MetaFilter posts tagged with stories and video

Capucine tells a captivating tale

madamjujujive — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:04:32 -0800

Once Upon a Time - a filmed fairy tale starring baby monkeys lost in frightening trees, a witch, crocodiles, a tiger, a "popotamus" and a lion, and even a "tremendously very bad mammoth." (In French, English subtitles)

This is an intense love story.

divabat — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:25:31 -0800

How have you been burned by love?

City of Memory

tellurian — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:30:33 -0800

The Brooklyn Elite Checkers Club [flash] is just one of the stories on the recently released site, City of Memory - 'a public map that generates social interaction, personal expression, and collaborative storytelling'. Because it's so new it's a little short on content but in the future, when every street has a story, it should be all kinds of wonderful.

2012: Stories From the Near Future

parudox — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:26:16 -0800

The inaugural New Yorker Conference, “2012: Stories From the Near Future,” took place on May 6 and 7, 2007. Here is an archive of videos from the event.

Voices of Africa

infini — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:37:55 -0800

"Thanks to tremendous progress achieved by the General Packet Radio System (GPRS), the wireless communication protocol, it is now possible for Africans to send articles and images (still and moving) about events taking place in their countries without using a computer and without having internet connection. Under those circumstances, the bigger the number of people expressing their opinions through that technology, the stronger becomes democracy, and the more valuable is the contribution to good governance efforts in Africa" - Voices of Africa, Mobile stories and videos from Africa. Quote above from article Mobile Reporters in Africa.

Six Billion Others

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 19 May 2007 08:50:34 -0800

Six Billion Others. [flash] Everyone has a story.

Musarium: discovering signs of intelligent life on planet earth

taz — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 03:00:11 -0800

I've been having a great time exploring the maze that is Musarium, wandering about and peeking into into various nooks and crannies to find such exotica as the wonderfully bizarre birdhand book, and absorbing cultural artifacts and musings, including the poetic Visions and Icons (I really love the way the text works with the images on this), the atmospheric Familiar Ghosts (the texts will cue you on clicking through this somewhat dream-like landscape), the time-capsule imagery of Balkan Portraits (1906-1910), the breathtaking portraits of photographer Steve McCurry (famous for his National Geographic portait of the Afghani girl), the subterranean monologue of Grand Central: the View Down Under, and the shocking and heartbreaking Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. There's a lot more, so take your time. You can use this page to access archived material.

Come over to the dark side.. of the shire

MrLint — Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:27:01 -0800

Welcome to Pushington Downs This amusing fairy tale is brought to us from some of the fine folks from MST3k. Edward the less is an amusing bit of comedy based in a universe almost completely unlike that of JRR Tolkien. It never made it past series 1. Perhaps a bunch of renewed interest would push it along.