Video in NYC: Subway Spelunking, Mole People and climbing the Williamsburg Bridge

Ever wonder what it’s like to crawl beneath our city streets and on top of its greatest bridges? One man, name Andrew Wonder did. In the following video you’ll see Andrew explore old, beautiful subway stations, find mole people and climb the Williamsburg Bridge late one night last summer. UNDERCITYfromAndrew WonderonVimeo. The film was show with a Canon 5D mkii with Canon 24 f/1.4 (v1) with the Zacuto Rapid Fire, Zoom H4N, and a Sennheiser G2 Wireless Lav....

3 min · 467 words · Arthur Dean

Video piracy is booming — thanks to the explosion of streaming services

With the launch ofParamount+, Australian consumers of video streaming are arguably drowning in choice. We now have more than a dozen “subscription video on demand” services to choose from, with dozens of more options availableworldwideto anyone with a VPN to get around geoblocks. But all this competition isn’t actually making things easier. It’s likely all this “choice” will see more of us turning to piracy to watch our favorite films and televisions shows....

4 min · 808 words · Katie Gonzalez

Video review of Verizon’s first WP7 handset

TNWmicrosoft is happy to report that after a never-ending string of rumored release dates that were always incorrect, Verizon has finally released its first Windows Phone 7 handset, the HTC Trophy, on its network. To everyone who has been emailing us asking for a launch date for the Trophy, consider this your lucky day. Early reports are coming out that salesare initially strong, with some locations selling out and shortages abounding....

2 min · 354 words · Steven Johnson

Video: Castellers make up a human castle in Tarragona, Spain

What is a casteller? First, to define castell. A castell is a human tower built at a festival, particularly ones within Catalonia in Spain. So, a casteller is a person who takes part in these intricate, “human castles.” In November of last year, UNESCO declared castells to be amongst the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. In the city of Tarragona, Spain, castellers gather every two years to see who can build the highest castell....

1 min · 210 words · Becky Gibbs

Video: Dalai Lama & Archbishop Desmond Tutu ‘hang out’ on Google+

The video feed taken from whenthe Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu ‘hung out’ on Google+is now available on YouTube. The role technology played bringing these two hugely influential world figures is quite amazing, and the duo – and other watchers – are initially quite astonished that the link up worked as well as it did. The hang out, which is full of laughter and joking, came about after the Dalai Lama was not granted a visa to travel to celebrate the Archbishop’s 80th birthday last week....

2 min · 260 words · Courtney Friedman
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