Generation 9/11 is a participatory documentary — it stitches together your voices into a story. For the past few weeks, our crack team of citizen reporters have videotaped anybody – and everybody – who’d talk about the decade since 9/11. After slogging through the tape, one the most compelling themes to emerge was from the generation that came of age during 9/11. Take Mary Shipman, who farms three-acres with her ......
Today's featured video is of "The Top Ten Views of Oakland" but wait, don't click off! The video began as a sort of experiment in creating a movie from more than eleven-thousand still images. Mandel Lum, who works for a Bay Area video and marketing company called Shia Productions, is a largely self-taught videographer. He grew up in Oakland but moved away to go to school at UCLA, then returned ......
Maybe you've grown a little jaded of the countless San Francisco street performers that speckle your daily commute with the standard repertoire of songs. You wouldn't be the only one. If so, it's easy to forget there are still great, spontaneous moments to be had in the world of San Francisco street music. Jessica Graham, who describes herself as a "San Franciscan, social media addict and zombie killer," among other ......
Wholesome and not-so-wholesome food, obnoxious drivers and Berkeley scenery are all featured in the remix of the YouTube hit, the Whole Foods Parking Lot. Musician LaeCharles Lawrence Jr.'s north Oakland home is near the Ashby and Telegraph Whole Foods. He created this Bay Area version of the song, spiced up with illustrations and dramatic re-enactments. The video has made its way onto Bay Area publications like Berkeleyside, the Berkeley Patch ......
Palo Alto could soon feature even more Lycra shorts: The city on Tuesday night announced a plan to revamp existing bike trails and add new ones. The goal of the so-called Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan is to double the number of commutes made by bike by 2020, the Palo Alto Weekly reported. The 130-page plan, produced for the city by the transit-planning firm Alta Planning and Design, involves creating a network of bike ......
