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An astonishing piece of video collage created by Marco Brambilla. It’s teeming with much imagery you’ll recognise and even more that you won’t:

May not have ‘a message’, but as a calling card for the artist’s capability, it’s both powerful and memorable.

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So, this is one of 200,000,000 blogs ‘out there’.

Hmm. Feels rather crowed…

Hype or hope: the world will be a different place by the time you get to the end of this video.

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Reading the paper this morning, I’m left with the feeling that the world is falling apart.

But if I’m honest, it’s a very self-centric view, one where I see the problems we face in the context of how it effects me and the people I know and love. And that’s not good: others have much greater issues to face than we do.

As the woes of the economic system take their toll, so there’ll be a great temptation to push some of the ‘other stuff’ to one side; the environment, child poverty, human rights – they’ll all slip down the agenda, being viewed as ‘luxury’ concerns while we worry about things closer to home – our home.

And as that happens, I have to remind myself that it’s not healthy; it becomes all-consuming in the worst sense of the term. These worries eat away at us, we become myopic, and lose all sense of perspective.

At which point, it pays to see the world through another’s eyes.

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