A new leak has been found near the wreck of the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and breaches could be spewing five times the oil previously thought. Mary Landry, Rear Admiral with the U.S. Coast Guard, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is now projecting that as much as 5,000 barrels per day of oil could be escaping, as compared with the 1,000 estimated earlier. As Earth Month draws to a close, we’d like to remind everyone that millions of species live on this fragile blue planet, but only one is destroying it. Think Green every day on TomorrowPictures.TV!
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When your car breaks down, are you lost without it? Imagine what it must be like in a place where the infrastructure won’t even support cars. That’s often the case in the developing world, and nowhere is the need for good, rugged bicycles greater than in Africa. World Bicycle Relief is a non-profit organization that aims to put millions of sub-Saharan Africans aboard special heavy-duty bikes designed to withstand the continent’s rugged roads while carrying 200 pounds of cargo–enough for a weaver to bring his rugs, or a farmer to tote his produce, to market. WBR gives away the specially designed bikes to students and AIDS workers–so far 30,000 bikes have gone into circulation in Zambia, and there is an established network of mechanics, trained by World Bicycle Relief personnel. In March of 2010, a Tomorrow Pictures production crew under the direction of Frederick Taylor traveled to the Bimbe School in Chongwe, Zambia to see the results of the WBR program in action. The school choir performed five original songs which encourage the community to support equality of opportunity for young females, who drop out of school at a much higher rate than boys. The Bimbe school participates in the WBR BEEP program, which gives bikes to school children and teachers with 70% of the bikes reserved for girls. As shown in today’s feature, Tomorrow Pictures captures the determination and passion of the girls in the Bimbe School with the video “Girl Child”. Videos such as this one are created to spread awareness about the World Bicycle Relief organization and their efforts to establish sustainable change in lives of young girls, and the entire Zambian community. If you would like to get involved, please visit 
Approximately 1,000 employees from 24 companies participated in the EarthShare of Georgia Earth Day 2010 Corporate Green Day Challenge, volunteering at 20 locations to clean up parks and stream banks, plant gardens, mulch trees and trails. This year, Bank of America and Tomorrow Pictures were the winning teams. Bank of America’s participation went from 30 in 2009 to 250 this year at Chastain Park, and first time participant Tomorrow Pictures brought their entire staff of 9 and EOS Marketing to help improve Riverside Community Garden, an inner city community project. A special thanks goes to Park Pride for hosting projects at Washington Park, West End Park, Orme Park and co-hosting projects with the Friends of Collins Park. As an EarthShare of Georgia member group, they are leading the way in the move to create world-class parks in the City of Atlanta! Other EarthShare of Georgia member groups that provided projects this year were Callaway Gardens, Georgia Organics, Reynolds Nature Preserve, Trees Atlanta and the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. 
Hey kids! Didja know that music wasn’t always just bits and bytes floating around the internet? Seriously, before your iPod, there were cds, cassette tapes, 8-track tapes and records! Records were big, round clunky pieces of hard wax that sounded really, really good. This 1942 promotional short from RCA Records goes inside the record creation biz at their Camden, NJ production facility. Dig into the history of music at KillMtv on TomorrowPictures.TV!
Freedom Day is a South African public holiday that commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on April 27 in 1994. Meanwhile, across the rest of the Mother Continent, the statistics can be mind numbing: the life expectancy in Mukuru, Kenya is 40 years, the population density is 50,000 people per square mile, the poverty line $1 a day. Yet beyond the numbers are the people: a sea of bright, vibrant, open faces, working for a life of dignity and respect. One of those people working hard each day to change the emphasis of Mukuru from Slum to Village is Moses Wahor. This is his story. Moses Wahor was born and raised in Mukuru, one of 20 slum villages that ring Nairobi. He lives in a 10′x10′ corrugated metal shack with eight of his siblings, and considers it fortunate that his family has a roof beneath which to dwell. They, like all of their neighbors, are squatters, subject to eviction at any time. Most of the residents you see in Mukuru are children or young adults- half the population is under the age of 25, and the adults lucky enough to have jobs work as laborers in the city or in factories outside the Slum Villages for $2 a day. Family earnings are low and there are not enough schools; as a result, children are frequently seduced into prostitution and drug trafficking, activities that lead to HIV/AIDS infection. These children, many of them HIV orphans themselves, are the next generation of Africans facing a grim future if something is not done to change their lives.
Yes, Old King Cole was a merry old soul, but just what exactly made him so goshdarn merry? It can’t be all the spooky ghosts that are patrolling the halls of Cole Castle! In this trippy 1936 short, the intrepid cartoon kitty Felix the Cat takes a break from his treetop serenade to get on the paranormal investigation! Felix has to save the boastful, fabricating blow-hard King Cole from the vengeful ghosts of his ancestors, and maybe get himself a nice fat reward for his troubles. Take a Trip on the Strip with TomorrowPictures.TV!
April 25 is ANZAC Day, a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, and is commemorated by both countries to honor members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. It now more broadly commemorates all those who died and served in military operations for their countries. In honor of all our Aussie friends, we’re proud to present our favorite Ocker, Chart-topping Australian Country singer Stephen Rowe! Stephen is back with a new album called Restless Soul, and tomorrowpictures.TV is proud to present his first single, “Country Kids in the City”! The video, shot on location in Los Angeles, features the talents of Travis Fimmel, who recently starred with the late Patrick Swayze on the critically acclaimed television show “The Beast”! Stephen Rowe’s Official Website is 
One of the greatest MCs in the history of Hip Hop passed away this week. Guru, late of the group Gang Starr, succumbed to cancer at the age of 43. Together with the legendary DJ Premiere, Guru made some of the most influential albums of rap’s Golden Age, including Mass Appeal, Step in the Arena and Daily Operation. In the days following his death, doubts have been raised over a suspicious “deathbed letter”, released by his associate Solar, announcing the creation of a new nonprofit charity by the rapper and asking that “any awards or tributes should be accepted, organized, [and] approved by Solar on behalf [of] myself.” Guru’s sister, Patricia Elam, released a statement claiming her family is unaware of any foundations established by her brother, and that Guru never regained consciousness following a February heart attack, which would seemingly have prevented him from writing that letter in March. Here’s Guru and Gang Starr in happier days, delivering their most popular song, “Just to Get a Rep”, the cautionary tale of a doomed small-time hood. RIP Guru…
Así que el Gobernador de Arizona está considerando la posibilidad de firmar una ley de inmigración que asciende a la discriminación racial legalizada. Suspiro. Al parecer, el más cambian las cosas, más siguen igual … América es una tierra de inmigrantes. No olvidemos nunca eso. Ya sea que su gente caminaba a través del Estrecho de Bering hace 10.000 años, llegaron encadenados en la bodega de carga del buque o de hace 300 años descendió de un avión hace 40 años, todos nosotros somos hijos adoptivos de América. No hay tal cosa como una más “auténticos” Estados Unidos que cualquier otro. Su vecino Aslam Syed que llegaron desde Pakistán en 1973 y se convirtió en un ciudadano de 8 años más tarde es tanto un americano como su otro vecino, John Smith, que remonta su linaje hasta el Mayflower en 1620.
