brand new video haiku this afternoon… language NSFW. buyer beware. -h

i’ve been getting more of these video haikus done, and i wrote a ton of brand new and rather hilarious haikus(which may or may not get accompanying videos) last night. are you on vimeo and/or youtube? follow my channels on there to catch new videos as they’re released/uploaded! here’s my vimeo channel and youtube channel links. -h

as of this last week i’ve started taking some of the haikus that i write/publish via twitter and making videos out of them. the first one, entitled light flickers, was more or less an exercise in wasting time(both yours and mine), but with any luck, there’s a good chance you’ll get a kick out of this second one, “off camera”.

off camera from stephen h on Vimeo.

i’m constantly posting new haikus and other nonsense to my twitter feed, but lately i’ve been doing way more of them and have wanted to try new things with them. i’m really enjoying creating these video haikus, and even though they’re quick/easy to do, i don’t know how frequently i’ll be making them in the long-term. so, even though i’ve done two in the last day or so, that’s probably not going to be the norm, but we’ll see.

future plans include publishing a chapbook of my haikus(know any good publishers? ha!) and who knows, maybe one day i’ll have enough of these video haikus to do a DVD with director’s commentary and everything. watch out world, i’m taking over, 17 syllables at a time.

-h

last night on the daily show, i was pleasantly surprised by what i saw. finally a taste of real, actual journalism in american mainstream media, even if it was an easy target like jim cramer and cnbc.

to be honest, a lot has been made of this “feud”, but i thought the show last night was hardly a fight, even though stewart was clearly playing hardball with cramer. i’ve seen a lot of media reports today claiming stewart skewered, eviscerated, killed, etc. but that’s not the point of the interview, is it?

if you haven’t seen the full, unedited interview, the clips are embedded below(clips 2 and 3 below the fold), and you can see what i mean by that. while stewart clearly takes cramer to task for his own statements and actions, he also makes it clear that “this song ain’t about you” and that his real target is CNBC – an entire news organization that has cornered itself into irrelevance by NOT blowing the whistle and NOT seeing the warning signs. what they’ve done is a great disservice to the public, and truly is as stewart says “criminal at worst”.

ultimately, it comes down to this: journalism is, or at least should be about finding the truth and exposing it, seeking justice for the good of all – the common people as well as society at large. by its very nature, good journalism is often a david vs. goliath fight, to expose corruption at even the highest levels and not just distribute information and sound bites from CEOs and political figures. while that is almost all that we’ve come to expect from our mainstream news organizations, it’s also what the folks at the daily show have not been doing – they may corner their show into relative obscurity by making easy targets of political figures with their punchlines, but as it is now, the entire crew on that show is also proving themselves unsurpassed at researching and disseminating the truth behind the sound bites, exposing corruption, deception, hypocrisies and omissions. this interview should serve as an example of analytic reporting for those in the media, that truth can be found and brought to light, with or without punchlines.

-h
ps: clips 2 and 3 below… also, notice you won’t find anything about last night’s interview on CNBC’s website
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