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#70 Patagonia Sin Represas

2012-01-28T04:24:00.000-08:00

Patagonia Sin Represas from Bridget Besaw on Vimeo.

#69 Patagonia Timelapse

2012-01-27T05:32:00.000-08:00

#68 All I Can (trailer)

2012-01-26T03:47:00.000-08:00

#67 Journey on the Wild Coast (trailer)

2012-01-25T07:22:00.000-08:00

#66 Chasing Water (trailer)

2012-01-24T04:55:00.000-08:00

Chasing Water - Trailer from Peter McBride on Vimeo.

MORE

#65 Midway (Trailer)

2012-01-23T05:24:00.000-08:00

I first learned about this film here.

MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan from Midway on Vimeo.

#64 Spoil

2012-01-22T12:28:00.000-08:00

SPOIL from EP Films on Vimeo.

#63 Biking across Egypt

2012-01-21T05:22:00.000-08:00

From the Outside Tumblr:

TAKE A SEAT EGYPT (TEASE) from dominic Gill on Vimeo.

MORE

#62 Iceland - Midnight Sun

2012-01-20T19:17:00.000-08:00

Midnight Sun | Iceland from SCIENTIFANTASTIC on Vimeo.

#61 Peter Rollins: Deny the Resurrection

2012-01-19T03:41:00.000-08:00

#60 Peter Rollins, Material Faith

2012-01-18T05:16:00.000-08:00

#59 Stop the Sales

2012-01-17T02:00:00.000-08:00

#58 Story

2012-01-16T09:45:00.000-08:00

Today's 3-video extravaganza was supposed to be posted on Dec. 31. Oops.

Donald Miller: Why Does Story Matter?

Why does story matter? with Donald Miller from Brian Mosley on Vimeo.

Donald Miller: Story (at Mars Hill, 56 min)

Rob Bell: Nooma, Today

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

#57 The Season 2.11: The Choice

2012-01-15T05:34:00.000-08:00

#56 Art Gish: Old Radicals

2012-01-14T05:36:00.000-08:00

From Noonday Films:

Old Radicals from matthew leahy on Vimeo.

#55 The Season 2.12

2012-01-13T04:23:00.000-08:00

From The Season:

The Season 2.12...Do The Math from Fitz Cahall and Bryan Smith on Vimeo.

#54 TOMS Shoes

2012-01-10T03:42:00.000-08:00

#53 Land Called Paradise

2011-11-06T17:39:00.000-08:00

#52 Stephen Colbert: Jesus

2011-11-06T17:38:00.001-08:00

The Colbert Report
Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive

#51 World Vision: Sabina

2011-11-06T17:37:00.001-08:00

#50 Rob Bell: Nooma, Rich

2011-11-06T17:35:00.000-08:00

#49 Chris Sharma

2011-11-06T17:33:00.000-08:00

#48 Blood:Water Mission

2011-11-06T17:31:00.001-08:00

#47 20 Liters

2011-11-06T17:25:00.000-08:00

From 20 Liters:

20 liters - homepage embed version from 20 Liters on Vimeo.

#46 TED: William Kamkwamba, Harnessing the Wind

2011-11-06T17:23:00.001-08:00

#45 Michael Franti: I'll Be Waiting

2011-11-06T17:17:00.000-08:00

#44 Ben Harper: With My Own Two Hands

2011-11-06T17:15:00.001-08:00

#43 Girlyman: Somewhere Different Now

2011-11-06T17:06:00.000-08:00

We also haven't had any music yet. Let's fix that.

#42 Stephen Colbert: 10 Commandments

2011-11-06T17:02:00.000-08:00

We haven't had any humor yet, so here you go:

The Colbert Report
Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive

#41 Reparando (trailer)

2011-11-06T16:31:00.000-08:00

For the movie Reparando:

MORE FILMS ON LATIN AMERICA

#40 Dirt! (trailer)

2011-11-06T16:29:00.002-08:00

#39 Forks over Knives (trailer)

2011-11-06T16:29:00.001-08:00

#38 IJM: Ray of Hope

2011-11-06T16:04:00.000-08:00

From International Justice Mission:

Ray of Hope - UK Version from International Justice Mission on Vimeo.

#37 The Story of Stuff

2011-11-06T16:02:00.000-08:00

#36 Milgram Shock Experiments

2011-11-06T16:00:00.000-08:00

#35 Freedom to Roam

2011-11-06T15:53:00.000-08:00

From Freedom to Roam:

#34 Steph Davis: The Tactic

2011-11-06T15:52:00.000-08:00

#33 Ed Dobson: Ed's Story

2011-11-06T15:33:00.000-08:00

Every video in this series has been embedded. I've skipped some that couldn't be embedded that I really like specifically because I couldn't actually include them on the blog. Well, today is the exception. Here's Ed:

Ed's Story -- It Ain't Over

Here's another I appreciate but can't embed.

#32 Christian Beamish: Ocean Voyage

2011-11-06T15:29:00.000-08:00

From Patagonia (not quite a "video"):

#31 TED: Hans Rosling, Poverty

2011-11-06T15:27:00.000-08:00

#30 Climbing in Namibia

2011-11-06T15:18:00.000-08:00

From Patagonia:

#29 Journey to Keketouhai

2011-11-06T15:15:00.000-08:00

From Patagonia:

#28 Weed War

2011-11-06T15:12:00.000-08:00

From Patagonia:

#27 TED: Jonathan Haidt, Moral Roots

2011-11-06T15:10:00.000-08:00

#26 Preoccupations: Scott Soens

2011-11-06T15:08:00.000-08:00

From the Patagonia website:

#25 TED: Karen Armstrong, Charter for Compassion

2011-11-06T15:06:00.000-08:00

#24 Chris Burkard Surf Photography

2011-11-06T14:59:00.000-08:00

From Patagonia's blog, The Cleanest Line:

Chris Burkard - Photographer from LONELYLEAP on Vimeo.

#23 The Ordinary Radicals (trailer)

2011-11-06T14:49:00.000-08:00

For more about the film, go here.

The Ordinary Radicals - Trailer from Jamie Moffett on Vimeo.

#22 The Smiley’s Project: Bugaboo Spire’s East Ridge

2011-11-06T14:48:00.000-08:00

From the Prana blog:

Bugaboo Spire's East Ridge from Mark Smiley on Vimeo.

#21 Landscapes

2011-11-06T14:46:00.000-08:00

From the Prana blog:

Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.

#20 TED: Joachim de Posada, Marshmallows

2011-11-06T14:42:00.000-08:00

BACKGROUND + MORE

#19 Marcelo Rivera

2011-11-06T14:32:00.000-08:00

I first saw this on the website for Return to El Salvador.

#18 Danny MacAskill Plays Capetown

2011-11-06T14:29:00.001-08:00

#17 Upcycle Water Bottles

2011-11-06T14:26:00.000-08:00

See also this video on the same concept in Brazil.

#16 Visions of the Artic

2011-11-06T14:21:00.000-08:00

I originally saw this at Visions of the Wild.

Visions of the Arctic from Florian Schulz on Vimeo.

#15 TED: Kathryn Schulz, "On Being Wrong"

2011-11-06T12:43:00.000-08:00

#14 180 Degrees South

2011-11-06T12:40:00.000-08:00

180 South Trailer from Malloy Brothers on Vimeo.

#13 Ueli Steck's Triple Speed Climbing Record

2011-11-06T12:34:00.000-08:00

#12 Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (trailer)

2011-11-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

I first came across this on the Prana blog.

#11 Vertical Sailing Greenland, "Never Say Never"

2011-11-06T12:22:00.000-08:00

#10 TED: Julia Bacha, "Pay attention to nonviolence"

2011-11-06T12:18:00.000-08:00

#9 History Lecture Slideshow - Adventists and War

2011-11-06T12:13:00.000-08:00

Today's post is different from all the others in the series--a history slideshow on Adventists and the military. This was originally posted on Spectrum (here):

SDA Attitudes to War - A History

View more presentations from Jeff Crocombe

I also wanted to include this video in my series, but I'm not able to embed it.

#8 23 Feet (trailer)

2011-11-06T12:12:00.000-08:00

23 Feet Trailer from Allie Bombach on Vimeo.

#7 TED: Dan Buettner, "How to live to be 100+"

2011-11-06T12:10:00.000-08:00

#6 The Love Letter

2011-11-06T12:00:00.000-08:00

#5 TED: Brene Brown, "The Power of Vulnerability"

2011-11-06T11:59:00.000-08:00

#4 Catherine Destivelle in Mali

2011-11-06T11:55:00.000-08:00

Catherine Destivelle free soloing in Mali:

I wanted to include this video of Alex Honnold -- Alone on the Wall -- but I'm not able to embed it.

