Colossi of Love - Documentary. The Colossi of Love is the story of the Greek characters known as “Kamaki”, men who were obsessed with courting female foreign tourists using special techniques during the 70’s and 80’s. Even if «kamaki», this Greek way of flirting which literally means “harpoon”, was just about sex, in a society where sex with local women was culturally forbidden, it became the reason for almost 1.000 mixed marriages on the island of Rhodes while it revealed other issues: a competition between males, a desire to be unlike others and a feeling of superiority by seducing foreign women. Issues of a Greece at the point of change, in terms of both cultural and sexual taboos.
Camera nerds already know that Nikon announced their newest DSLR camera this week. The biggest improvement is that it shoots full HD 1080p video, and has manual video control from within the camera. Pro-photog Chase Jarvis has had some pre-production models for a couple months now, and made a couple seriously cool videos. One, a short film, "Benevolent Mischief," starring Seattle based emcee RA Scion (of Common Market/Victor Shade) and graffiti artist Weirdo. Here's a behind the scenes and still photo vid of what Chase got to do with the cameras while he's had them:
She's so soulful! Truly, a karaoke diamond in the rough. Bonus points if you can spot the drool when the light hits her face just... so. Comment from the page: "A wild Snorlax appears."