The Grand Rapids LipDub Video was filmed May 22nd, with 5,000 people, and involved a major shutdown of downtown Grand Rapids, which was filled with marching bands, parades, weddings, motorcades, bridges on fire, and helicopter take offs. It is the largest and longest LipDub video, to date.
This video was created as an official response to the Newsweek article calling Grand Rapids a “dying city.” We disagreed strongly, and wanted to create a video that encompasses the passion and energy we all feel is growing exponentially, in this great city. We felt Don McLean’s American Pie, a song about death, was in the end, triumphant and filled to the brim with life and hope.
— Rob Bliss, Director & Executive Producer
*Note: The New World Record designation refers to size and scope, not duration. Storyboards and concept art by Greg Oberle.
This $40,000 production was entirely financed by the generosity of local sponsors that are listed below: [MORE.]
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We bought EVERYTHING in a store.
— an art project with a lot of heart
(article from CBS) - Art is a very finicky thing. Sometimes you love it and sometimes you don't. But the above video exhibits an art project that seems pretty easy for almost anyone to get behind called Store Buyout.
In the video a group of artists go to a store that is going out of business and - wait for it - purchase everything in an effort to save the store. Yeah, you'll want to check this one out.
The group writes about the endeavor:
Store Buyout is an art project where five artists arrived at Hercules Fancy Grocery in NYC and bought everything. Every item has been repurposed as art and will be sold online and for a limited time at the Store Buyout Gallery in LES. Money from the sales is going towards saving Hercules store.
Well, Store Buyout, you've just earned yourself a triple-rainbow salute from us here at The Feed for your art with heart idea. To learn more about the project, you can click HERE.
[FROM YOUTUBE NOTES.] I woke up to this event, aptly described in an email from a colleague - "Never seen anything like this before - spectacular". It really is just amazing! Here are videos of a prominence eruption from 304, 171 and 211 Angstrom channel cameras on SDO. Also included is a video from the LASCO C2 coronagraph aboard the SOHO spacecraft. This event produced M2.5 x-ray solar flare and a moderate proton storm. There are no major concerns for space weather.
— [VIMEO NOTES.] The International Space Station (ISS) is a marvel of current technology and humanity. Sadly, we often forget it's there.
This light sits on a desk and lights up when the space station passes overhead. It stays lit as long as the station is more than 10 degrees above the horizon.
Being reminded that there are astronauts doing science over our heads every day helps reconnect us with our space program.
Among the UK performers are cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, tenor Paul Potts (a reality-show sensation before Susan Boyle), the Priests (often featured in PBS pledge-time programming) and percussionist Evelyn Glennie, not to mention the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
This “We Are The World-” type fundraiser to benefit Haitian relief efforts is a performance of “The Prayer,” a pop ballad recorded originally by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion. MORE...
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[FROM YOUTUBE NOTES AND COMMENTS.] 23 artists and a host of talented, dedicated professionals, all donated their services and their time to bring about the first ever “Classical Band Aid” ...for one cause... HAITI...
BrianColgate 1 year ago
The only black mark on this video is that The Mail bailed on the project long before any semblance of recovery has taken place in Haiti. One is left to understand that this project was just a short term PR gig for them.
It is unfortunate that the recording could not have been turned over to something like iTunes for on-going benefit to the recovery process.
UnofficiallyBlake 11 months ago
@BrianColgate I totally agree with you, but I believe the reason it was done through the Mail was to cut down on admin charges, in order that all the money went to the cause. The Mail should have carried on with the offer until orders ground to a halt.
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