#3 Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

2011-11-06T11:47:00.000-08:00

#2 Jimmy Chin on Assignment

2011-11-05T06:09:00.000-07:00

On Assignment from Camp 4 Collective on Vimeo.

#1 Towers of Ennedi

2011-11-04T17:59:00.000-07:00

Film Festival Cut:

Towers of the Ennedi from Camp 4 Collective on Vimeo.

From: http://blog.jimmychin.com/

|Christmas List (updated)

2011-08-08T14:47:00.001-07:00

I talk about simplicity and denounce greed, but I'm really greedy. Instead of making my wish-list, I should just offer these catalogs instead:

But somehow my own unending list persists:

BOOKS

Insurrection (Rollins)
The Hole in Our Gospel (Stearns)
Burning Center, Porous Borders (Fernandez)
Shalom Church (Nessan)
Free People (Brown)
School of Assassins (Nelson-Pallmeyer)
The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day (Tonstad)
Body Politics (Yoder)
Discipleship as Political Responsibility (Yoder)
Resident Aliens (Hauerwas) [Iconocast 17]
Debt (Graeber)
What about Hitler? (Brimlow)
Christian Anarchism (Christoyannopoulos)
Choose Love Not Power (Campolo)
Divine Rebels (Guzder)
Social Justice Handbook (Cannon)
The Idea of Justice (Sen)
Development as Freedom (Sen)
Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Perkins)
A Game as Old as Empire (Perkins)
No Logo (Klein)
The Shock Doctrine (Klein)
When Corporations Rule the World (Korten)
The Post-Corporate World (Korten)
The Bottom Billion (Collier)
Peace (Brueggemann)
With Justice for All (Perkins)
Culture Matters (Harrison & Huntington)
The End of Growth (Heinberg)
Beyond Growth (Daly)
The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes & Posner)
The Green Bible
The Poverty and Justice Bible
Faith in Action Bible
Unexpected (Patagonia)
and so many more...

FILMS

GEAR, BIKES, INSTRUMENTS, TRAVEL... There really is no end. I am no different from every other middle-class punk who always has more to buy than money to spend... like all of the books for Creation Care, Ethics and Practice of Forgiveness, and Social Theory for Christian Peacemakers listed here.

For reflection:

Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

Jeremiah 6:13
From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

|Birds at Camp Friedenswald

2011-05-20T09:19:00.000-07:00

Here are some videos of the morning mist at Camp Friedenswald:

Video 1 -- http://youtu.be/6zPaIC29eC4 (can you see the baby? it's easier to find in the picture below; behind them is a sleeping goose that later awoke.)
Video 2 -- http://youtu.be/6kgnB2aZQcc (notice the cranky red-winged blackbird)

Because the colt (baby sandhill crane) is hard to see in the video, here is a photo of it. At that degree of zoom, my point-and-shoot isn't very clear.

In Nebraska we'd sometimes go watch the sandhill cranes in migration. Info:

http://outdoornebraska.ne.gov/wildlife/guides/migration/sandhill.asp
http://www.rowesanctuary.org/
http://www.nebraskatravels.com/sandhill-crane-migration.html
YouTube -- http://youtu.be/0A2vT_EF7bk
In this map, you can see the migration pattern that has a bottleneck in NE -- http://www.nebraskaflyway.com/page.php?pgID=2.

|Out of Doors

2011-04-26T18:46:00.001-07:00

These are some action clips that have captured my attention lately:

Ennedi Desert (adventure)
Eiger (speed)
South of Alaska (distance)
Greenland (water meets rock) -- 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | slideshow

Okay, some photography/videography from Spain.

And just in case you forgot about animals and bikes.

As for music, you'll have to check out the main blog I update now (well, that blog and this one, but it has less music).

|Dr. Seuss

2011-03-05T16:27:00.001-08:00

The truth about the good doctor.

|Bikes are Neat

2011-02-10T14:47:00.001-08:00

And a bit of a shout-out to Howies--Hidden Wallpaper 1-8 & Wallpaper Main.

And you can feel free to look at this picture while listening to this song.

And Portlandia.

