Short Attention Span Film School -- The Aesthetic For Best Viral Clips from Current.com
From Brett Erlich at Current, who is also the voice of Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards on the channel's Super News segment.
Not so much a how-to as it is an overview of a particular segment of the field, involving the wild kingdom.
Hey, I just saw this story from India at the Current site and I had to add it, so the clip is now after the jump.
After rumors that there was a solar image of the Virgin Mary in the sun, believers looked to the sky in the hope that they would be blessed by the miracle, but as science predicts, staring at the Sun can cause blindness. The Kottayam district in India was the venue where at St Joseph’s Eye Hospital 48 cases of vision loss were recorded due to photochemical burns on the retina.
“All our patients have similar history and symptoms. The damage is to the macula, the most sensitive part of retina. They have developed photochemical, not thermal, burns after continuously gazing at the sun,” Dr Annamma James Isaac, the hospital’s ophthalmologist, said.
The victims are mainly women with people as young as 12 damaging their eyes in search of the miracle.
People, don't be looking directly into the sun, I don't care if Britney and Karl Rove are performing oral sex on the 3rd Infantry Division while standing on the face of the sun, do not look at it directly expecting to see stuff if you ever want to see anything else ever again.
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