The moving picture show

Videos, videos, videos. Seems like that's all we have here at Los Anchorage. There've just been so many to choose from what with all the shenanigans that take place in this town.

I'll let you in on a little secret: Every couple days, Los Anchorage's trained technicians (read: typewriting monkeys) search the most recent uploads for the key word "Anchorage" on YouTube.

Just now, the monkeys brought me these two clips, which appear in that search side-by-side, both uploaded roughly six hours ago as I write this. They're both from two seemingly unrelated users, but with an obvious connection and a funny one, I think.

The first is a video of a man resisting arrest and being Tasered by the Anchorage police. The second is a recruitment promo video for the Anchorage Police Department.





Is this some kind of interweb zen convergence, or are the two videos related somehow in the "real" world? Divine coincidence or comical conspiracy?

And big ups to whomever can tell me in what neighborhood the man was Tased. I thought it might have been Fairview near the end of Fairbanks Street at the park. But now I'm thinking the Muldoon area.

Also, Unleashed Vision, the makers of the APD recruitment video, have posted "Look Again", 2005 winner of the Anchorage International Film Festival Snowdance Award. Check it out.