What is Google Wave and is it better than email? A simple animated illustration to explain the new collaborative communication medium. The video was created by Epipheo Studios.
This amazing online video was captured in April 2008 in Haines, Alaska. The skier fell 1,500 feet in 20 seconds and walked away without injury.
What a second chance on life! Filmed from the vantage point of a helmet camera, what’s so haunting about this video is the trauma of being buried alive, the sound of desperate breathing, and finally the rescuer’s shovel opening up the view to a blue sky.
Art Spiegelman: Comics and Politics
Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and illustrator, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus and Maus II. In September 2004, he released “In the Shadow of No Towers”, in which he relates his experience of the 9/11-Twin Towers terrorist attack and the psychological after-effects. Time Magazine has named Spiegelman one of their “Top 100 Most Influential People.”
An illustrated segment on the global euphoria of soccer and nationalism at the 2006 FIFA World Cup with best-selling author, Franklin Foer, “How Soccer Explains the World: A Theory of Globalization”.
