I might not appreciat eall the songs ised here! but, I can appreciate the unbelievable tallent in putting something like this together. The music to be sliced and arranged, layeredin such a way to make listenable song of its own, and then the editing of videos to go with it. Just excelent work.
DJ Earworm - United State of Pop 2008 (Viva La Pop) - Mashup (via djearworm)
This Guy takes pictures of interesting strangers he meets. and one day he came accross Kevin, this is the photographer’s account of the meeting…
Riding my bicycle along
Hollywood Boulevard today
I saw him in the crowd - noticed
him instantly. When we reached
each other, I said hi and asked
if he would mind if I took his
photo.
“You want my photo?”
Yeah, I said. There’s nobody
like you.
“I know.” And he smiled for me
-although his face was
evidently destroyed by something-
and his mouth reconstructed.
I asked him what happened.
“Shot,” he said. “Shot in the
face.” He motioned a gun
at close range being shot
directly into his face.
Andyou survived that? I asked.
“No,” he said with a smile.
“I’m dead.”
I apologized for what was
a stupid question, but it
was hard to fathom - gun shot-
close range - into his face. And
he lived.
So what happened? I asked.
Was it an accident, or did
someone mean to shoot you?
“I did it myself. Tried to kill
myself.”
You did?
“Yeah.”
Where?
“Arizona.”
Phoenix?
“Tucson.”
So tell me, how did it feel,
after you shot yourself in the
face - and you came to -
and realized you were not
dead?
“Agony. The worst agony
ever.”
Man.
“Yeah.”
What kind of gun?
“30-aught-six.”
I was thunderstruck. I have
met and photographed many
people - who are featured in this
stream - humans who have
overcome amazing
adversity. Lydia, who was
burnt almost to death.
Ray, whose eye was gone.
Margaret, who weighed over
500 pounds.
But this. Man. And yet he
was smiling. I told him what
I thought:
God gives everyone a different
life - and some people get really
really hard lives.
“That’s me. Doesn’t get
much worse.”
Told me he’s on the street.
Homeless.
I asked him how bad it was
that he wanted to die.
“Bad. Really bad. The worse
kind.”
Are you gonna try again?
“No. I tried once. That’s enough.”
Man.
Sometimes our lives
seem hard - unbearable even -
but then we meet Kevin.
Or Lydia. Or Ray. And realize
again how lucky we are.
How hard some humans
have it.
Man.
And yet
he smiled. He smiled
for me. This man with his
face blown off - by his own
hand. And here he is -
in the sunshine, listening
to music, smiling.
Don’t even know what else
to say about this. Guess
I’ve already said it.
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I wonder what your reaction to this is? Do you feel sorry for kevin? Or do you think that he tried to destroy his life why should I feel sorry for him. Do you allow him to have made mistakes? do you even allow for some other people in his life to have made mistakes that have repercussions that negatively effected Kevin? I wonder this because I have noticed that when people go through things that are no where near our lives, we can tend to think so different towards them than we do to people who are closer to us. My judgment of Kevin in a very extreme situation is less judgmental than of my friend who is going through a much less ‘harsh’ situation. My compassion for ‘stranger’ Kevin is easier realeased than it is for my friend. My ability to hear and understand is increased with Stranger Kevin. Somehow I have a much more gentle softer aproach, I wonder why? My theory is similar to that “I love kids, but I dont want my own, I like to be able to give them back!” comment that many of us have said in defense to the question about wanting children. Something about the distance of the stranger that allows us to engage because we know its not a permanent engagement. I Think that the closer the situation or the person the harder it is to understand/hear. I think sometimes when that person is REALLY close its impossible for them to understand.
