The Last Minute Blog

Teach

"Experts predict that the US will need more than two million new teachers in the next decade. So, how do we inspire today’s young adults to become tomorrow’s educators?

In 1999, director Davis Guggenheim and producer Julia Schachter undertook an ambitious project — to document the experiences of teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District. In examining the trials and rewards that come with educating our children, the filmmakers created two powerful documentaries: the Peabody Award-winning The First Year; and Teach, a short film created to attract talented and passionate people to the teaching profession.

Teach is available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license and is offered online to the public for free. By using a CC license, Guggenheim and Schachter are allowing people to legally download and share Teach, so that its inspirational message can be easily seen by anyone in the world."

You can download it here. Keep in mind that the video is 230 MB. For more information go here.

Technorati Tags: CC, Creative Commons, Davis Guggenheim, Julia Schacter, Documentary, Teach, Teachers, Teaching

Bush suggests using blogs to spread right wing agenda

This is clip is so awesome. Amazing audience members. LOL video

BUSH: "Before I come out and speak, I’ve spoken in Cleveland, gave press conference yesterday. Spoke in Cleveland Monday, press conference yesterday, here today. I’m going to continue doing what I’m doing to try make sure people can here there’s – why I make decisions and as best as I can explain why I am optimistic we can succeed. One of the things that we have to value is that that we do have a media, free media that’s able to do what they want to do and I – you ask me to say something in front of all the camera here [laughter]. Help over there will ya? I just got to keep talking and word of mouth, there’s blogs, there’s internet, there’s all kinds of way to communicate which is literally changing the way people get their information and so if you’re concerned I would suggest that you reach out to some of the groups that are supporting the troops, that got internet sites and just keep the word moving."

Technorati Tags: Blogs, Bush, Funny

Scanner Darkly Trailer Remix

A Scanner Darkly Trailer (the SUPER!ALRIGHT! mix)
Directed by Erik and Gates
Music by Kevin Schneider

Technorati Tags: .mov, film, remix, Scanner Darkly, trailer

1 Billion Songs Sold

Technorati Tags: apple, iTunes, music

Unpimp Your Ride VW Ad Campaign

This is the sickest ad campaign i've seen in a while...

Also, check out their site. You customize a GTI and then watch your joyride with that car. Choose the features for your GTI and then watch a video that is dynamically generated based on those choices. So, you pick a red car with a sunroof and those features are in the video. Slick...

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Peter Jackson's King Kong

11 weeks to go video before the release of Peter Jackson's King Kong.  This episode is about MoCap.

Photoshop clone tool for real life

This video demostrates a paintbrush that can paint whatever it touches.  The brush was created by Kimiko Ryokai, Stefan Marti, and Hiroshi Ishii.

"I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights  nd touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their  mmediateenvironment."

King Kong : Color Grading

Here's the 12 weeks to go video from Peter Jackson's video blog for King Kong. This one is about the color grading.

Kid Beyond Beatboxing

Kid Beyond makes music by beatboxing live into his laptop and the software on his computer loops the music as he creates it.  So he can add layer upon layer of beatboxing and singing to make real time music on stage.  This is the most interesting thing I've seen in music since the Grey Album.  Watch the video. [via]