Category Archives: YouTubesday

Weekly Collection of videos from thoughtful to bizarre

YouTubesday: Swine Flu, Soot, and Land Mines

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Stop Soot (2:14)

A really cool awareness raising campaign about landmines (3:29)

A Virtual Minefield

 

 

If you know nothing about the Swine Flu stuff, this is an interesting overview

YouTubesday: Consuming Kids, The Commercialization of Childhood

We just watched this amazing documentary, based off a fascinating book called Consuming Kids. It’s an eye opening documentary about the way children are marketed to beginning at a very young age. It’s a must watch film for anyone who has kids, works with kids, or plans on interacting with a child at any point in their life.

Below is the five minute trailer for the documentary which will give you just a taste of what it is about:

If that peeked your interest it’s time to get ahold of the actual DVD and host a screening in your area. Or, if you live in Minneapolis you can come check out the screening I’m hosting on May 22nd. And for those who aren’t interested in either of those options, I found the whole thing on Youtube… Enjoy.

YouTubesday: Haiti, God, and Foxhole Manifesto

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This is a brief video about my friends organization, The Haiti Water Project. They are trying to rally 4000 supporters to their cause on facebook. Join them.

 

Here’s a cool music video/song about God, White Man by Michael Gungor

 

A Great spoken word piece about God, "Foxhole Manifesto" as performed by Jeffrey McDaniel

YouTubesday: Domestic Abuse and American Violet

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Cut. This is a powerful, powerful video regarding domestic abuse. Starring Keira Knightley

Here is trailer for a new movie called American Violet, based on a true story.

YouTubesday: Banned Ads, Everyone Poops, and PPL

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A 30 second spot by adbusters that was rejected by broadcasters. It’s not mind blowing, but the fact is major networks refused to show it. What do you think about that?

Everyone Poops Trailer (ht)

Supposedly making fun of the Wild Things trailer

Check out this brief documentary piece about a very cool organization in the Twin Cities (ht)

YouTubesday: Human Trafficking and Donating Clothes

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A seven minute documentary about Human Trafficking in the Philippines, if you’ve never heard about or seen the reality that faces many in our world, please take a few minutes to view this.

 

Clothes – a short PSA (1:00)

(I prefer the term Majority world to third world or developing world, but here’s a direct translation of the commercial tagline)

“Let your second hand cloths help the third world.”

“Laat je 2e handskleding de 3e wereld helpen.”

YouTubesday: Johnny Northside, Drinking Water and Are You?

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The Adventures of Johnny Northside Movie Trailer. This is a guy from my neighborhood who blogs a ton and someone made a documentary about him. The trailer actually looks really interesting.

 

Always informative GOOD on Clean Drinking Water (in honor of World Water Day)

 

Are You Straight? Great short piece (ht. Mak)