We love those moments when Tulsa let's her tradition of turning out badass musicians shine. Under the Belfry is just such a moment, or more like an ongoing moment. A collaboration of several Tulsa filmmakers, Under the Belfry captured some of Tulsa's best music acts at the Free Tulsa music festival. With new videos being uploaded to the Under the Belfry Facebook page, we are pretty excited to show off the ridiculous talent in our little city.

Here's a preview of the entire series:

And here is one of our favorite local acts (we'd rather die than miss one of her shows):

Sometimes movements and demonstrations can become these large, faceless things. Whether it's due to overexposure from the media or whatever, it's refreshing to stop for a minute and see the faces of the individuals who make up the group.

(Former) Tulsa photographer Michael Cooper gives us an inside perspective of the people who have joined the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York City. We love that these are in black and white, it seems to strip everything else away but the people and their voices.

Here's a great mini-documentary about the community that has been organized within Occupy Wall Street:

Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) from Alex Mallis on Vimeo.

Whitehouse Post editor John Luisi composed a trailer from 40 video portraits of renowned film and theater actors including Alan Rickman, William H. Macy, Lily Taylor and Liev Schreiber — shot by artist and director David Michalek for an exhibit entitled Portraits in Dramatic Time, which premiered as part of the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival.

The forty shorts of Portraits in Dramatic Time featured actors in character in the process of working a scene. The portraits were shot using an innovative slow motion technique involving a fixed high speed, high definition camera recording several thousand frames per second at 10 to 15 second intervals — resulting in videos of 8 or more minutes each.

The resulting videos can undeniably be described as moving portraits. Subtle details of the actors' process within the characters become powerfully evident in the scenes. The installation was displayed on an 85 ft by 45 ft screen that hung in front of the David H. Koch Theater for passersby to view.

Portraits in Dramatic Time, Lincoln Center Festival 2011 from johnny luisi on Vimeo.

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