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Morning News Podcast: 2020 Campaign, Covid-19 Vaccine & Colorado Fires
NPR News Now reports: President Trump and Joe Biden campaigns, Covid-19 vaccine trials, Colorado fires and other top news.
Top New Travel Videos: ‘Glacier Gorge’ – Rocky Mountain National Park
Glacier Gorge is considered one of the most beautiful and diverse areas in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Main locations in the video: Ribbon Falls (0:24), Black Lake (0:39), Frozen Lake (1:58), Green Lake (4:47), Blue Lake (6:00), back to Black Lake (7:01), Jewel Lake (7:30), Mills Lake (7:47).
Recorded July 2020 in 4K Ultra HD with Sony AX700 and DJI Osmo Pocket.
Music: Lauge & Baba Gnohm – Monolith EP (Remastered by HubySea) – 1 – Leaving the Cave
Travel Documentaries: “Passport Home” – Pete McBride Photographs The Grand Canyon (Video)
Photographer, filmmaker, and Sony Artisan Pete McBride shares this short film “Passport Home”, a glimpse of his documentary “Into the Canyon” that is nominated for Outstanding Nature Documentary at next week’s 2020 Emmy Awards.
“For years I’ve studied the world through a lens to tell the stories of others, my own, and the magic and complexity of our shared world. But after years of documenting stories I started noticing something consistent. Wherever I framed my lenses, change revealed itself before me. The places where I had ventured and worked were facing constant challenges of overuse and destruction, of being loved to a point of permanent change.”
“It was at this point that I realized my cameras were no longer just a passport for adventure, but tools to help protect the places where we adventure – those wild places we love. Now I shoot not for likes, instead I document because I want to cherish and protect the places I love…so the next person can stand in my tracks and see the magic just like I saw it. Cameras are passports to our curiosity, our creativity, our world, and they are even tools to help protect not just far away, but our own back yards.”
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Home Tour Videos: Ultra-Modern Colorado Rocky Mountain Ski Mansion (AD)
Today AD brings you to Vail, Colorado to tour 165 Forest Avenue, a massive ultra-modern 
mansion nestled in the Rocky Mountains. From the linear fireplace in the living room, to Italian marble surfaces in the kitchen, each space in the home is an invigorating expression of timeless luxury. The interior elegance is only surpassed by the natural beauty seen through the home’s glass walls, which slide apart granting access to over 6,500 sq. ft. of heated exterior space.
Travel & Conservation: “Bound By The River – Colorado River” (Video)
Filmed and Edited by: Vital Films
For more than 80 years, the Colorado River District has been working to safeguard Western Colorado’s water resources for agriculture, recreation, industry and the environment.
From the Continental Divide to the Utah border, the Colorado River District serves more than 500,000 West Slope citizens and covers approximately 29,000 square miles – nearly one-third of the state’s total land mass.
Approximately 70% of the Colorado River’s natural flow originates on Colorado’s Western Slope.
Visit ColoradoRiverDistrict.org to learn more.
Top Art Exhibits: “Norman Rockwell – Imagining Freedom” (Denver Art)
Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom explores themes and events in American history that still resonate today. (On View through September 7, 2020)
Four Freedoms
In the 1940s, Franklin D. Roosevelt developed a concept called the Four Freedoms—Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear—to persuade Americans to support the war effort. Not immediately embraced by the American public, the administration turned to the arts to help Americans understand and rally behind these enduring ideals. Artists, writers, actors, designers, and musicians were encouraged to take on the challenge of advancing the Four Freedoms as the U.S. prepared to enter World War II, moving away from its policy of neutrality.
Norman Rockwell, a renowned illustrator, was among those who took on the challenge to communicate visually the notions of freedom in support of the war efforts. The results were Rockwell’s popular Four Freedoms illustrations that depicted everyday community and domestic life that helped Americans rally for the defense of public freedom.
Civil Rights
The exhibition also showcases his post-war artworks from the 1960s, which address civil rights, human rights, and equality for all. One of the most powerful artworks on view in this section is the 1961 Golden Rule, which features people of different religions, races, and ethnicities with the inscription “Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You.” One of Rockwell’s most iconic images of the Civil Rights Movement, The Problem We All Live With, is also on display.
Contemporary Artwork
The exhibition concludes with a section of artworks and social commentary by contemporary artists responding to themes of freedom and American identity. The 2015 painting, Freedom from What? (I Can’t Breathe) by artist Maurice “Pops” Peterson will likely prompt discourse due to its relevance today. Peterson’s take on Rockwell’s Freedom from Fear, explores the idea that not all American families enjoy the privilege of safety, and depicts a newspaper headline with the words “I Can’t Breathe,” spoken by Eric Garner, a Black man killed during an interaction with New York police in 2014.
New Timelapse Videos: “Lumina” – A Study Of Light & Shadows In Nature
Filmed and Edited by: Aaron Keigher
I wanted to share with you this short timelapse film, “Lumina”, which focuses on the light and shadows in nature.
During this difficult and troubling time, always remember the light that is out there and awaits us all.
Locations Include:
Acadia National Park, ME
Alabama Hills, CA
Arches National Park, UT
Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
Canyonlands National Park, UT
Coal Mine Canyon, AZ
Colorado Canyon National Monument, CO
Dillon Reservoir, CO
Eastern Sierra Nevada, CA
Factory Butte, UT
Fantasy Canyon, UT
Goblin Valley State Park, UT
Joshua Tree National Park, CA
Monument Valley Tribal Park, AZ
Mystery Valley, AZ
Trona Pinnacles, CA
Yosemite National Park, CA
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Website: aaronkeigherphotography.com
Virtual Tour: “Natural Forces – Winslow Homer And Frederic Remington”
While the Denver Art Museum is temporarily closed, we are sharing this look at the Homer and Remington exhibition. Hear from DAM curators Thomas Brent Smith and Jennifer R. Henneman.
New Aerial Travel Videos: “Away” In The Western U.S. By Jason Hatfield (2020)
Filmed, Edited and Directed by: Jason Hatfiled
A film meant to transport you AWAY to the places you love or have yet to see. An aerial view of incredible landscapes through Colorado Wyoming Utah Arizona and Alaska.
Soundtrack: “Art of Silence” by Uniq
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