Just saw this on Dean's World. Definitely one of my favorites.
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A good idea that most of the US is in favor of. It's also entertaining.
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A well done Food Court Musical.
Sixteen agents from Improv Everywhere staged a spontaneous musical in the food court of Baldwin Hills shopping mall in Los Angeles. It started out by one agent planted as a worker behind a food counter who just breaks out into song for no apparent reason other than she needs a napkin. The rest were planted as shoppers or eating customers and used wireless microphones tied into the malls PA system.
Watch the video. It really caught the patrons in the food court off balance: the WTF! looks on some faces are near priceless.
The link at the top of this post has the background behind the scenes from Improve Everywhere.
MY father used to say "If a pig flies you don't criticize him for doing so badly." I think the same can be said for Elephants that paint as the picture below shows.
Watching the videos below just blew me away. Some say that this isn't creativity or talent, but something the elephants learn by Rote. I choose to believe otherwise.<
Their work may only be a bit above human stick figure painting. Nevertheless it's probably a little better than I and other artistically challenged humans can do.
Watch this elephant, rescued from abusive treatment in Burma, now paint an amazing self portrait. You'll be amazed at how his talent unfolds.
So touched by their horrific backgrounds and loving personalities, ExoticWorldGifts.com now supports, "Starving Elephant Artisans" by selling their paintings so they can continue to have a new life in Thailand.
That should be worth a plug for Exotic World Gifts who sells the elephant paintings.
H/T Dean's World
Richard Kennedy a novelist, poet, philosopher and littérateur. His works include the anthology, House Of December, originally published in 1972, and his novels: Simon, The Dunning Of Harley Nesbit, and The Trip. His newest volume of verse, Love & Similar States Of Insanity, will be released in February of 2008, and his latest novel, The Encuentro, is due to be published in the summer of 2008, he resides in the DFW area. www.lulu.com/rdk
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Should that be all that's left
A piece of all we spoke
then take the scent and memory
This fragment of a hope,
and give it back to time and space
Lest it eat away my soul
of all that there has been before
I'll take the pure and clean
And put it in my special place
To keep it as a dream
then when I wake in morning's light
And look about me there
I will remember dreams of hope
So clean and pure and fair
if one has hope, then one has life
Thus life will never die
from earth to sky from dark to light
And beauty for the eye
will be yet seen perhaps in mind
The power to behold
the clean and pure of dreams and hope
Will wash and keep the soul
Copyright January 2008 - Galt
In collaboration with Contessa in Chains
This cannot be used without permission
Even if you own legal DVD copies of the music
Post Source: The Washington Post
RIAA is getting pretty nasty, and may just end up shooting themselves in the foot. In a panic mode they are going after their own customers, instead of finding ways to embrace digital technology in this new age.
Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.
The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.
The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.
What next, one player per DVD? Buy another DVD to play in your car instead of using the one you play in your home?
These are words from a 6th grade young lady. She is unknown for the writers and family didn't want for her to be exploited. For this song was not to be intended or credited toward any known artist.
During the recording, this young lady broke out in tears a few times..So if this don't make you shed a tear or two, all I can say is WOW!!!......
Dear Santa, I need to change my Christmas list
There's one big thing I missed
You see my Daddy's working for away from here
And I know Santa, I asked for a Barbie doll
And a brand new soccer ball
But I'd trade it all, for just one gift this year...
Bring him home Santa, bring him home to mom and me
Let us wake up Christmas morning, and find him standing by our tree
You can pick him up on your way, he could ride there in your sleigh
Don't make him spend Christmas all alone
Bring him home
And Santa, here's a picture that I drew
Of him in his dress blues
Mama says our country needs him over there
And you know Santa, this whole year I've been good
And I was hopin' that would
Do all you could to answer her prayer...
Bring him home Santa, bring him home to mom and me
Let us wake up Christmas morning, and find him standing by our tree
You can pick him up on your way, he could ride there in your sleigh
Don't make him spend Christmas all alone
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home
