LP Portraits

Always liked this one from Rocketboom. So cool, urban, plugged in, fun. And, that music...













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The Hollywood Stunt School in Brooklyn NYC

Here's a report from Rocketboom.

Rocketboom Reports

Rocketboom's intro: Nollywood, or Nigerian Cinema, has become the second largest flim industry in the world. Famous for putting out thousands of new films each year, they have recently started to focus on improving the quality of their storytelling and production. Humanwire correspondent Dianna Dilworth reports from New York City.

'Kanye Tweet Beats'

Rocketboom short: Kanye Tweet Beats

Mobile Movie Projection

Rocketboom Tech’s Ellie Rountree sits down with Seth Porges, Technology Editor at Popular Mechanics, to learn how to create your own mobile projections.

The World's Largest Record Collection

You have to admit...this is pretty cool.

Rocketboom On Crackle

Online media outlet, Rocketboom, will be distributed on Sony's internet TV platform Crackle. Rocketboom features a daily rundown of world events with a humorous slant. One of my favorite Rocketboom features, however, is their Casual Friday video. This is one of my favorites:

Casual Friday Video

Every Friday Rocketboom runs a video. This week it was a sort of stream-of-consciousness dreamscape scat-singing birds thing.

The Lost Sock

Rocketboom has solved one of the greatest mysteries known -- what happens to lost socks. Amazing.

Cool Rocketboom

Here's another cool production by the guys at Rocketboom

Rocketboom Covers War Dance

Joanne Colan talks with Douglas Egar, the executive producer of the documentary 'War Dance', about the Ugandan children who are abducted to be soldiers and sex slaves. Here is the write-up from Wardance.org:

War/Dance is a new documentary movie about three brutalized children of Northern Uganda and their dream of musical expression. The documentary is set amidst the violence of the Lord's Resistance Army (L.R.A.), who kidnap sleeping children to abuse them and force them into rebellion and murder, sometimes even murder of their own families. Despite the horror, War/Dance has captured a beautiful story about the epic, unbreakable spirits of these children.

The War Dance official site.

Short Film

Here's another effortless effort by Rocketboom.

Maasai Music, Maasai People

Hans Johnson (above) went to Africa to record the music of the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania.

He became friends with them.

He decided to use the money from the sales of the CD of Maasai music he made to build a school house.

Story at Rocketboom. Learn more and buy a CD at Laleyio.com.

Documentary About Wikipedia

Nic Hill (pictured second from right) is traveling Asia making the documentary 'Truth in Numbers', about Wikipedia, Wikipedians, and Jimmy Wales. Check out Joanne Colan's interview with Nic at Rocketboom. Donate to Nic's film here.

Collecting Sounds On The Street

Here is a good short film from Rocketboom.

Moving Pictures Projected Onto Buildings

I'm not sure where they get their ideas or what they're tying to accomplish but I can't take my eyes off their work.

In this episode, a girl projects moving pictures onto buildings as she rides past them on a bicycle equipped with a laptop and a video projector. Rocketboom video blog for March 13, 2007.

Test Footage From Star Wars?

Joanne Colan has a video blog called Rocketboom. In this installment she seems to have some early special effects/sound effects test footage (starring herself as a Leia-esque character) from Star Wars. It's pretty funny.