Feature Article #1

Posthumous Award for the Joker

Heath Ledger role as a Joker in the must-see movie The Dark Night has indeed created a trigger buzzing the Oscars. His creepy rendition of the classic role of the Joker was very brilliant and intense that it warrants for a posthumous Oscar award. Although many suggest that the role somehow [...]

blogger | July 20th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Pilobolus at the Oscars

Pilobolus is an internationally well-known dance company that began in a dance class at Dartmouth College in 1971 actually adopted the name from a sun-loving fungus found in pastures and barnyards. The group soon became an independent organization and was acclaimed for its strong element of physical contact between performers and contortions of human forms.
In [...]

vdr | June 27th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Beauty without Brains?

Looks like even Miss South Carolina herself doesn’t know exactly where United States is on the map. In Miss Teen USA 2007, Miss South Carolina answers the question and explains why one out of five American young people cannot locate their own country on a map. Are we lacking in good education? I [...]

vdr | June 26th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday

Posted on YouTube on April 22, 2007, “Chocolate Rain” has rapidly become an extremely popular internet meme with a banging 24 million views and over 186,000 comments as of June 15, 2008. This song and music video written and performed by the YouTube award-winning singer Tay Zonday is currently the topic of several parodies, remixes, [...]

vdr | June 16th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #5

YouTube’s Project Direct Winner

Just recently, the YouTube website conducted a competition for those who are considered amateurs in the film making industry. Three winners will be chosen who will be granted a scholarship at the Vancouver Film School. Participants where asked to submit an original 6-minute film as an entry for the competition. After a few months, [...]

vdr | June 15th, 2008 | Continued

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“You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.” - Lev Grossman, Time

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