Wouldn't life be more wonderful if we all were victims of spontaneous dance? http://ad.vu/2per #fb

T-Mobile video advertisement filmed at 11am, Thursday, January 15, 2009 at Liverpool Street station in London, England. And if you’ve seen this already, get out there and dance!

Track List

1. Lulu - Shout
2. Yazz - The only way is up
3. Pussycat Dolls - Don't cha
4. Viennese Waltz
5. Kool & the Gang
6. Rainbow - Since you've been gone
7. Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
8. Contours - Do you love me

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Wouldn=?ISO-8859-1?B?uQ==?=t life be more wonderful if we all were victims of spontaneous dance? http://ad.vu/2per #fb

T-Mobile video advertisement filmed at 11am, Thursday, January 15, 2009 at Liverpool Street station in London, England. And if you’ve seen this already, get out there and dance!

Track List

1. Lulu - Shout
2. Yazz - The only way is up
3. Pussycat Dolls - Don't cha
4. Viennese Waltz
5. Kool & the Gang
6. Rainbow - Since you've been gone
7. Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
8. Contours - Do you love me

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lost in a moment | dennis wheatley video

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Mesmerizing.

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one take impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean.

We were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst we were in Tokyo.
Take our hands out of the equation... let the camera have its own journey.

I'd taken a cannibalised record turntable with me from the UK with the idea of filming slow panoramas but it was painfully bumpy and stopped every minute.

Then we had our eureka moment and filmed this.

A few years later I was working on a piece of music and married the two together.
The music is all about that feeling when you're half asleep in the sun.. the ambiance of foreign voices becomes a lullaby to dream away.
There's something beautiful in not understanding a language.. it becomes abstract, musical.
Opera is so much better when you can't understand the words!

What we loved about watching this film back was the space that the camera was able to enter.. extremely personal and scrutinising but not too lingering.
dennis

The music is 'lost in a moment' by 'shrift' from the album of the same name.
myspace.com/shriftspace

more trivia: film was originally taken in 1998... married with the music much later.

Thanks for all the positive comments.. will upload a better quality version soon.

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Absolutely brilliant: Mike Rowe at TED RT @nancyduarte: I *heart* Mike Rowe: http://snipurl.com/ekkfv

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Brilliant presentation by "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe. Make sure you listen to the very end and his diatribe on how American culture has "waged war on work" and lost the value, meaning and significance of good, hard work.

I may just have to start watching "Dirty Jobs" now. Gained tremendous respect for the mission behind the show, which up to now I have completely missed.

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Waterskidding. With my luck I'd get rug burns h/t @EnviroGraffiti #fb

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A new favorite instant noodle: Long Kow's Crystal Noodle

I picked this up at Don Quijote in Honolulu [ http://www.donki.com/c/shop/shop_en.php?lang=en&shopid=1000] a couple weeks ago because it was on sale. I’m always a little skeptical about dried noodles to which you only add boiling water, but this is exceptional.

Different from the more commonly known instant ramen noodles, this is non-fried bean thread noodle. People in Hawaii would call it “long rice.” In my Cantonese culinary culture, we grew up calling it mai fun. It’s the same hard, dried, translucent threads thrown into sizzling hot oil that balloons up into the delicate, melt-in-your-mouth threads sometimes used in Chinese chicken salad or as a decorative bed underneath Chinese meat entrées. [You can read about the vast variety of Chinese noodles on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_noodles]

Preparing these noodles was a simple as opening the wrapper, placing the brick of soup base on top of the noodles, adding boiling water, then covering with the provided lid for 3 minutes. This particular flavor, sesame bean paste, came with an additional seasoning packet squeezed over the cooked noodles before serving. The bowl served up a hearty and delicious mini-meal that included freeze-dried bok choy that also plumped up quite nicely. Tiny bits of pork floated in the broth. Altogether, a very satisfying experience, one I’d highly recommend.

Note: I’ve also tried the vegetable egg flavor, equally good and for the non-spicy palate and good for nursing a cold. Waiting in my pantry to try: spicy tofu.

*Great for college students and for about $2 a bowl, easy on the pocket book. Available online.

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Stewardship Buzz | Lent Blog Post

Stewardship has long been a buzz word in the church.
 
We use the word stewardship to talk about how we appropriate our gifts, our resources – all that we have from our money in bank to the muscles in our back.
 
Wikipedia sums up the term and its history nicely:
 

Stewardship is personal responsibility for taking care of another person's property or financial affairs or in religious orders taking care of finances. Historically, stewardship was the responsibility given to household servants to bring food and drinks to a castle dining hall. The term was then expanded to indicate a household employee's responsibility for managing household or domestic affairs. Stewardship later became the responsibility for taking care of passengers' domestic needs on a ship, train and airplane, or managing the service provided to diners in a restaurant. The term continues to be used in these specific ways, but it is also used in a more general way to refer to a responsibility to take care of something one does not own. "Every person has a responsibility to look after the planet both for themselves and for the future generations. Acting irresponsibly could cause damage such as pollution, the destruction of cultural herritage, etc."  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewardship]

The concept behind stewardship puts us basically in the role of manager and not proprietor.
 
