Wait a minute. Canada has a rainforest?

It sure does. Between the north end of Vancouver Island and the Alaska border, the Great Bear Rainforest sprawls among a maze of islands and inlets, comprising a delicate coastal temperate ecosystem that’s about the size of two Switzerlands. Sadly, despite the area’s wilderness location and its inaccessibility, the rainforest is ecologically threatened.

Greenpeace International has sponsored a website that presents the Great Bear Rainforest in all its splendor. Using QuickTime VR, you can navigate through maps to tour landscapes and the forest floor of this breathtaking and rarely-seen wilderness. Visit to discover all its hidden natural wonders, including wolves, eagles, salmon, and bears.

BMWfilms.com invites you to test drive “The Hire,” a unique series of five short movies by award-winning directors, including John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Guy Ritchie, Wong Kar Wai, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Each film stars The Driver, a smooth protagonist who tools around in the latest cars from BMW. In the most recent movie, “Follow,” The Driver is hired to follow a woman accused of cheating on her famous husband. Discover director Wong Kar-Wai’s ability to play heart against mind in this tense drama about mistrust.

Totally Tantalizing--TVCook.com
Start compiling your own video recipe library at tvcook.com. Tempt your taste buds with any of four new video recipes each month, presented in innovative one-minute QuickTime movies.

Learn to make a variety of cocktails, appetizers, salads, main courses, and dessert, all with a distinctly Spanish flair.

It’s a screwball animated comedy with an attitude, and the plot goes something like this: The heartless ruler Lord Farquaad has spoiled all the fun by ejecting fairy tale characters from the land of Duloc. To put things right, enter Shrek — an oafish ogre with a heart of gold — and his obstreperous donkey sidekick. Can they repatriate the fairy tale refugees as well as rescue the fair Princess Fiona from ending up with the nasty Lord?

Based on a well-loved children’s book by William Steig, “Shrek” features the voices of John Lithgow, Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz. It’s now open in U.S. theaters everywhere.

And that’s not all — check out “Shrek: Behind the Scenes” for comments by the actors who portray the film’s irreverent animated characters.

Travolta Wields “Swordfish”
This summer’s “Swordfish” isn’t part of a perfect storm, but part of an attempted perfect crime.

Gabriel Shear (John Travolta)—a flashy covert operative—seeks to steal a secret cache of $6 billion in unused government funds (code named “Project Swordfish”) to bankroll a right-wing militia.

To pull off a bank heist of this magnitude, he needs help from superhacker Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) to crack into the bank’s computers. In exchange, Shear will help Jobson regain custody of his daughter and start a new life. But Jobson has just been released from federal prison and is a bit unwilling to risk everything he has for someone else’s sinister scheme.

Want a great new way to show off your collection on a website, or to present items for sale on sites such as eBay?

Try the new SpinImage DV Object Imaging Kit, which lets you create interactive 3D QuickTime VR movies of any stationary object that weighs up to 20 pounds.

Used with a DV FireWire-enabled camcorder, the kit lets you create object movies in minutes. Just place your item on the motorized PiXi-M turntable. Digital video of the spinning object is sent to the computer (Macintosh or Windows) and the SpinImage DV software then converts the video stream into an object movie. Your QuickTime VR file is ready for you to post to a website or to an auction.

Journey “Through the Cubic Sphere”
It’s rare that a photographer is allowed to shoot pictures inside the Vatican. But now you can view spectacular Cubic VR images of the interiors of the four major Vatican Basilicas. Take a Roman holiday and see.

Board the U.S.S. Voyager
The crew of Star Trek: Voyager may be beamed away, but you can still explore their ship. All you need is Macromedia Flash, QuickTime VR, and a taste for exploration. Take the VR tour.

QuickTime Streaming Server has always provided powerful, reliable and high quality streaming technology to web publishers. Now a host of new features — such as Skip Protection and reliable transmission of broadcast streams — makes QuickTime Streaming Server even better. Configuring is also easy and straightforward with a new, web-based interface.

As always, QuickTime Streaming Server is open source, giving publishers the highest possible level of customizability and community involvement. And best of all, it’s free.

Download QuickTime Streaming Server 3 today.

The new London boy-band Blue describes their sound as “R&B with a pop feel. There’s also a bit of Motown thrown in there.” Blue’s debut album comes out later this year, but you can check out the video today for the band’s first single, “All Rise.”


Jazzin’ It Up
He started his music career in the early sixties and has jammed with the likes of Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Herbie Mann, Blue Mitchell, Sarah Vaughan, and many other Jazz luminaries.

Now Chick Corea—one of the most celebrated Jazz keyboardists of the last forty years—has a new trio (with Avishai Cohen on Bass and Jeff Ballard on Drums) and a new CD, “Past, Present & Futures.” You can listen to a cut from that CD, “Fingerprints,” and read more about Chick Corea at gmn.com.

More Jazz from GMN.Com
They began their professional lives together as an R&B band, but the Yellowjackets have evolved (several times) in their twenty-plus career. Now Bob Mintzer (sax), keyboardist Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip (bass), and Peter Erskine (drums) play nothing bu Jazz on their album, The Best of Yellowjackets.

Starting next Sunday, June 3, at 10:00 pm, Pacific time,¹ the Yellowjackets concert runs through June 13.

A Latin Beat
Recorded live in Brazil, the third of four concerts coming to you from gmn.com features the Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum in a webast that pays tribute to the legendary Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim. The concert (which began last night) runs through Saturday, June 30.

On a Classical Note
Sets with Chick Corea, Yellowjackets, and the Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum are not the only musical treats gmn.com has in store for us over the next few weeks.

In a webcast from Royal Albert Hall, celebrated tenor José Carreras performs the “Overture to Die Fledermaus” from Johann Strauss, “O Soave Fanciulla” (from Puccini’s La Bohème), “Brindisi” from Verdi’s La Traviata, and numerous other popular works from opera, operetta, and musicals. Accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra, he is joined by Soprano Lisa Milne and Tenor Salvador Carbo. The webcast (which began yesterday, May 31) runs through Monday, June 4 on classicalplus at gmn.com.

Peter Gabriel Fan?
Then you’ll want to watch two streaming videos offered to us by the BBC. Enjoy “Father, Son” and “Downside Up,” two new songs by Peter Gabriel from his theatrical spectacle, Ovo.

Rolling Stone Concert Series Rocks On
Does Dada do it for you? Or would you prefer to rock with the Cupcakes? Whatever your musical preferences may be, you're sure to find music to please at the ongoing Rolling Stone Concert Series.

Don’t Forget “Amnesiac”
“Amnesiac” is the fifth CD release from the Grammy-nominated band Radiohead, considered one of this decade’s most innovative bands. Hear the whole album now by attending a listening party starting today. The broadcast starts at 9 a.m. PT June 1 and runs until 5 p.m. PT June 8.¹

New Single from Spek
“i’m a hippy,” sings Spek. And you can hear the artist’s first single (released just a few days ago, in fact) at video-c.

¹ In another time zone? Use this handy converter to let you know exactly when to tune in.