Vintage Social Networking

Have you asked your child if they know what a LP record is?  Are you ready for the blank stare?  How about a cassette tape or a Rolodex?  Our ways of connecting to others have transformed our world.  I know that I will first text a person if I have a quick question instead of calling them on the phone. I've known of instances of couples breaking up via txt messages!  I don't know that I would go for that!   All of my contacts are found on my phone or computer, not in an address book or Rolodex. Heck my elementary kiddos are always surprised to learn that floppy disks used to be "big"!  A whopping 5 or 3 inches!  They are familiar with USB flash drives as as quick portable device for transporting files. Storage on the cloud is most common.

My phone is not JUST for calling people any more!  I can check my bank balance, play games, take photos, take videos, surf the net, text my friend, check in with Facebook or Foursquare, check the weather, record my WW points, listen to music, set my alarm, edit my photos, leave a tweet, check in and download my board pass for my flight at the airport, transfer money with Pay Pal, create an art project, read the newspaper, take notes at a meeting, talk face to face with  my grandkids, watch a Netflix movie, shop Ebay or Amazon, make a grocery list using my store's app with their specials, well, the list goes on and on.  In fact, I would say that the "phone calling" option of my phone is probably the "app" that I use the least!!

The world is a changing!  I wonder what our children are using now in their technological world will be obsolete when they are adults?!

John Atkinson in his blog Wrong Hands had a cute depiction of  comparing things that us "Old people" might remember as being part of our everyday life at one time.


And this one is cute (but so real!) also, from Shoebox Blog.

HOT HOT HOT!

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are awesome!
This group, formed in 2002,  has taken their "bagrock" sound worldwide.  They have released 4 albums so far, going platinum in Scotland!

They will amaze you, entertain you, inspire you!

Drum Cam

This ia pretty cool.  Drumline from the perspective of the drums!  This video is a rehearsal of the  Boston Crusaders rehearsal before Drum Corps International in Houston last year.

According to their website, Drum Corps International (DCI) began more than 3 decades ago.  It has developed into a powerful, nonprofit, global youth activity with far-reaching artistic, educational and organizational influence.

Active participants in U.S.-based drum and bugle corps hail from more than 15 countries

The annual Drum Corps International Tour is made up of more than 100 events throughout North America

Each summer, some 400,000 fans attend live drum corps events

Explore more about this group at the DCI page!


You can see the entire playlist of these videos here:  DCI Drum Cam.

Love Has Come For Me

This piece by Colton Dixon reminds me that I am nothing without my Source, my Light, my LIFE, Jesus Christ!

HIGH NOTE!

A very creative, fun video from Warner Brothers...Looney Tunes of course!

Music's Effect on Learning

Did you know that one study revealed that students were more productive while listening to jazz?  Read this for more interesting tidbits on how music effects our brain!


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Forwards or Backwards??

By Messe Kopp

Thriller

YouTube user Inhyeok Yeo uploaded an a capella version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Every instrument and voice in the piece is layered to produce this final product.

The Chromatic Typewriter

This is the coolest typewriter I've ever seen!  Using an html color guide, Tyree Callahan rigged the machine so that each key corresponds to a different hue. He modified his 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter to transform simple keystrokes into beautiful works of art. Tyree Callahan grew up in Bisbee, Arizona before moving to Bellingham, Washington, in 1993.  He  is a member of the Waterfront Artist Studio Collective, located on Bellingham's waterfront. You can also find him on facebook on his page Painting and Poetry.

Christ Is Risen by Matt Maher

Christ is risen from the dead

Trampling over death by death

Come awake, come awake

come and rise up from the grave

CHRIST IS RISEN!

   Christ The Lord Is Risen Today is one of my all-time favorite hymns!  I absolutely LOVE to play this for worship!!  I grew up singing the original version "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today," a 14th century Latin hymn, translated into English, published in 1709 in Lyra Davidica.  Many hymnals include both hymns separately.

Most of the stanzas of Christ The Lord Is Risen Today were written by Charles Wesley, and the hymn appeared under the title Hymn for Resurrection Day in Hymns and Sacred Songs by Charles and John Wesley in 1739. 

   This is a very upbeat version, performed by PraiseCharts Band. 

Melting Bunnies!

I LOVE showing this video to the students each Easter!

PS22 Chorus "Oceans (Where Feet May Fall)" Hillsong

I am YOURS and YOU are mine!

I love PS 22 Chorus!

On My Father's Side....

I just heard this sweet song.  Very appropriate for this week.  Sung by the Barn Again Gang, there are several other of their videos on You Tube.

Don't Stop Believing

Enjoy this rendition of Journey's Don't Stop Believing by Red Hot Chilli Pipers....some pretty cool instrumentation!  (you've got to watch it to see!)

The Takeover

Filmed by Athletes for the World, The Takeover is a collaboration between Tempest Freerunning and over 40 Professional Freerunners from 14 different Countries.These teams & athletes came together to create a short film like no other.

FREERUNNING!

Ever heard of freerunning?  For freerunners, the environment is their canvass, and their body the paint brush....take a look.  Looks fun, amazing, freeing!

Hosanna!

Mark 11:1-10

When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem,
to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives,
he sent two of his disciples and said to them,
"Go into the village opposite you,
and immediately on entering it,
you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat.
Untie it and bring it here.
If anyone should say to you,
'Why are you doing this?' reply,
'The Master has need of it
and will send it back here at once.'"
So they went off
and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street,
and they untied it.
Some of the bystanders said to them,
"What are you doing, untying the colt?"
They answered them just as Jesus had told them to,
and they permitted them to do it.
So they brought the colt to Jesus
and put their cloaks over it.
And he sat on it.
Many people spread their cloaks on the road,
and others spread leafy branches
that they had cut from the fields.
Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out:
"Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come!
Hosanna in the highest!"

Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah

Couldn't resist.  Here's another version that is beautiful....

Hallelujah, sung by Jeff Buckley

HALLELUJAH...Hannah Trigwell

"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984).

Hannah Trigwell sings this beautifully.  Listen as scenes from Old Testament stories of David and Samson intertwine through the lyrics.  

You might recognize this from the movie Shrek.  If you are like me, you didn't listen to the words very carefully when you watched the movie.  Listen now.