Out of Interest

Children & Alcohol: Rise of the Breezer Culture

jonaderks — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:37:41 +0000

This is a movie about the high amount of binge drinking amongst minors in Holland. I made this movie for an editing assignment of my study in the Netherlands:

Bush: Great moments in presidential speeches

jonaderks — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:04:34 +0000

In this segment of the David Letterman Show, Bush gets compared to other great American leaders:

Hometown Baghdad

jonaderks — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:56:59 +0000

A couple of guys in Baghdad started their video blog to show the daily life in Baghdad. It’s tough and hard, but the guys stay optimistic! Adel, Ausama and Saif try to cope with the power outages and the extreme heat in this particular episode:

More videos on http://www.youtube.com/chattheplanet

Hillary Clinton: 1984

jonaderks — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:14:22 +0000

I’m a big supporter of Barack Obama and I believe a black president would be a good progressive move of the United States. A woman in control would be a nice change as well, but Hillary would be a conservative choice… Having her again would be like having Bill again. For all we know, she was the one pulling the strings anyway. It would be ridiculous to have another Clinton cleaning the mess the Bush’s made again!

This adaptation of an apple commercial shows the hollowness of Hillary’s words:

Terrifying message from Al Gore

jonaderks — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:17:30 +0000

The makers from Futurama made a funny movie about the documentary of Al Gore: The Inconvenient Truth. I am not sure what to think about the movie though. I think that we are screwed anyway…

Second Life: What is reality?

jonaderks — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:04:35 +0000

I have been following the developments around Second Life for a while and the whole thing never stops amazing me. How can people get so involved in something that is obviously fake.

Are their lives so crappy that this second life is their last resort or is this second life a way to live your dreams without getting hurt?

The youtube movie director YanivWolf made an interesting movie entirely in Second life about a person that totally disappears from his “first life” into the second one: