Food Court Musical by Improv Everywhere

15 July, 2008 by Matthew · No Comments

Remember the Human Mirror video I posted about a month back?

That act was arranged by Improv Everywhere, a group based in New York City, USA.

I was browsing through some of their other “missions” and came upon this which I really liked.

Now I am a huge fan of musicals, I really like the choreography, costumes, and spontaneous singing which blend together real well in the best musicals. So this “mission” was something I really liked as I watched it, and I really wish it could be brought right here to Singapore!

Mission: Food Court Musical
Have a group of “agents” spontaneously break out into song in the middle of a Los Angeles food court, while using video cameras to tape the reactions of astounded customers nearby.

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Greatest Sportmanship Gesture Ever?

13 July, 2008 by Matthew · No Comments

In a women’s softball college game in the USA, 2 teams fighting for the lead in their regional league (which would qualify the team for a place in the national championships) met in a crucial game.

What happened during that game might well qualify as one of the greatest sportmanship (or should that be sportswomanship?) gestures of all time.

Click through to view this video which left me on the verge of tears… I was truly touched.

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Woman dies after life spent in iron lung

29 May, 2008 by Matthew · No Comments

Dianne Odell chats with her mother, Geneva, via an angled mirror above her iron lung in February 2007Whenever you next complain about the tediousness of work and study, or the long walk home, or the lack of material pleasures in your life, remember Dianne Odell, who spent her entire life stationary within an iron lung, a 2m-long iron tube. She was afflicted with bulbo-spinal polio three years before a polio vaccine was discovered, and spent almost 60 years of her life confined within the iron lung, unable to breathe outside it but determined not to let it destroy her spirit.

I was saddened upon reading this article, and a song immediately came to my mind.

Give Thanks

Give thanks with a grateful heart;
Give thanks unto the Holy One;
Give thanks because He’s given Jesus Christ His Son.

Click through to read more about this heart-rending true account

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