These are a few things I came across while trawling the internet for wonder and ways of loving. Some were suggested by followers of the blog but which I didn’t really have the right place for in the final weekly bundles. I apologise in advance for the adverts - they'll be gone after the revolution.
- Silly chair from 1957: http://www.nfb.ca/film/a_chairy_tale
- Really really really small: http://www.ted.com/talks/just_how_small_is_an_atom.html
- How to win at basketball (1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKuyD4L29Fk (from Iain L)
- Bobby McFerrin plays his audience: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html (from Sarah G)
- The Olympics according to Boris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEDFMKjhLRw
- The universe according to Albert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKrRocH8M5M
- Dancing John o'Groat's to Land's End: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx3s7s3xhjA (then he was run over by a car, but recovered a few months later and this is his latest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVDpU1qRUjM (from Tricia A) - to donate, go to www.dancebritain.com
- What security cameras really think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Q0XTAPWi4 (from Cecile B)
- The maddest dance you will ever see (I promise): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOE5iZmBvY (from Hazel McG)
- Eddie Izzard on why his computer doesn't work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6C_HjWr3Nk
- Avant garde critique of modern society from 1961: http://www.nfb.ca/film/very_nice_very_nice
- Can you work out how many black cabs there are in London from standing on a street corner? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyX79mPm2xY
- Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo (from Freddy W)
- A ‘grandiose architectural wonder’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJ1YPQK2lE
- Bendy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mVpGmoES3w (from Leslie L)
- Herbie! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkzLatem0VY
- Anouskha! ht
- tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4RZaszNhB0
- Wahh! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9rX1NvpXTE
- The facts about tumbleweed: https://vimeo.com/29761450 (from Chris W and Louisa W)
- Who ate all the pies? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZsXrzF8Cc
- How to win at basketball (2): https://vimeo.com/6761817
- Memorial - Alice Oswald reads the last part of this extraordinary elegy on the Trojan War (from memory): http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/prizeforwriting/2013/winner/
- Floating on top of the world: https://vimeo.com/22428395
- Flying humans: https://vimeo.com/24720393
- Humans not flying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhdksPFhCM
- One love (around the world): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08
- India in slow motion: https://vimeo.com/40123818
- Puddles in slow motion: https://vimeo.com/31918385
- A penny in the hat: http://www.amazingoasis.org/2013/11/best-coin-ever-spent.html
- For the left hand alone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WakdZFCDJk
- Michael Jackson goes gangsta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIq2UWCTCBM
- Some good news from Mahalia Jackson, the 'best gospel singer in the world': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCsT8BFSD74
- Talk to the moon: http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/multimedia/audio/moonbounce.html
- Drip drop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zCUoTUHYQ
- Lindy hop looking very cool indeed - all improvised, by the way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYWYrVuiOwc
- 'I can't send any more emails. I can't hold a placard any more. We've got to this serious crunch point ... bigger things need to start happening.': http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2013/feb/21/occupy-power-station-no-dash-for-gas-video
- Early political cartoon with that early cartoon music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KLg1DTGT-I
- Cosmic zoom (geek’s version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 (from Andy G)
- Cosmic zoom (fully adjustable version): http://htwins.net/scale2/?bordercolor=white (from Haifa R)
- Winton Marsalis on why music matters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdEBO_1oK_g
- Clowning about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8aL_WlvtE (from Jo Y)
- Romanian street musicians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB3fwKXB44M
- Holy Holy Holy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktoIs0JDWBE
- Fascinating art/thought experiment on our modern wars: http://vimeo.com/34050994 (from Mel H)
- He just walks around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNGskCNrBHY
- Amazing Grace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNN6NE8fq0U
- Spoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Mrn_kBM3JYA
- Dawn chorus, slowed down, transcribed, given to humans to sing, recorded, speeded up, shown to us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCCpnDtgxXk (From Jonathan B and Sarah G)
- All work is rhythm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPLIuBy9CY
- The gods are…: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a8iFSXCHLw
- In your element(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-wSKFBpo (with annoying ad – sorry)
- Life in two minutes: https://vimeo.com/48237094 (from Mel H)
- Everything in 90 seconds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSt9tm3RoUU
- 5/4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=faJE92phKzI
- Secret world of a bookshop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8 (from Mel H)
- The way God planned it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoD59cHNX6Y
- On music and passion: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html (from Justinias B)
- Lead-guessing: https://vimeo.com/40709248 (from Jess B)
- Commercially viable, ecologically sound farm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7mQZHfFVE
- Strictly for geeks only (really, don’t go there unless you are one): www.youtube.com/watch?v=nizDYGDdfyY
- The People’s Choir, 700 voices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2rK_Yhpui8
- Possibly the largest ever choir in Britain, 8,000 voices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nFE3VSBWG0
- Latvian Choir, 10,000 voices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=baaX4-1_df0
- Swimming reindeer: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100121-1000a.mp3
- Flamenco at 5.15pm: http://www.nfb.ca/film/flamenco_at_515
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