Mom Dancing - Jimmy Fallon & First Lady Michelle Obama

WATCH: Michelle Obama mom-dances with Jimmy Fallon for ‘Let’s Move’

In a sketch airing before the first lady’s sit down interview with Fallon, the two–with Fallon in a wig and his best mom outfit–performed “The Evolution of Mom Dancing,” a spoof on the wildly popular “Evolution of Dance” video which went viral and has been viewed more than 200 million times on YouTube.

Watch Fallon and the first lady dance: 

Porsche Design Studio unveils world’s largest LED TV for outdoor theaters

The super rich love to attend film festivals, and while they can afford to fly down to the on the French Rivera to witness a rich movie-watching experience, the rich love to spend on getting the cinematic experience right in their backyard, besides the pool. We have earlier told you about the luxurious private outdoor theaters and waterproof TV's for a plush backyard, but Porsche Design Studio has now introduced the world’s largest outdoor television under “201 C SEED,” a brand formed in collaboration with the expertise of Global Bright Group, to score above the rest.

201 C SEED TV
201 C SEED TV

The 201-inches waterproof LED screen is integrated in a flattened piece of concealed black metal in a circular hole in the ground. It emerges from the ground silently and unravels its magic all in 15 seconds, and the screen unfolds into seven panels in a further 25 seconds for complete set-up. "The performance begins when C SEED magically appear from the ground, like a kinetic sculpture," says Porsche Design Studio.

The bigger picture experience comes complete with extremely bright images, which are clearly viewable even in direct sunlight, 270-degree rotation, three-way audio system including 15 speakers and wireless remote control.

The 201 C SEED can be installed as a monolith in a grassy area or terrace installed according to custom needs. The monstrous outdoor screen will be available on order from September 2011 starting at about $810,000.

http://www.bornrich.com/entry/porsche-design-studio-unveils-worlds-largest-led-tv-for-outdoor-theaters/

 

Air - La Femme D'Argent

Air - La Femme D'Argent

The first track from Airs' Moon Safari album, accompanied by scenes from a video shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905. 
Before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed the area. Remarkable footage of the turn of the century lifestyles in California.
You can download video from the www.archive.org

A Trip Down Market Street Before the 1906 Fire

A Trip Down Market Street San Francisco Before the Fire (1906)

Pictures: San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. This unusual record has been called the first "structural film" because it follows exactly the externally imposed structure of the car ride.

DV25 version (editable quality) of the famous film. From the Internet Archive.

This version was transferred from a new 35mm print made from a restored 35mm negative, which was made from 1906-era 35mm print. The frame-roll problem seen in other versions has been fixed.

Here is a post from the SFGate blog that explains some of the history of this film and how film scholar David Kiehn discovered that it was in fact produced in 1906 (just before the quake and fire), not 1905: 

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SFGate Blog

The video below is titled “A Trip Down Market Street” and it’s true to its name, a 13 minute trip from 8th Street down Market Street to the Ferry Building just days before the great quake of 1906. You’ll see a vibrant metropolis full of cars, bikes, horses, cable cars and people traversing Market St. The detective story behind the film clip is almost as interesting as what it contains. (Please note that there are rolling frames and a slight stall in the early part of the film which end at the 1 minute 40 second mark.)

The film was shot by early San Francisco film innovators the Miles Brothers and has been widely available through the Library of Congress and You Tube (which has a novel version set to an Air soundtrack) and was originally dated to the fall of 1905 but recently local author and silent film historian David Kiehn made some surprising discoveries about its date. He had seen “A Trip Down Market Street” many times over the years but it was only around 2005 that he managed to get ahold of a 16mm print which made him “all the more curious about it.” The Library of Congress had researched and dated the filming to September or October of 1905. Per Kiehn, “some thought it was shot earlier in 1904 but since the Library of Congress had narrowed it down to that point everyone thought that it was shot in 1905.” Read the Library of Congress’ description of the film’s date here.

At first Kiehn was just trying to confirm the 1905 shoot date so he thought “gee, there were 5 newspapers in San Francisco at that time so somebody must have written about it.” He dug through the San Francisco Public Library’s collection of microfilm starting with August of 1905 and running through October 1905. He went “page by page and couldn’t find a single thing about it so I looked at the film again more closely and I noticed that there were puddles in the cavities by the rails on the street and especially at the end of the film autos drive through puddles splashing water.” So, he went back to the papers and checked the weather reports for the period only to find that September and October of 1905 were “as dry as a bone.”

Kiehn took a look at the angle of the sun and narrowed the time of year to late March or April 1906. Then he examined the buildings along Market Street, the state of construction narrowed the window down to late 1905 or before the earthquake in 1906. To tie all these pieces together he “went back to the papers to look for information on filming and weather reports. In March and April, especially late March 1906, there was a lot of rain but there weren’t any references to any filming being done.” But, “being a film historian I then realized that there was a theatrical magazine where filmmakers of the day advertised their films called the New York Clipper. The San Francisco Public Library coincidentally has that magazine on microfilm so I looked at late March and April of 1906.”

In the April 28th edition he saw an ad by the Miles Brothers for two films that they were just releasing called “A Trip down Mount Tamalpais” and “A Trip down Market Street.” The ad appeared ten days after the April 18, 1906 earthquake but Kiehn notes that this wasn’t someone playing games with history. Since print publications required a long lead time for composition it was most likely composed by April 18th, 1906. The films were shot on or around April 12th and shipped to New York on April 17th, the eve of the quake.

That would appear to confirm the date for the film but Kiehn dug deeper by dating the early license plates on cars in the film. The DMV told him that the records no longer existed but he found them in the California State Archives in Sacramento. He eventually found one of the plate numbers from the film, 4867, and traced it to a Jay Anway who registered his car in early 1906 which further verified his research.

There are many other twists and turns along the way to confirming the film’s date. Kiehn has written up the entire tale in the most recent issue of the Argonaut.

Kiehn has managed to get the IMDB to change their date for the film but the Library of Congress hasn’t updated theirs yet. He hopes they’ll come around soon.

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CBS 60 Minutes Story

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7372854n

 

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Photographs of Laurent Schwebel

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Extraordinary French Photographer 

French photographer Laurent Schwebel, 52 years old, was stabbed and killed and his camera robbed while he was taking pictures in Buenos Aires. A naturalist photographer, he was born in 1959 and in the Alsace region of eastern France and killed on February 8, 2012, in Plaza San Martin, Retiro, Buenos Aires. He worked as a geologist, naturalist and photographer guidance of a French travel agency specializing in travel naturalists. Attached are some more fascinating photos from Schwebel.