World’s Longest Yardsale

I spent a morning with photographer Kathleen Connally several years back. We talked, we walked. I came back hoping to put something together immediately but life got a little crazy and I had to put it aside. Till now.

Many of things we discussed that misty morning still come back to me from time to time. I think Kathleen has one of the healthiest perspectives on her art & her work. She loves what she does, she has a purpose and she is comfortable with her talent.

You can follow her popular award-winning photoblog at durhamtownship.com.

Filed Under Art, Documentary, Nature, Photography & Slideshows, Podcasts & Vlogs, The Beauty of Ugliness

What Facebook Is For

Posted by Ajit on October 5, 2009 @ 9:08 am | Comment

Filed Under Animation - Pixney, Laugh out funny, Podcasts & Vlogs, Portraits

Low Budget

Posted by Ajit on June 4, 2009 @ 10:22 pm | Comment

Fantastic comedic series. I am hooked.

Official site.

Filed Under Laugh out funny, Parodies, Pathetic Losers, Podcasts & Vlogs

Secrets of a top TV editor

Posted by Ajit on June 1, 2009 @ 10:36 pm | Comment

Filed Under Art, Podcasts & Vlogs

Apollo’s Pad

Posted by Ajit on April 2, 2009 @ 8:35 am | Comment

Hot puppet action coming to you in a regular basis.

Watch it.

Filed Under Laugh out funny, Podcasts & Vlogs

Slumdog Wedding

Posted by Ajit on March 31, 2009 @ 10:03 pm | Comment

Southern wedding gets the Rahman treatment. Somebody needs to hire this guy as an editor.

Watch it.

Filed Under Podcasts & Vlogs, Shaky Camera Realism

New Media Douchebags Explained

Posted by Ajit on February 27, 2009 @ 11:21 am | Comment

The Twitter’s and Facebook’s of this internet world help people share content. That isn’t a bad thing. We can’t expect people to only create and share their content. However, I can’t deny I haven’t had this exact feeling before.

Watch it – via Swissmiss.

Filed Under Geeky curiosity, Podcasts & Vlogs

The New Pop – Heading to the innaugaration

Posted by Ajit on January 25, 2009 @ 1:36 pm | Comment

I have seen so much coverage about the innaugaration of Barack Obama but this is clearly the best. Trevz, an African American New Yorker goes to Washington D.C to experience the once in a life time moment for himself. We don’t have the great technology wizardry of the network cable news do but here is a perspective that is much truer to the experience.

Watch Part one, two, three, four.

Filed Under Non-fiction, Podcasts & Vlogs, Shaky Camera Realism

John August’s The Remnants (featuring Ze Frank!)

Posted by Ajit on January 13, 2009 @ 5:52 pm | Comment

Lost but with characters who take themselves less seriously. Promising show. Can’t wait for the second episode. Last line says it all: “The end of the world, is not that bad.”

Watch it.

Filed Under Podcasts & Vlogs, Quiet Laughter, Science Fiction

Best Online Videos for 2008

Posted by Ajit on January 4, 2009 @ 10:47 pm | 2 Comments

We have posted some wonderful stuff this year, our annual best-of list gives us a chance to celebrate some of them. Dek has a great round up of his favorites. Also, our 2006, 2007 lists.

Shorts

Best Short: Glory at Sea – A 25 minute tour de force that uses a contemporary tragedy (Katrina disaster) to create a powerful myth that seems as old as the hills.

Special Mentions:

Best Stop Motion: Illuminant – To experience this on a big screen like I did at Carrboro Film Festival was incredible.

We posted quite a few innovative stop-motion video including Lucia & Adjustment

Best Short Doc: Bullet Proof Vest

Best Hidden Product Placement: The Ramp

Best Acting in Shorts: R.L. Jackson & Tori Lee in Remember When

Best Abstract film: Pencil Face

Also:

William Lamson
Still Life vs Cashback

Special mentions for Animations:

Web

Best Web Video: Dr. Horrible – It is nice to see big name talent doing web content. It certainly lived up to the hype. Hopefully, this is a sign of good things to come.

Special mentions:

Music Video

Best Music video: Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal – After a year full of shocking videos, especially in content, the one video that haunted me was Sean Pecknold‘s animated classic. Simple in style, resonant story and a great fuckin’ song.

Sexiest Music Video of the year: Toe Jam

Special mentions Music videos:

Commercials

Best Commercial: JC Penney: Aviator – Also the cutest video of the year. The direction is pitch perfect.

Carrboro Film Festival (it is good to love one’s own work)
Zürich Chamber Orchestra

Other awards

Best Interview of the Year: Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin – Unintentionally hilarious that changed the course of the presidential elections.

Best Parody: SNL’s version of Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin – Saturday Night Live came back with a bang. Even more wicked than the original.

Best Online Radio: This American Life: Super

Note: Some of these videos were not released in 2008, they are included here because this is when we discovered them.