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Nowhere And Everywhere At The Same Time, No.2 – William Forsythe | Video Worth Watching

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Perhaps this might be a metaphor for how, occasionally, how difficult it feels to navigate through life. According to the YouTube page:

Suspended from automated grids, more than 400 pendulums are activated to initiate a sweeping 15 part counterpoint of tempi, spacial juxtaposition and gradients of centrifugal force which offers the spectator a constantly morphing labyrinth of significant complexity. The spectators are free to attempt a navigation of this statistically unpredictable environment, but are requested to avoid coming in contact with any of the swinging pendulums. This task, which automatically initiates and alerts the spectators innate predictive faculties, produces a lively choreography of manifold and intricate avoidance strategies.

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Why Jeff Sessions Hates Marijuana | Video Worth Watching

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The news of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind an Obama era directive that discourages enforcement of federal laws against marijuana in states where marijuana is legal has confounded many. Jimmy Kimmel has done the research and shares with us his discovery of the real motive behind Sessions’ latest action.   [Read more…]

The Mess – Living With Bi-Polar Diagnosis | Video Worth Watching

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The Mess – Living with bi-polar diagnosis. Here is one person’s attempt to communicate the experience as a video. It was a finalist in the Homespun Yarns 2017 film competition. The British web site Channel4 features an interview with Ellice Stevens.   [Read more…]

All You Have To Do Is Look Up – Timelapse 2017 | Video Worth Watching

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Keeping with yesterday’s theme of cultivating a global perspective, here’s another video that might inspire a perspective even more encompassing than global. All you have to do is look up.   [Read more…]

2017 – The United Nations Year in Review | Video Worth Watching

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Think globally, act locally. To help provide that global perspective, here is the United Nations’ retrospective on last year. 2017 : The United Nations Year in Review.   [Read more…]

‘Earth Is Where We Make Our Stand’: The Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan | Video Worth Watching

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Happy New Year! Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot was inspired by a photograph taken by Voyager I in February of 1990. A great deal has happened in our small corner of the universe in the ensuing decades. Sagan’s message is still resonant–this pale blue dot is all we have at the moment. Earth is indeed the place where we make our stand.   [Read more…]

A Call to the American Resistance | Video Worth Watching

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“The power they took from the people will be returned to the people”. Charlie Chaplin’s character at the end of the film The Great Dictator is mistaken for the autocratic leader of a fictitious European country who is about to address his troops who have invaded a neighboring country. Chaplin’s imposter seizes the opportunity to declare that he (as the dictator) has had a change of heart. He then delivers a monologue exhorting the troops to not let themselves be treated as cattle, not let themselves be used as cannon fodder, and with the love of humanity in their hearts, to fight not for slavery, but to fight for liberty.   [Read more…]

Deathless – Ibeyi | Video Worth Watching

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One year ends, a new one begins. Themes of death and rebirth, transfiguration transcending death, play out. Here is the French-Cuban twin-sisters duo, Ibeyi, with their vision: Deathless (featuring Kamasi Washington).   [Read more…]

At the Purchaser’s Option – Rhiannon Giddens | Video Worth Watching

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Rhiannon Giddens’ instrument of choice is the banjo, but not a typical banjo. As she explains in an interview with NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, she plays a replica of an early version of the banjo designed by Levi Brown in 1858 made today by Jim Hartel. This model of the banjo has a deeper sound than the standard contemporary versions.

The song was inspired by an ad for a slave being sold whose nine month-old child was described in the ad as a purchasing “option”.   [Read more…]

Everybody Knows – Leonard Cohen | Video Worth Watching

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This last year we suffered the loss of the enigmatic and evocative voice of Leonard Cohen. Even when his material is dark and moody, there is a strength and resilience that pushes us on. Though this song may resonate with the sentiment, at times, of this last year, we go on. And so it goes.   [Read more…]

Christmas Is Here! – A ‘Bad Lip Reading’ Greeting from the Trumps | Video Worth Watching

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Seasons Greetings from the Trumps (including an animatronic Trump!) — Courtesy of the folks at Bad Lip Reading   [Read more…]

Lennon and Ono – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) | Video Worth Watching

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On this third day of Christmas, here’s John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Christmas Classic: Happy Xmas (War Is Over). We can dream, can’t we? And we need dreams in order to make them real.   [Read more…]

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