Video Sunday: The Brits Have It

This would be Neil Gaiman’s second film that he has directed.  It’s called Statuesque and, as described by Friends of English Magic, "This film stars Bill Nighy, Amanda Palmer and Liam McKean (son of Dave). The plot is simple: a man is obsessed with a living statue."  A rather lovely little film at that.  Thanks to @medinger for the link.

And the winner of the 15-17 category.

I find it interesting that they essentially chose the same scene.  Thanks to bookshelves of doom for the link.

The justification for this next one is that since it’s about a letter it promotes childhood literacy which, in turn, has much to do with children’s literature.  That said, I just like it because it seems that Ricky Gervais is the only celebrity allowed to actively freak out Elmo.  Which makes it well worth watching right there.

Thanks to @medinger for the link.

How on earth did I miss the fact that Travis Jonker of 100 Scope Notes interviewed Ed Spicer, teacher and member of the 2009 Caldecott committee, in a four part video series?  I found all four of the videos here but they may be elsewhere on the web as well.  I’m just a little testy that Travis hasn’t done more videos at this point.  He’s obviously a natural in front of the camera.

I’ve kept this final little off-topic film in my back pocket for a while.  No reason why I shouldn’t run it today.  I’m not particularly obsessed with Intern George, as he is sometimes known, but I do find him engaging.  The Chinook Update originally posted it because, " he says something important about the role of confidence: it’s 99 percent of what you need."  I would say that there’s something to that.

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