Phileosophie

Beautiful video and production by Giles Li & Ash Hsie. I loved it. Shared on twitter by Josh Lin. Giles Li talks about the video here .

I helped out at a soup kitchen associated with a Lutheran Church in the Lower East Side today. It was my second time there. Homelessness and unemployment appears to be a big problem in Manhattan. In no other city (I have lived in) have I seen so many people on the streets and scouraging through trash cans for food and drink. I think the soup kitchen and homeless outreach programs in the city have a lot of potential. They are doing very good work but can definitely be improved in many ways. Many of the volunteers at these kitchens appear to be from low socioeconomic backgrounds themselves.They say you can "get by" in New York without a job. People get their meals at soup kitchens and pay for rent through intermittent work and sometimes by "unsavoury" means. The volunteers generally seemed nice enough but did not have the capacity to carry out tasks very efficiently. For instance, one of the group leaders today was tasked with telling the servers how many people t...

A short film by Whitestone Motion Pictures on child prostitution. It has been written and filmed in the fantasy genre and plays like a deeper, darker version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I loved this film and I think you will too. For the campaigns website and trailer here: http://stopthecandyshop.com/ For the production company and full length film here: http://www.whitestonemotionpictures.com/