Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:02:27 pm
A few of the many special moments from this year's CPAC, courtesy of the new embed feature of Getty Images. Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - MARCH 08: An exhibitor plays a video game in their booth during the ...

Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:03:55 pm
Vimeo This is the Official Music Video for 'Orion Beach' a song from the album 'The Construct' by D/A/D. It was featured on NPR's 'all songs considered.' Calling it the "...ultimate chill zone" http://www.npr.org/blogs/allson gs/2014/01/21/264533229/vikings-choice -ski-the-cosmic-oceanways-with-your-d- a-d This video was also featured on Vice's The Creators Project! The interview has a lot of great ...

Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:56:01 pm
An interesting discrepancy, presented for your perusal. First, we have Glenn Greenwald, who is a journalist, professing his "full journalistic independence" from sole owner Pierre Omidyar in his new First Look media venture: @PrisonPlanet I care about one thing: do I have full journalistic independence? If I do, then that's what ...

Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:58:06 pm
Vimeo Bachelor film project from The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark. http://animwork.dk/en/ http: //facebook.com/pages/The-Animation-Wor kshop-Official-Page/10452541819

Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 5:44:57 pm
Vimeo This film follows the ancient cycle of sunset, to night, to sunrise. A continuous loop of perpetual movement that has been unbroken since the dawn of time, and the only true constant in our lives. I shot this film over 12 days around the San Pedro de Atacama region ...

Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:40:30 am
Here's the complete speech on proposed NSA reforms given by President Obama today, for the record. As Prepared for Delivery - At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee born out of the "The Sons of Liberty" was established in Boston. The group's members included Paul Revere, and at ...

Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:18:41 pm
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Earth's jet stream is a subject of intense interest and concern thanks to its effects on our weather. Saturn's polar jet stream, seen here, causes no such worries for Earthlings, so we can simply marvel at its graceful form. This atmospheric feature was first observed by ...

Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:36:03 am
Gov. Chris Christie is seen with David Wildstein, in red tie, on Sept. 11, 2013, before a ceremony on the 12th anniversary of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks in Manhattan, in a photo obtained by The Wall Street Journal. Sept. 11 was the third day of the lane closures ...

Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:03:53 pm
Ah, Texas. You almost have to hand it to the Texas branch of the GOP. They're consistently dedicated to making themselves look like jackasses to the rest of the world, with an amazing lack of self-consciousness or inhibition. It's really the only way they're uninhibited at all. There are great people ...

Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:16:47 pm
After years of treading water, it looks like the long awaited "Ark Encounter" amusement park is about to sink. According to multiple reports in LEO Weekly (a Louisville publication), AiG said in January 2011 that ground would be broken on the project that spring. Then in May of that year, ...

Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:49:05 pm
Vimeo Follow me on Facebook www.fb.com/JonathanBeslerPhot o Music: Beacons by Rob Fleming www.robflemingmusic.com This is my second video project taken with my Nikon D800, Nikon 35mm f/1.8, Nikon 50mm f/1.8, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 and a Samyang 14mm f/2.8 The footage was taken within the last year and I took about 35,000 pictures, however many clips didn't ...

Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:28:19 pm
Vimeo Harley is the short film I created for my Intermediate Production class at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. I've poured more than 200 hours into this project and couldn't be happier with how it turned out. It was a blast creating this short all the way ...

Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:18:09 pm
Vimeo This is the graduation-project made by a group of five students from the 3D design and animation course at Idèfagskolen in Tønsberg Norway. The short film featured here was in production between october 2012 - July 2013. With a few tweaks here and there until the soundscape was ...

Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:49:29 pm
Vimeo In their first animated music video, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings face off against a pack of mischievous wolves in a psychedelic dance battle. For more information about the making of "Retreat!" go to: http://slanted.org/project/sharon- jones-retreat-musicvideo/ FULL CREDITS: Artist: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Label: Daptone Records Production Company: Slanted Studios Executive Producer: Michelle Higa Fox Director: Lizzi ...

Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:21:25 pm
Vimeo It was one hell of a journey during the fourteen months making Wyoming Wildscapes II, my second and final Wyoming related time lapse project. Had plenty of adventures while working on this. Lightning almost got me a couple of times this summer, gear froze up in the winter (literally), ...

Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:13:54 pm
Vimeo This is a great little video, making an important point about our irrationality on privacy, in a world where Google, Facebook, Linkedin and many other large corporations know far more about each one of us than the NSA could ever dream of. We are the Transparent Machines™ | ...

Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:45:12 pm
Vimeo 11 min I Fantasy/Horror I México/Canada "Shhh" is a dark fairytale about a young boy, Guillermo, who uses his imagination to overcome his monstrous bully at night. Tired of being scared, Guillermo eventually takes matters into his own hands. Inspired by the lucid dreams of director Guillermo del Toro during ...

Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:24:23 pm
YouTube It's clear that the launch of Healthcare.gov has not gone well, but one positive thing has come out of it: the hilarious spectacle of White House reporters who suddenly turn into web programming gurus. For example, here's MSNBC's Chuck Todd, helpfully offering his professional opinion that if extreme traffic is really ...

Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:50:13 pm
The University of California Berkeley has released a new report today outlining the cost that comes with having a service sector (specifically fast food) labor force making today's current minimum wage salary. The report finds that by paying fast food workers a meager minimum wage, those workers are forced ...

Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:38:39 pm
September 11, 2001. New Yorkers were heading to the polls to vote on the next mayor of the city. It was a morning full of promise and baseball fans were excited about the Yankees' chances of making the playoffs, the Mets thinking about the future, and the start of the ...

Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:01:56 pm
Vimeo Here we are, kids. Project #1, an indie animation anthology on the theme of GHOST STORIES. All work done DIY, between jobs and classes, with no funding, between September '12 and August '13. Enjoy. If you'd like to support us, drop something in our tip jar below or check out ...

Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:45:18 am
Americans are concerned about internet privacy, but they're far less worried about government snooping than they are about their online activity being monitored by hackers and advertisers. That's according to a survey of 792 internet and smartphone users in the US by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, conducted ...

Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:53:12 pm
Workers earn between 65 and 80 cents for each large bucket of chile they pick. The fastest pick 100 buckets a day. Photo: Joseph Sorrentino From Joseph Sorrentino at the Santa Fe Reporter: Hard Harvest - Picking New Mexico's Green Chile Is No Picnic. The first workers start getting up a ...

Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:03:42 pm
Vimeo Set in 1959, a black hole appears over Manhattan and during these last few moments of the apocalypse; a homeless doomsday enthusiast learns that it is never too late for redemption. This is the first animated short film created by Mark Szumski and Gina Niespodziani aka Hey Beautiful Jerk. ...

Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:17:54 pm
This morning, NBC News reported that Edward Snowden used his administrative access to enter the accounts of other NSA employees with higher level classification with the intent to take information. That should once and for all settle the fact that Edward Snowden engaged in espionage and was not merely acting ...