“The kind of society that would waste this much food is one that doesn't value the earth or the products it produces. It's in our own personal detriment to continue the process.” -Dr. Timothy Jones
Every year in America we throw away 96 billion pounds of food.
One half of all food prepared in the US and Europe never gets eaten.
The Department of Agriculture estimated in 1996 that recovering just 5 percent of the food that is wasted could feed four million people a day; recovering 25 percent would feed 20 million people. Today we recover less than 2.5 percent.
Join Josh Kunau, producer of the film DIVE!, and Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland, and Alex as we talk about food, dumpster diving, and why almost half of the food America produces winds up in landfills. Essentially throwing away hundreds of billions of dollars at a time when fiscal cuts are all the rage. We discuss what's wrong and who's doing something about it.
This video is a 30-minute introduction to the practice of urban exploration. Constructed as a video article for the journal Geography Compass, the article uses footage from the author's own explorations in California, Las Vegas and London to visually depict a theoretical unpacking of the practice by 5 academic geographers.
Hobo Excerpt from documentary exploring the quickly vanishing hobo culture.
We speak with the old-timers who have ridden the rails for years and learn about the new generation. This excerpt is the beginning of the doc, and features narration about radio HOBO, "The Big Rock Candy Mountain," and passing trains. Closeups of various hobos and passing landscapes. Old hobo talks about hopping first train. Hobos talk about romanticism of the rails. National PBSbroadcast. Won local Chicago Emmy. Scott Jacobs won one for videography.
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Jeremy is a leet gamer, but he still lives in his mom’s basement. His n00b brother Kyle, an aspiring filmmaker, documents Jeremy’s life as he is forced to get off his ass and get a "real" job.
The episode starts off with a spoof of the machinima Red vs. Blue using Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour. After this, Jeremy loses to a noob in Zero Hour and must then visit the mysterious master gamer known as Teh_Masterer. Teh_Masterer provides Jeremy the next level training, in which the student learns a valuable lesson: "If one wants to truly pwn, one must pwn in all games". A parody of Kill Bill ensues and the episode reaches its climax with an epic micro battle. This is a turning point in Jeremy's pro gamer life, and his T-shirt message is mysteriously upgraded from "Übergamer" to "i pwn n00bs". At the very end, Jeremy is seen walking into EB to purchase Half-Life 2.
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This is Emma G. coming at you straight from the underground with whats up and what's going down here in B-town!
As city business owners step up action against what they consider vandalism, graffiti writers see themselves as members of a long-standing tradition, complete with an oral history, rules, philosophy and social meaning. Graph-writers, as they are also called, blame their bad reputation on those who write on inappropriate places.
“I steer away from local businesses, places of worship, graveyards,” said Bob, a Bloomington graffiti artist who asked not to give his last name.
“What I do with my work is not intended to make people upset,” he said. “There are people that do gun for that, just for the shock and awe value. They are going to go for things that get a reaction for people.”
Graffiti can be found everywhere, but Bob says that serious writers tend to seek abandoned places that are considered in need of a facelift.
“A lot of places that I’ve painted have been torn down just because they are abandoned buildings. They are places where nobody has anything to do with,” explained Bob. “ So painting abandoned buildings and things, is to me, is part symbolism for the graffiti. Turning things that have been abandoned and forgotten—and just are eye sores, just turning them into something that’s beautiful and has meaning and reason behind it.”
Malcolm Mobutu Smith, an IU professor and graffiti scholar, blames a failure by serious artists to train new generations of writers for Bloomington’s vandalism woes.
Smith explained, “When there is a strong novice-mentorship kind of culture in the graffiti sub-culture, that ethic of where to write and where not to write gets translated to new people.”
Smith says the recent defacing of a sculpture on the B-Line Trail should be disassociated from traditional graffiti writers.
“They would look down on anyone that would put pieces on a particularly obvious architectural monument of any kind,” he said. They are looking for walls that by their very nature scream out absence or leftover. They are not the same people that wrote on Dale Enochs’ piece.”
However, Bloomington is also home to an evolution of street art — politically charged stencils. Profiles of Presidents, anti-war memes and anti-capitalism slogans have been spotted before being cleaned up. But not all graffiti is infused with social meaning. Bob, our local artist, says there’s an artistic purity that separates graffiti from other media.
“To be an artist anymore is not even about the painting or the act of painting itself. It’s about who you are and how you can market yourself. The thing I love about graffiti that I love most is the fact that it is so anonymous. My pieces speak for themselves. It ain’t about me. It ain’t about what I look like”, said Bob.
The central appeal, Bob says, is the unrestricted experience of the act itself.
He said, “There’s a freedom to it that’s not like anything else. Nobody can tell you what or what not to do. Anything can become a part of your piece.”
Bob says that although graffiti will always be around, more space could at least manage such a large subculture of artist and decrease unwanted costs.
“There are spaces to do things, but there aren’t enough. In a city that is this artistically focused, you’d think that by now they would understand that,” he said.
Let's Play is a collection of video game playthroughs with commentary.
Let's Play videos show the video game being played while the player talks about what he is doing in real time commentary (sometimes just with text). Generally the playthroughs are spread over several segments of play (varying in time). Rarely some action is done "off screen" or speedup to not get too repetitive, but in most cases the playthrough is a complete run of the game including all "Game Overs" and deaths. The videos are usually a humorous way to learn about a videogame without having to play it.
We are going to travel back in time to late 1998 when the most anticipated game of the year, Trespasser was released. It crashed like a lead balloon and left a legacy of how not to make an FPS. Trespasser reached for the moon and fell short, but deserves to be remembered for the attempt.
A predatory reptile makes a cute pet when it's young, but can it be fun to eat from a can instead of catching food on the hoof? And what if the owner gives up trying to care properly for it? Only really well prepared people can take care of an adult exotic pet well enough to give it a pleasant life.
Let's Play is a collection of video game playthroughs with commentary.
Let's Play videos show the video game being played while the player talks about what he is doing in real time commentary (sometimes just with text). Generally the playthroughs are spread over several segments of play (varying in time). Rarely some action is done "off screen" or speedup to not get too repetitive, but in most cases the playthrough is a complete run of the game including all "Game Overs" and deaths. The videos are usually a humorous way to learn about a video game without having to play it.
What the heck are we doing? In this LP we will be examining each of the 8 levels of Trespasser and discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the game as we go on. The game is infamous for its bugs, both regular and physics-based so expect to see some glitching. I will be playing each level start to finish and providing relevant commentary in a video to be posted in each update. In addition, there will be a 60 second recap video for the ADD kids out there who don't have time for the regular vid.
We are going to travel back in time to late 1998 when the most anticipated game of the year, Trespasser was released. It crashed like a lead balloon and left a legacy of how not to make an FPS. Trespasser reached for the moon and fell short, but deserves to be remembered for the attempt.
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