Videos, Audio, Poetry, Paintings etc., that send a message

[2020hindsight]

message ... "while there's life there's ..... !! bullsh*t!! lemme see that again!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMV_gvBwL1g&mode=related&search= The World's most amazing Basketball Shot

PS the other message, when you've got the ball on a free throw, take a couple of deep breaths before each throw

 

[2020hindsight]

Anyone ever hear Paul Robeson recite this ?

The Little Black Boy (by William Blake)

My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white,
White as an angel is the English child;
But I am black as if bereav'd of light.

My mother taught me underneath a tree
And sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And pointing to the east began to say.

Look on the rising sun: there God does live
And gives his light, and gives his heat away.
And flowers and trees and beasts and men recieve
Comfort in morning joy in the noon day.

And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear,
The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voice,
Saying: come out from the grove my love & care,
And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.

Thus did my mother say and kissed me.
And thus I say to little English boy.
When I from black and he from white cloud free,
And round the tent of God like lambs we joy:

I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear,
To lean in joy upon our fathers knee.
And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,
And be like him and he will then love me.

Here's another couple typical of Robeson (heard it claimed that his voice was "the greatest musical instrument hewn by nature" ) :-
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hBlO8Q23nAA&mode=related&search= my curly headed baby
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8aA1UCT885s&mode=related&search= ole man river (in context )

 

[2020hindsight]

Website #1 Wikipedia gives a lot of the nasty facts about his treatment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson

Website #2 This one is a bit more watered down.
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/PaulRobeson/PRBio.htm

For instance when #2 says...

"Despite the openly racist and violent opposition he faced, Robeson became a twelve letter athlete excelling in baseball, basketball, football, and track"

#1 says

Robeson won an academic scholarship to Rutgers University. When he went out for the Rutgers University football team, the other players beat him viciously, even pulling out his fingernails. He bore the abuse to prove his worth and when he graduated he was a two-time All-American and the school valedictorian, exhorting his classmates to "catch a new vision."[2] Robeson was the third African-American student accepted at Rutgers, and was the only black student during his time on campus.

this sounds nearly as bad as State of Origin rugby league !!
I guess that "Get a new vision!" translates roughly as "get a life!"

The next few quotes all from site #1:-

(later in life) his name was retroactively struck from the roster of the 1917 and 1918 college All-America football teams.....

A spokeman for NBC declared that Robeson would never appear on NBC. Press releases of the Civil Rights Congress objected that "censorship of Mr. Robeson's appearance on TV is a crude attempt to silence the outstanding spokesman for the Negro people in their fight for civil and human rights" and that our "basic democratic rights are under attack under the smoke-screen of anti-Communism." ....

However, because of the controversy surrounding him, all of Paul Robeson's recordings and films were withdrawn from circulation. From then until the late 1970s, it became increasingly difficult in the United States, if not impossible, to hear Robeson sing on records or on the radio, or to see any of his films, including the highly acclaimed and successful 1936 film version of Show Boat. As far as audiences of the late 1950s (and all of the 1960s) knew, there was only one film version of the show, the MGM Technicolor version of 1951.

Robeson toured Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War and was photographed with members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, ....
{The Abraham Lincoln Brigade refers to volunteers from the United States who served in the Spanish Civil War in the International Brigades. They fought for Spanish Republican forces against the Nationalists under Franco.}

..... Robeson was among the first performers to sing in concert on behalf of the U.S. World War II war effort.
... Robeson left Britain during the Second World War. It was later discovered that his name was in The Black Book, a Nazi document listing thousands of people living in Britain who were to be arrested following the successful completion of Operation Sealion

Robeson's association with Wales began in 1928 while he was performing in London in the musical Show Boat. There, he met a group of unemployed miners who had taken part in a "hunger march" from South Wales to protest their situation...Robeson remains a celebrated figure in Wales. The exhibit Let Paul Robeson Sing! was unveiled in Cardiff in 2001,

Political Activism, Politics, Communism, and the Cold War
On his frequent trips to Western Europe and the Soviet Union he was highly critical of the conditions experienced by black Americans, especially in the segregated southern states.

