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31 Jan 2011
The kids of the PS22 school Chorus (who I've posted lots of before) are also very excited when Oscar host Ann Hathaway walks in to tell them.
Whenever I see these kids singing with Tori Amos or Kylie and becoming YouTube sensations, I can't help thinking what it must be like to be a kid at this school who's not in the chorus. Wouldn't you be just ragin'!?
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31 Jan 2011
Once when I was doing a gig in Belfast with Veda we got in a taxi which turned out to be a "karaoke cab". The driver had a karaoke machine on the dash board and a lyrics screen and two microphones in the back and we spent a hilarious trip belting out Tears Of A Clown. In many trips to Belfast since I've never come across him again.
Well, when I finally make it to Brazil I want this guy to be my taxi driver. Check out his brilliant Michael Jackson impression.
(via urlesque)
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31 Jan 2011
Czech animator Jan Svankmajer strikingly original 1998 interpretation of Lewis Carroll's classic tale combines live action with stop-motion animation. Svankmajer's Alice remains true to Carroll's original while at the same time bringing his own style and obsessions to it. In this scene Alice encounters the creepy taxidermy White Rabbit and follows him to Wonderland.
In this scene, Alice meets the Caterpillar who gives her some advice.
In this scene Alice enters the Court and meets the Queen Of Hearts.
(thanks Leah)
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31 Jan 2011
Dylan Haskins is an impressive young man (I know him personally) who is standing as an independent in the election in Dublin South East, and he has the best ad of the campaign so far, made in the whiteboard illustrated style of the popular RSAnimate lecture series.
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31 Jan 2011
Station House Opera in London commissioned this impressive piece which happened in July 2009. Put together by "a huge production team supported by hundreds of volunteers", thousands of concrete block dominoes fall their way for miles through London, across cemeteries, along streets, through houses, down Underground tunnels and along canals, gathering a cheering crowd as they go, before finishing up at the Opera. Impressive, and tiring just thinking about!
If you want more, there's a longer version of the film HERE.
(thanks Emily)
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31 Jan 2011
Our New York bureau chief has been quiet of late, but being snowed in has driven him back to his laptop:
Angelo's New York Nelly News
Gays in the Military a Threat to Wildlife
When thousands of black birds fell from the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas, with no apparent cause of death initially visible, their wings had barely stopped flapping before the conspiracy nuts were speculating that the cause might be everything from secret military tests involving poison gas to UFOs or even the end of the world. The fact that a few weeks earlier thousands of fish had turned up dead in a nearby river only whipped the nuts up into further frenzy.
But the prize for the most ludicrous bit of magical thinking has to go to Texas minister Cindy Jacobs, who managed to tie the demise of these unfortunate fowls to, of all things, the December repeal of the US military's Don't' Ask, Don't Tell ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the ranks. And the link? The policy was originally implemented in 1993 by then-president Bill Clinton, who before that was of course governor of what state? That's right, ARKANSAS! Spooky. And to make it even eerier, the birds fell near a town called Beebe, and the current governor of Arkansas is named Beebe, though how that connects to DADT is totally unclear to this atheist. But one thing is absolutely clear to Cindy: God is not happy, and He just might take out a few of his other creatures to demonstrate His displeasure: "It could be because we have said it's okay for people who commit these kinds of acts to be recognized in our military for the first time in our history, there is a potential that there is something that actually happened in the land where a hundred thousand drum fish died and also where these birds just fell out of the air."
Now how can you argue with airtight logic like that? The scientific explanation of course, turns out to be much more prosaic: The birds, who have poor eyesight and rarely fly at night, were roused by celebratory fireworks and died after receiving blunt head trauma when they flew into trees, buildings and such. But scientists are still flummoxed about what killed the fish, so maybe it's really just the lesbians that God is angry about.
Posted by Angelo.
Contact: nynellynews@gmail.com
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30 Jan 2011
Well this is a fun/exciting bit of news. Henry Cavill is going to be the new Superman according to director Zack Snyder. Ah I'm thrilled for Henry - who has spent a lot of time in Dublin over the past few years while filming The Tudors TV series - especially as he has always been interested in the role and came quite close to being cast in Superman Returns before being pipped by Bandon Routh. Ahhhh.... see? Dreams do come true Kids! Well, they do if you're super hot anyway!
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30 Jan 2011
"We will not be silenced! Whether you are Christian, whether you are a Muslim, whether you are an atheist, you will demand your goddamn rights, and we will have or rights one way or the other! We will never be silenced!"
(via Towleroad)
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30 Jan 2011
Sad, awful and depressing.
At the funeral of murdered Ugandan gay activist David Kato, the Anglican priest conducting the service railed against gays and homosexuality prompting an angry response from Kato's friends and fellow activists. A scuffle broke out and later local villagers refused to allow the burial. Eventually Kato's friends had to bury the body themselves.
Africasia reports:
A scuffle erupted Friday at the funeral of a murdered Ugandan gay rights activist after the presiding priest charged that homosexuality is "evil and will be punished by God."
"You must repent. Even the animals know the difference between a male and a female," Anglican priest Thomas Musoke told mourners at the funeral of David Kato who was killed Wednesday at his home outside the capital Kampala.
"How can human beings claim they don't know the difference between a man and a woman and that the two have different roles?" said Musoke, to shouts of support by some in the gathering.
Musoke's role was already unwelcome to some mourners and his lengthy sermon that crescendoed with gay bashing riled the leader of the Sexual Minorities Group in Uganda, Julian Pepe, who pulled the microphone from the priest, sparking a scuffle.
Read the rest.
Reuters reports:
Gay activists, wearing T-shirts featuring Kato's face with sleeves coloured with the gay pride flag, then stormed the pulpit and grabbed the microphone.
"It is ungodly," the pastor shouted, before being blocked from sight.
An unidentified female activist then began to shout from the pulpit.
"Who are you to judge others?" she shouted. "We have not come to fight. You are not the judge of us. As long as he's gone to God his creator, who are we to judge Kato?"
Locals intervened on the side of the pastor and scuffles broke out before he was taken away to Kato's father's house to calm the situation.
Villagers then refused to bury the body at which point a group of Kato's friends, most of whom were gay, carried his coffin to the grave and buried it themselves.
Read the rest.
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30 Jan 2011
The Sound Of Music recut as a chiller.
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