The Crisis of Credit Visualized

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

This a simple yet powerful video about the credit crisis, which makes very complex financial techniques and innovations easy to understand. For example, the video does a nice job on the concepts of securitization, CDOs, CDFs, asset backed securities, and maps out the relationship between economic actors. Enjoy:)

The Crisis of Credit Visualized distills the economic crisis into a short and simple story by giving it form. It also argues that designers have the ability to see a complex situation, then turn around and communicate it to others. By giving graphic form to the credit crisis, it becomes comprehensible. Not only do economic activities take shape, but new relationships can emerge between these shapes.

Worse Than War | Full-Length Documentary

This is a brilliant documentary that attempts to understand a social phenomenon that is worse than war--genocide. "By the most fundamental measure -- the number of people killed -- the perpetrators of mass murder since the beginning of the twentieth century have taken the lives of more people than have died in military conflict. So genocide is worse than war," reiterates Goldhagen. "This is a little-known fact that should be a central focus of international politics, because once you know it, the world, international politics, and what we need to do all begin to look substantially different from how they are typically conceived."

WORSE THAN WAR documents Goldhagen¹s travels, teachings, and interviews in nine countries around the world, bringing viewers on an unprecedented journey of insight and analysis. In a film that is highly cinematic and evocative throughout, he speaks with victims, perpetrators, witnesses, politicians, diplomats, historians, humanitarian aid workers, and journalists, all with the purpose of explaining and understanding the critical features of genocide and how to finally stop it. More about the film--click here.