The last time you rode the subway, bus or light rail, did it strike you that your route was “occupied” by snobbery? In last weeks spiral by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, he jousted with a weed in one arm and a hole in his left sock. You see, Gingrich became entangled in survival. The [...]
Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) from Alex Mallis. The three week experiment in America’s greatest financial capital is starting to take it’s toll – just not for the intended. For those who do not know, #OWS is encamped in New York’s latest tourist trap: Wall Street. Financiers spend most of their days [...]
For some, the indelible mark that destruction brought us 9 years ago can never be forgotten. Through many parts of this country, if not globally, our concern for safety became a hyper need. Yet the media, per some on social media sites, has reduced the tragedy’s event to something else. Heroic acts have been blemished [...]
If you have been under a rock, most of the main stream media has been pre-occuppied with irrational distortions of issues (from The Tea Party’s “media” party in DC to economic rebirth in New York City’s lower bowels). Sometimes it is just best to place the physical facts before us – unaltered and clear. The [...]
This weekend marks another wave of oil savvy films for your entertainment – and in the case of GASLAND – your immediate action. If you have driven anywhere beyond the metro area, you might wonder – as Josh Fox did – how the rows of rural land spotted with gas wells is working out for [...]
At the onset of the Bush-Cheney years, few would have imagined the slant that press would eventually redefine video and “film” journalism. In the bumbling days after September 11th, the country sat paralyzed through the continuous coverage offered on TV. National coverage was quick with the acquisitions and unverified actions. Our Vice President addressed the [...]
After considerable time on the best seller list, the economists and writers of Super Freakonomics get their place in the sun. The Tribeca Film Festival’s closing act will feature “Freakonomics” The Movie on April 30th and again on May 1, 2010. It is the first film of the festival to get larger distribution and ultimately [...]
In the film LUBIE LOVE, filmmaker Mason Hayutin has a love-hate relationship with the truck he drives across country. He loves being on the open road but he recognizes that the cost – financial and environmental far out ways the benefits. While Hayutin is passionate about the subject matter he has chosen to report on [...]
You see it all the time in our digital age: someone as a spokesman for a corporate product. President Obama wore Weatherproof’s charcoal coat while in China – and walla it’s the billboard photo for the company’s Time Sqaure/Fashion District billboard. Did Weatherproof pay Pres O for his dapper look? Nope. And hence the White [...]
In the midst of 46MPH winds and bright sunshine, President Obama selected Denver, CO for signing the Stimulus and Recovery Bill. Why Denver? Why not Denver! The sun shines more than 300 days a year; the wind blows on a consistent schedule throughout the year; residents relish the outdoors all year; and Colorado became a [...]
