Zadi Diaz Videos

ORIGINAL DESIGN GANGSTA - for the design-heads out there. “press check it!” ( …press checks are the worst.)

The EyeWriter: technology using open source software that enables paralyzed graffiti artists to draw using only their eyes. From one of the artists: “Art is a tool of empowerment and social change, and I consider myself blessed to be able to create and use my work to promote health reform, bring awareness about ALS and help others.” – Tony Quan, aka Tempt One

Haha! The truth about social media experts/gurus. I can’t even begin to express how accurate this is… and funny.

(video from This American Life illustrates how cameras change our behavior) Interesting article from TechCrunch about Fort Hood and the state of Citizen Journalism: Excerpt: For all of our talk about “the world watching”, what good did social media actually do for the people of Iran? Did the footage out of the country actually change the outcome of the elections? No. Despite a slew of YouTube videos and a couple of thousand foreign Twitter users turning their avatar green and pretending to be in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still in power. It’s astonishing, really. Despite how successful ten million actual voters marching through Washington, London and other major cities in 2003 were in stopping the invasion of Iraq, a bit of entirely virtual cyber-posturing by foreigners didn’t lead to real change in Iran. …none of us think we’re being selfish or egotistic when we tweet something, or post a video on YouTube or check-in using someone’s address on Foursquare. It’s just what we do now, no matter whether we’re heading out for dinner or witnessing a massacre on an Army base. Like Lord of the Flies, or the Stanford Prison Experiment , as long as we’re all losing our perspective at the same time – which, as a generation growing up with social media we are – then we don’t realise that our humanity is leaking away until its too late. Chuck Olsen chimes in: I think your cautionary warning is a good one. We should take a step back and consider our shifting personal and social boundaries. That doesn’t mean you should condemn the entirety of citizen journalism, and in fact you haven’t presented a case for that. I co-founded a citizen journalism non-profit called The UpTake, and we’re proud to have produced stories not seen elsewhere, either because corporate media outlets didn’t have enough monetary interest (MN senate recount) or we simply had more people on the street with cameras (RNC). A single eyewitness twitter report from inside an army base, or a single child’s statement that his brother was in the balloon — unverified reports from a single source should always be met with healthy skepticism. We simply have more raw news and opinion streaming over and around us. We have to be smarter news consumers and triangulate the truth.

The Golden Age of Video: AWESOME video mashup by Ricardo Autobahn! http://www.ricardoautobahn.co.uk (via spraynetdotcodotuk)

street art on healthcare reform. (via seanbonner)

This is my Alma Mater. So proud to have been a Mott Holler! The schooling and support I received there was just amazing. Glad to see that the force is still strong with the young Padawans. :) Can’t wait to go back and visit one day. 4/5/6/7/8BYTE FTW! MOTT HALL STUDENTS DISCUSS THE RUN FOR WATER ON CBS’ EARLY SHOW On Tuesday, October 13th, the students at Mott Hall Science and Technology Academy were up at 4:30 A.M. to show their support for clean drinking water. The students have committed to participate in the Dow Live Earth Run for Water on April 18th and were helping us tell the world about the event by appearing on CBS’s The Early Show. It was cold, but the kids from Mott Hall realized that there were kids like them all over the world who didn’t have water in their schools. In fact, half of the world’s schools lack access to clean drinking water and safe sanitation. read the rest at liveearth.com

Oh. My. God. This guy is an instant best friend! Such an awesome goofball. And the belt buckle is amazing. :D Josh’s Commute to Work: A Tribute to Michael Jackson on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Loving the look and feel of this video. Shot on the RED. Mind Idea OFFICIAL Video on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

I love ImprovEverywhere… because there’s never a catch. Just doing it for the sake of doing it. Which is the best! Grocery Store Musical (via ImprovEverywhere)

Last week, our good friend and very talented musician, Paul Dateh, along with the awesome Ken Belcher, released a music video for his new song The Good Life. It was shot by our other good friends, The Bui Brothers for 99dollarmusicvideo! Definitely give it a listen and head over to Paul’s site to see some sweet behind-the-scenes videoblogs. :)

This made me LOL at the punchline. peetypassion: Serbian Still Dre

Hotel room covered in 1,000 lbs of melted cheese = the room I DO NOT want to be in on a hot day in NYC. (via diagonaluk)

Dope beats… in geek fashion. :) theduty: Brett Domino: Hip-Hop Medley. …this cat does no wrong in my book.

Tupac in Kazakhstan! Irina Slutsky, who is originally from Kazakhstan, is staying over my place and pulled open her laptop to show me this: A cross-cultural sing-along during a 3,000 mile road trip through Kazakhstan into Mongolia. Stuff like this always makes me cry. (…not because it’s sad, but just because it somehow threads us together, and also because there’s a lot of underlying complexity). (Mongol Rally 2009) rubikcrew.com (via @irinaslutsky /copyrighthater)

In context of what’s recently been going on with Kanye, and celebrity culture in general, this Spike Jonze short is pretty inspired. justin: faketv: Spike Jonze should just make Being John Malkovich over and over, with a different celebrity every time. This would be the closing sequence of Being Kanye. bobbymiller: Spike Jonze and Kanye West made a short film. It’s fucking amazing. This is so effing awesome and inspiring.

cool… head… steady… trigger… finger. io echo: I’m on Fire

A Sniper’s War Story

Love the song. Love the video. blue roses - “doubtful comforts” (3D camera shift musicvideo) (via fabian rottger)

Augmented with real-time information from live video feeds makes previously static Google Earth come alive. Big Brother much? I find it cool yet a bit unnerving. And Andy Warhol was wrong… eventually everyone will get more than fifteen minutes.