It’s rare that I would recommend spending time watching things on your computer, let alone on a Take a Break day. However, I’ve received e-mails encouraging me to “take a break” from my day and watch something that is sure to amaze. No laughing babies or howling dogs. Below are links that have amazed me, and in some cases, have inspired me to take risks that I might not have down. Enjoy!
• TED Speaker Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong: Eric Whitacre began his music career singing in his college choir, with no previous musical experience. By 21, he had completed his first concert work, Go, Lovely Rose, and soon advanced to Juilliard where he studied under Oscar-winning composer John Corigliano. Today, his 44 published concert pieces have sold over a million copies, he has conducted choral music in some of the most esteemed halls in the world and his music has been featured on dozens of commercial recordings. His album Cloudburst and Other Choral Works earned him a Grammy nomination in 2007.
• Virtual 2 Choir by Eric Whitacre performs Sleep
• Japanese Cellphone Ad: This beautiful ad was done by Drill Inc, a Japanese advertising agency, and it features a wooden ball rolling down the homemade marimba in the midst of Kyushu Forest, Japan's woodlands.
• Ocean Sand Fantasy
• Sand Art
• Miwa Matreyek’s Glorious Visions Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. Take a quiet 10 minutes and dive in. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin and Mileece.
• Hand Jobs The Arts: Different animals made entirely out of painting on hands
• Pilobolus
• Extreme Sheep Herding
• Flashmob in Antwerp Train Station, do re mi
• Statue Act-Journey of Man (Cirque du Soleil)
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