Melamine Tainted Cookies

Hey just something to look out for. Apparently the US has bought 2 million pounds of supposedly melamine infected food. The milk powder used in a lot of the candy that was manufactured in China has been tainted with Melamine. It's mostly a fear for small children under 2. It causes kidney stones and has killed 4 kids in China.

Alien landing

Here's a freaky video. It's funny too and it's made realistic enough that I can't tell whether or not it's real. I'm leaning to that it didn't happen but still it's a little scary. There is one thing from this video that I want to put into my documentary film and that's the seriousness of it. I want to do something that's not real-a bigfoot documentary- but I want the acting to look credible so that at the end you do wonder if maybe it is true.

George Carlin- Death

Here's my favorite stand up comedian. He died a few months ago. IN this video he talks about death. I like this video most because of the content of the video- what he has to say and all is always funny. I also think it's strange that he would design the props around him as a room with furniture in it. He's probably being sarcastic. As for the video quality I think it's good but there are some scenes that are a little wiggly when it zooms or it just cuts in strange places.

Man travels to the future

Here's a nice idea for a documentary. It's a little short but funny and kinda makes me wonder if it really did happen. If it were to be a documentary he could have thrown some more clips of his life in and maybe some other wacky incident and his experience trying to find out what happened. I'm thinking about doing something like this for documentary film. It's got to be his dad though.

skateboard editing

About five minutes into this video I think the editing is really good. Reading a little in the Eye is Quicker I think the rapid editing in this video is exactly the concept that the book is duscussing. The idea is to edit in such a way that it's not noticable- it's just smooth and easy and you don't think to yourself, man this is really choppy and doesn't go together... it keeps the pace. I think one of the ideas the book talked about was cutting in action and the incoming cut is just about as action packed.I notice they use a fade sometimes when the incoming cut is slower. There also seems to be a rythme to the cuts that even includes the actions of the skaters. They land according to the beat of the music.
This can be compared a little later in the video when they hand the board off to another and then throw. Some of the throws are a little off- where when they cut the board comes in slower or higher in the next frame. Sometimes though it works really well. This section starts about ten minutes into the video.

A new perspective on the bible

Here's something I was introduced to over the summer along with the 9/11 conspiracy theories. It seems a little out there but why not possible? I like this video because it's simple. I also like the superimposed graphics. What stands out most about this video to me is my ability to learn from it. I feel like I can learn so much faster when I watch video than reading books. I don't think I could learn this much this fast if I were reading a book with all of the same information.

A LITTLE MORE- I see potential in this idea that aliens came down, mated with the humans, they're actually fallen angels, they have a huge secret symbolic language which is wrapped around our government and the "new world order" and the alien's (Satans) plan to destroy mankind. But this guy also believes that cows have been spliced by human DNA so we better not consume anymore dairy products. Pesonally I feel like Jesus is just part of this whole rediculous thing anyway and therefor this guy is actually getting duped. The sun remains still for several days at the Winter Solstice (that's in an encyclopedia in Reed Library), it's lowest point in the sky. On December 25th, "Jesus's birthday" the sun then starts rising north again. This sounds a lot like Jesus being dead in the tomb for three days and then resurrecting. Also Jesus was the Lamb of God and right around 0 AD we left the age of Aries, the lamb, and entered the age of Pisces the Fish. Jesus was a fisher of men and we put the little fish on the back of our cars to signify that we're Christians. Isn't this just the same symbolic stuff that's been going for thousands of years but people don't really get that it's all astronomical? The odd thing is that a lot of crazy stuff has happened to me, things that just don't seem like they're coincidence, mostly prayers being answered. It's tough to decide. Maybe Jesus is speaking about a common truth for us all that works whether you believe in him or not. Maybe he really did come and want to live a personified life of the sun that the our governement and major world powers wanted to steal. Maybe he's an alien. If you've got other information let me know.

My favorite commercial

The reason I like this commercial is the lack of dialogue. I also like it because the music narrates the story but indirectly. I want to make videos like this where there is no dialogue or less dialogue but body language lets the viewer know what's going on. I like when stereotypes are broken or things are represented as contrary to the norm as they are in this commercial- I like this because it can add new humor never thought about before or get you to think about something in a way you haven't.

Jesus meets the Terminator

Here's the movie I was looking for. It's a video about the Terminator going back to the time of Jesus. It's halarious. The reason I chose this video is because the special affects like looking through the Terminator's eyes might be something that we can get into with Vegas. I also chose it because it seems to lie somewhere between amatuer and pro. The special affects don't blow your mind and it seems somehow the picture is less quality than a big movie. I don't know how to explain it though. Maybe it's just youtube. But I think we can make videos this quality in this class.