[22 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
American Character Project

This project is called Character Project. Here is a definition of the the project given on the official website of the project. “Character Project is USA ongoing artistic initiative committed to celebrating America’s character - the interesting, dazzling, and distinctive people, from all walks of life, who make this country extraordinary”. To carry out this goal a team of 11 world class photographers were gathered. I think this collection is a wonderful expression of one of the main characteristic of American culture – great diversity, both social and ethnic. Enjoy. Mark their site because the collecting continues to grow.

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[29 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Barack Obama super man!

This is a very hilarious video on Obama’s messianic claims made by Jib Jab. Great piece! Enjoy.When darkness has descended all across the land
The lonely voice in distance uttered “Yes, We can”
He gave good speeches, never sweat
he was real good at the internet
He’s Barack Obama he has come to save the day

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[21 Jan 2010 | One Comment | ]
George Bush and Bill Clinton (funny video)

This is a fake video of an attempt to record a video announsment by two ex-presidents of The United States. There is not much significance in this one, it just funny. Enjoy.

Findings, movies »

[17 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
The best American movies!

Recently, Stanley Fish who is a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami, published a list under the following title: The 10 best American movies. It was published in New York Times newspaper and on their official website as well. The good thing about web publications is that most of them can be commented by regular readers. This allows the audience not only to express themselves, but also to expand and enrich the original information. That’s exactly what happened in this case. People started commenting on this article and many of them provided the names of the movies that were worth including into that list.

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[13 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Only in America - No Pants Day!

There are different holidays: religious and secular, official and non-official, serious ones and silly ones. Some of them have a long history and some are relatively new. Some make great export to other cultures and some remain as a solely local phenomenon. What American holidays would come to your mind if you’re not an American. Most likely you would think of Christmas, Thanksgiving day, Halloween and then maybe St.Valentine’s day. These are all well known to many from American movies. If a person knows American culture a little closer, …

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[9 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Armstrong and Getty show

Since the first time I heard the word podcast, not only I started probing my own way in this field, but from that time on, I have been on a constant search for good podcast shows. Needless to say, I have been looking for good ones in English as well as in Russian. My list of English podcast shows keeps changing. Usually the dynamic is something like this. It grows big and then after I give it a try for some time, I start deleting those from my list …