The video-links only thread

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^ Sarah Angliss | TEDxBrighton

< Loving the Machine. Ms. Sarah Angliss’ TED talk is about resilience. She says, “It’s about resilience of human creativity, and our ability to adapt to the new; to express ourselves and create something astounding, compelling even in the most alienating of situations.”

(mark 7.25) “…oh, by the way, it’s clog dancing,” said Caroline, Sarah’s friend. “Clogs were the common work shoes of men and women workers in cotton mills in Lancashire and beyond. The dance that Caroline was dancing is called The Machinery. Now, this dance is astounding. It’s been handed down, since the mills closed, to brilliant dancers like Pat Tracey, who sort of borrowed it from women who worked in the mills. Interestingly, some of my ancestors worked in these Lancashire mills. It’s very dear to my heart, this story.

“This dance was designed by women who worked in the mills, and they were copying the machines around them. Now, to cut a long story short, we really got into this, and we went to Quarry Bank Mill to record all the machines.…”

Sarah goes on to say the machines were terribly loud; the conditions were cramped; women were unable to stop for a moment, or lose pace with the machines, or they’d lose their job or worse; women couldn’t hear each other speak, but they could dance to or mimic rhythms the machines produced. The women weren’t attempting to find a mystic escape place; they were coalescing with the machines. And, that’s only an example of our cultural history bound up with industrialization. As Sarah says, “Everything about this dance in its expressivity, its roboticness, reminds me of something much closer to home.” At which time, she begins a video excerpt of young men behaving like robots, playing robotic music with robotic vocal sounds.

The above concludes the extract that ends at mark 14.00.

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In The Shadow Of Hermes



Wow! Foreigner Juri Lina focuses on Masonic financing and orchestration of the Russian - and American - revolutions. Extremely illuminating! Incredible archival footage, some of which is graphic, and an eye opening history lesson from a vastly different perspective than the history we've been taught.

The documentary In the Shadow of Hermes by Jüri Lina shows how freemasons, international bankers, and communists joined forces in an unholy alliance and through the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 established in Russia the most brutal and dehumanizing slave society the world has ever seen.

Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1974 admonished his countrymen:
"Live without lies!" This applies equally to the West. The Truth in our time is in no way self-evident. Most official facts about communism are not true. Solzhenitsyn emphasized: "In our country the lie has become not just a moral category, but a pillar of the state."

The facts have been suppressed both in the East and the West.

The film "In the Shadow of Hermes" is an important documentation of those financial masonic forces that cold-bloodedly worked behind the scenes through communism to profit from the suffering of others.

The director, Jüri Lina, stresses that it is his duty to tell the truth about communism and its grey eminences, and not just superficially treat its psychopathic symptoms, while the truth today is not highly valued.

History is made every day, but by whom? The answer is given in this film, the aim of which is to unmask the truth, despite the falsifications of history, so meekly reported by the media.

To know the real history of communism is the best insurance against ideological impostors. Based on the book "Under the Sign of the Scorpion" by the Estonian dissident Jüri Lina who narrates this documentary in Swedish.

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^ Winnsboro Fine Art Market 2011

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Nerd deGrasse Tyson | Phil Plait

Speaking of Neil Tyson, if you’re a fan of his you’ll be pleased to know that his show, Star Talk Radio, is now going to be part of the Nerdist Channel network! Thats actually a pretty big deal; Chris Hardwick has created this juggernaut of Nerdist and it reaches a lot of folks.

The new show is essentially a video version of the radio show. Chris interviewed Neil about it for The Nerdist website. If you’re curious what it’ll be like, here’s a video of a live Star Talk interview he did with several comedians (Hodgman! Schaal!) and Mike Massamino, a NASA astronaut:



Cool, eh? And maybe I’ll have more news about this soon, too. Superman isn’t the only guy who walks around in his underwear Neil has talked to.

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Politicians behaving badly

[justdrew]

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Spacecraft Witnesses Solar Eclipse x 3
Universe Today | 14NOV12

On the ground, the total solar eclipse of November 13/14, 2012 was only visible to only to observers in northern Australia. But ESA’s Sun-watching satellite Proba-2 enjoyed three partial eclipses from its vantage point in space.

During a total solar eclipse, the Moon moves in front of the Sun as seen from Earth, their alignment and separation such that the much closer Moon appears large enough to block out the light from the much more distant Sun.

