This brilliant animation is a real labour of love – many hours spent moving and re-shelving books to make this.
HT Dick Staub
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Louie Schwatzberg shoots beautiful images, particularly time-lapses. Here’s a 10-minute talk from TEDx in San Fransisco in which Schwatzberg focuses on the extraordinary beauty of the world around us. He wants us to fall in love with the world because, he says, ‘We protect what we fall in love with’. The latter part of [...] I recently came across this video of the amazing Danny Macaskill on his BMX in an industrial wasteland in Scotland. It’s simply breathtaking. A little while ago I was filmed for version 2 of Glad You Asked, a DVD-based series of 8 sessions exploring the big questions of life, produced by the excellent Innovista. The first version was excellent, so I was delighted to be involved in version 2. It will be on sale very soon, but [...] Philip Seymour Hoffman is an extraordinarily talented actor, as well as a theatre director for the last thirteen years. Now he’s turning his skills to directing a feature film for the first time with Jack Goes Boating, which is released in UK cinemas on 8 July. It looks like it’s going to be a [...] The First Grader (Soda Pictures, 12A, UK release date: 24th June) is a heart-warming true story of Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, an octogenarian Kenyan man who exercised his right to an education and battled bureaucracy to take his place at primary school. Set against the background of Maruge’s history as a Mau Mau rebel, The First Grader [...] The Christian philosopher William Lane Craig wants to have a debate with Richard Dawkins. But Dawkins refuses again and again. This video is a tongue-in-cheek challenge to Dawkins to accept when Craig tours the UK later this year. We asked people one simple question: what does Easter mean to you? We filmed outside Above Bar Church, Southampton, in April 2011. Most interviewees are from the church, and some were passers-by. The video also includes Steve Clifford from Evangelical Alliance, who was visiting the church that morning. This was filmed in association [...] HT: David Gurteen via counterfeitgods.com Posted via web from Tony Watkins Another gem of a lecture from TED: Posted via email from Tony Watkins Damaris produced an advent calendar for WesleyOwen.com. I contributed three of the short slots. The first, Day 2, is a summary of the Old Testament in a minute. I know, it’s a bit fast. You’ll have to click on the doors to find out about the others! |
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