For me, it’s honestly a psychological ploy or maybe even sly euphemism to get us to let go of what we’ve got. In other words, if we are stewards, we have the “privilege” of serving it up, opening the gates, regulating the flow, deciding the course with everything in an outward direction.
 
Jesus drove in points about stewardship in his teachings. In the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-28 he addresses how a wise steward ought to invest the master’s wealth with intent of increasing the principle. The man given five talents of money doubles his money, as does the man given two talents – and the master commends them for this. But the man with one talent buries it in the ground, and receives no appreciation on the money, nor any from his master.
 
Interestingly, quite the opposite in the Parable of the Shrewd Manager [Luke 16:1-15], Jesus offers up the story of a manager accused of poor stewardship but whom the master in the end commends for his management skills even though it yield a net financial loss. The short story is on the eve of potentially losing his job, the manager strips a debt of 800 gallons of olive oil oiled the master to 400. He reduces another man’s 1000 bushels of wheat owed to 800. Jesus’ makes his teaching point this:
 

The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

With these and other Biblical passages as backdrop, my language for talking about money has always used the “S” word – Stewardship. And the questions revolving around money and resource issues, challenges…okay, procurement, have prodded conversations about use and management philosophies.
 
However, I’ve got another problem.
I’ll say it blankly. My struggles with Stewardship—how much, to whom, when, how—are really not so much Stewardship issues but Ownership issues.
 
I’m struggle not because I am a Steward but because I deep down inside I believe I’m the Owner
Sure, I say all that I have is yours, Lord—but I say it with an attitude of it’s still mine and I’m giving it back to you. Maybe it was yours in the beginning, but I took ownership of it and, honestly, I kind of liked it, and now in good conscious because I know it’s the proper thing to do, I am giving it back to you. Some of it. The part I don’t need. The portion that makes me feel good when I generously give. But not all of it. Only what I can afford to give away, but I’m saving the rest for Me.
 
I am giving. I have control. I have will. I have choice. I have responsibility. I am making the decision. Someday if I’ve done a good job, I’ll be commended for it. I, I, I.
 
Why am I so possessive? Why do I want to exact so much control? I wonder if it’s a lack of trust. Or maybe I don’t understand my relationship with God as well as I thought. And maybe I don’t understand my need and my fears.
 
Maybe I need to just stop thinking of myself as owner.
What would happen if I signed away all my possessions to God? Everything, the small stuff as well as the big: My car, my clothes, the laundry detergent I use to wash my clothes. The hours in the day, my quiet time with God. My skills and education, my work experience. The food I eat, the parties I attend, the music I listen to. The Internet. The tea I bought in China last year, the pants that I say God bought for me. My diamond engagement ring, the old jade passed down to me from my grandmother. The roads and highways, the traffic signal, everything city, county, state, and federal. My creative work, my words, this writing.
 
And if not owner, what? A tenant, renter, user, borrower? A leech? Or how about a different view altogether
 
Am I afraid of poverty?
Tonight we had dinner with Rafonzel Fazon, a young woman, 21 years old who came from the poorest of the poor areas in the Philippines. She became a Compassion International sponsored child when she was five, supported, fed, educated, encouraged by a sponsor in the U.S. whom she has never met. She is now working towards her bachelor’s degree in communications and in a special program that pays for her college tuition while continuing to nurture her as a disciple of Jesus Christ.
 
She said that when she was little she used to be so hungry and would worry every day what she might get to eat. Every day she worried about a meal. But through the Compassion program that works to “release children from poverty in Jesus’ name,” she worries no more.
 
She says this: Poverty is the fear that you will not have enough. But because I know that Jesus is taking care of all my needs, I do not fear anymore.  That, she says is being released from poverty.
 
I need to reconsider my perspective.
Do I fear that I will not have enough? Do I fear that God will not have enough for me, so I stash some on the side?
 
In Jesus’ parables mentioned above, the first one talks about multiplication, it demonstrates an investment of resources that yields far way more than the principle: two- and five-fold. That’s a pretty high return. The second one speaks of divestment that wins friends and a place in eternity. In both parables, the stewards use their masters’ money, and in both, except for the servant who makes neither money nor friends, they are rewarded handsomely.
 
The point? It’s not mine to have, not mine to own and if I try to own things, they will own me. A purchase does not make it mine, only mine to use and pass on.
 
Jesus says in Mark 8:35-36: For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

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LORD, help me to not make a claim on my own life. Help me to not look for ownership papers that make things “mine.” Help me to see your generosity and your genius and to trust in you. Remake me yet again in your Holy Spirit, and release me from the poverty of fear. In Jesus’ name.

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