Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:59:12 pm
YouTube The Aristocrats' official recordings and DVD's are available at http://thearistocrats.spinshop.com/ J azz-fusion band "The Aristocrats" (Marco Minnemann - drums, Guthrie Govan - guitar, and Bryan Beller - bass) gave three mesmerising concerts in Vladivostok and Nakhodka in December 2012. Their visit was supported by the U.S. Consulate General in Vladivostok, ...

Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:09:13 pm
Vimeo Our graduate film from Queensland College of Art's BA of Animation, 2012. www.theguardianstale.com On a lonely alien planet shrouded in mystery, an ominous beast guards a powerful treasure. One day he receives an unexpected guest - A seemingly innocent girl crash lands on his world. The two will forge an unusual ...

Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:31:41 pm
Beginning in 1949 and spanning a period of 40 years, the Soviet Union carried out more than 450 nuclear tests in the isolated steppes of eastern Kazakhstan. In 1989, when the socialist state collapsed, the Russians pulled out and left the Kazakhs to their own devices--literally. Enough fissile material ...

Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:03:00 pm
Perpetual moral scold and professional victim town crier Rod Dreher (unintentional rhyme) has made a career of gay panic mongering on top of End of the Christian West predictions. Just in the last seven days, he has posted thirteen stories on GLBT issues wherein he praised President Putin (In ...

Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 9:48:29 pm
YouTube You can buy this song at http://bit.ly/wmJwqv You can stream this song at http://www.gregholdenonline.com Thank you to the amazing response to this song in The Netherlands, and now also the USA. This song was inspired by the book "What is the What?" by American writer Dave Eggers. It is about a ...

Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:05:08 pm
Vimeo CAMERA OBSCURA FILM PROJECT This video is a part of a pinhole movie project based on the principle of the Camera Obscura. An apartment is completely darkened. A hole is made in a window, letting lights from outside coming in. Projections are taking place everywhere inside. Stenop.es is looking for amazing ...

Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:20:27 pm
An American volunteer for The Orbit Village Project in Kenya, a charitable foundation for orphans and children whose parents cannot care for them, collects clothing, school supplies, and gifts for schoolchildren. Her nephew worked for the Romney campaign and had tons of worthless Romney T-shirts after election day 2012. The result ...

Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 5:57:11 pm
Beautiful photos--wonderfully positive response to the vicious racism directed at the Cheerios ad earlier this month.. From the site's About the Project page: 2013.06.05 at 1:51 PM Last week, Cheerios posted this new commercial on youtube. It sparked a firestorm of backlash, and (naturally) the comments on the video have been ...

Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:50:00 pm
I don't think these wingnuts have considered the possible consequences of arming up a bunch of women with free shotguns and then coming at them with transvaginal ultrasound wands: Houston Gun Group Fights 'War on Women' by Handing Out Free Shotguns. The Armed Citizen Project recently began handing out free ...

Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:15:23 pm
A fascinating tidbit in the Washington Post's latest story on NSA leaker Edward Snowden: Snowden wanted the Washington Post to publish online a cryptographic key that he could use to prove to a foreign embassy that he was the source of the documents: Code Name 'Verax': Snowden, in Exchanges With ...

Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:29:38 pm
The NYPD announced today that two letters mailed to Mayor Mike Bloomberg tested positive for the deadly toxin ricin. The letters indicate the sender's political disagreement with Bloomberg's gun control position. The anonymous threats to Bloomberg were opened in New York City on Friday, and by the director of the group ...

Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:26:58 am
Anti-Muslim demagogue Pamela Geller is featured at Breitbart.com, with another of her by-the-numbers rants spreading hatred against Muslims -- not to mention outright lies: Where Are the 'Moderate' Muslims? In the wake of the monstrous beheading of a young British man in broad daylight by Muslims who cited the Qur'an ...

Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:50:48 pm
Vimeo Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale. Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director ...

Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:48:29 pm
Dear Senator Ron Johnson: I read in the Oshkosh Northwestern (our hometown newspaper) today that, as part of your official duties as a U.S. Senator, you are producing videos of people who have been harmed by government intrusion or red tape. The paper went on to describe the subject of your ...

Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:37:57 pm
As potential oil spills go, this one is relatively small, but it's a harbinger of things to come if the Keystone XL project is approved: Everything You Need to Know About the Exxon Pegasus Tar Sands Spill. In Greek legend, every time the winged horse Pegasus struck his hoof to ...

Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:11:30 pm
Grievance-mongering is a huge part of Bill O'Reilly's (and Fox News's) snake oil sales pitch, and since the War on Christmas is now out of season, he's moving smoothly on to the next silly fake outrage: O'Reilly Declares Victory in 'War on Christmas,' Joins Fox's 'War on Easter'. O'REILLY: More ...

Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:46:55 am
You've probably heard that RNC chairman Reince Preibus announced a new report today, identifying ways that the Republican Party needs to reform. Call me a cynic, but my reading of the report reveals the same old same old: lots of angst about "messaging" and "reaching out to minorities," and absolutely no ...

Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:24:28 pm
I was ready to dismiss this story as an over-reaction: History Channel's Satan Looks a Lot Like Barack Obama. ...until I read this: Hollywood Couple Created 'The Bible' Mini-Series to 'Set the Record Straight'. First, the reality TV show guru Mark Burnett -- the man who made Donald Trump a TV ...

Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:24:36 pm
A squirrel goes about its everyday business when its curiousity is aroused by a peculiar object that will have devastating consequences. . . Screened at the British Film Institute in London in July 2010, this stop motion was funded by Skillset and produced on the Animation course as part of ...

Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:53:52 pm
President Obama's picks to head the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy are already provoking howls of outrage from the right wing and the energy industry shills who feed them talking points; they're especially worked up about Gina McCarthy. Gina McCarthyWASHINGTON -- President Obama on Monday named two ...

Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:27:14 pm
The Jockstrap Raiders is a Student Academy Award winning animated short film about a group of misfits during world war I. It takes place in Leeds, England where our heroes are all excluded from the war due to various abnormalities. Threatened by the invading German Kaiser and his army, ...

Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:38:38 pm
Alec Baldwin was accused earlier today of using racial slurs in a confrontation with a New York Post photographer, and right wing blogs immediately launched into a unison chorus of howling pearl-clutching outrage, calling Baldwin a racist because they're always gleeful when they get a chance to turn the tables ...

Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:33:49 pm
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc /2013/02/20130211_atc_13.mp3 Here's Tannenhaus's full article at the New Republic: Original Sin - Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people. "Who needs Manhattan when we can get the electoral votes of eleven Southern states?" Kevin Phillips, the prophet of "the emerging Republican majority," asked in ...

Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:32:54 pm
Also see: The Centrifuge Brain Project by Till Nowak

Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:15:49 pm
It's not easy to come up with something new when you visit the same place every year for more than a decade. Over the years Marsel has created the most extensive and most popular night photography portfolio of Namibia on this planet, and two years ago he decided it ...