Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:41:01 pm
Vimeo Directed by Oliver Astrologo & Nils Astrologo - fb.com/oliver.astrologo Much has been made about the wonders of Venice, but few ever venture deep enough across its less touristy, yet still historical hidden places. Beyond hundreds of canals and a diverse architectural style, a secret facet of Venetian life lives on, ...

Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 6:08:31 pm
The Backwoods family is lifelong union and we are very proud members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). MrBWS is a journeyman outdoor lineman who works 50 hours a week maintaining and upgrading the electrical grid. When storms hit, he and his fellow linemen are the ones who show up ...

Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:42:34 pm
Texas Governor Greg Abbott frequently tweets links to the Stupidest Man on the Internet, Jim "Gateway Pundit" Hoft, so that should give you a clue about his depth of intellect. And today, reacting to the SCOTUS Whole Women’s Health decision striking down Texas' anti-choice TRAP law, Abbott inadvertently let slip ...

Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:44:28 pm
YouTube Time for some mid-week hot jazz, featuring Snarky Puppy with the great Lucy Woodward. Oh yeah. "He Got Away" from Snarky Puppy's live DVD/CD - "Family Dinner - Volume One" Buy It Here: http://ropeadope99.bandcamp.com/ album/family-dinner-volume-1 http://it unes.apple.com/us/album/family-dinner- vol.-1/id692332178 http://www.snarkyp uppy.com / http://www.facebook.com/snarkypuppy w ritten by Lucy Woodward arranged by Lucy Woodward & Michael League produced by Michael League co-produced by Snarky Puppy recorded and filmed ...

Sat, May 21, 2016 at 5:05:07 pm
Vimeo I'm not sure if the film-makers intended it this way, but this vision of a future city in which media and graphics are literally everywhere is pretty freaking terrifying. Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is ...

Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:31:38 pm
One of James O'Keefe's dumbest stunts: wearing a crude Osama bin Laden costume, crossing the US-Mexico border Right wing smear merchant James O'Keefe performed a majestic face plant recently, when he phoned the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundation posing as a "Hungarian-American" named "Victor Kesh" to set up one of his ...

Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:21:37 pm
VERONA, N.Y. -- Tactical law enforcement officers from across the region will gather at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino next week to view the latest law enforcement equipment and receive training, but the expo's keynote speaker has drawn criticism from groups advocating against Islamophobia and bigotry. The keynote speaker ...

Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:22:14 pm
Tim Robbins is a gifted actor who's been in some great films that I'll always enjoy. "The Shawshank Redemption." "The Hudsucker Proxy." But his advocacy for Bernie Sanders entered some really unhinged territory today, promoting the idea that Hillary Clinton is somehow stealing the election by taking advantage of -- or ...

Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 6:45:50 pm
YouTube A few days ago we featured the official video for Banda Magda's “Amour, T’es Là?” Now here's the excellent live version from Snarky Puppy's Family Dinner - Volume One. So good. "Amour T'es La" from Snarky Puppy's live DVD/CD - "Family Dinner - Volume One" Buy It Here: http://ropeadope99.bandcamp.com/ album/family-dinner-volume-1 http://it unes.apple.com/us/album/family-dinner- vol.-1/id692332178 http://www.snarkyp uppy.com / http://www.facebook.com/snarkypuppy w ritten by Magda Giannikou produced by ...

Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:25:31 am
Since we last wrote about her Sarah Palin hasn't gotten any smarter, and now she's hooked up with one of the main attack dogs of the climate change denial gang, Marc Morano, a paid oil industry shill who's promoting a horrible movie called "Climate Hustle." One of the main targets of ...

Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:32:09 pm
Vimeo "Wrapped" is a graduation short film from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, created at the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction. After running at over 100 festivals world wide and winning numerous awards the film is finally online. "Wrapped" delves into the clash between civilization and nature. - LA Shorts Fest / ...

Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:00:19 pm
YouTube DONATE : https://plini.bandcamp.com/track/every -piece-matters say hello : http://www.facebook.com/Plini info : http://plini.co/every-piece-matters ra w impact : http://www.rawimpact.org/everypiecemat ters/ ---- In 2014, I released a song called "Ko Ki" in order to fundraise for a volunteering trip to Cambodia led by the wonderful non-profit organisation Raw Impact. At the beginning of 2015, I went to Cambodia, to help construct a ...

Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:06:26 pm
Video Malcolm Nance, a veteran of Navy intelligence and current head of the Terrorism Asymmetrics Project, reacts to Donald Trump's irresponsible language and his repeated calls for torturing terror suspects. (h/t: Mother Jones.)

Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:33:56 pm
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Donald Trump's talk of building a monstrous 2,000-mile long wall between the US and Mexico has to be one of the stupidest ideas ever floated by a politician, and he makes it even stupider by insisting he's going to make ...

Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:01:29 pm
This is quite a blow to Bernie Sanders' civil rights credibility, as Rep. John Lewis says he "never saw" Sanders at civil rights events in the 1960s. Sanders has frequently talked up his history as an activist while he was at the University of Chicago in the 1960s and touted ...

Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:43:45 am
Planned Parenthood has released the ruling issued by federal Judge William Orrick that prohibits the Center for Medical Progress from releasing videos they obtained illegally at National Abortion Federation meetings, and the document is incredibly revealing. The 42-page judgment describes in detail the CMP's conspiracy to smear and libel Planned ...

Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:33:39 am
One of Donald Trump's frequent talking points is that he'll build a "big, beautiful wall" along the entire US border with Mexico, to stop "rapists and criminals and drug dealers" from coming into the country. And when asked how he intends to pay for such an absurdly gigantic project, he ...

Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 8:13:31 pm
Here's a powerful reminder of the beauty and fragility of this planet on which we live: NASA Releases New High-Res Earthrise Image. "The image is simply stunning," said Noah Petro, Deputy Project Scientist for LRO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The image of the Earth evokes the famous 'Blue ...

Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 10:33:51 am
Vimeo A cross between Miyazaki and Pixar, SOAR is an award-winning 3D animated movie about a young girl who must help a tiny boy pilot fly home before it's too late. facebook.com/SOARfilm Soar was created as Alyce Tzue's thesis project in school. What began as a toil of love by first-time ...

Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:38:17 pm
Video Yes, it's another post about Donald Trump, because he's kicking his dishonest xenophobia into overdrive now. In 2015 America, this is where right wing politics has ended up: in complete denial of reality and vicious endorsement of violence and torture. Here's Donald Trump on ABC News, insisting that he saw "Arabs" cheering ...

Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 5:18:38 pm
Vimeo Wow, new music from Joanna Newsom for the first time in five years, and it's magnificent. She's probably best known for her compositions on which she plays harp, but there's no harp on this song -- just an incredible arrangement of a very different sort of music. The title of the ...

Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:05:31 pm
Here's the video, and look what they unearthed about Hillary. No, it isn't "smoking gun" evidence that she murdered Vince Foster. No, it isn't "smoking gun" evidence that she is a lesbian. No, it isn't "smoking gun" evidence that she is really a man (as some wingnuts actually believe about Michelle Obama). What this ...

Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:11:56 am
Media Matters This video clip is a real jaw-dropper, as Nomiki Konst of the Accountability Project tries to get a word in over Sean Hannity's frantic deluge of anti-Planned Parenthood talking points -- including the usual outright lies. Good on Konst for trying to push back, but it seems like a ...

Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 1:45:41 pm
YouTube When he started to make the music that appears on his new album, trumpeter Terence Blanchard wasn't thinking of Eric Garner, Michael Brown or any of the other recent high-profile police killings of African-Americans. He was thinking of desired collaborators: Donald Ramsey, a bassist and high-school classmate; Oscar Seaton, ...

Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:36:07 pm
The saga of cyberstalker Chuck C. Johnson takes another dark turn today, as Buzzfeed's Jessica Testa reports: Someone Impersonated Me to Trick a Sexual Assault Victim. In a piece for Jezebel, a woman using the name "Josie" wrote about her experiences at Columbia University, when she filed charges for sexual assault ...