(News)
[ 0:44 - from YouTube ]
Gary Coleman, the once lovable, pint-sized actor from Different Strokes has been arrested for domestic abuse in Utah. This news surprises me, but what intrigues me even more is how in the world this little man ever ended up in Utah. view
Core eGuider Brian Rothe
Director of Content, eGuiders
(Nature)
[ 9:50 - from YouTube ]
Artist Leif Maginnis created these stunning sand sculptures in Manhattan and El Segundo beaches, and then turned them into beautiful animated movies using stop-motion and time lapse photography. I especially like the way (at about 4:45) the ocean cascades over the artwork, shaping it and then making it all disappear. The music is LTJ Bukem's "Breezeblock Mix". view
Film Buff Chris Brenner
Post Production Point Man, Border Patrol, Scarecrow
(Computers / Tech, Cultural)
[ 3:00 - from Vimeo ]
This short film by MAYA Design was created to add perspective to the unseen but rapidly approaching challenges and opportunities in the omnipresint age of computing. Today, we as internet users have just passed the 1 billion mark; but tomorrow, a day that is coming very soon, we will be at 1 trillion, with computers embedded in everything. Start wrapping your heads around the implications of a trillion-node world. view
New Media Producer John Rota
Film, TV & New Media Producer
(Computers / Tech, Science)
[ 7:00 - from Honda ]
Honda has produced a series of short documentaries - this one asks engineers around the world about the future of transportation, 80 years from now -- and they discuss possiblities for new fuel sources, global warming, hydrogen and other far out scenarios. view
Indie Music Expert Varlo Vanore
Writer, Musician
(Cultural)
[ 3:05 - from MySpace ]
Here's a fun and slightly weird music video for a catchy Summer song. It's also an apparently real document of a Japanese subculture that I knew nothing about - greasers with huge pompadours who perform choreographed dances in public parks. An odd juxtaposition, but it works. view
Core eGuider Graham Mason
Writer, Videomaker, Member of Sunset Television
(Politics)
[ 10:01 - from YouTube ]
This is one of the most moving speeches in American political history for many reasons, not least of all because Kennedy did it from memory as he couldn't see the teleprompter due to the blurry vision caused by his brain tumor medications. He had also been hospitalized earlier in the day for kidney stones. He only left his hospital bed an hour before his appearance which "much of the press and most delegates regarded as improbable or impossible" according to Bob Shrum from Time Magazine. In the words of the Ted Kennedy: "The work begins anew, the hope rises again, and the dream lives on." view
Playwright / Video Producer Julian Camilo Pozzi
Playwright/Video Producer, House of Broken Windows
(Religion / Spirituality)
[ 2:47 - from YouTube ]
I’d like to think this is a giant improv comedy class taught at the Lubbock, Texas Learning Annex, but I’m afraid it’s actually a religious convention full of people getting “touched” by God’s joy. And in this case God appears to be quite the tickler, sending entire rows into spasms of laughter and…aerobic dance numbers? These may be adults, but it reminds me a bit of when we used to fake séances at fifth grade slumber parties. view
Journalist / Web Producer Melissa Roth
Journalist, Author, Web Producer
(Art & Entertainment)
[ 5:32 - from YouTube ]
As someone who has spent a lot of time on sets and locations, let me just say -- oh, the glamour of showbiz! The glamour of it all! At least it wasn't raining... view
Feature Writer Kate O'Hare
Feature Writer/Columnist at Tribune Media Services
