Global Recession October 2008 : Zeitgeist

* I made this video as the Dow plunged Friday, many expecting a global recession to take shape in the coming months. This is my video montage portraying the zeitgeist.

*As part of my ongoing experiment, I tried out audio layering and effects with this video. Photos are courtesy of USA today (which is of course, a secondary source, the primary sources are either getty images or reuters photos), and reporter soundclips are courtesy of NBC Nightly News, except for of course, George Bush and the virtual voice sounds I created with the help of Mike.

**With the housing morgage crisis, financial turmoil and the stock market on freefall, much to the likes of September 1929, a global recession and a second coming of the Great Depression and its followup, known to many as the war to end all wars, seems not too much unlikely. As a citizen living through this troubling times, I decided to make a zeitgeist video, a much heavier note compared to the music videos I've been re-editing so far. Whether it gets positive reception or not, it's pretty much up to whether people would search for videos about the Dow Jones Plunge on Youtube.

***Oh, and on a personal note, I'm not an investor in any hedge fund whatsoever, so please don't comment that I tried to make the stock plummet look too dramatic; and, I also would like to clarify that the Great Depression wasn't the single contributing factor to WWII, but rather a part of a sequence of event that eventually led up to it, though agreeably quite significant.