1000 Hands April 1, 2009
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Sent by a friend who knew I would love this beautiful exhibition of human excellence.
(N.B. Read the paragraph below FIRST before you watch the video.)
There is an awesome dance, called the Thousand-Hand Guanyin, which is making the rounds across the net.
Considering the tight coordination required, their accomplishment is nothing short of amazing,even if they were not all deaf.
Yes, you read correctly. All 21 of the dancers are complete deaf-mutes. Relying only on signals from trainers at the four
corners of the stage, these extraordinary dancers deliver a visual spectacle that is at once intricate and stirring.
Its first major international debut was in Athens at the closing ceremonies for the 2004 Paralympics. But it had long been in
the repertoire of the Chinese Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe and had traveled to more than 40 countries.
Its lead dancer is 29 year old Tai Lihua, who has a BA from the Hubei Fine Arts Institute. The video was recorded in Beijing during the Spring Festival last year.
What’s in a name? March 24, 2009
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Only 5 people have the same first and last name as my son, even though 413,130 have his first name.
5 for my husband and 3 for my daughter.
Who would have thought?
My daughter has a friend over right now, and there is only one person in the US with her name.
I wonder how many other “uniques” there are?
(HT Rational Jenn)
Chess for Girls March 17, 2009
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I can’t embed this directly, but you can access this Saturday Night Live “commercial” via videosift.com.
Definitely worth a click.
Music with a Message March 9, 2009
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IT AIN’T YOUR MONEY TO SPEND! �
Kathleen Stewart has a great song written just for our time.
I couldn’t upload it so you wil just have to click on her
photo and follow the link.
Enjoy!!
(HT Patrick)
My Quasi-Random Album March 6, 2009
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Initially I wasn’t going to “play” but this ended up being a quick, fun diversion. The game is putting together a music album cover by “your” band. Give it a name, an image and song titles. Instructions follow my “album.”
A Different World
Song Titles:
1. My mind is my own church. by Thomas Paine
2. Don’t betray them. by Robert Pollack
3. Delicious Ambiguity by Gilda Radner
4. Resemblance to the First by Ronald Reagan
5. With Diligence and Attention by Sir Francis Bacon
6. Real Money by Sen. Everett Dirkson
Here’s how to play:
If you’re curious about what your own randomly generated album cover would look like, here are the instructions found over at Gus Van Horn via 3 Ring Binder .
1 – Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random,” or click here. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. [My first was GTCO so I cheated and clicked til I got one I liked.]
2 – Go to “Random quotations” or click here. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. OR, if quotationspage.com is down, try going to Brainy Quotes and use the Quote of the Moment as your quote. [I decided to make a whole song set by taking the last few words of any quote that sounded like a good song title.]
3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click here. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. [OK –I cheated on this one too and just took one I liked.]
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