The Soviet Union, Stalin, and Communism
After traveling to Europe for several years in the early 1930’s, Robeson was extended and accepted an offer to visit the Soviet Union. While there, Robeson was given the red carpet treatment, according to biographer Martin Duberman, including trips to the theatre, banquets, and other attractions. Robeson became captivated with this new society and its leadership, declaring "that the country was entirely free of racial prejudice and that Afro-American spiritual music resonated to Russian folk traditions. “Here, for the first time in my life ... I walk in full human dignity.”

Robeson allegedly told a Daily Worker reporter that “from what I have already seen of the workings of the Soviet Government, I can only say that anybody who lifts his hand against it ought to be shot!”

Ten years later, in 1956, Robeson was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) after he refused to sign an affidavit affirming that he was not a Communist. In response to questions concerning his alleged Communist Party membership, Robeson reminded the Committee that the Communist Party was a legal party and invited its members to join him in the voting booth before he invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to respond. Robeson lambasted Committee members on civil rights issues concerning African-Americans. When one senator asked him why he hadn't remained in the Soviet Union, he replied, "Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you." At one point he remarked, "you are the nonpatriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves."[17]

...
From site #2

Events such as these, along with a negative public response, led to the demise of his public career.

Paul Robeson died on January 23, 1976, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after living in seclusion for ten years. Robeson's legacy has been an inspiration to millions around the world. His courageous stance against oppression and inequality inpart led to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Through his stage and film performances he opened doors to inter-racial performances. With his travels across America and abroad, he opened the world's eyes to oppression. Robeson stood tall and proud against powerful governmental and societal forces. He remains in our memory a successful scholar, athlete, performer, and activist.

In the words of Paul Robeson: "To be free -to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil to give our children every opportunity in life - that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands." (Robeson 108)

I guess you could summarise that , politically , he leaned towards the left
But it would have taken a lot of courage to stand up for his rights way back then ... and he made a lot of friends in the process. (Welsh, Poms, etc)

Over 3,000 people gathered in Carnegie Hall to salute Robeson's 75th birthday, including Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Pete Seeger, Angela Davis, Dolores Huerta, Dizzy Gillespie, Odetta, Leon Bibb, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte (who also produced the show), James Earl Jones, Zero Mostel, Roscoe Lee Browne, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Coretta Scott King; birthday greetings arrived from President Julius K. Nyerere of Tanzania, President Michael Manley of Jamaica, President Cheddi Jagan of Guyana, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Indira Gandhi, Arthur Ashe, Linus Pauling, Judge George W. Crockett, Leonard Bernstein and the African National Congress. Robeson was unable to attend due to illness, but a taped message from him was played which said in part, "Though I have not been able to be active for several years, I want you to know that I am the same Paul, dedicated as ever to the worldwide cause of humanity for freedom, peace and brotherhood." [25]

 

[2020hindsight]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i16Mm5onghM&mode=related&search= Paul Robeson singing in Russian
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MC31QBROsBo&mode=related&search= Let Paul Robeson Sing

Montage of pictures and quotes of Paul Robeson. A multi-lingual, actor, athlete, bass-baritone, concert singer, writer, civil rights activist and Socialist.

The music is 'Let Robeson Sing' by the Manic Street Preachers.

Where are you now? Broken up or still around?
The CIA says you're a guilty man Will we see the likes of you again?

Can anyone make a difference anymore? Can anyone write a protest song?
Pinky lefty revolutionary Burnt at the stake for

A voice so pure - a vision so clear I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you

Went to Cuba to meet Castro Never got past sleepy Moscow
A giant man with a heavenly voice MK Ultra turned you paranoid

No passport 'til 1958 McCarthy poisoned through with hate
Liberty lost still buried today Beneath the lie of the USA

Say what you want Say what you want
A voice so pure - a vision so clear I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you

Now let the Freedom Train come zooming down the track Gleaming in the sunlight for white and black
Not stopping at no stations marked colored nor white Just stopping in the fields in the broad daylight

Stopping in the country in the wide open air Where there never was a Jim Crow sign nowhere
And no lilly-white committees, politicians of note Nor poll tax layer through which colored can't vote

