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Saipan and Globalization

Jul 27, ’10 10:34 PM

This is an excellent short documentary on the current economic reality facing Saipan and the effects of globalization in the CNMI. They make Saipan out to be the canary in the coal mine; a view of the dangers America is facing, namely, empty factories, ruined malls, political corruption, and human exploitation. (Also a hint of China paranoia.)

It paints a grim picture of the place I’m heading to in three short weeks, but looking beyond the doom and gloom the video makes a better introduction than some other videos I’ve seen.

(For those of you outside the US where Hulu is broken, this link should work.)

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Gabe Fershong v. Denny Rehberg

Jul 12, ’10 9:13 PM

Have you heard that Denny Rehberg (Montana’s only US house representative) filed a lawsuit against the city of Billings because trees on his 1000 acre subdivision were scorched in a massive 2008 fire. According to him the fire department “breached its duty” when they decided not to risk their lives to protect his landscaping. Well, old Denny was in Missoula last week and Gabe Fershong asked a great question. Check out the (unfortunately truncated) video of their exchange.

Good save Denny, I hope you enjoy your free time after the elections in November.

Via 4&20 Blackbirds

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Lake Geneva: Video Journal

Jun 12, ’10 11:21 AM

I assigned myself the project of making an edit of some videos my sister took with her new flip video camera. The edit was easy, the rendering was impossible.

My laptop runs Mint Linux so there are a lot of free video editors for it. I chose to use PiTiVi because it seemed so simple. The edit was simple, but the render was taking hours and hours which seemed wrong to me. Turns out that that software, as simple as it is, doesn’t render flip generated video. So after a few blind alleys I converted all the clips to a different format and edited the xml file in a text editor was finally able to render this thing. Black bars, squished faces, low res. But you get what you pay for. Next time I think I’ll go a different route.

Enjoy the show!

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“The Curse”

Jun 9, ’10 7:55 AM

From Kitsune Noir:

Has a puppet show ever made you cry? If your answer is no then this video might just change that fact. The song is taken from Josh’s newest album So Runs The World Away called The Curse, one of my absolute favorites in fact.

Honestly I got pretty misty eyed watching this video. It’s a combination of Josh Ritter’s amazing vocals and the strangely emotional puppets. It should also be noted that the video was directed by Liam Hurley, who is the bands drummer.

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Drum Like You Mean It

Jun 4, ’10 10:41 AM

Just because you’re in a weak band called The All-Nighters doesn’t mean you can’t tear it up. Cheers to you cover band drummer!

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