All this kind of stuff is why I hate how easy it is for us westerners to do a good turn, or be charitable, by simply giving some money to something. Comic Relief, Children in need, Church, whetever charity we feel the heart strings being pulled towards. No, do not hear that i think we should stop!!! NO WAY! Its important, but my point is thats its easy to be distant, and feel like we have done the compassion/nice thing by dropping money in a pot. We have managed to help a fellow human being without getting our hands dirty, or even we have managed to fulfil the ‘great Commission’ by giving at church, and often without ever talking to a single human being! I feel like Jesus was looking for something a little more ‘dramatic’ than that! I think thats why he wasnt to worried about the woman breaking the really expensive perfume over his head, because, sure, the money would have been useful, but actually, if she was to follow him truely, she would be giving much more anyway, eg, HERSELF!just look at that verse again. Where was Jesus reclining and eating? lets start with charity sure, but perhaps we need to live it a bit more? perhaps we need to be the ones talking to kevin on the street, perhaps we need to be eating with lepers. you understand of course that when I say WE I mean YOU! well actually I mean… I.
AMAZING! And I love that the French accent comes through so strong! T-riller, T-riller nite.
Notice that he wears different colours for each section! incredible attention to detail, this guy is dedicated!
François Macré - Thriller (64 tracks a’cappella version) (via francoismacre)
I have always had problems with those 80” medium south america’s.
“Darn it, thats the last thing I need now!”
“I’m Becoming trappen in the balloon!”
“I can still Breathe”
“I need to get out of this balloon”
After my miserable attempt at a post last time I felt it safer to post a video! this is the funniest thing I have seen in quite some time!
Balloon Fail (via failblog)
When I started this blog the primaery reaon for it wa to help me formulate my thoughts. T o bring Ideas and such to a conclusion rather than let them bounce around unfinished.
My Last post is one that I am not completely satisfied I managed to relay what it was i was thinking. So thats why I have now to call it FAIL! It s half there but not fully! I find myslef feeling like its missing something vital, but I ccant put y finger on it. i shuld have waitd longer.
Its actusallly a little howI work, I have to make mistakes, or create things that I then see what needs fixed. Its like I HAVE to have the mistakes. I basically cant see the mistakes until I actaully start the thing. And once it exists I can adjust and tweek, and add, and take away, re-form, or even start again.
I do not know why I am having a hard time feeling like i am clear enough in what I am saying! I need to stop and leave it and come back in about 25 years and sort it out!
In the mean time: I wander if your feeling like your listening to this?
Estelle Getty 1923 - 2008
I see you, looking confused at your screen, your thinking, “ok seriously we need to get this boy to a doctor or something, I mean, what the heck!”
Well I will press on regardless, and I will point out that if you are thinking that, well, sometimes I think I might sympathise with the sentiment myself!!! but honestly there is good reason for the tribute photo of the comedy Genius that is Estelle Getty, and the terrible accusation above.
There is a psychological experience that has a name and everything, its called ‘Impostor Phenomenon’ I read an article about it recently and it talked about this lady and how she ‘had it’ I would bet that there is not one person out there who does not recognize this face, and for those of you struggling, she was the ‘old one’ in the 80’s sitcom (plus many many re-runs) The Golden Girls. you have seen at least one episode! she apparently was also in a movie called ‘Stop or my Mom will Shoot’ sounds… amazing! anyway, (i know some of you have lives to live! I’m sorry!) it seems that there are a number of us that have this same experience including the writer of the article! here is a quote form her
“I live with fear as a constant companion. Can I do this week after week? Am I good enough? Will I be able to pull it off this week? Will I be able to fool them again?… …Wait till they find out I can’t do it.”
Now I will leave you to read the article and you can think what you will. I will say that there are aspects of this that are very true for me and of course some that are not. I also think this is true for so many people.
There will be an answer that is called out by many of you, and that is that all you need to do is find your worth and acceptance in God. And while this is true, i also feel it is an answer that misses something, or even, it expects something form the listener of that advice that is completely impossible, if you are indeed, experiencing this phenomenon. You see this is not a psychological issue, you read the article, the writer is simply stating that this is just the way he is, not that is something that needs to be fixed, rather it is something that needs to be handled the right way. What this answer does is it tries to fix something that will not be fixed, because the very nature of this ‘I P’ is that it is part of a persons movement forward, it has something intrinsically tied to the forward progress that the person is making, the unfortunate thing is that the person is only realising the negative part of the whole. I mean Estelle did not get where she was by being terrible, the reality is that what she thought she was pretending to do, she was still doing it, even though she was pretending!! she focused on the negative, but the rest of the world gave her awards.
