Scratchings

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.

1. Silly chair from 1957: http://www.nfb.ca/film/a_chairy_tale
2. Really really really small: http://www.ted.com/talks/just_how_small_is_an_atom.html
3. How to win at basketball (1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKuyD4L29Fk (from Iain L)
4. Bobby McFerrin plays his audience:  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html (from Sarah G)
5. The Olympics according to Boris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEDFMKjhLRw
6. The universe according to Albert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKrRocH8M5M
7. 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 
8. What security cameras really think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Q0XTAPWi4 (from Cecile B)
9. The maddest dance you will ever see (I promise): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOE5iZmBvY (from Hazel McG)
10. Eddie Izzard on why his computer doesn't work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6C_HjWr3Nk 
11. Avant garde critique of modern society from 1961: http://www.nfb.ca/film/very_nice_very_nice
12. 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
13. Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo (from Freddy W) 
14. A ‘grandiose architectural wonder’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJ1YPQK2lE
15. Bendy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mVpGmoES3w (from Leslie L)
16. Herbie! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkzLatem0VY
17. Anouskha! ht
18. tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4RZaszNhB0
19. Wahh! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9rX1NvpXTE
20. The facts about tumbleweed: https://vimeo.com/29761450 (from Chris W and Louisa W)
21. Who ate all the pies? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZsXrzF8Cc
22. How to win at basketball (2): https://vimeo.com/6761817
23. 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/
24. Floating on top of the world: https://vimeo.com/22428395
25. Flying humans: https://vimeo.com/24720393
26. Humans not flying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhdksPFhCM
27. One love (around the world): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08
28. India in slow motion: https://vimeo.com/40123818
29. Puddles in slow motion: https://vimeo.com/31918385
30. A penny in the hat: http://www.amazingoasis.org/2013/11/best-coin-ever-spent.html
31. For the left hand alone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WakdZFCDJk
32. Michael Jackson goes gangsta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIq2UWCTCBM
33. Some good news from Mahalia Jackson, the 'best gospel singer in the world': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCsT8BFSD74
34. Talk to the moon: http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/multimedia/audio/moonbounce.html
35. Drip drop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zCUoTUHYQ
36. Lindy hop looking very cool indeed - all improvised, by the way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYWYrVuiOwc
37. '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
38. Early political cartoon with that early cartoon music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KLg1DTGT-I
39. Cosmic zoom (geek’s version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 (from Andy G)
40. Cosmic zoom (fully adjustable version): http://htwins.net/scale2/?bordercolor=white  (from Haifa R)
41. Winton Marsalis on why music matters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdEBO_1oK_g
42. Clowning about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8aL_WlvtE (from Jo Y)
43. Romanian street musicians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB3fwKXB44M
44. Holy Holy Holy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktoIs0JDWBE
45. Fascinating art/thought experiment on our modern wars: http://vimeo.com/34050994 (from Mel H) 
46. He just walks around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNGskCNrBHY
47. Amazing Grace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNN6NE8fq0U
48. Spoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Mrn_kBM3JYA
49. 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)
50. All work is rhythm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPLIuBy9CY
51. The gods are…: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a8iFSXCHLw
52. In your element(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-wSKFBpo (with annoying ad – sorry)
53. Life in two minutes: https://vimeo.com/48237094 (from Mel H)
54. Everything in 90 seconds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSt9tm3RoUU
55. 5/4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=faJE92phKzI
56. Secret world of a bookshop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8 (from Mel H)
57. The way God planned it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoD59cHNX6Y
58. On music and passion: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html (from Justinias B)
59. Lead-guessing: https://vimeo.com/40709248 (from Jess B)
60. Commercially viable, ecologically sound farm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7mQZHfFVE
61. Strictly for geeks only (really, don’t go there unless you are one): www.youtube.com/watch?v=nizDYGDdfyY
62. The People’s Choir, 700 voices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2rK_Yhpui8
63. Possibly the largest ever choir in Britain, 8,000 voices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nFE3VSBWG0
64. Latvian Choir, 10,000 voices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=baaX4-1_df0
65. Swimming reindeer: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ahow/ahow_20100121-1000a.mp3
66. Flamenco at 5.15pm: http://www.nfb.ca/film/flamenco_at_515

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