Friday, September 25, 2009

Matt Damon flips out at Adrian Grenier

This is hilarious! Matt Damon flips out on Entourage's Adrian Grenier...I love Jeremy Piven throughout all this...just wow. I've watched this time and time again and it just gets funnier every time I see it.

Birds on Wires



This is a very cool video...the creator took a picture of these birds on a wire and decided to creat music based off the notes it creates.

"Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.

Here I've posted a short video made with the photo, the music and the score (composed by the birds).

Music made with Logic.
Video made with After Effects."

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Laura Ling and Euna Lee's first statements after N. Korea Capture

American Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee's statements pending their arrest have been posted on Current.com.

Video Thank-You:



This article excerpt is taken from Current.com (Current.tv):

LAURA LING AND EUNA LEE MAKE FIRST STATEMENT REGARDING EVENTS LEADING TO CAPTURE
Hostages in the Hermit Kingdom
While covering human trafficking between North Korea and China, two American journalists wound up becoming the story.

We arrived at the frozen river separating China and North Korea at 5 o'clock on the morning of March 17. The air was crisp and still, and there was no one else in sight. As the sun appeared over the horizon, our guide stepped onto the ice. We followed him.

We had traveled to the area to document a grim story of human trafficking for Current TV. During the previous week, we had met and interviewed several North Korean defectors, women who had fled poverty and repression in their homeland, only to find themselves living in a bleak limbo in China. Some had, out of desperation, found work in the online sex industry; others had been forced into arranged marriages. Now our guide, a Korean Chinese man who often worked for foreign journalists, had brought us to the Tumen River to document a well-used trafficking route and chronicle how the smuggling operations worked.

There were no signs marking the international border, no fences, no barbed wire. But we knew our guide was taking us closer to the North Korean side of the river. As he walked, he began making deep, low hooting sounds, which we assumed was his way of making contact with North Korean border guards he knew. The previous night, he had called his associates in North Korea on a black cellphone he kept for that purpose, trying to arrange an interview for us. He was unsuccessful, but he could, he assured us, show us the no-man's land along the river, where smugglers pay off guards to move human traffic from one country to another.

When we set out, we had no intention of leaving China, but when our guide beckoned for us to follow him beyond the middle of the river, we did, eventually arriving at the riverbank on the North Korean side. He pointed out a small village in the distance where he told us that North Koreans waited in safe houses to be smuggled into China via a well-established network that has escorted tens of thousands across the porous border.

Feeling nervous about where we were, we quickly turned back toward China. Midway across the ice, we heard yelling. We looked back and saw two North Korean soldiers with rifles running toward us. Instinctively, we ran.

Read the full article here.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Throwback Thursday: Big Willie Style

Just for shits n' giggles, this edition of Throwback Thursday comes Will Smith. No, not the Fresh Prince from the 90's, not even the bad ass action hero we know from Independence Day, but...Big Willie Style himself.



"Miami" (What the hell is with the end????)


"Gettin Jiggy Wit It"


"Wild Wild West"


And because Carlton Banks is the shiz...The Carlton Dance

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song

It's been a while since I've posted, sorry, I had a friend's wedding to attend, as well as working two jobs. So tiresome. I've also been rather pensive and in some weird moods lately, but, when in need of relaxation, Regina Spektor is a good choice, with a soothing piano, a beautiful voice, and a fun quirkiness. She recently released a new album out called "Far." Check out the music videos from it for the songs entitled "Eet" and "Laughing With."

"Eet"


"Laughing With"


Here are few other tracks of hers that are a great example of why she's so amazing.
"Fidelity"


"Us"