Ears and All

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Obama fans will love most of this video. Non-fans may interpret the video to be a validation of claims from those who resent Obama's polices.

Regardless, the graphics are amazing. JibJab painstakingly morphed Obama's image into the character--I first thought that maybe Obama was in cahoots in the development of this video--carefully watching a few scenes, though, make me believe this not to be the case.

In some scenes, the Obama character reminds me of some characters in the Japanese anime "One Piece" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece).

My favorites are how the Obama suit has cut-outs for his ears--I especially love the batman-like Obama search light--ears and all! :-)

What's your favorite part? If you are an English student at アンミ英会話教室, try to follow the subtitles and let me know what parts you couldn't understand in class. For advanced level students: Do you you understand why "Internet" was pluralized in the video? (Note: The word "Internet" is always a singular noun--there is no plural form in standard English.)

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Home - We are All Interlinked

Beautiful aerial cinematography by Yann Arthus-Bertrand; taunting music from the world over by Armand Amar, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, and the Shanghai Percussion Ensemble.

Ironically I found the cinematography of mankind's destruction to be eerily beautiful--the lighting and texture is a feast for the eyes. Armand Amar's work was both haunting and exhilarating. Although gloom and doom are at the core of the film, the final message of Home is that there still is hope.

Google will continue streaming this full-length movie (available in HD format) on YouTube until June 14th, 2009. Please watch it if you can.

As a side note, Google is now offering full-length movies and TV broadcasts on a new YouTube channel called Shows! Reuters reported yesterday that Google is moving towards greater monetization of YouTube. Although I am sure some programs or films will continue to be unavailable in Japan, it is nice to see such growth and trend towards maturation of YouTube as a viable challenger to the increasingly antiquated format called television.

YouTube has been a godsend for us expats living overseas. So far, I've enjoyed Lucille Ball, Dick Van Dyck, and the Beverly Hillbillies on the Show channel. Being able to watch a legitimate program in full-length is bloody sweet compared to the user-uploaded versions that cut off every 10 minutes. I hope more studios hop aboard in the future--I can't schedule my time around TV guide.

Home Project:
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

Google Shows:
http://www.youtube.com/shows

Reuters:
YouTube to premiere movie to up ad revenues: report / Thu Jun 4, 2009 6:04pm EDT
http://tinyurl.com/p4m59r