CultureSurfer.com will be a community-based, virtual hub for culture in St. Louis. There is a plethora of newsworthy local & visiting talent in St. Louis, but a majority of it is never covered by the media. CultureSurfer.com will promote this exceptional yet overlooked talent via video, photos, journalism, and any other media which can be put on a web site. Via these various media, we will capture local talent from the fields of cinema, dance, fashion, literature, music, cycling, and art. There will also be a focus on the talent within St. Louis’s untapped Asian, African, Bosnian, and Latin communities, as well as talent that comes to the St. Louis area. CultureSurfer.com will depend on contributions to the site from people in the community to make a rich site with numerous viewpoints, harnessing local talent that might otherwise never see online publication. In order to futher promote local talent, CultureSurfer.com will produce short documentaries/profiles on the inside of these various industries. It's one thing to look at a painting, go to a fashion show, or watch a cycling race, but it's another thing to look inside the industry, talk to someone whose passion this is, and understand what is beneath the surface. Funding from the Knight Foundation will be used for the following purposes: to purchase required software and hardware, for programming work to be done on the site, and to produce documentaries/profiles on local talent.