Category Archives: VIDEOS AND SLIDESHOWS
Interviewing Panda Ross – final of the X Factor, USA, 2013
Panda Ross singing on the X Factor USA in 2012
American football
School lunches around the world
Handicapped child runs a race, cheered on by teachers and classmates
9 things about Oreo you didn’t know
Msemmen – Moroccan pancake
Nail art: fuzzy panda nails
Little girls deserve good toys
Boys have always had great toys to help them imagine, build, create, play and grow… In many shops, the “little girls” aisle is full of pink glittering toys that just invite girls to dream they are princesses. Girls deserve better!
5 ways to stop biting your nails
A very simple, very clever invention – that saves lives
Lindsey Pollak makes a clarinet with a carrot
25 awesome animals you won’t believe exist
How painting can transform communities
Click on this link to listen to this great talk about helping poor people change their environment through Art:
Haas&Hahn: How painting can transform communities | Talk Video | TED.com.
Banksy filmed live
▶ Banksy filmed live by The Sunday Times – YouTube.
Here are some extracts from his interview:
“I still paint graffiti because I genuinely think the side of a canal is a more interesting place to have art than a museum. And the fact of the matter is, if you exhibit in a gallery you have to compete against Rembrandt, but if you paint down an alley you only have to compete against a dustbin. I guess it’s the art equivalent of hanging around with fat people to make yourself look thin.”
“I did art at school but I never pursued it any further. I have a large collection of famous art at home, but they’re all fakes. I make them myself. If I like a picture I grab a photo, project it up and paint it. Sometimes I change the colours to fit with the curtains. I do it partly because I’m tight and partly because if the Basquiats and Picassos in the sitting room were real I’d be too scared to ever leave the house.
“I recommend graffiti to anyone, for no other reason than a trip across town is never boring — you’re always on the lookout for new spots and what you can do on them. Likewise, if you ever get bored going round a museum, the interest level ramps up substantially when you smuggle in your own piece under a coat and glue it up somewhere.”
“I don’t make as much money as people think. The commercial galleries that have held exhibitions of my paintings are nothing to do with me. And I certainly don’t see money from the T-shirts, mugs and greeting cards. My lawyer calls me ‘the most infringed artist alive’ and wants me to do something about it. But if you’ve built a reputation on having a casual attitude towards property ownership, it seems a bit bad-mannered to kick off about copyright law.”
Guiness world record: fastest typing with the nose
Poppies at the Tower of London for Remembrance Day 2014
Ellen DeGeneres loves to scare celebrities on her TV show
21 reasons to love Cristiano Ronaldo
Diamond nail art
Carrot cupcakes recipe from Titli’s Busy Kitchen
90-year-old man arrested for feeding homeless people
(CNN) — Arnold Abbott handed out four plates of food to homeless people in a South Florida park. Then police stopped the 90-year-old from serving up another bite.
“An officer said, ‘Drop that plate right now — like I had a weapon,'” Abbott said.
Abbott and two pastors in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were charged for feeding the homeless in public on Sunday, under a new ordinance banning public food sharing.
Now they face possible jail time and a $500 fine.
“Just because of media attention we don’t stop enforcing the law. We enforce the laws here in Fort Lauderdale,” Mayor Jack Seiler said.
He defended the law in an interview with the Sun-Sentinel newspaper.
“I’m not satisfied with having a cycle of homeless in the city of Fort Lauderdale,” Seiler said. “Providing them with a meal and keeping them in that cycle on the street is not productive.”
“These are the poorest of the poor. They have nothing. They don’t have a roof over their head,” Abbott said. “Who can turn them away?”
It’s a battle Abbott has fought before. In 1999 he sued the city for banning him from feeding homeless people on the beach — and won.
He said the threat of charges won’t stop him from doing it again.
“I’m not afraid of jail. I’m not looking to go, but if I have to, I will,” he said.
On Wednesday, Abbott said he’ll be at Fort Lauderdale Beach, ready to serve another meal.
A life of freedom and danger in Alaska
4 girl chair trick
UN refugee camp for Syrians
There is no honor in racism…
The word “redskins” is a racist word to call American Indians. Yet the Washington American football team uses it as its nickname. Many people think that they should change their name, or that it should be banned from TV.
Minions official trailer
Guinness world records 2015 – fastest dog on two legs
How to make oobleck – part liquid, part solid
You can make this with two simple ingredients: water and cornstarch (cornstarch is fine flour made from corn). This stuff is really fun!