And a previously posted bike dealio. [update: sorry the 2 bike videos don't work any more. they were clips from films by the collective; teasers.]

|Guatemala Slideshow

2011-01-26T11:08:00.000-08:00

Here is a slideshow of people and a few animals that I took while taking Peace and Justice: Latin American Perspectives:

|Animal Stories

2010-12-28T12:43:00.000-08:00

The following stories remind me of Isaiah 11 and 65. Well, most of them, at least a little.

Cheetah brothers and their little lunch/playmate
Wildebeest and lioness
Polar bears & dogs
Man and lions
Charlie Vandergaw with grizzlies and black bears (Alaska) -- Article | YouTube
Charlie Russell with Grizzlies (Kamchatka) -- Part 1 of 5
Lion, Tiger & Bear are friends (look for the slideshow near the bottom of the page) -- YouTube
"Friendly" Wolf, Romeo, Seeks Canine Companionship. John Hyde main page, click on Portfolios, Wildlife/Land, and then Wolves_1, _2 & _3.
Christian the lion -- Story | Video 1 | Video 2
Lion & woman
Leopard and baby baboon
Dogs and tiger cubs

BONUS: Alone in the Wilderness. Dick Proenneke -- DVD | Wikipedia

|Debt

2010-10-31T18:45:00.000-07:00

Yahoo! Finance brings us collection of strategies and advice from a handful of regular peeps:

Debt Busters! (Blake Ellis, 22 Oct 2010)

|Anti-Virus

2010-09-16T19:21:00.000-07:00

I was reading about free anti-virus software packages tonight. These were the most helpful:

What do you recommend--online info sources and actual software?

|Loss of Peacemakers

2010-08-06T15:06:00.000-07:00

Two notable peacemakers have died this year.

1. Art Gish (Old Radicals film)-- July 28, 2010

2. Gene Stoltzfus (@CPT) -- March 10, 2010

|Peace Among the Peoples

2010-08-02T15:43:00.000-07:00

At the recent Peace Among the Peoples conference, I really appreciated the stories brought by Jarrod McKenna. A few links:

Other presenters that really spoke to me personally: Mary Jo Leddy (Romero House), Rita Nakashima Brock (Saving Paradise), Glen Stassen (Just Peacemaking), Brian McLaren (A New Kind of Christianity), and Paul Alexander (Peace to War). Also noteworthy were strong words spoken by Stanley Hauerwas and Linda Gehman Peachey. I wish I had a recording of the final sermon by Andre Gingerich Stoner.

Comic relief was offered by Ted and Co.--I'd Like to Buy an Enemy.

|Peace: John Paul Lederach

2010-07-27T14:40:00.000-07:00

A friend shared this with me today. I'll be reading quite a bit of JPL this next semester.

The Art of Peacemaking -- Speaking of Faith (APM)

|Middle Class

2010-07-26T13:05:00.000-07:00

I saw this on Yahoo today about the changing middle class. A number of the stats are snapshots instead of comparative numbers, which makes conclusions hard to nail down, but it's thought provoking all the same.

The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking (15 July 2010)

Dissident Voice ran quite a few articles on this topic over the first half of the year:

The Economic Elite vs. the People of the United States of America: Part I (David DeGraw, 16 Feb 2010)
The Rise of the Economic Elite: The Economic Elite vs. the People of the United States of America: Part II (David DeGraw, 17 Feb 2010)
Exposing Our Enemy: Meet the Economic Elite: The Economic Elite vs. the People of the United States of America: Part III (David DeGraw, 19 Feb 2010)
The Financial Coup d’Etat: The Economic Elite vs. the People of the United States of America: Part IV (David DeGraw, 22 Feb 2010)
Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy: The Economic Elite vs. the People of the USA: Part V (David DeGraw, 24 Feb 2010)
How to Fight Back and Win: Common Ground Issues That Must Be Won: The Economic Elite vs. the People of the USA: Part VI (David DeGraw, 27 Feb 2010)
Global Sweatshop Wage Slavery (Stephen Lendman, 25 Feb2010)
Barry C. Lynn’s Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Stephen Lendman, 5 Mar 2010)

By posting these links, I'm not trying to promote a middle-class consumptive way of life. But I am saying that I believe that increasing income disparity is a problem. These are complex and loaded statements.

