Here’s a slick, bizarre, unintentionally hilarious video promoting the Bridge of The Horns that I wrote about in Nowhere Magazine last year. Is the distance between rhetoric and reality greater than the distance between Djibouti and Yemen? Who knows? Maybe someday “the dream of seeing the future of mankind bathed in light,” will come true after all.
Archive for the Video Category
The Pilgrim is Bridled and Bespectacled
Posted in Art, Travel, Video on September 5, 2012 by frankburesFor the traveler. Poem by Bridget Lowe. Animation by Angella Kassube. More at Motionpoems.
“Welcome to the Anthropocene”
Posted in Video on May 23, 2012 by frankburesIt truly is a new geological era. Very cool to see. Slightly alarming to contemplate. (Via Gizmodo)
Point of View
Posted in Science, Video on April 12, 2012 by frankburesAnother very cool overflight video from the ISS, if you can tune out the Michael Bay soundtrack.
Twende Twende (Wainaina and Mtukudzi)
Posted in Africa, Arts in Africa, Music, Video on February 3, 2012 by frankburesRare Earth
Posted in Science, Video on November 18, 2011 by frankburesVery cool set of videos from the Space Station, which you may have seen but are worth seeing again. List of locations can be found here.
The Mind’s Eye: Poetry in Motion
Posted in America, Art, Books, Video on October 27, 2011 by frankburesIf you think poetry is boring or difficult or a waste of time, then you probably weren’t at the premiere of MotionPoems at the Open Book Center in Minneapolis. The brainchild of poet Todd Boss and graphic designer Angella Kassube, MotionPoems take poems from the Best American Poetry, among other places, and hands them over to visual artists who make short films out of them. The result is a powerful and evocative elaboration on the original work. Brilliant stuff:
Jaguar: Kigeugeu
Posted in Africa, Arts in Africa, Music, Video on October 17, 2011 by frankburesJust back from East Africa, where I heard this song on a bus. It’s been in my head ever since.
Bittersweet Goodbye
Posted in Africa, Arts in Africa, Video on July 21, 2011 by frankburesA beautiful, poignant film, Kwa Heri Madima, by French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe about leaving the village in eastern Congo where he lived the first ten years of his life. (Via Texas in Africa and Africa is a Country)
It Takes a Village
Posted in America, Clips, Video on June 29, 2011 by frankbures
In the new issue of Grow Magazine is a story I did about the UW-Madison’s exchange program in Uganda. It was a fun piece to do, and great to see how all the people involved are somehow changed for the better:
“IT WAS A SHORT WALK FROM the village of Biwolobo, deep in the Ugandan countryside, to the pool where villagers got water for drinking, cooking and bathing. But the trip, a mere daily errand for locals, would have profound consequences for the CALS study abroad students who accompanied them.
After a few minutes they arrived at the narrow pool, which was set in a rock with steep walls on three sides. Slippery dirt stairs led down to the water’s edge. The water was brown and murky, with scum and bits of garbage floating on it. In a country where few people know how to swim, the pool invited tragedy. In the past month alone, two children had drowned while fetching water, then-student Jenna Klink recalls learning.”