I suppose my point is that there is this desire to be sincere, real honest you ARE what people see you as, and actually as long as that’s not ever realised my life continues to move on, I keep attempting to find it. you see the bottom line is that I am a searcher, that’s how I am with God, I am continually searching, for more, for something, for anything, my life is a search. so the very closed find your identity in God advise is exactly what I am doing, it just might look a little different that you might think!
There are problems though, like i said its how this phenomenon is dealt with, and I will admit to not doing to well with it in the past. and I think I managed to actively pursue a path that I ended up ACTUALLY living the life of a fraud. And simply put its because I tried to be definite, and non searching. I lived a life of closed definates that might not actually be all that definite! I don’t know, but i do need to find out. Rather than just rectify, it take a deep breath and carry on to the next thing. I want to keep searching, find something else, something, new.
I realise that I am creating so many questions for whoever might be reading this!! welI am sorry, but I like that its like that! I like that there are questions, questions find answers, and sometimes they find more questions. questions are to be asked, not always do they need to be answered. So i am actually glad to have the questions.
There are others that couldn’t give a…. whatever! and feel i have just waisted precious moments of you life, Please accept my apology!
i am going to go now. See what i can find!
enough said!
I have to admit to this video bringing a tear or two to my eyes. Incredibly beautiful, very moving indeed.
Christian Letruria - Learn to Fly | haha.nu - a lifestyle blogzine
Hands up all of you who think Albert Einstein was thick………. no I dint think there would be many! Well let me ask you this. What would your reaction be if it turned out that Albert wasnt as clever as the world believes? Well It would be a shocker of course, because there are so many theories and laws that are developed from what we know from Mr Einstein. It would throw into question all kinds of things. How could we ever trust those brains in the labs with all there books and theories, and long words! How could we ever trust science again?
I liked this article I came accross (click on the title for link to article) I esspesially liked numbers 3 & 9 “Another is that Einstein was wrong. His special theory of relativity says that space is the same in all directions, but what if particles found it easier to move in certain directions?” “It’s also possible that Einstein’s theory of general relativity may need to be tweaked” You see we think we have everything all sussed out because we can study it. BUT it all pales when it comes to actuallly experincing it. Sometimes we can live so long thinking we know things but then all of a sudden we experiance something else and we are left with a hollow sound in our brains, the sound of what we knew vanashing. Its hard for us to come to terms with it sometimes, and as the sience world has shown us we are not willing to let go what we ‘know’ for what we experiance. Because we are westerners and our learning is what makes us advanced. Thats why darwin’s mad theory is still in tact, and why Einstein’s theory might need to be ‘tweeked’. It is my believe that we rely too much on the logic god of our siociety, and we have de-valued the heart, and the experiance. for me understanding is reached through experinace, not so much the reading of a book!
Grace, for example, surely it can only be taught so much, I mean we dont know Grace because we were taught enough about it. No we experiance grace right? or do we? I mean we are taught that we do, but do we actually? I have said it myself, ‘You need to know more of God’s Grace, now, this is a really good book on Grace…!” euch!
So we are left with a question, and its a very western question, HOW? Indeed, how? I think our logic has got in the way of our experiance and we are lame, paralized in our ability to actually experiance things fully. I dont have an answer, I am trying to get there, break the ‘what I know-ness’ and allow the experince to actually led me into deeper knowledge. I suppose I want to challenge you to think hard abouot how much you experiance a thing, I think if you get honest, its not really very much. I think we are imbalanced we talk of reasons over feelings, but surely a better balance would that both feelings AND reasons are on the same page. Besides i think we use our felings more than we think. why do you not like to eat that food you dont like? is it because you react when you taste it, or have youdecided that you just dont ‘prefer’ it? how did we come to that conclusion that we will not eat thatanymore? well most of the time we just dont WANT to! but this is a whole other topic on ‘taste’ what exactly is this preference, that this person likes a thing and the next doesnt? (another day perhaps) If we are gaining deeper understnding because of what we KNOW, eg what we have experianced, then that experiance can lead us forward. We can have more reliable feelings.
Ok so I sound like a new age hippy I know! but I hope my point has been understood. what do we REALLY know? and, how do we know it?
