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Hands down the best Jewish Reggae Rock I have ever heard.
Ask Hashem for mercy and he’ll throw you a rope
You’re looking for help from God you say he couldn’t be found
Searching up to the sky and looking beneath the ground
Like a King without his Crown
Follow the link and check out the video, pure genius. Thanks Rielly.
Here’s another typography video that I think is great. This one with Obadiah Parker’s cover of Outkast’s, “Hey Ya”. I should also mention that I think that this cover may be the best cover ever of a song. I actually like this song so much that I just picked up Obadiah Parker’s, “Obadiah Parker’s Live” album of iTunes. The only other cover that I can think of that comes close (I may be showing my propensity for early 90’s music here) is The Smashing Pumpkin’s cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide“.
I am making a presentation to parents of teenagers next week. Part of my talk is going to be talking to them about their kids and the culture that they live in. One of the things that I’ve been trying to figure out how to get across to them the effect that living in a culture that pushes teenagers to be criminals because of the way they interact with media.
Today, I watched a TED Talk by Larry Lessig that I think should help to get the point across nicely. The video itself is rather lengthy (19:08) but I think the last two minutes sums it up nicely. These are difficult issues to grasp and my hope is that both myself and the parents will grow from the experience.
In response to my friend CJ’s constant prompting, I am going to start making an concentrated effort to update more frequently. I still don’t have a lot to say, but I’ll pull a from the blogging bag of tricks and bring attention to some really cool things I see on other blogs.For the last couple of months, I’ve been seeing videos spring up around the internet that for lack of a better term are “typography music videos. The one I am including today is Jet’s, “Are you going to be my girl?” You only have to watch a few of these video’s to realize that they are all really drawing on each other for inspiration, but I find all the one’s that are well done to be engaging none-the-less.
Enjoy.
I just found out about the Diet Coke and Mentos thing a few days ago and know I come across this…
Seems like an appropriate way to start blogging again. From Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments II - The Domino Effect - Google Video via the Google Blog
The making of Snakes on a Plane. View the video.