And there won't be no kinda color lines The Freedom Train will be yours And mine
A voice so pure - a vision so clear I've gotta learn to live like you
Learn to sing like you

Sing it loud, sing it proud I will be heard, I will be found
Sing it loud, sing it proud I will be heard, I will be found

 

[2020hindsight]

Although this song wasn't, it could have been written for Robeson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson
In particular, Robeson spoke out against lynching and, in 1946, he founded the American Crusade Against Lynching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVFwXenK7Ww&mode=related&search= "That Lonesome Road"

 

[2020hindsight]

message - mothers love their kids it seems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TuM1YeJzB8&NR=1 Female Cheetah Confronts Male Lion to Protect Her cubs.

 

[2020hindsight]

Even fathers love their kids it seems (and they have their pride to consider as well - in fact probably as much the pride as the kids - who knows - let's assume they love their kids - at least they love their kids more than "the next guy"

Stepfathers don't seem to get along with stepkids - reckon they're lion maybe? )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itFhIgr5ZvQ&mode=related&search= Lone Male Lion confronts four momadic males to fight.

 

[2020hindsight]

and kids love their parents http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMgq9jT3AlY&NR=1 A You're Adorable Lyrics



..... (bit difficult if they've been taken from em though)

 

[Wysiwyg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

Mad World
Gary Jules (cover of Tears for Fears)

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad World
Enlarging your world
Mad World.

 

[2020hindsight]

High Dive
message? this bloke would get a position in the Italian Soccer team

 

[2020hindsight]

Various vibration modes for a plate of steel with rice grains sprinkled (about 18 or 20 modes)
message ? How maths can turn chaos into order

You'd think he'd have a few crosses there instead of all noughts.

Resonantie

And here's God experimenting with levitation - a prototype of Earth
Levitation (light)

 

[2020hindsight]

sheesh - Ground resonance!! - bags not flying with this airline!
breaking a wine glass using resonance
Breaking Glass with Voice
Mariah's Highest Notes

 

[2020hindsight]

thean again
sometimes we don't get the maths right
and order becomes chaos
(Tacoma narrows bridge - dead simple to goole it)
This thing started periodically giving trouble
then the "go go girl" got up and "went went"
and it resonated around the world

message ? ( same as bee thread I guess)
make sure, if you do the math, that you get the same answer as nature will get

 

[2020hindsight]

7 Nov 1940 - things were pretty shakey at Tacoma Narrows - Galloping Gertie
1 mile bridge with a half mile central span
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Fi1VcbpAI
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/Exhibits/Tacoma_Narrows/DSmith/photos.html
note there is a car there (in picture) but not at end. Let's assume the driver ran for his life when the "road got a bit bumpy"

 

[2020hindsight]

presumably a heavy round ball (or some other shape) inside ?

still, it probably works with a beer can - and heck you might win a free round or two with it

 

[2020hindsight]

pinched this from a youtube - says it all (that one picture rather than the youtube song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqPPdj6WqyQ&mode=related&search= Indigo Girls: Pendulum Swinger

 

[2020hindsight]

the rainbow serpent has been this way
don't you just lov this place

 

[2020hindsight]

apparently that last photo was taken in the hinterland behind Nowra.
These photos allegedly of Pasha ( now ashore at Newcastle)

" and all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by,
and a seasick tablet , and stuff on my lip, where I fed the fish bye-n-bye"

 

[wayneL]

Brad Pitt on the modern consumerist celebrity worshiping culture.

 

[2020hindsight]

Lol - listening to the news about the Pasha being more difficult to refloat that originally thought - Tripodi saying "this is not uncommon" that three ropes and a chain snap etc.

Meanwhile "others" (Japanese owner and insurance coy) are picking up the tab for damage and salvage
not sure what the NSW Govt are doing there - providing expert advice? Having a holday at the beach lol?

actually I flew over the thing coupla days ago

PS top post there wayne - Pitt calling it pretty accurate (for lots of kids anyway - and lots of oldies as well)

working jobs we hate - to buy **** we don't need
no great war , no great depresion
... our great depression is our lives

(praps a bit on the pessimistic side on second thoughts lol)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/29/1965156.htm