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Egypt / Lebanon Montage

2010-02-23T02:02:47Z

Also by Khalid Mohtaseb. Some incredibly crisp footage with some powerful angles, delicious colours and more Kessler Pocket Dolly pans.

Haiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage

2010-02-23T01:56:43Z

by Khalid Mohtaseb. Wow! Shot with a Canon 5D Mark 2. The slow pans are a result of using the Kessler Pocket Dolly. Powerful stuff.

Free Documentaries

2010-02-13T22:13:02Z

Check out this site for a heap of free documentaries. If you’ve got even more time to kill this site is loaded full of them too.

A Thousand Kisses Deep

2010-02-07T11:33:52Z

Leonard Cohen with his poem A Thousand Kisses Deep. Seriously worth putting up with the annoying crowd for. Incredible.

Art Clokey, creator of Gumby, on acid

2010-01-12T17:16:21Z

This is an interesting short clip. The 70/30 oxygen/carbon dioxide mixture sounds fascinating.

The Happiest People

2010-01-07T10:55:53Z

“I’m not antimilitary. But the evidence is strong that education is often a far better investment than artillery.”

“Latin countries generally do well in happiness surveys. Mexico and Colombia rank higher than the United States in self-reported contentment. Perhaps one reason is a cultural emphasis on family and friends, on social capital over financial capital”

Business Guys on Business Trips

2009-12-28T11:31:29Z

I’m loving this site at the moment. These two are my favorites so far. Perfectly reproduced.

When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like This?

2009-12-23T01:21:33Z

Regarding Avatar and District 9:
“These are movies about white guilt. Our main white characters realize that they are complicit in a system which is destroying aliens, AKA people of color – their cultures, their habitats, and their populations. The whites realize this when they begin to assimilate into the “alien” cultures and see things from a new perspective. To purge their overwhelming sense of guilt, they switch sides, become “race traitors,” and fight against their old comrades. But then they go beyond assimilation and become leaders of the people they once oppressed. This is the essence of the white guilt fantasy, laid bare. It’s not just a wish to be absolved of the crimes whites have committed against people of color; it’s not just a wish to join the side of moral justice in battle. It’s a wish to lead people of color from the inside rather than from the (oppressive, white) outside.”

Gibberish song written to sound like English

2009-12-18T01:16:35Z

“In this remarkable and fully rockin’ video, an Italian singer performs a rock piece whose lyrics are gibberish intended to sound like English. Entitled “What English Sounds Like to Foreigners,” the video is meant to illustrate which English phonemes and syllables carry into the foreign ear, but I tell you what, it sounded like English to me, too, though like English as sung in such a way as to make it hard to decipher.”