YouTube adds face blurring to videos – to protect anonymity of activists in troubled countries

As citizens continue to play a critical role in supplying news and human rights footage from around the world, YouTube is committed to creating even better tools to help them. According to the international human rights organization WITNESS’ Cameras Everywhere report, “No video-sharing site or hardware manufacturer currently offers users the option to blur faces or …

Man of Steel – new 2013 Superman movie is an origins story, Christopher Nolan style

If Superman and Batman duked it out, who would win? The question put Man of Steel director Zack Snyder in a tough spot, since The Dark Knight Rises auteur Christopher Nolan is the guy who hired him to make the new Superman movie. *** Snyder and new Superman actor Henry Cavill showed off new Man of Steel footage Saturday that operates …

Free Surf Film – Wave of the Winter – a short film

An in-depth examination of a memorable season on the North Shore. Click here to download the movie for FREE *** Extended footage   More Free Surf Films: Surf Madness – from Sterling Spencer and PinchMySalt. Free surf films from Billabong, Vans, Nike, and Superbrand.

Surfing the mouth of Newport Harbor, 1938

Here is some rare footage from 1938 of a few big swells coming into Newport Harbor (Newport Beach, CA). The long jetties at the mouth of the harbor providing smooth seas haven’t been built yet, and the waves are looking really good! The area was known as the “Waikiki of the west coast”. The Balboa …

Incredible video of the Hindenburg in 1937 going up in flames

This footage from the British Pathe archive shows the Hindenburg flying peacefully around and then cuts to the mighty airship in flames as it hits the ground. via Kottke   The incredible shot shows the airship exploding and disintegrating in less than half a minute in New Jersey, 1937. It had departed from Frankfurt, Germany, …