Lonely Planet Edinburgh
Video posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Lonely Planet author George Dunford sums up Edinburgh. More Europe than Britain probably because of the month-long Edinburgh Arts Festival every August, the city is sophisticated Scotland. Pub culture is the backbone of society, making it easy to meet the locals. Try scotch or hand-made Real Ale but steer clear of football in conversation until [...]
Jim Bishop: Castle Builder
Video posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008
Beulah, CO. For 30 years Jim Bishop has gathered and set over 1000 tons of rock by hand in order to build his ornate castle. As Jim says his place is, “A place of liberty, freedom, and justice. The poor man’s Disneyland.”
“Chant down Babylon” (South African Documentary)
Video posted on Monday, September 22, 2008
“Chant down Babylon” takes a look at a new generation of Rastafarian youths rising in Post Apartheid South Africa.
See To Believe: Coral Castle
Video posted on Monday, September 22, 2008
See to Believe: Coral Castle - Introduction into the wonder and mystery of Homestead, Florida’s Coral Castle — a castle and rock garden carved painstakingly by one single man over the course of his long, solitary life.
The world’s most important 6-sec drum loop
Video posted on Friday, September 19, 2008
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate [...]
There Is No Energy Crisis, Just a Crisis of Ignorance
Video posted on Friday, September 19, 2008
A sustainable global energy strategy, first proposed by Buckminster Fuller in 1969, to interconnect the abundant renewable energy resources between nations around the world. Benefits include: reducing pollution and climate change, reducing poverty and hunger, and increasing trade, cooperation and peace.
The Phoenix Lights Documentary
Video posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008
Clip from the winner of Best Documantery (2005 NY International Independent Film & Video Festival).
Producers Lynne D. Kitei, M.D. and Steve Lantz present their Internationally award-winning film, an in-depth examination of the mile-wide, V-shaped light formations and craft witnessed by thousands of people in Phoenix and throughout Arizona on March 13th 1997. UFO buffs call [...]