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Muhammad Ali Bug Killing Spray

Muhammad Ali Bug Killing Spray

My niece Sara is back! This time we are in search of archeological treasure . . . Muhammad Ali Bug Killing Spray. Will we find it? Click the picture to find out. Also, you can check out Sara’s other appearances on Hopper Video here and here.

Miss Gringa

Miss Gringa
(WARRNING VIDEO CONTAINS A PENIS)
Last night I read the sexism/objectification of women discussion on the yahoo vloggers group (just search “golf” if you are unfamiliar with the discussion). I thought I would join the discussion by sharing a video I made in the late 1990s. It chronicles an experience a friend of mine had involving sexual harassment in Venezuela. I juxtaposed her experiences with imagery from one of America’s “great” celebrations of sexism, the Miss America Pageant.

I believe that human beings inherently love beauty. The problem with our culture today is that we have fetishised a particular version of female beauty and elevated it above all other versions of beauty. So the fact that a person seeking a large audience attempts to recruit a mouthpiece that satisfies the current cultural fetish is not surprising. The question for all of us, as makers of media, is whether we want to be part of an effort to expand society’s conception of beauty or do we simply want to “play it as it lays” and cater to the current state of our cultural development.

This video pre-dates my vlogging days and is therefore longish (about 5 min./30 mb). So click the picture to see it and then busy yourself elsewhere during the lengthy download.

Peace,
Rob

Videoblogging Week – Day 7: A Completely Unique Experience

Videoblogging Week - Day 7: A Completely Unique Experience
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We end this busy week of Videoblogging with a bit of self-promotion.

For those of you that don’t use RSS to subscribe to this and other vlogs, I encourage you to consider doing so. It makes looking a vlogs less time consuming, and allows you to easily view videos full-screen.

Here is a quick how to –

1) Download FireAnt here. FireAnt is a fine program for looking a vlogs. There are other programs that can be used, including the ubiquitous iTunes. However, I think FireAnt is best for video at this point.

2) Install FireAnt.

3) In FireAnt click “add channel” and then paste the following into the box — http://feeds.feedburner.com/HopperVideo

4) Click the add channel button in the diologue box. Now you’re subscribed!!

5) Click update channel or update all channels. FireAnt then downloads any new videos posted by the vlogs to which you subscribe. In the meantime, you can do something else (or if you like to watch files download, you can do that). When you return, a video extravaganza will be yours.