stimuli.ca » Video http://stimuli.ca keep your eyes peeled Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:21:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 I [heart] Mitchell Baker http://stimuli.ca/2007/04/01/i-heart-mitchell-baker/ http://stimuli.ca/2007/04/01/i-heart-mitchell-baker/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:00:30 +0000 Rupert /2007/04/01/i-heart-mitchell-baker/ Mitchell Baker (female) is president of the Mozilla Corporation, which shepherds the creation and evolution of my favorite web browser: Firefox. Firefox is fantastic software, and the world wide web is a much better place for it.

A lengthy interview with her has surfaced on the web. She’s a very eloquent, brainy spokeswoman! She is certainly role model material, and I’m glad the Firefox people do what they do.

Check it out.

]]> http://stimuli.ca/2007/04/01/i-heart-mitchell-baker/feed/ 0 A sublime short video: Together We Ride http://stimuli.ca/2006/04/10/a-sublime-short-video/ http://stimuli.ca/2006/04/10/a-sublime-short-video/#comments Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:44:18 +0000 Rupert /2006/04/10/a-sublime-short-video/ A little over a month ago I discovered an App called Democracy. As an aside, I first thought Democracy was a tongue in cheek name for their internet-TV-viewing product; after all, if “democracy” or choice and proactivity was reduced to watching videos on a screen, well… it seemed pretty trite. Especially considering the number of Americans who vote versus the number of Americans who watch TV.
But it turns out Democracy is not a tongue in cheek name; the developers called it that because in theory, everyone with camcorder and a PC (or rather: Mac) and an internet connection potentially has a voice in the world; their own “TV station” so to speak. At least among others with Computers and internet connections. So Democracy-the-App is a means of gathering said videos and attempting (though failing, IMHO) to present them in an intelligible, organized manner. Sounds noble.
But I digress. The first “Channel” I clicked on was as fate would have it, Some Pig. Some Pig is an outlet for very experimental (read: seriously weird and hilarious) videos, just the sort of thing I go for. The first video I watched was Rezelscheft, which… caught me off guard to say the least. Evil geniuses.
The second video I watched was Ten Second Holiday, which was poignant and mesmerizing.
The third video I watched, and the reason I am posting this, is the sublime dream-like Together We Ride by Kevin Hooyman. The simple beauty, the dreamy mistiness, the soft colors and silent, thoughtful creatures that inhabit this brief slice of empathy really hit me. This is a really fantastic video. I find it touching; a celebration of the better side of humanity that is not seen so often. Check it out.Together We Ride

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