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Wednesday, May 28. 2008

The Dinner Guest

YouTube is becoming an excellent outlet for short films.

Anchoress posted this exquisite and gentle short by Joe Gleason, The Dinner Guest, which, to me, combines the theme of anticipation with the ancient theme of the power of the word, wherein God the Playwright, like the mystical weaver at the loom or Aslan's singing the world into existence, creates time and space and everything that was, is, and will be. Bryn Terfel is singing a Welsh folk song.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:48 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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You're right, BD. The little film is exquisite. Thank you.

Marianne
#1 Marianne Matthews on 2008-05-28 14:50 (Reply)
A beauty. And I love the sense of friendship within the family, that these people actually like and support each other. For some reason it makes me a little weepy.
#2 Thea-logical on 2008-05-28 16:28 (Reply)
You might be interested in a mammoth lawsuit headed YouTube's way:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7420955.stm

This BBC story says "A one billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube threatens internet freedom, according to its owner Google."

From what I've heard around the 'sphere, this is not the usual hyperbole. If this goes badly for YouTube, it's likely there'll be quite a few suits of this type, and they will change 'net culture.
#3 Mister Snitch (Link) on 2008-05-28 17:15 (Reply)

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