Dan Cosidine & Accents

Dan Cosidine is amazing!  His accents are spot on and he's rather amusing to listen to.

City of Rio de Janeiro

Eduardo Paes is the mayor of Rio de Janeiro and he has a great vision for his city.  His city was even awarded the 2016 Olympics due to him.  He sounds like the best mayor ever!

And then I click on a nearby link...

And another...

Now I'm not sure what to think of him.  And then I read this article, which is a relief to read after so much eviction.  The article basically states that Eduardo Paes was pressured into signing a decree giving the poor within their favelas a chance to fight back.  The reason I have conjured in my head for Paes evicting so many people was that the people living in the favelas had no deeds to their houses because they had built them so long ago.  What a dirty trick...

The Butterfly Circus

The Butterfly Circus is absolutely beautiful and simplistic award-winning short film.  I cried when I saw it, I was so moved.

The Upstart Crow

Stop motion video for a creative scholarship fund by my favorite living artist, Cory Godbey.  He did this for a friend of his, Micah Coston, who is attempting to pursue a doctoral degree in English and Shakespeare Studies at Oxford, Cambridge, AND the Shakespeare Institute.  For more info go to http://www.micahcoston.com/upstartcrow

Botanicula

Cute little trailer for a point'n'click exploration game called Botanicula.

Animated Short Film

Divers (Short Animation) from Paris Mavroidis on Vimeo.

So hypnotic...

Hipsters

I do not claim to be a hipster, but I am rather enraptured by the subculture.

Prescription Hipster Eyewear for Kids by Very French Gangsters. I dare you to be cuter than these kids!

Kinda funny how they put a hipster spin on The Hunger Games.

Air New Zealand promotional video with a blogger I follow, Isaac Hindin-Miller. I always get super excited when I see people I follow in YouTube videos.

What hipsters will be like when they get older. :)

The Bunny Song

I ate my dark chocolate Lindt bunny last night because I couldn't wait for Easter, and since I grew up with Veggietales, I started to sing The Bunny Song.

Selfless Vicar From The Titanic

onshiveringranksofgrey:

John Harper was a vicar on the Titanic. After putting his six year old daughter onto a lifeboat and telling her “He would see her again one day”, he remained on the ship as one of the few civilians helping to enforce the Birkenhead Drill (women and children first).

Harper was thrown into the water when the ship broke in half, and then took off his lifejacket, giving it to a young man on a piece of debris, telling him “You need it more than me”. Harper died of hypothermia a few minutes later.

The man on the debris that Harper had given his lifejacket to was one of the six that was rescued by a lifeboat.

(Source: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/john-harper.html; more detailed account of death at http://atwistedcrownofthorns.com/2012/03/25/john-harper-the-preacher-who-went-evangelizing-on-the-titanic/) 

From My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

Stop Motion Short Film

Stop motion short film by Juan Pablo Zaramella from Buenos Aires.  Very imaginative!

Dancing Behind People Is Better Than Scaring Them

He he.  Must do!

Technology Used As A Crutch

A To Do List to Make You Laugh

Galdalf Makes Me Laugh

Hehe... :D