The Slick Network

The life and death of Tim Treadwell is the focus of this thrilling documentary about a man who chose to spend his summers living amongt the giant Grizzly Bears of Alaska. Werner Herzog collected Tim Treadwell’s own video footage and has put together a wonderful tribute to a man with an impossible dream. Mr. Treadwell believed that he could live with and protect Grizzly Bears and perserve his life. In this film we learn about Treadwell and his “family” of Grizzly Bears that he proclaims that he would DIE FOR.

 

 

I saw this movie and was very impressed with the softer moments and the hard hitting survial nature of this film. This is a must see film because Treadwell comes off looney, but sincere in his attempt to protect the very bears that took his life.

View the trailer in Quicktime format:

Grizzly Man Trailer/

YouTube is to video like Flickr is to photos. YouTube.com , often mistakenly called uTube.com,  lets you upload up to 100 MB of video for FREE.  This is the newest in a long line of social networks that are exploding in popularity over the net.

What is YouTube? YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. With YouTube you can:

1. Blog the videos you take with your digital camera or phone.
2. Share videos with family and friends.
3. Become an instant internet celebrity.
4. Create video podcasting segments.
5. Produce video how-to videos.
6. Create an internet based tv show.

This is very easy to use and very fun. YouTube is a free online video streaming service that allows users to view and share videos that have been uploaded by our members. Anyone can view and share videos, and members can upload videos and use other features, free of charge.

     Most of the content on YouTube.com is worthless material,but sometimes you can find some very interesting video mixed in.  Just like any other service, you have to search for quality content.

     YouTube has taken some heat by networks for displaying copyrighted content.  I feel that they should just view it as free advertising for their programming.

 Update:  4/2/06

 YouTube.com has limited video content to 10 minutes because of fears having to deal with too much pirated content.  This makes it a much less attractive service than it once was…or does`it?  Video bloggers/podcasters will not like this new change, but the shorter segments may be more attractive to the A.D.D. generation. The shorter video segments will enable more unique content to reach the internet because it will allow give the non-professional segment of the internet to have a place to display creative videos on the net. Most segments above 10 minutes are usually pirated content. This could potentially be the next billion dollar idea or it could be the next internet bust.  Yahoo and Goodle may see this site as a gateway to the the social marketplace.

In additon to YouTube, you also have a service started by one of the creators of MySpace called Vsocial.com  .  Vsocial lets you post video content with no specified length limit.  Google video has updated and it now allows you to instantly upload and share video online.  Google Video had previously required that you upload a file and wait a few days for it to show up online.

 09/01/06 Update

YouTube has announced that it plans on making music videos available online in the near future.

 

Some of the most talked about items on the internet are tech videos on demand. One of the real pioneers of this genre of web video for download is Kevin Rose. He started this trend with the Broken and continued it with System and Diggnation. His Revison 3 company is at the forefront of this digital revolution. Not too long ago, you needed the backing of a major television studio in order to get a show aired. WIth the expansion of this new medium, quality tech programming is being produced on distributed by “individuals” with new ideas.

The only drawback of this video revolution is the same drawback that put an end to smaller developing podcasts —the high cost of bandwidth. The more popular a show gets, the more expensive it becomes to maintain. This is where this mediums differs from traditional television programming that relies heavily on advertsing. The main thing that can save this small productions is the use of a peer to peer program like Bit Torrent.

I am putting together a list of some of my favorite web video shows:

• Diggnation
• Systm
• the Broken
• Command N
• The.Scene
• Digital Life TV

Give some of these shows a try. *Note: Not all of these are “indie” productions/ Digital Life TV is produced by Ziff Davis.

Scarlett Johansson claims that she was being followed by Paparazzi when she crashed into a car in the Disneyland parking lot last week.

Access Hollywood’s article says:

Johansson, 20, paid the $10 fee to enter a lot at the amusement park when
she tried to get away from the vehicles and swerved, clipping the right side of
car carrying a woman and her two daughters, Pariseau said.

Johansson, who has starred in such movies as “Lost in Translation” and “The Island,” has left Los Angeles and hopes that state legislators will enact a law “to avoid these situations,” Pariseau said.

“She’s frustrated,” he said. “She can’t deal with it anymore.”

I curse the Paparazzi for chasing away young starlets from Hollywood!!!!!

 

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Some people may think that George Clooney is sick in the head when it comes to his on-set practical jokes, but he really is.

Clooney suffers from a torn membrane surrounding his spinal cord. It causes him to get extreme headaches. At one point, he even had spinal fluid dripping from his nose. After “Ocean’s Eleven”, Clooney elected to have plastic pins implanted to secure his spine in place.

Who knew that he had it so rough?

 

One of the most disturbing things that I have ever read on the internet is from accused serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan. Duncan kept a blog with disturbing accounts of his life and his “monsters”. I can’t really tell if this is his real blog or a joke that some sick blogger came up with. *Note: When clicking on some links, my Virus Scan was activated.

Read some of the accounts from “Blogging from the Fifth Nail”.

http://fifthnail.blogspot.com/

Harvard Article

Here is a link to the coolest Bit Torrent search engine around.

http://torrentsearcher.filesharingplace.com/

Update: 08/28/05

I found another link to a torrent seach engine.

http://www.torrentz.com/

Torrents are a great way to save a web publisher on bandwidth costs, so whenever possible and legal, you should at least attempt to find a torrent file to download.

http://www.postsecret.com