2010-01-22
Memorial
A fallen soldier’s tribute at Fort Richardson AK, documented by my friend, photojournalist Scott Favorite:
“Memorial”
Tag: video/Archives
2010-01-20
Taxman Obama
rx proves himself the premiere bi-partisan presidential cut-up; so pay up, folks, there’s a new Taxman in town:
“Taxman Obama vs Rx”
2010-01-19
Sweetgrass
A new movie on MT mtn sheep-herders, “ Sweetgrass“:
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, “Sweetgrass” follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
via Linda Iverson.
2010-01-15
MLK B-day
Happy birthday to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)…
Common, produced by Will.i.am “A Dream” Freedom Writers soundtrack
“Dr. King at Temple Israel” Queena Kim
In 1965 Martin Luther King. Jr. delivered a sermon at Temple Israel in Hollywood. King was invited to the temple by Rabbi Max Nussbaum, who himself used the pulpit to rail against injustices in Nazi Germany. King’s sermon was recorded on an old-fashioned reel-to-reel audio tape and buried in a pile in the Rabbi’s home. His widow Ruth, now 95-years-old, tells the story of that day. [transcript]. Aired Jan 15 2007 on NPR Day to Day (7:55 mp3)
“freedom 101” rx
“Taylor and Bessie Rogers” StoryCorps
Retired Memphis sanitation worker Taylor Rogers and his wife, Bessie, remember Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech (more strike StoryCorps), (1:35 mp3)
“Martin Luther King Sings” Gregory Brothers Songified History
Robert F Kennedy addresses an Indianapolis crowd, April 4 1968, the day of MLK’s death, from Top 100 Speeches: (6:02 mp3):
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes “Wake Up Everybody” (1975 Soul Train performance featuring the recently late long-time great Teddy Pendergrass)
2010-01-08
Elvis 75th
Elvis Presley, born 75 years ago today: Jan 8 1935 Tupelo, Mississippi. HV has an on-air 75th Birthday Party and these Elvis xtras:
“Crawfish” (King Creole movie):
The Mice from Babe: Pig in the City perform “Are You Lonesome Tonight” (1:26 mp3):
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper “Elvis Is Everywhere”
Need another E vid: “Hound Dog” on The Ed Sullivan Show.
2010-01-04
History of Video Compression
Kind of a breathless take on the wonders of video compression and the progression over the last 15 or so years, but interesting if you’ve ever wondered how they cram all that crap programming into such a small space, Ars Technica “From Cinepak to H.265: a brief history of video compression“.
2009-12-17
Fling A Ding
From Trent Harris’ video travel webisode series Fling A Ding series:
FLINGADING #8: You step, you die
As a child soldier in Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge army Aki Ra laid many landmines. He now clears these deadly bombs with a stick and a pocketknife, more than 10,000 to date. It is very dangerous. No one pays him to do it. Aki is the real deal.
2009-12-14
Radio Diaries 15yo
Radio Diaries “celebrates 15 years of stories on public radio. A video retrospective hosted by Ira Glass with animation by James Blagden. Music by The Books”:
Produced by Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Joe Richman with help from John Wong, Eric Pearse Chavez, Sue Johnson, Sara Pellegrini, Samara Freemark and Kara Oehler.
2009-12-10
Dear God
XTC’s lovely, lyrical, laughable, laudable, “Dear God”:
Lyrics: More…
2009-12-07
Holy Land Tour
Jake Warga takes us on a personal tour through the Holy Land, looking at how the conflict started and what it’s like today between Jerusalem and Bethlehem… between birth and re-birth. (Also a PRX radio story.):
Holy Land Tour from Jake Warga
2009-12-02
Cap’n Trade
The Story of Stuff folk have a new film out on The Story of Cap & Trade. Annie Leonard once again does her simple, straight-forward finger-pointing at job pointing to some devilish details in the current proposals:
Cap & Trade Trailer
The full film is: The Story of Cap & Trade.
HV talked with Annie in 2006.
2009-11-30
AutoTune Meme
Weird Al lays out the history and science of Auto-Tune, from the Know Your Meme series (tube):
HV did a radio intervu with the Gregory Bros on their Auto-Tuned News.
And here’s a playlist with most of the movies mentioned in above Auto-Tune explainer:
via Alix Blair.
2009-11-23
Be A Frog
Heard this morn on KGLT, a new Flaming Lips silly song w/ a silly vid w/ some silly spoken and mouth-sound effects: aka, we love it; from their album Embryonic:
The Flaming Lips – “I Can Be A Frog” (Official Video)
2009-11-22
Beck’s Record Club
Beck (-Hansen not Jeff-) has a Record Club of rock ‘n’ luminaries. They’ve covered the songs of Leonard Cohen, Velvet Underground, and now Skip Spence (of Moby Grape). Beck, Feist, and Wilco recorded their studio session tackling this track from Skip’s 1969 solo LP Oar:
Skip Spence “Little Hands”
Record Club: Skip Spence “Little Hands” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
via some velvet blog.
2009-11-16
Common Dream
Common, produced by Will.i.am, sampling Martin Luther King Jr, for the Freedom Writers soundtrack:
Common: “A Dream” Music Video
Freedom Writers: film | soundtrack | videos | audio. Film based on the book: The Freedom Writers Diary; How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them.
via KEXP: Songs of Celebration & Remembrance: Commemorating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Inauguration of Barack Obama.
2009-11-15
Sesame Style Feist
The eye-easy and sonorous Feist effectively communicates sequential integers to kids; from the back-alleys of Sesame St — the show just turned 40yo:
Sesame Street: Feist sings 1,2,3,4
and here’s a Google Doodles‘s homage to S.St‘s 40th anniversary:
More classic S.St vids at Some Velvet Blogspot, including Stevie Wonder, Richard Pryor, and R.E.M. w/ “Fuzzy, Happy Monsters.”
via Ben- Comma Q.
2009-11-13
Sub Genius
Join the Church of the SubGenius:
…or triple your money back.
via AH3.
2009-11-08
Women of Troy
Indie producer Lu Olkowski debuted her In Verse: Women of Troy on this week’s Studio 360:
A century ago, Troy, New York, was a thriving industrial capital. Today many of its residents live in poverty. Studio 360’s Lu Olkowski went to Troy with poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willet and photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally to document some of Troy’s stories. They spent a lot of time with a single mother, Billie Jean Hill.
The result is poetry as journalism w/ some staggeringly accurate and beautiful photos:
In Verse: Women of Troy from InVerse Vimeo videos.
In Verse: PRX | MQ2 | Transom.org | Vimeo | iPhone app
Photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally has a film on Troy NY: Upstate Girls.
2009-11-07
Hey Pretty
A while back we posted the audio to this spoken-weird collaboration btwn writer Mark Z Danielewski and his musician sister Poe. Here’s their vid…
Poe – Hey Pretty Music Video Official Label Video Drive-By 2001 Mix
2009-10-28
Software Dev Cycle
The life cycle of a software, from “How the customer explained it” to “How the project leader understood it” to “What marketing advertised” to “What the customer really needed.”
Software Development Life Cycle [SDLC]
Illustrations: Project Cartoon (adapted by Mina Isaac)
Video: Iman Louis
Music (“Technologic”): Daft Punk
Make your own Project Cartoon.