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When I can't find any other good videos, I can always count on Onion News to pick me up.
The Onion: Volatile India-Pakistan Standoff In 11,680th Day
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Saturday, June 7, 2008
More Rythms of India
Four men with the same group we saw in Bhangra in Seattle. This is the last video I have from this year's Folklife Festival. It ends abruptly as the camera ran out of memory. But I think it's a keeper anyway.
Rhythms of India, Fragment
Rhythms of India, Fragment
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Bhangra in Seattle
Yesterday I got to see Bhangra live for the first time, courtesy of Rhythms of India and others performing at the Northwest Folklife Festival here in Seattle. I have to say, I really enjoy the challenge of filming this sort of thing. Trying to decide where to point the camera and how much to take in at every moment is a weird, geeky, rush. My favorite moments in this occur when the dancers at one side of the stage cross over to the dancers at the other side and I succeed in following one set through the cross-over. That is so cool.
Rhythms of India
Rhythms of India
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Nagaland
Video Find of the Day
I don't know about you, but when I think of India I think of places like Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Hyderabad, or Madura. I don't think of any of that appendage of India that juts out the other side of Bangladesh. In particular I don't think of Nagaland. In fact, until I found this video I didn't know there was a place called Nagaland. Now I want to be there, just for the fashions.
Tangkhul Naga Ngashan
I don't know about you, but when I think of India I think of places like Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Hyderabad, or Madura. I don't think of any of that appendage of India that juts out the other side of Bangladesh. In particular I don't think of Nagaland. In fact, until I found this video I didn't know there was a place called Nagaland. Now I want to be there, just for the fashions.Tangkhul Naga Ngashan
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Warming Could Help, Too
I am opposed to jaywalking laws. There are many times in Seattle when it is more dangerous to cross with the light at an intersection than to just break for any opening. The laws put me at risk. Up till now though I have admitted a need for laws restricting motor vehicle movements. Not anymore. Google Videos has something called Only In India which proves that traffic laws don't prevent accidents, drivers prevent accidents.
Or maybe it proves what my Indian friends used to tell me, that, living so packed together, they've become civilized, and we might be civilized too some day when our population becomes as dense, i.e. when we have roughly 3.5 billion residents. A crude estimate, based on our last doubling, would put the time of that at around 2200. So the future is not all bleak. America could be civilized by 2200!
Or maybe it proves what my Indian friends used to tell me, that, living so packed together, they've become civilized, and we might be civilized too some day when our population becomes as dense, i.e. when we have roughly 3.5 billion residents. A crude estimate, based on our last doubling, would put the time of that at around 2200. So the future is not all bleak. America could be civilized by 2200!
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