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put down your ipads and put on your ipatches!

kester holds forth on pirates on ted talks exeter...

i liked his book but never got round to reviewing it - especially the first half of the book and his exploration of the commons and beating the bounds. 

so much beauty in the world...

northern lights

chasing ice

last night i went to see the film chasing ice which was put on by ealing transition. it's well worth seeing if you get a chance. if you are in doubt about the shifts in climate, after watching james balog's time lapse movies of glaciers you will have a visual picture that is at the same time utterly compelling visually and will make you want to lament. it's what he calls the extreme ice survey. the commitment to place 25 cameras in extreme positions and conditions to take hourly photographs of glaciers is amazing...

james balog gave a TED talk in 2009 and towards the end of this you see some of the time lapse movies. it's well worth 20 minutes of your life.

i have been meaning to go to a gathering of ealing transition for a while so it was good to finally go and meet people and hear of local initiatives in response to climate change and shifting our dependency on oil. it's an extraordinary movement. one of the anglican 5 marks of mission is care for the environment. one brilliant way of doing that would be to join in with transiition if it's going on near you.

if you liked the ADVENTurous movies

it was a great day at ADVENTurous yesterday - if you liked the movies shown, several were from proost and three were made especially for ADVENTurous.

elf issues and garbage garbage were both by jon birch and shown in the day

prophet(tear) and wonky donkey were both on display in the exhibition and harry performed wonky donkey.

if you are interested in advent resources on proost, have a look at our advent news which summarises lots, or click on the seasons button and search advent and/or christmas.

oh and it's been pointed out to me after my blog post yesterday that advent actually starts today - advent sunday - of course! so all you people who have advent calendars with a dec 1 or advent candles with a 1 what were you thinking?!

reversible thinking

i love this video created by sarah roberts. sarah is from edinburgh and is on the missional entrepreneurship week which is part of the cms pioneer training. a year ago sarah left her job with a dream and idea of working to help young people whose parents are in prison in scotland and is on the week to work that idea up. she is working with families outside

rembihnutur - thanks bob!

Sigur Rós - Rembihnútur from Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on Vimeo.

bob carlton sent me a link a couple of weeks back to a new video from sigur ros. they have commissioned a series of films to go with the album valteri. this one tied in so perfectly with the wake up theme and service i outlined in the previous blog post i couldn't believe it! we showed this during the communion at the end of the service. i was so hoping that one of the people would open thier eyes towards the end and sure enough...

weed it and reap

what a lovely story - weed it and reap

gorgeous loops

it's been quite a remarkable few months on proost. wonderful content has just made its way to us as if by magic! we've had seasons before where we've had to do much more searching it out. this month on proost we have two new artists which we always love...

tim dendy is a london based freelance video maker, vj and photographer who is in moot. years back we did a series of worship images in a video tape as it was then between the ground breaking collective one small barking dog and grace. anyway he has created 7 movie loops using time lapse photography that are really gorgeous - VJ Loops 4. tim's loops seem to blend both the beauty and fast paced nature of life in the city. if you look on the VJ loops 4 page you can watch one of the loops there. in keeping with the ever shifting realm of technology we have made these loops hd size - i.e. great quality and size.  

then we have an album dark matter from a feckless boy. they hail from scotland and their music is soulful, aching and spiritual. there's something in the scottish soil that seems to cultivate this sort of soulful artistry in wonderful measure. have a listen to the preview track beza's song on the album page.

india is...

i have got to know jonathan simpson through his dad phil who is a good friend and who works at cms. his dad travels around asia networking, catalysing and supporting mission. his son has clearly caught the love of asia and travel and he is quite the photographer. have a look through the images on his web site which is a lovely site all round.

anyway these days if you've got a decent camera which jonathan has, you can shoot fabulous movies and there are several movies on the site as well...

jonathan has put a movie together and entered it in india is... - a competition to capture something of india in a short film. his movie is india is for skiers. go and have a look and do take the trouble to vote for him!

parables

kate tempest on random acts performing parables...

if you are looking for christmas movies...

...we have a couple of new ones on proost...

noisy night is ideal for all ages on christmas day and complements silent night from previous years. noisy night began life as an asbojesus cartoon

immaculate mary is a spoken word piece by harry baker animated by jon birch reflecting on mary, an ordinary girl being visited by an angel

roll on christmas - worship trick 14, series 4

roll on christmas - brilliant playful facebook movie featuring you from the creators of shipoffools and featuring milton jones!

prayer for the fallen - worship trick 13, series 4

nick ashman has written a piece of music and created ths movie for remembrance day in memory of his grandad

wrong worship

wrong worship

curtain call

shrigley walker from jonny baker on Vimeo.

ron arad's curtain call at the roundhouse is totally brilliant! it is a huge curtain made of translucent elastic/plastic tubes that form a huge circle inside which movies are projected onto in the round. a bundle of artists have been commissioned and together make up two hours of material that plays through. the challenge for the artists i assume is how to make the most of the context - a huge round screen. greyhounds racing round, a huge circular piano keyboard, wonderful immersive animations and patterns are some of the ideas on display. my favourite and seemingly quite  a few other peoples is david shrigley's walker who simply walks round, pauses and sighs i took a little movie on jen's camera which you can see above.

and you donate what you can. the roundhouse us one of my favourite venues in london and this seems a perfect way to celebrate five years since it's relaunch. it works perfectly in the space. the evening we were there there was also a performance of experimental music and projections and various things are going on like that. you must go and see it if you have  the chance - it's on ujntil 29 august i think. belgos is over the road so a couple of belgian ales with joel made for a perfect night out in this wonderful city london...

a plus was that there didn't seem to be any embargo on taking photographs which made a refreshing change. the screen of course is the envy of alt worship groups everywhere - what could be a better environment for worship?!

59 - tea fuelled art produce a video with harry baker

harry has been doing poetry at various spoken word events round london over the last year. at one of the evenings run by tea fuelled art the monies raised on the door go to a creative project. not sure exactly how it came about, but they put money from one night into making a video with harry of one of his poem's - 59. it's quite brilliant (if you'll forgive the proud dad perspective...).

tunnel

chirk tunnel from jonny baker on Vimeo.

one of a few movies i have added to vimeo from our holiday

come to us or go to them

come to us or go to them

diskyples

harry is notching up a few commissioned poems for word live uk. this is the latest filmed around our house of the disciples wondering whether they can trust saul... and it's worship trick 5 series 4!

power of sun

the guys at kore send out a monthly e-mail and in their latest link to some finds on the web. two were particularly good. the first - the power of the sun is just a wonderful movie. shame pentecost has just happened! and i'll blog about the seond separately...