Miles away, on phones and laptop screens, [we] are popping up every few hours, our smiling faces, the landscapes we see, the songs we played, the videos we took playing on endless loop. The friends who couldn’t come with us send us their love—or at least, their likes. I compile an album on my phone: “Snaps of America,” it says.

Instagram...came into video sharing with a culture based around sharing beautiful photos that remains extant (and even in some quarters pissed off about all these videos in its feed). If Instagram is an art museum, Vine is a block party...They have something that trumps quality, which is authenticity.

For the past sixty years, TV executives have been making the decisions about what we watch in our living rooms. Robert Kyncl would like to change that. Therefore YouTube, the home of grainy cell-phone videos and skateboarding dogs, is going pro. Kyncl has recruited producers, publishers, programmers, and performers from traditional media to create more than a hundred channels, most of which will début in the next six months—a sort of YouTV. Streaming video, delivered over the Internet, is about to engage traditional TV in a skirmish in the looming war for screen time.

That’s what’s at stake.  Putting people back to work.

"This timelapse is about a year in the making..."

a clip from an upcoming new documentary titled The Captains, in which William Shatner aka Captain James T. Kirk, interviews every actor who has played captain in any of the series in the Star Trek franchise.

At the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, President Barack Obama jokes about a sequel to the film the King's Speech that hits closer to home. The President offers a sneak peak of the parody at the annual event.

Last week's 200-tornado scattershot across the South became the second deadliest in US history, as the death toll rose to 337. With power still out for nearly 1 million people, hundreds, if not thousands, of homes obliterated and water supplies tainted, Alabamians—including official rescue personnel—struggled for basic needs as the shock of the storms that hit the South on Tuesday and Wednesday began to wear off..."Something as simple as a toothbrush, clothing. There are some people, all they have got is a robe," a Pratt City, Ala. man told reporters. "So, we got to find clothing for them and provide those things for them, so that they can start back rebuilding their lives."

Mitt Romney made his debut as a 2012 presidential candidate. I'll have more later. But the short version: didn't go so well.

ChicaChic, an art exhibit showcasing the work of five prominent Chicana visual artists is open through March 18, 2011 at the California Institute of Integral Studies