Ross M. W. Bennetts

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April 17th, 2010
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation‘s Eric Campbell managed to get a rare interview with His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, for the Foreign Correspondent program, as shown in this piece entitled “After the Dalai Lama“.

April 7th, 2010
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cycles by cyriak

March 31st, 2010
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Here is part 2 of the video I posted back in February:

Sand Mandala Dissolution Ceremony

March 30th, 2010
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Crazy Wisdom – A film about the life and times of Chogyam Trungpa

SYNOPSIS

Chogyam Trungpa, renowned Tibetan Buddhist leader, shattered notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave when he renounced his monk’s vows & eloped with a sixteen year-old aristocrat.  Twenty years after his death, Trungpa’s name still evokes admiration and outrage. What made him tick? And just what is enlightenment, anyway?

Thanks to Tenpa for pointing out this wonderful gem.

March 26th, 2010
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I think my taste in music is changing… I honestly prefer this or Trololo to Lady Gaga or Lily Allen.

:)

March 22nd, 2010
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During the last few months I’ve really been enjoying some of the music videos produced by Nataly and Jack of Pomplamoose. They use a technique dubbed ‘production-as-performance’ whereby the music video shows pretty much everything that goes into the music.

Here are some more links to their work:

March 6th, 2010

Today’s video is Seth Godin at TED2009 and in it he gives an inspiring talk about ‘tribes’ and ‘creating a movement’. Seth’s Blog is one I try to read everyday, I suggest you go check it out. And if you don’t know what TED is you should go there  too.

You might have noticed that I have been tinkering away behind the scenes and there are a few new things here on the rossbennetts.com blog:

  • WP Greet Box is going to say hi when you first visit a post, and it delivers a tailored message depending upon where you came from… I think it’s pretty cool.
  • ‘Ads by Google’ have appeared in the sidebar using the Easy AdSense plugin and under photos and videos (with AdSense Under Image: reloaded)… I’ve tried to keep them minimal and relatively discrete… if you see anything that interests you, please click the link :) everybody has bills to pay.
  • I’ve imported many of the posts from my two other blogs over on Blog.une, Owe My Eyeball and Ross M. W. Blog. That meant I had to install the “Viper’s Video Quicktags” plugin, which almost seamlessly allowed me to import the video previously embedded with Anarchy Media Player which is getting a bit old these days.

There are more changes coming… just you wait… I hope you enjoy…

March 2nd, 2010
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February 13th, 2010

It might look like I forgot to post yesterday, but the truth is I was teaching myself to use iMovie until the wee small hours of the morning, and above is the result.

Today is Gutor and tomorrow is Losar.

Tashi Delek…

May everyone have an auspicious Iron Tiger year…

:)

March 4th, 2009

From Talking Trash with Captain Charles Moore at TED2009:

http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/CharlesMoore_2009U-embed_high.flv
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At this year’s TED, Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation gave a short talk on how plastic waste is choking the seas, killing birds and poisoning fish. Anyone who has been inspired by Sylvia Earle’s talk and wish will not want to miss this devastating presentation.

7min 20sec
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