For more on economics, listen to this Econocast conversation with Richard Horsley.

|Farming

2010-07-22T13:31:00.001-07:00

Farming Hot among Hipsters (CNN)

|Frugality

2010-07-20T14:52:00.000-07:00

These are a couple articles I've come across lately on living simply:

Secrets of extreme savers (CNN/Money)
The Leap to Cheap (Jeff Yeager, AARP Magazine, July/Aug 2010)

|Happiness & Secrets

2010-07-19T12:08:00.000-07:00

The World's Happiest Countries (Yahoo/Forbes)

Secret Safety Net (Washington Post)

|Small Homes

2010-07-18T10:21:00.001-07:00

How could I not post this on Pack Light:

Jay Shafer's Small House Revolution

|Comedians

2010-06-07T12:42:00.000-07:00

We heard these on satellite radio on our cross-country drive:

Tom Ryan on salt and baking soda.
Mitch Hedberg on all things laughable. (bonus)

You're welcome.

|World: Compassion

2010-06-07T12:33:00.000-07:00

I read this article in my father-in-law's copy of World Magazine: New Horizons. This is an amazing Mennonite ministry in Colorado that cares for women's babies while the mothers are incarcerated.

http://www.newhorizonsministries.net/

|Peace Docs

2010-06-03T17:07:00.000-07:00

Found this peace resource tonight: PeaceDocs.

|The Naked Anabaptist

2010-06-01T11:56:00.000-07:00

My review of The Naked Anabaptist is now up at Adventist Today.

|Surfing in Gaza

2010-05-12T14:26:00.001-07:00

Gaza surfers ride on wave of goodwill from Israel
(Mairi Mackay, CNN.com, 12 May 2010)

In Gaza, a handful of Palestinian men have found a way to escape temporarily from the hardships of life in their conflict-wracked home. They go surfing.

http://www.godwentsurfing.com/

|Thinking Ethically Video

2010-04-29T17:14:00.001-07:00

Three classmates and a mysterious stuffed toy spoke on the big screen in ethics today. This is their semester project:

|Medical Tourism

2010-04-26T08:10:00.000-07:00

A professor from Australia told me, "You Americans just don't realize how broken your health care is."

Here's an example of the costs side of the problem--medical tourism:

'I can't afford surgery in the U.S.,' says bargain shopper (Sabriya Rice, CNN, 26 Apr 2010)

|Banff Mtn Film Festival

2010-04-19T07:38:00.000-07:00

Watch:

Go:

http://www.banffcentre.ca/MountainCulture/Tour/listings/regions.aspx?cat=NA&num=33&location=us

Watch again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wAjpMP5eyo&feature=related

|Dance

2010-04-07T18:45:00.000-07:00

I first saw AscenDance at Climbing Magazine. You can find more at AscenDance's website.

Both links have videos.

|Rich

2010-04-07T18:42:00.000-07:00

Study says money only makes you happy if it makes you richer than your neighbors

A study by researchers at the University of Warwick and Cardiff University has found that money only makes people happier if it improves their social rank. The researchers found that simply being highly paid wasn't enough - to be happy, people must perceive themselves as being more highly paid than their friends and work colleagues.

[full article]

|Breath

2010-04-07T08:42:00.001-07:00

Best part of the video: He has a wedding ring on and he's going on a date.

|Small Talk

2010-04-04T17:33:00.000-07:00

10 Rules for Small Talk from CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/wayoflife/03/26/rs.big.rules.small.talk/index.html

|Ethical Juice

2010-04-04T15:53:00.000-07:00

I posted the following info on my ethics class's forum. I'd thought I'd repost here as well:

1) Smedley Butler, AKA "Old Gimlet Eye" (You just can't make this stuff up):

War Is a Racket (By Smedley Butler)

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
"[T]he title of two works, a speech [1930] and a booklet [1935]... in which Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests have commercially benefited from warfare."
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

2) Narco Cinema

Want to disappear down a rabbits' hole of cultural and ethical surrealism? Then this be for you:

3) Zimbardo & the Prison Hoopla

I might not remember a lot from Social Psychology a decade and a half ago, but at least three things have stuck with me: marshmallows (Mischel), shocks (Milgram), and... prison insanity (Zimbardo).

Zimbardo's experiment shows that the power differential between those playing the roles of officers and inmates led quickly to social problems. In fact, the experiment was called off after just 6 days because the "experiment quickly grew out of hand. Prisoners suffered — and accepted — sadistic and humiliating treatment from the guards. The high level of stress progressively led them from rebellion to inhibition. By the experiment's end, many showed severe emotional disturbances" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbardo_experiment).