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Candace Nicole Parker (born April 19, 1986 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an All American basketball player for the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks. She was drafted to the team from Tennessee in 2008. She may be best known for being the first woman to dunk in an NCAA tournament game and the first woman to [...]

In March 2004 Parker won the Slam Dunk contest of the McDonald’s High School All-American Game in Oklahoma City[5]. Only a 17-year-old high school senior, Parker outlasted five male competitors for the title, including future 2005 NBA Slam Dunk contestant JR Smith and champion Josh Smith. When her remaining male competitors missed their much more [...]

Post hip-hop troubadour RJD2 teamed with dance and media artist Bill Shannon for the ‘Work It Out’ video. Shannon, born with a degenerative hip condition, developed a way to express himself through dance (and even skateboarding) on crutches. Director Joey Garfield took to the streets of New York and captured one continuous shot of Shannon, [...]

In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data. Directed by James Frost. From the album IN RAINBOWS.

Bucket Drummer Ray King at Union Square, subway in NYC.

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven [...]