on pre-production on a documentary about Linux, "Linux Comes Of Age." Good you gave a shout-out to One Wilshire, which is co-lo heaven here in LA.
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