Karim Amara, multimedia journalist

The day after Barack Obama’s history presidential win, we asked people who grew up during the civil rights movement, what the win meant.

The video was inspired by Fifty People, One Question vimeo.com/1737450.

November 5th, 2008 | Tags: barackobama, elections2008, ihaveadream, mlk, uselections, uspresident | Category: Documentary, Features, Portfolio |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

For the 11th year in a row, San Francisco film geeks came to worship at the Church of Peaches Christ this past summer of 2008. In case you are one of the uninitiated and unbaptized, the annual two-month-long event known as Midnight Mass is much more than a midnight movie. Irina sat down with the film freak phenom founder and creator, Peaches Christ aka Joshua Grannell, and got down to the nitty gritty details of how a humble (well, maybe not so humble) film student turned into a cult movie diva 2.0

October 7th, 2008 | Tags: bridgetheater, film, midnightmass, peacheschrist, sanfrancisco | Category: Features, Portfolio, Video |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

With the opening of Zebra Tattoo, we decided to ask people on the streets of Walnut Creek, if tattoos have become mainstream?

October 2nd, 2008 | Tags: bodyart, tattoos, walnutcreek | Category: Features, Portfolio, Video |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

More than 2,000 people gathered at the Sleep Train Pavilion to honor slain Martinez Police Sgt. Paul Starzyk.

September 15th, 2008 | Tags: murder | Category: Breaking, Portfolio, Video |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

Music critic Jim Harrington gives us his thoughts on as many bands as possible in a minute.

August 21st, 2008 | Tags: beck, music, outsidelands, radiohead, sanfrancisco | Category: Features, Portfolio, Video |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

This video is what happens when you put RZA, chess and 3 dorky geeks who like to rap into one giant mixing bowl! The legendary rapper and award winning chess-master decided to start wuchess.com — a website and give part of the proceeds to scholarships for needy kids.

To promote the website, Wuchess and RZA had a contest on YouTube for the best 8 lines about chess. Irina wasn’t satisfied with her simplistic little video, so she got her friends and made this!

August 20th, 2008 | Tags: chess, drownradio, geekentertainmenttv, nerdcore, wuchess | Category: Music Video, Portfolio |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

Rob Meulenberg is a pro strongman. He can flip 900-pound tractor tires. But there is more to Rob than his strength.

July 29th, 2008 | Tags: extremesports, muscles, powerlifting, weightlifting | Category: Documentary, Portfolio, Video |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

Sights and sounds of demonstrators before the start of the San Francisco Olympic Torch relay.

April 10th, 2008 | Tags: Add new tag, china, olympictorch, sanfrancisco, tibet | Category: Breaking, Portfolio, Video |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

In a disposable culture of programmed obsolescence, the owners of the Shack Up Inn set out to salvage some junk and end up preserving Delta history.

Old trophies, boy scout badges and photographs are among the relics scattered throughout the rooms and grounds, off Highway 49 in Hopson, Mississippi.

People journey to the inn from all over the world to troll through things most would discard. Some are there to reconnect with their culture, while others come from afar in search of something authentic.

March 15th, 2008 | Tags: blues, clarksdale, mississippi | Category: Documentary, Portfolio, Video |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment