After a brief hiatus, (finals week, traveling, sickness and all that jazz) – I plan to be back and writing with a vengeance. Hope I’ve been missed.
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AMEN! I don’t really want to add any words to this post. I just want you ALL to watch and digest – this is dope quote (speech) for the week. With everything that’s going on around us – the corruption, hate, poor economic climate, wars and so on. That list could continue forever, depressing right? Charlie Chaplin was renowned for his B&W silent movie roles but he steps up and delivers one of the most poignant speeches I’ve ever heard in The Great Dictator. This film came out in 1940, scary that this is probably more relevant to current times. More on the reverse.
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Absolutely blown away by the final product, @OlanCollardy has out done himself. We teamed up with the up and coming film maker again to shoot renowned poet Joshua Bennett. I was initially going to hold back from posting the video till I was done with the feature with interview and photographs but this is just too good not to share. Meeting the Striver’s Row word-smith was an honour itself and actually get him to recite a poem for us – even more of an amazing! I think we were all in awe of his talent; made it look so effortless, the words just so honest & delivered with raw passion – it may just leave you in tears. Ladies & Gentleman, click play to watch the latest Cardy masterpiece. Way too many quotables from Joshua, I’m sorted for my next love letter to my girlfriend.
Downloaded onto my retinas. Hoping that I can replay that moment our eyes first played freeze tag.
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Over the past week or so, we were tasked with the unenviable job of selecting our three favourite movies of the year. After much deliberation, we managed to succeed! It’s prudent to say that this is not tantamount to a ‘best of 2011’ list, of which there are many. Rather, these are films which the Y&Y team have enjoyed over the course of 2011. See if you agree with our choices below.
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I’m a choosy person, I continue to believe this is why I’ve been single for five years and not because I’m destined to lay naked on my bedroom floor screaming Adele lyrics at my twenty-seven cats. Hopefully this poem shows a little bit more why I’m so choosy.
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Don’t you just love it when you stumble across something so simple, random but beautiful that instantly puts a smile on your face. Yeah this did just that to me at work. I was full on cheesing, had to share it with a few of my colleagues. Well the nerdy ones who also shared an appreciation for all things Star Wars Kristina Alexanderson, a 40 year old who has been trying to portray the faceless evil Stormtroopers in a new light, one that is full of love & kindness. She’s managed to successfully do just that with scenes featuring one of Darth Vader’s henchmen tenderly carrying his son. You have to see it to believe it, continues after the jump.
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I know I usually restrict the quote posts for Monday as I like to leave people with that thought for a whole week but I felt this one had to come to be unleashed today. I watched something so disturbing last night that it reduced me to tears, in fact I was slightly nauseous afterwards. It was sickening, inhuman and something that I pray none of you come across on the internet. I won’t go into detail but a child was runover twice, the car & lorry didn’t stop, people walked by without even helping him and leaving him there to die . I came across it on Facebook because the caption on the post was ‘these F*****ERS NEED TO DIE* – which doesn’t exactly help them or anyone. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, a great Indian man once said that. I grew up with Mahatma Gandhi as my rolemodel before the media corrupted my mind with celebrity nonsense. Seeing that video made me realise how much the world has forgotten about love. Loving thy neighbour by love I mean just HELPING a person in need, how can you not? One should always treat others as one would like others to treat oneself. That brings me to my message - do all things with love. 2 quotes, 1 post. Enjoy your day.
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