Archive for May 16th, 2008

PostHeaderIcon Short Messages from Pangea Day Speakers

I enjoyed these short messages that had such an outreaching theme to them.  To view the video’s please click on the links

Donald Brown – HUMAN UNIVERSALS

Ishmael Beah – CHILD SOLDIERS

PostHeaderIcon Learn another Anthem!!

This was a Project leading up to Pangea Day and I included some of my favorite Anthems.

France Sings the United States National Anthem.

Australia sings the Lebanese National Anthem.

PostHeaderIcon Happiness

What is Happiness?  These videos remind me of what happiness can be.  Click on the Title of each one to go to the Pangea Day page that gives you more information.

Happiness is:

Not found in things!

More!

UNITED STATES

If you don’t have something nice to say, change the message…

Stille Post

GERMANY

Finding a friend in an unexpected place…

Meninos

BRAZIL

Lifting the meek with music…

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

SIERRA LEONE/UNITED STATES

PostHeaderIcon Look Again…

These videos I enjoyed for their comdey, plot twists, and views about why we do things.  Click the link to go directly to the Pangea Day page where they have more info on each video.

A video about Children in Mozambique and how they have fun making balls out of the common items they can scrounge up.  Cute video and a interesting take on a small aspect of Relief Aid in Africa…

The Ball

MOZAMBIQUE 

What seems a simple video at first, but watch the end and tell me what you think..

Dancing Queen

INDIA

Alzheimer’s is an ugly disease that can destroy a family member right in front of your eyes.  Which begs the question to so many families with an Alzheimers patient…

Por Que Lo Hago?

SPAIN

Iranian Comedy with a train, two ladies, two soldiers, a kiss, and a slap.

Sili (The Slap)

IRAN

PostHeaderIcon Climate Change – Can we clean up the world?

While I agree that we have much too large of a negative effect on the environment, I don’t fall into a global warming fanatic of doom and gloom.  That said, I enjoyed some of the Pangea Day Vids dealing with this.  My favorite is a cure film called…

WILD SNOWMAN

Another Great Video was an Animated Origami from Paraguay called…

Papiroflexia.

PostHeaderIcon Tank Driver – A freelance video submission.

This was a freelance submission looking through the eyes of a tank driver at Tieneman Square in China.