“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” –W.H.Auden

Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”

Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround. (Excerpt from main website)

Andy Samberg with Adam Levine: Iran So Far Away … a love song to Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. The lyrics after the jump …

(Meanwhile, DC City Council voted 12-1 today to recognize other states’ same-sex marriages. Slow but sure steps towards equal civil rights. Right on!)

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A friend just sent me this short film by Bruce Branit, called “World Builder.” Holographic ingenuity peppered with sentimentality. I like it. You should, too.

A small digital camera is always a nice toy to have around. I shot this right outside the Shaw/Howard Metro stop in NW DC. After some editing and effects, and a soundtrack (flying lotus’ “tea leaf dancers”), I figured it looked interesting enough to share.  Make of it what you will, if you can make out anything at all.

Length: 35 seconds
Shot on: Kodak Zi6
Editor: Sony Vegas
Audio: Flying Lotus, “Tea Leaf Dancers”