I filmed this a few weeks ago but forgot to upload it until now, it is a little random as I just let the computer decide what to chop together.

I just watched the Top Gear America Special on TV it is a few years old but I had not seen it before. The end of the episode has a really serious side to it and Jeremy Clarkson provides a real stinging but truthful social commentary as shown in this clip:

I am a fan of Obama, however, this video is a very good piece of political satire.

I just stumbled across this video of Magnify performing at Parachute Festival earlier this year.

Parachute will be one of the things I miss about NZ the most when I move. The festival is awesome – I have been 6 out of the last 7 years.

Crowd as seen from the Mainstage

The reason why I stumbled upon the video was because I was looking for a clip of an older song, In Wonder:

Which of course the Newsboys remade, and around a month ago was played as the wake up music for one of the astronauts on the space station:

It is an almost scary idea that in 5 weeks time the first decade of the 21st century will be over. I can still remember the celebrations at the turn of the century ten years ago (at the time I was only 12 years old!).

In the herald this morning there is an article on the defining moment of the last decade.

The writer of the article makes an interesting choice for the defining moment:

The defining moment of the last 10 years wasn’t George W. Bush reading “The Pet Goat” to a bunch of kids on 9/11 while New York was burning, or the Hadron Collider finally producing its first bang this week. I fear the true essence of this decade was captured in four minutes of a flash mob video of 20,000 perfectly syncopated bouncing Oprah fans “spontaneously” erupting in a choreographed dance to a Black Eyed Peas performance in the middle of Chicago’s main thoroughfare.

However the article also makes a point that we have gone too far with the mass publicity of our private lives:

It took radio 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million. Facebook got there in 24 months, according to Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod’s now infamous “Did You Know” series. To put this in perspective, Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter didn’t exist at the start of this decade. I can be patient. We’re bound to outgrow this over-sized hyper-connectivity lust. I’ll be the really edgy, new advocate for two people just sitting in a room talking – because that’s all it needs to be sometimes.

Personally I have not given much thought to what the defining moment would be, there are a lot of things that could be considered. Maybe that is the topic for a future blog post?

I have heard Fox News make some silly comments at time. But this is one of the best, in reference to Sarah Palin:

She has 5 kids. Liberals don’t have 5 kids. One of them has Down Syndrome. Liberals certainly don’t allow that to happen. – Bernie Goldberg

The entire clip is below. This is not news, and it is hardly commentary either it is clear bias (no surprises there) and completely misrepents and mispaints an entire political viewpoint.

I picked up a High Def Video Camera duty free when I came back into NZ on Saturday.

So on Sunday I took it for a test run walking from Long Bay to the Okura River and back.

The great thing about the camera is it is full 1080 HD. The bad thing is it stores the videos in AVCHD format which is near impossible to edit with free editors at the moment.

The video below has been edited in Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Trial, it is USD $40 ($55 NZD) so I will probably buy it so I can edit movies in the future. The footage itself is pretty rushed together, I have pretty much cut each clip into 2 – 6sec chunks and put them together, it was a test of the camera rather than trying to film anything spectacular. The best thing about the video though is the penguins up at the Okura River.

Enjoy.

From the wonders of YouTube

Got released yesterday in the states. Also Awake is number 2 for most brought album on billboard.com yeah!

I shouldn’t have got distracted by Facebook and Blogging.

Okay a week or so ago I blogged about Jon Stewart and The Daily Show taking the mickey out of WND.com and a variety of other nutcases.

However the issue will just not go away so here is another news article that shows the reality of the situation.

From the wonders of YouTube:

In my last blog I touched on Universal Healthcare. Which interesting enough the Daily Show looked at last night:

Hat tip to Whale Oil and a number of other sites on both the left and the right for this.

The video is very slick but I have to ask the question of the real power behind it. Showing what Labour delivered in the past is not going to get us into the future. Especially given all the things highlighted National have kept. So your real point is?

(oh and I hope Kiwibank go after them for copyright breach like the electoral enrollment centre did over the orange man.)

Well one of my work mates recons that with my effort on the Turoa video that I would pass Year 10 Media Studies.

So in light on that I went through my digital photos and form some short video clips that I have edited together.

Enjoy: