Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary project that aims to document the more than 10,000 Main Streets in the entire USA. It’s very interesting to see the differences between all of the Main Streets — some look pretty normal and average while others look completely abandoned. Maybe Main Street is an appropriate metaphor for politicians to use when describing the US.
The project is just getting underway and currently they seem to only have photos of Main Streets in the Midwest, so if you’d like to help them out, submit your own Main Street photos (I know some readers here have photos of Main Street in Flushing, NY) and see if it makes it into the project map.
The video offers a glimpse of just how quickly James and Karla go about their work. And now more than ever I really want to add the book to my collection.
Two guys, Neil and Jeff, are behind a new documentary they call the Arrested Development Documentary Project (ADDP) that takes a look at the road that led to the rise and fall of one of the most loved TV shows of all time. They two men set out to interview as many people associated with Arrested Development as possible and to get their views and opinions on why they think the show ended so abruptly and why nobody seemed to know it was on TV when it aired regular new episodes. Was it a marketing failure? Was it simply too weird for the general public? Who at Fox pulled the plug on the show? This and many other interestin tidbits about the show will be answered when the documentary gets released.
With the help of a personal trainer, David was able to lose on average about 15 pounds a month. The documentary will also show how David Smith underwent surgery several times to remove the excess skin that was left from his massive weight loss. So far, he has had 3 operations to remove extra skin and doctors believe he will need 1 or 2 more to get things to a normal state.
David Smith appeared on the Today Show on Friday (July 10) to promote the show. Check out the embedded video segment below.
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