ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

The doc Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie is coming soon to a little film festival in Texas : * Thanks Camera Stilo blog for the clip; check out some related links there . - Sujewa

Video clip of Barack Obama speaking in Austin on 2/22:

Wired Science video segment about people making their own unmanned aerial vehicles - UAVs - & also about the pro UAVs being developed & used by NASA, the military, & yes, Japanese farmers: * More about DIY UAVs at DIY Drones blog. - Sujewa

Well, I am not sure if he built it in his garage, but it is a DIY project; adapting a home made bear suit for the battlefield, for 2000 Canadian $s. Weird & interesting. Perhpas a DIY time machine is not far behind. Check it out here:

At The Film Panel Notetaker . - Sujewa

More about PMA at my new (yes, another one :) blog YES WE CAN . Or you can check out this Wikipedia page about PMA . - Sujewa

Maybe the central premise of Be Kind Rewind is not very original (thanks The Lost Boy blog for the video & story):

From this post at TUAW: " Telekinesis is still awesome, but this app basically turns your iPhone into a remote for your whole computer. Anything you can do by moving and clicking a mouse around, you can do with this." Read the rest here . Demonstration below: - Sujewa

This article at Ordinary Time blog might be of interest to anyone thinking about using the MacBook Air laptop for video editing using Final Cut Pro. From the article: "Before you yell - yes, I do understand that this computer is clearly not “designed for” the video professional - but I still think it’s a fair question and no doubt one that will be asked. It’s not uncommon for a product designed for one thing to get adapted by a community and be used in ways the creators didn’t originally envision. I did, after all, go over a year using a Macbook (not Pro) as my main editing system at home even though Apple doesn’t officially support this for Final Cut before upgrading to a Mac Pro this year - and I cut some fairly high profile jobs on this with nobody knowing or caring." Read the rest of the long post here . - Sujewa

In Trixie DVD's Burn To Shine project bands from one area gather at a house that is about to be demolished & then they perform music. The performances & the destruction of the house are filmed & then lovingly packaged on to a DVD. DVD #5 in the series, Seattle , is out now. Seattle area bands on the new DVD : Minus The Bear The Long Winters Benjamin Gibbard Tiny Vipers Eddie Vedder Spook The Horse Blue Scholars Harvey Danger The Can't See David Bazan Kinski Jesse Sykes Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death The Cave Singers For more about the Seattle DVD & the other 4, go here . To buy Trixie products, go here . - Sujewa

Wondering why there is a Left and a Right in politics? This Wikipedia page titled Politics might serve as a good introduction to the entire topic of politics, including the Left-Right thing . From the main page ; "Most political analysts and politicians divide politics into left wing and right wing politics, often also using the idea of center politics as a middle path of policy between the right and left. This classification is comparatively recent (it was not used by Aristotle or Hobbes , for instance), and dates from the French Revolution era, when those members of the National Assembly who opposed the monarchy sat on the left, while those who supported it sat on the right. [37] " Read more at main Politics article and at Left-right politics article . - Sujewa

The links for the stories: - Hawaii win - Wisconsin win - Over 480,000 donors in '08 so far (they are aiming for 500,000 by 3/4, go here to donate & support an inspirational candidate who may be able to get a lot of useful things done as president) & here's a little video promoting Obama's Blueprint for Change /"the specifics":