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Archive for the ‘video’ Category
Time Dilation with Carl Sagan
Remember the scene where Charlton Heston finds the remains of the Statue of the Liberty? In The Planet of the Apes, I mean. Sorry, I just gave the ending away. It’s a classic trope (the “Earth all along“). And it’s a classic pop culture reference to time dilation. I recently ran across Carl Sagan’s [...]
The Press in the Tank
The press is so totally in the tank for the Obama-Biden ticket. “My homeboy”? What kind of an example does this set for young journalists? Adorable. He did a good job. But I kept worrying that this would turn into a segment from a program called Wonder Showzen: Beat Kids.
Monkey
I haven’t been watching the Olympics, mainly because the rabbit-ears on our television don’t pick up NBC. But if I were, I’m sure I’d be just as disappointed with NBC as everyone else seems to be–the tape delays, the incessant commentary. Since NBC is blocking international video feeds online, I can’t see any that way, [...]
Panic in Da Nang, 1975.
Before the fall of Saigon, there was the loss of Da Nang, a major port city and host to American military forces during the Vietnam War. As North Vietnamese forces approached the city, residents tried to evacuate. For a little more information that covers some of the technical details–fuel loss, passenger load, etc.–click on the [...]
The Awareness Test
Making the rounds online, for good reason. I’ll have more content up soon, I hope.
Get To Know Your Electronic Waste
I’m a little late to the party on this one, but friend and colleague Michael Zhao has posted his multimedia project on electronic waste in China online in documentary form. He starts in California, where trashed computers are dismantled and, occasionally, recycled. More often they’re sent over to China, where men, women, and children pick [...]
China: Undermined
Check out Duane Moles’s video report “China: Undermined,” part of FRONTLINE/World’s online “Rough Cuts” series. I reported the story with him and Wu Nan last March in southern Shanxi Province. Below, a photo I took of damage from underground coal mining in the home of a villager. A few more pictures here. More available soon, [...]
It’s a Mad World
As is customary when wasting any significant amount of time on YouTube, I stumbled across a cute enough little animation about an ambitious, yearning kiwi. And then another version of the same cartoon, this time with the Gary Jules/Michael Andrew song “Mad World” dubbed on top. It all seemed suitably angst-ridden. Kiwi and other videos, [...]
Saint Petersburg Players
Bringing together some of the most powerful people on the planet sounds like the makings of something great. Doing that in the summertime light of St. Petersburg, Russia, where the sun sets at 11 p.m., must be ideal: the heads of state at the G-8 can stay up late playing cards, hashing out the world’s [...]
