…and Emil filmed him doing it.
This is a tribute to Buxton, Derbyshire. We were fortunate to spend five months here and get to know the town, the Peak District and the amazing people living here. Thanks to all who made our time in Buxton so special.
Juggling: Theo Kurpierz
Filming and Editing: Emil Kurpierz
Song: Smashing Pumpkins, Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode)
Juggling in Buxton from Steffen Kurpierz on Vimeo.
“We don’t have to give up our liberty to have security. And I think by working together we can have both open government and private lives”
Go to TED – ideas worth spreading for more great talks.
John Kerry must really be quite helpless. How else can he seriously sit there and call Snowden “pretty dumb”?
I don’t think Kerry is dumb, simply because he is saying dumb things like that. It must have crossed his mind, that Snowden might be disillusioned about the fairness of the chance he would get in the American justice system – the disillusionment springing from his own experience working inside the American administration. The nonchalant way the Constitution of the US is disregarded secretly – now more or less openly – by the intelligence agencies cannot be very encouraging to anyone.
Of course he had to run. Of course he had to go public. Of course he is a patriot.
Mr Kerry, if you call him dumb and a traitor and a coward, you have to apply the same attributes to Henry David Thoreau.
Steffen Kurpierz
PS:
When I was younger I thought very long and hard about how the world would be different if the maps of the world were drawn the other way around. After all placing North on the top half of the globe is a completely arbitrary decision. On my map Australia and New Zealand as well as Brazil and Argentina along with the rest of South America would be in what is our North, whereas the US and Europe as well as Asia would be situated in the Southern hemisphere. Today you can find reversed maps online. Wikipedia seems a good starting point.
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Meet Bill Bailey!
Click the screenshot for a fine selection of Cartoons released in the wake of Potter 7.1
Many people are euphoric about Obama winning the election. What amazes me is the degree of excitement even in our country, Germany. I predict that next year when we are asked to the ballot box in order to vote for our own government, the excitement will be nowhere near as big as it was during the US election week. But at the moment people all over the world seem to believe that with the new President world peace will suddenly break out. (Christopher Hitchens warns of “the cousinhood of euphoria and hysteria” about this.) At the least, I am afraid that the the expectations of Obama are to high not for him to fail.
Over the last eight agonizing years, when we were not outraged, we Europeans have developed a tendency to lean back and smirk at what was going on in the US. This attitude has never been very becoming to us.
Hugh Laurie only needs three words to construct the lyrics for “America”. And yet, he says it all, at least it appears as if he does to anyone who has in some way a connection with the “The States”.