Five Oscar Nominees for Best Documentary

Food Inc.

Are you hungry for change? This film lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

The Cove

Directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, it documents the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan. It just won a Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary Feature Screenplay.

Which Way Home

Several unaccompanied children journey through Mexico en route to the US, on a freight train called "The Beast."

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsburg and the Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg, a top-level Vietnam War strategist, concludes the war is based on a decade of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to the The New York Times.

Burma VJ

Armed with small handycams undercover Video Journalists in Burma keep up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail.


Which doc do you think will pickup the Oscar???

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Posted 11 days ago

Gil Scott-Heron "Me and the Devil"

After a 16-year hiatus from releasing a full album, Gil Scott-Heron is back with his new album I'm New Here.  Here's a track, called "Me and the Devil", off that new album.  He's still got it!

Gil Scott-Heron, born 1949, is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 70's and early 80's work as a spoken word soul performer. His collaborative efforts featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles. The music of albums such as, Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 70's, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron's recording work is often associated with black militant activism and has received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised".

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Posted 20 days ago

Listening to this...

Sounds amazing! Needs some furniture though...

McIntosh C500 tube preamp, McIntosh MC501 mono amps, KEF 207 speakers, and Meridian CD player.


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Posted 25 days ago

Indie Filmmakers and Web Series Producers Rejoice: RED Scarlet Coming This Spring


This camera will be huge for indie filmmakers and web series producers.  Here's the RED rep showing the Engadget peeps a prototype at CES.  The camera body will be $2750, with a complete camera for under $5000.

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Posted 1 month ago

5 Year Old Boy Rocks the Drums to "Toxicity" by System of a Down


Wow!  Meet five-year-old Jonah Rocks, a completely self-taught, drummer prodigy.  Not bad, considering he started playing drums at the age of three, using baby spoons and Play-Doh cans!  Check out his site, complete with pics of him hanging with KISS.

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Posted 1 month ago

Swimming in Devil's Pool at Victoria Falls


Just added this to the "things I have to do" list.  Victoria Falls, in Zimbabwe, are some of the highest waterfalls in the world.  Among the rushing force of the falls, lies this serene swimming hole, aptly referred to as Devil's Pool.  Would you jump in?

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Posted 1 month ago

VIDEO: "I'm Impressed" by They Might Be Giants


Great paper animation!

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Posted 1 month ago

Recent Visit to Audio High

Took these iPhone shots during my last visit to Audio High in Mountain View.  Thanks again Micheal. :)

       
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Recent_Visit_to_Audio_High.zip (436 KB)

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Posted 1 month ago

Jason Reitman's 3 month, 300 interview, press tour for Up In the Air... in under 3 minutes

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Posted 1 month ago

"Reading" SuperFreakonomics

This sequel to the highly regarded first release Freakonomics is rather underwhelming. While I like the paradigms that the authors pose, they seem more entertainment than substance. Definitely not as good as the first one.

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Posted 2 months ago