Since Proba-2 orbits Earth about 14.5 times per day, it can dip in and out of the Moon’s shadow around the time of a solar eclipse. The constant change in viewing angle of Proba-2 meant that the satellite passed through the shadow three times during the eclipse yesterday, as shown in the video above.

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[justdrew]

just finished and submitted this to the Free Music Archive + Prelinger Archives, Remix The Public Domain contest

let me know what you think, criticism welcome.

longest thing I've done, does the sight and sound hold together? Spotlighting the songs, while telling a story with the video. enjoy (watch on youtube to see it in full HD)

well, voting has begun, so go on over and vote for your fav

you'll be asked to create an account on the freemusic site to vote, or you can sign in with facebook/google/etc - you might have to scroll down a bit to find what you might be looking for. There's quite a few contenders now

[brainpanhandler]

Very cool drew. You've got some stiff competition.

[justdrew]

yeah, I was winning three weeks ago when I entered, but last couple weeks/days turned out the top competitors. I'm doomed.

I blame Sandy

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[psynapz]

I opened the wrong door in one of the Internet's dark hallways this morning and walked straight into this video. Being a Cronenberg fan and having a passing fascination with Japanese sociology, I was not inclined to slam it immediately shut and never speak of this again. No, as the minutes passed, one solitary phrase came to mind:

High Weirdness

and I thought only of this thread.

WARNING: May be triggering. I have no idea how exactly, but if it is, it's gonna be a baaaad ride.



> mfw it was finally over:

[Project Willow]

^^ That's awesome!

[justdrew]

great find psynapz!

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> mfw it was finally over:

You're not alone, there!

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a bit of music history | by danieljbmitchell


^ World War I Acoustical Recordings | Part 1 of 17

YOUTUBE NOTES. Uploaded on Jul 8, 2008 | Three Patriotic Songs: Over There; Send Me a Curl; We’re All Going Calling on the Kaiser

These 78 rpm phonograph recordings were made during World War I in support of the war effort. They are acoustical (recorded mechanically through a horn) and were originally played back on horn-type phonographs. I acquired them as a teenager in the 1950s from a junk store for 5 cents a piece by buying a couple a week. (If I bought more, the store owner -- noting that demand was up -- would raise the price to a dime.) The songs are divided into 17 YouTube clips.

Part 1 contains the iconic “Over There.” However, listeners may be struck by the fact that many of the songs are lighthearted and naïve about war, even comic. “We’re All Going Calling on the Kaiser” in Part 1 is typical of this tendency. Another example is Part 7’s “When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France.” The most extreme example is Part 6’s “I Don’t Want to Get Well” in which someone is eager to go to war and be shot so he can meet a beautiful nurse. (World War II songs were generally not so lighthearted; too many people remembered World War I.)

There is a great deal of love of mothers in these recordings. Perhaps the most extreme example from this era before Freudian notions penetrated the U.S. is Part 3’s “So Long Mother” in which the singer says while others have girlfriends, his only sweetheart is his mother. Of course, some soldiers were married with children. For example, there are two recordings of “Somewhere in France is Daddy” (Parts 3 and 17) and others reflect children longing for daddy overseas such as “My Daddy’s Star” (Part 16). And there are references to girlfriends: Part 8 contains two. “I’m Going to Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind” and “Don’t Try to Steal the Sweetheart of a Soldier.”

The U.S. had many immigrant groups, some of which came from the enemy side. In “Let’s All Be Americans Now” such groups are reminded that they must now be loyal to the U.S. The U.S. also had a large Irish population which was not necessarily sympathetic to the idea of fighting along with Britain. (Ireland was still controlled by Britain.) Some songs are designed to appeal to the Irish, e.g., “Where Do We Go From Here?” (Part 12). There were still Civil War veterans around at the time of World War I and efforts were made to appeal to both the north and south. “That’s a Mother’s Liberty Loan” makes a northern Civil War reference (Part 11). “The Dixie Volunteers” obviously refers to the south (Part 9). Finally, “They’ll Be So Proud in Dixie of Their Old Black Joe” was probably intended to appeal to African Americans (but its racial stereotype probably did not).

Several songs refer explicitly to France, such as “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France” (Part 2 and 12). Belgium is also depicted as a victimized country, e.g., “Belgian Rose” (Part 16). Some suggest activity on the homefront for non-soldiers, e.g., “What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys?” (Part 3).