Last week, the heartbreaking beating death of 16-year-old Chicago student Derrion Albert was captured on video, unleashing a fresh wave of sorrow on the South Side, another layer of fear and terror among students and families in the community, and -- painfully, the predictable calls from authorities for more harsh treatment of youth -- that is, some youth.
The video unleashed a torrent of anger on the streets of Chicago, which became the latest in a series of cities that boiled over in recent years after a fatal encounter involving police.
This practice is so pervasive that it even has its own name – revenge porn, nude photos and explicit videos unleashed on the internet, most often by disgruntled ex-lovers.
Akerlund, Jonas The director behind Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" and "Telephone" music videos unleashes a supermodel-packed cast for Duran Duran's "Girl Panic!" (Read: 10 minutes of Naomi Campbell, as the frontman Simon Le Bon, Helena Christensen, Yasmin Le Bon and Cindy Crawford party like rock stars).
On Wednesday, the Obama administration said it appeared that an organized group armed with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades had exploited a protest over an anti-Muslim video to unleash the attack.
Last Thursday, Almanzar grabbed national attention when she Instagrammed a video of herself unleashing a tirade against the shutdown sprinkled with expletives.
In the initial experiments above it looks like a video game character unleashing some supernatural force, looking like not just a tracking tool but a rudimentary virtual performance piece, too.
Indeed, just an hour after he spoke, the Pakistan Taliban released a video threatening to unleash suicide bombers and snipers against Mr Musharraf if he returned.
This workshop draws on artistic traditions of street photography and walking the city and seeks to unleash video's potential to heighten our experience of our immediate surroundings.
The genuinely violent and disturbing prank earned quick condemnation from YouTube commenters and from one branch of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, who, in late November, told Pepper to take down the video lest they "unleash f***ing hell".
But when distance separates you from someone you love, even a jerky video call can unleash a rush of emotions, a sense of contact, that ordinary phone calls can't.
