Feb 14
Thanks to Gene Dominique of the Berkeley Camera club for this link to a set of photos showing photographers going to extremes — sometimes ridiculous extremes, sometimes life-threatening ones — to capture that great image.
Feb 07
Robert Reich sums up the gist of recent Republican electoral politics (while omitting mention of the Democratic complacency) in this short video:
Feb 05
The burrowing owl, one of the stranger branches of bird evolution, is back to its nesting area in Cesar Chavez Park at the Berkeley Marina. These owls don’t nest in trees but in burrows made by diggers like ground squirrels, of which there are many hundreds at this location. And this owl has long legs; …
Feb 05
Short video on the XL Pipeline by Van Jones, courtesy of rebuildthedream.com. He’s a sharp communicator, wastes no words, makes his points clear and memorable, and speaks with appropriate emotion.
Feb 05
It isn’t every day that an unreconstructed sixties radical gets to say something positive about a megabillion corporation. But CVS’ s decision to stop selling tobacco products definitely deserves a few words of praise. The rationale — that selling tobacco products contradicts the store’s mission of promoting health — is certainly solid, and the corporation’s …
Feb 04
Monday evening began with a combined Tax the Rich and Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline rally on upper Solano Avenue, Berkeley. Then the crowd lined up outside the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in downtown Berkeley, where Holly Near organized and MC-ed a two-hour memorial for Pete Seeger. This video contains a few short samples. The …
Jan 30
Recently I had the opportunity to see a well-kept pool with an exceptionally good selection of colorful koi (Japanese for carp) and took this video. Koi is also the Japanese word for love or affection, and so the fish are prized not only for their beauty but for their evocation of friendship or courtship.
You must be logged in to post a comment.