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A Video Tribute to the Beauty of Pixar

This video is a mash-up of 500 scenes selected from 11 Pixar feature films.  It an amazing tribute to Pixar's animation and story-telling genius.

Here is the video.

 

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Outside the Box

If you've been thinking about ideas, planning, strategy or creativity to start the New Year, here is a short animated video  about thinking. 

It pokes a little fun at how hard some people try to think "outside-the-box" ... or at least to make you think they did. 

outside the box from joseph Pelling on Vimeo.

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Holiday Wishes

Hopefully you are spending some quality time with family and friends. 

Let me start by taking a moment to wish you all the best during this holiday season.

Your friendship and loyalty is deeply appreciated.

May this holiday season bring you wonderful memories that last a lifetime - and may 2011 prove to be your most profitable year ever.

Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year!

Uncle Jay Sings the News - Year-End Summary Song

I look forward to this each year.  Watch as Uncle Jay sings his year-end summary of the news.

Uncle Jay has a website he says "helps small minds understand big news".  Happy New Year.

"Imagine" - A New Song Around the World, by Playing For Change

Here is something worth sharing for the holiday season and new year. It is a video of different musicians, playing around the globe, combining their talents to create a new version of of John Lennon's classic, "Imagine".  Here is the video.

 

Imagine from Playing For Change Foundation on Vimeo.

Here is a link to "Stand By Me".  And here are more Playing For Change videos. 

Song Around the World.

It toook almost a year for the Playing For Change crew to complete John Lennon's "Imagine." Like other Song Around the World productions, it is played by various musicians from around the world.

Creating this piece took the crew from the favelas of Brazil to the shrines of southern India, from villages in Nepal to the glittering urban landscape of Tokyo and New York, and beyond.

The filmmakers asked musicians to record their version of the song by themselves. The finished project combines these performances to create an a "music video" of these artists playing together.

The Playing For Change Foundation and Yoko Ono joined together to launch the Power to the People campaign. The campaign seeks to advance John Lennon’s vision of peace by engaging artists and audiences to contribute to music education programs worldwide. Proceeds raised will help build music schools, support teachers and music programs, purchase instruments, and connect schools for cross-cultural learning and conflict resolution across borders.  As they say "Music IS the power: Power to the People."

Find out more at Playing For Change.

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Remember the Good Old Days of Reagonomics (Funny)

This made me smile.

Ah, the good old days.  "We told them the wealth would 'trickle down'."

Now, watch video titled “Obama Kicks Door” spoofing the President’s reaction after extending the Bush Tax-Cuts.  While Jay Leno’s Tonight Show obviously faked the video, they probably nailed the President’s reaction to the compromise.  Here it is.

 

via RightPundits.com.

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Some New TSA Slogans to Brighten Your Holiday Travel

Holiday travel can pose challenges, and the new security requirements add to them.  The TSA is just doing their job.  Here are some humorous ways to look at it.

For more, click here.

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Adam Sandler's Thanksgiving Song Video

With Thanksgiving coming this week, I thought this would help you get in the holiday spirit.  In case you forgot, Thanksgiving is an annual tradition of observing how people used to communicate before the Internet.

Click the image below to watch "Adam Sandler's Thanksgiving Song".

 

 

This Thanksgiving, cherish the time spent with your family as a reminder of why you moved very far away from your family.

My belt is already unbuckled.

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An Explanation of Quantitative Easing You'll Enjoy Watching

This was funny. 

Even if you think you know what QE2 means, or don't believe that "'The printing money' is the last refuge of failed economic empires and banana republics, and the Fed doesn't want to admit this is their only idea" ...  Watch this humorous take on what the Federal Reserve is up to, and how we got here.

 

Like much humor, there is more than a grain of truth in it.

It was made with the Xtranormal text to movie engine.

An Angry America Gets What it Deserves (in pictures)

They say a country gets the politicians it deserves or perhaps it deserves the politicians it gets.

Rather than write a commentary on the politics of an angry electorate, I'll let pictures do the talking.

Here is the cover from this week's Economist.

Here is a chart from the NYTimes showing the historic shift away from Democrats.

Here is a political cartoon showing the pendulum swinging.

And here is a faux Sesame Street reminder of why it is important to play nicely with the other children.