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Musicians Around the World Sing "Stand By Me"

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM&fmt=18] For his documentary "Playing or Change: Peace Through Music," filmmaker Mark Johnson traveled through four continents and recorded various musicians--some from unexpected quarters--playing "Stand By Me."

Each musician was charged with layering a single song over the previous artist thus building upon it. Over thirty musicians globally participated in this project and not one artist knew the other or came in contact initially.

Here's the trailer:

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I'm skeptical about the impact and transformative nature of projects such as this, but I'm always thankful for them, because in the end I find them to be wonderful.

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Spectacular Fireworks Show in Dubai

The grand opening of the 7 star Atlantis hotel in Dubai featured an elaborate extravaganza with over 1 million fireworks. A cool $30 million was dropped on this opening party. What global economic recession? Watch the fireworks show in YouTube HD:

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Tips for Surviving a Free Fall

Some helpful and even inspirational tips on surviving a free fall.

Snow is good—soft, deep, drifted snow. Snow is lovely. Remember that you are the pilot and your body is the aircraft. By tilting forward and putting your hands at your side, you can modify your pitch and make progress not just vertically but horizontally as well. As you go down 15,000 feet, you can also go sideways two-thirds of that distance—that's two miles! Choose your landing zone. You be the boss.

If your search discloses no trees or snow, the parachutist's "five-point landing" is useful to remember even in the absence of a parachute. Meet the ground with your feet together, and fall sideways in such a way that five parts of your body successively absorb the shock, equally and in this order: feet, calf, thigh, buttock, and shoulder. 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed at which experienced parachutists land. There will be some bruising and breakage but no loss of consciousness to delay your press conference. Just be sure to apportion the 120-mph blow in equal fifths. Concentrate!

Much will depend on your attitude. Don't let negative thinking ruin your descent. If you find yourself dwelling morbidly on your discouraging starting point of seven miles up, think of this: Thirty feet is the cutoff for fatality in a fall. That is, most who fall from thirty feet or higher die. Thirty feet! It's nothing! Pity the poor sod who falls from such a "height." What kind of planning time does he have?

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The Secret of Efficient Meetings

These innovative chairs from aimed at making office scrums and meetings more efficient comes a 28 page booklet "Fleeting Seating: The Slightly Uncomfortable Chair Collection," an internal project by creative agency Sid Lee and spearheaded by their Montreal creative director Louis-Thomas Pelletier who "realised he was spending a lot of time in meetings."

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Poster Boy in Action

Watch this video of Poster Boy, a street artist rapidly gaining a reputation for his cheekily remixed subway posters, transforming a movie poster for the "Transporter "to the "Deported." This is his Flickr page.

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