Interview: ‘Other Half of Tomorrow’ Filmmakers Turn Lens on Pakistan’s Women
A candid new documentary presents the diverse lives of a set of Pakistani women and demonstrates how women are at the forefront of shaping Pakistani society. Premieres tonight at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York City.
Read full interview here.
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Time-lapse video of Hollywood Sign revamp, see the whole thing in 2 minutes!
Netflix Inc signed a multi-year agreement with Walt Disney Co, gaining exclusive U.S. pay television rights to Disney movie releases from 2016.
Netflix shares were up 8 percent at $82.21 on the Nasdaq on Tuesday.
Netflix subscribers will be able to watch new Disney movies on TV, tablets, computers and mobile phones, the companies said in a statement.
Disney’s direct-to-video new releases will also be made available on Netflix starting 2013.
READ ON: Netflix gets exclusive pay TV rights for Disney movies
YouTube and Netflix are on course to provide captions, but overall the deaf are facing more not fewer barriers to social video. (via Growth of viral video leaves deaf out of loop - The Washington Post)
Japan: A Skier’s Journey EP1 S3 by Jordan Manley Photography
Skiers Chad Sayers and Forrest Coots shred their way through Japan’s contrasting landscape, from Tokyo’s blinking lights to Hokkaido’s revered hardwood forests.
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To take your breath away, a timelapse of fall in New York from Jamie Scott, filmed at 15 separate Central Park locations.
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Just One More Seriously Breathtaking Video of the Earth From Space
By now you’ve probably seen one of the many gorgeous time-lapse videos created with photographs taken by the crew of the International Space Station. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool. But just when you think you’ve seen all the beauty that space has to offer, along comes this gem: Christoph Malin’s twist on the genre.
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The space shuttle Endeavour made its final journey last weekend, traveling 12-miles from Los Angeles International Airport, through Inglewood, to the California Science Center in Exposition Park.
Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour’s trek across L.A.
This video is incredible. — tanya b.
Ross Ching used Photoshop to digitally remove all of the pedestrians and moving cars from these time-lapses! Gizmodo writes:
His short, the first of a series called Empty America, shows every landmark from the Golden Gate Bridge to Fisherman’s Wharf to Lombard Street to Ghirardelli Square to the Bay Bridge, ‘wiped empty of tourists and traffic.
Empty America - Time-Lapses with Humans Edited Out
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Here’s a fantastic short doc that asks the question “In the age of Instagram, what sets a professional photographer apart?”
It was shot by our pal Andy Newman and features two stellar photographers, Andria Lindquist and Cory Staudacher (@withhearts on Instagram).
Portrait - A Documentary About Instagrammers in the Photo World
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i’ve got goosebumps.
The Shuttle’s Last Mission: LA
Last weekend, the last shuttle went on its last mission ever.
The shuttle Endeavour went from Los Angeles International Airport to the California Science Center last weekend. The trip took two days as NASA engineers working with utility crews, police and other personnel moved the shuttle through the streets of the city of angles.
With the parking of this shuttle, so ends the 30 year mission of the shuttle program. The end of an era of regular, United States-led space travel. The success of the shuttle program is so well known and the image of the shuttle so iconic, it’s almost surreal to see it sharing the same screen as Randy’s Donuts or Roscoe’s chicken and waffles.
This time lapse video of the shuttle’s journey is moving and jaw-dropping. I don’t often say this, but if you watch only one online video this week, it should be this one.
PBS Digital Studios just informed us all via Twitter, that this Julia Child autotune video just topped 1 Million views.
Let’s take another look, shall we?
It’s brilliant!
(Source: gourmet.com)
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From the TED Blog’s week-long celebration of TEDx:
More than 20,000 TEDxTalks have been given at 5,000+ events held in 137 countries around the globe. With the mass scale of the program, it’s a little unpredictable which talks will gain a steady following of fans on the TEDxTalks website and YouTube channel, and which talks will skyrocket into public consciousness practically overnight. Below, six TEDxTalks that became phenomena and had ripple effects their speakers hardly could have anticipated.
Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability
Brené Brown has inspired millions to embrace their vulnerability, with one of the most forthright and deeply personal presentations ever featured on TED. When Brown first gave her talk at TEDxHouston, she had no idea that — just two years later — nearly 5 million people would have watched it. “I call 2010 the year of the vulnerability talk and 2011 the year of walking the talk, because I was very unprepared,” Brown told the TED Blog before the posting of her second talk, “Listening to shame” at TED2012.Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer
At TEDxManhattanBeach in 2011, Thomas Suarez showed the world what growing up digital can do to kids: turn them into engineers. When he gave his talk, Suarez had already developed a widely circulated iPhone whack-a-mole app called “Bustin Jeiber,” and had started tutoring other kids to become developers too. His talk has made more than a million TED viewers feel excessively guilty about what they were doing at age 12.Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
Few can tell it like it is quite the way Larry Smith can. This extremely popular talk, given at TEDxUW in 2011, holds an outlandish paradox: Smith’s observations about your future are pessimistic and his tone nearly apoplectic, and yet he leaves you feeling richly inspired to take control of your life’s path. More than 1.2 million people have enjoyed this talk as a result.Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel
Most people probably assumed they knew how to use a paper towel before Joe Smith gave a talk on the subject at TEDxConcordiaUPortland. But with the simplest of choreography — shake and fold — he transformed how millions of people dry their hands. It’s easy to spot those who have seen Smith’s talk by the way they leave a public bathroom, and TED staffers are happy to see his technique spreading rapidly.Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Dan Meyer is evangelist for making math fun. By sharing his methods for engaging students with real problem solving at TEDxNYED, his talk has pushed forward a radical shift in the way we educate our kids. Nearly a million people have seen the talk so far — many of them teachers — kick starting something of a math revolution.Ami Klin: A new way to diagnose autism
It doesn’t always take a million views for a TEDxTalk to make an impact. Perhaps by coincidence, just four months after we posted Ami Klin’s talk from TEDxPeachtree about his urgent research into early childhood autism, the NIH granted his team $8.3 million to create a new Autism Center of Excellence — one of only three in the United States.
Does brainstorming work? A colorful stop-motion synthesis of existing research by Jonah Lehrer.
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