Video Digest: November 30, 2007
After watching the CNN-YouTube Republican debates, Meave Gallagher scours for lost video, crushes on Huckabee.
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Video Digest: November 16, 2007
This week the Spanish Prime Minister told Hugo Chávez to shut up. The complete video circus as Meave Gallagher digs into Chávez’s image problems in western media.
Video Digest: November 9, 2007
Looking back on advertising, it is easier to unearth the hidden messages marketers embed in otherwise clear and plain copywriting. For example, look at what they are really saying in these old cigarette ads. You too can be Queen Elizabeth on the couch, a cuban plantation owner, a lazy furniture
Video Digest: November 2, 2007
In high school, I spent a lot of time in the AV department. It was where the geeks, gays, weirdoes, and Goths hung out—plus the theater types, straight-edgers, pot-smoking jocks, Kids-era ravers, and a few normals—all because a librarian named Magoo let us sit at
Video Digest: October 26, 2007
This Is Halloween: Meave Gallagher on ghostly gourds, terrifying towns, eerie ELS students, chilling costumes, weird Witch Dances, and a devilish dinosaur.
Video Digest: October 19, 2007
The roundup you’ve been waiting for: Erik Bryan collects every Sylvester Stallone video ever clipped, especially the embarrassing ones.
Video Digest: October 12, 2007
Meave Gallagher scales the videos of rock climbing, chronicling amazing ascents: Scientists take their work to the peaks; Dan Osman, RIP; German DJ climbing; Chris Sharma the wunderkind; a French Spider-Man.
Video Digest: October 5, 2007
A Parisian reader emailed me after my Video Digest about the latest hip-hop dances. Was I aware, she wanted to know, of Paris’s own Techtonik craze? I was, though nowhere as well as I am now. You’ve heard about dances sweeping a city. Well, Paris, she’s
Video Digest: September 28, 2007
The best supergroup anti-drug car-chase videos featuring Alan Thicke that you’ve ever seen, reviewed by Llew Hinkes: LSD education; “National Geographic” meets stadium rock; the aesthetics of cocaine; supergroups to the rescue; Paris racing; Alan Thicke as promised.
Video Digest: September 21, 2007
Many people going very, very fast: Meave Gallagher on lunatic children, water-skiiers without shoes, a bicycling Rocketeer, modern downhill racers, dancers with spring in their step, Slovenian bad-asses, speed recitation, and a child who is glad he or she wore a helmet.