Five artists recreated Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper out of 4,050 rubik’s cubes, in all measuring 8.5 feet by 17 feet. The work was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records and sold to a collector in Florida.
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Parahawking involves skydiving while specially-trained birds of prey swarm around you, including vultures, eagles, and falcons. It looks amazing:
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This Volkswagen commercial is about a campaign to get people to take the stairs instead of the escalator (presumably for the exercise). The company turned a staircase at a Stockholm underground station into a piano, with audio effects, and videotaped how travellers responded.
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This bin was created as an attempt to make it more fun for people to throw their waste. 72kg of rubbish was put in the bin during one day, that is 41kg more than a standard bin.
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Interesting take on the Good Samaritan:
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For those of you who want to know more about me, here are 25 random facts about me:
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This is one of the best stop-motion films I’ve seen. It’s a great combination of cardboard and public space filmed by Dutch animator Sjors Vervoort with audio by Steven Aerts.
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We have a treehouse in our home, but this is amazing! A guy called Horrace Burgess, in Tennessee built a treehouse 97 feet tall. Its got 11 floors to it, and is about 80 feet high and 12 feet wide at the base:
A building of over 11 floors would be expected to have some extra amenities – and the treehouse Horrace has established is no exception. This particular one comes complete with a mini basketball court – if you thought playing you would never live to see guys playing basketball on top of a tree!
The owner of the edifice is a 56 years old landscape architect by the way, and he say an upwards of $12,000 has gone into building thetreehouse . Asked about where he got the inspiration to build the edifice, he cites a prayer vision he got in the early 90s – going further to say that he built it ‘for God.’ Nobody is arguing with him – and nobody is contesting the assertion that it is the world’s greatesttreehouse either. Meanwhile, building work has not stopped at the 11th floor…the building is still a ‘work in progress!’
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Love this question that Perry Noble posts: “What would you be willing to attempt for God if you knew you could not fail?”.
As we developed our youth vision that will takes us up till 2020 this is the question I kept on wanting to come back to. I wanted us to dream big, to be expectant that God wants his kingdom to come more in North Tonbridge, and so we did, we’ve put stuff down that’s made people in the church sit up and think a) how amazing would it be if that happened in our community, but b) God could do this, we just need to be open to what he wants us to do.
How about you – what is your key question for the moment?
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Chuck Swindoll spoke at Catalyst and I’ve been running his ten life and leadership lessons through my head over the last few weeks, well worth reading:
It’s a message I might try and buy a recording of.
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Christian writes an interesting blog post on your chances at winning the world cup:
When the analytical nerds get going, it’s best to smile and step out of the way.
According to them, the best soccer team in the world has only a 28 percent chance of winning the World Cup even if it makes it through to the knockout stages.
So how do they explain the fact that Brazil has won five World Cups? Or four for Italy? Luck?
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Some headlines from the world of sport:
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Nice article about a church group who doing a murder mystery spent the evening looking for crime clues, but failed to notice that thieves had taken a large TV, laptop computer and the contents of a safe:
EIGHT guests at a murder mystery party in Yeovil were left red-faced after failing to notice a real crime had been committed a few hours earlier.
The group of church-goers were using the Elim Pentecostal’s building in Yeovil for a dinner party on Saturday night and spent the evening looking for clues in a fictional murder.
But, it’s emerged not one of them spotted that the church had actually been broken into on Friday night – with thieves getting away with a large TV, laptop computer and the contents of a raided safe.
It was only on Sunday morning that the vicar, Reverend Howard Davenport, came to the church and realised what had happened.
It capped a testing week for the vicar, whose car had also been smashed up outside the church only the day before.
Revd Howard Davenport said: “In situations like this you have to laugh really!
“We were obviously disappointed that the church had been targeted twice in a week, but when I heard that it hadn’t even been noticed I had to smile.
“You’d have thought that eight wannabe detectives might have noticed a real crime a few metres from them only hours earlier!”
The church also decided last week to host a fundraiser for a charity that deals with offenders as a result of being targeted by criminals.
The church had already planned to welcome a TV choir called Vocal Works on Sunday night for a free concert. Because of the crime, the event included a collection for Teen Challenge, which is a Christian charity that helps people with drug and alcohol problems – many of whom get caught up in crime. The event raised £316.13 for the charity with 200 people in attendance.
Howard added: “We had two options – we could either get angry and bitter about the crime, or we could forgive the culprits and offer to help them.
“It might have been tempting to go for the first one, but the bible makes it pretty clear about what we should do in a tricky situation like this.
“We’re praying that one day the people responsible for the crimes will come and join us on a Sunday morning.”
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When I spent time at Belmont Chapel they recommended the Church Leader’s Handbook edited by Harold Rowdon. I’m not sure how easy it is to get hold of a copy, I found one in a second-hand bookshop a few months ago, and have recently dipped in and out of it.
It’s a very good guide looking at what it means to lead a local church. With 51 topics contributed by 44 authors, covering leadership, activties, management, pastoral care, and legal and financial matters it is a very wide ranging book. This isn’t a book that you’ll often read cover to cover, but it is certainly a book you might want to dip into on occasion.
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I’ve always loved James Dyson’s inventions. He’s most famous for his vacuum cleaners (most recently he’s develop a hoover than is a ball and so can go round corners). Here he intrroduces his latest product, the bladeless air multiplier fan. It uses a system of low pressure area and suction device in the bottom to create a smooth, continuous flow of air.
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Thoughts and posts from the world of youth ministry:
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From the Fail Blog.
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