Yet another example of systems-oriented storytelling combining the power of investigative reporting with animation. This comes from the Center of Investigative Reporting, a fantastic cauldron of muckraking. Back in the old days when print was king, I interned there while I was in college. They work hard trying to protect the public interest, so your support is greatly needed.

You’ll probably see this cross-posted everywhere, but in honor of John Lennon’s 70th b-day I’d like share my favorite video about a specific moment of his life. The audio is from an interview conducted in 1969 by 14-year-old Beatle fanatic Jerry Levitan, who snuck into Lennon’s hotel room to chat with him. This animation, “I Met the Walrus,” beautifully captures the conversation.

Via Wooster.

Nice mix of styles and visual storytelling.

I’m super excited about this new kind of “grafimation” (hmm, I just made that up)– animated graf art. This piece in particular demonstrates a new kind of ecological art paradigm because as a hybrid of human technology and the natural process of eco-insired creativity, we discover insights about our human-nature relations that a static painting could not reveal. The video does something only technology can do (stop-frame animation) to reveal creative patterning by an artistic community of practice to highlight the evolving and ephemeral-like dynamic of human-nature relations (OK, I know.. too many words in a sentence but I’m too tired to rewrite it). Plus it’s just really cool. It was done for the Discovery Channel (South Africa), a media entity I’m less than enthralled with because a lot of their programming is in many ways anti-nature (despite the eco-friendly brand they have built–more on that later if time permits).

Via Wooster.

Howard Zinn on humanity vs. empire.

Leveraged buyouts explained!

Via Aternet

(H/T to DK)

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