VIDEO: A Pilgrimage of Dance in Durban

ANCIENT Southern Indian temple dancers recorded in stone at sacred temples come to life as award winning dancer – Dr Anita Shanmuganathan and her team of husband and wife perform in front of the High Commissioner of India and other distinguished guests in an event held in Durban.

This is my latest video on Southern Indian spiritual dancing called A Pilgrimage of Dance, which is a rather colourful and cultural piece. Dr Anita Shanmuganathan earned a National Award for Best Dancer in India as well as the Tamil title "Bharatanatya Pracharamani" in 2002. Today she is one of the world’s most renowned spiritual dancers.

A Pilgrimage of Dance

PROMO VIDEO: A taste of the videos available on Witness This

MULTIMEDIA is fast becoming the 'in' thing in the South African media industry. Media organisations that offer online content in the form of video, podcasts and slideshows on their websites are getting a lot more traffic than those that simply regurgitate text stories with a couple of photographs.

The Natal Witness, although small, is gaining speed in the chase to jump onto the multimedia band-wagon. It's currently getting a MyVideo channel professionally set up by Tristan Owen, and despite being critically under-staffed, we endeavour to bring fresh video content every week for your viewing pleasure.

Below is a fast-paced, action-packed promo video of the sport, music, art, theater, news and entertainment videos produced for the Witness Online. It hints at what is already available and provides a taste of what is yet to come.

To see the full videos, and more, visit www.witness.co.za.

Witness This promo video:

MYWITNESS SERVICE: What some users had to say about the service

IN an earlier blog post I wrote about a new cellular service that claims to be more efficient and cost effective than other platforms that offer chat, cellphone banking, mobile blogging and related services.

Since I do not currently own a phone that is WAP-enabled or has GPS, I decided to seek out some people who have started using the service to see whether or not it is ‘all that.’

Here’s what some of them had to say:

MyWitness user’s speak

Related links:
MyWitness – getting started (video)
Jumping on the technology band-wagon (cheap and simple)
Connect anywhere in the world with MyWitness (news article)

VIDEO: Human cannonball flies high at Royal Show

Guinness World Record holder David Smith’s son – David (The Bullet) Smith Jr. blasts himself out of his family-made canon at the Royal Show in Pietermartizburg. The Bullet has been blasted high into the air over 5000 times and this was his fist show in South Africa.

See David Smith escape death and describe the experience of being a human cannonball in the following video:

Human Cannonball

Links:
Podcast: The Human Cannonball Family Act
Rocket Man – interview with David Smith