GOP's 'What would it look like if the world changed?' goes Creative Commons
Funded by the American Kalliopeia Foundation, the Global Oneness Project seeks to compile wisdom of unsung world changers from every corner of the planet. With all videos licensed under the Creative Commons license, the videos are free to download, share, recut, remix and reuse (hence this trimmed version here). For a documentary series with a social purpose, the license gives them the edge over films such as Age of Stupid and An Inconvenient Truth which seek to reach the widest possible audience with their messages, but are still fettered by trying to make a financial return for their investors, and therefore avoid a more re-distributoin friendly license and system (which can still be profitable). But more touching is the content of some of the films - especially Ubuntu - and on a day that the world's (mostly) elected elite try to hit the brakes before our Titanic civilisation is sunk by the icebergs ahead, What would it look like?, which weaves many threads, including a Peruvian elder and Buddhist nun with Martin Luther King and Obama's speeches, seemed to say far more than anything I could muster.
Just imagine a world where we didn't work so hard and got to spend more time outside and with friends and family. That's what a real green evolution would mean.
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many thanks,
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Director
Global Oneness Project
I haven\\\'t take the Vimeo link yet - partly because Joomla doesn\\\'t make it easy to embed Global Oneness films in, and partly because I wonder if showing an extract is something you\\\'d want to prevent. As film review shows often screen a clip to encourage people to watch the full film, it seems there\\\'s a big divide between derivative works like mashups, and showing extracts for promo purposes (or episodes for streaming). But please let me know if I should!
And thank you for such a great project - one of the most heart warming I\\\'ve come across in a long time. A comment from a Buddhist monk in London who got sent a link to this article was \\\'I will forwards to some friends looking for a little more feel good and hope factors... A great inspiration\\\'.
We actually tried to include some of the films in our recent Living Cinema events, but technology got in the way. I don\\\'t know whether to blame the condor or eagle
The WYSIWYG edit interface strips out pasted in HTML, so we embed videos using the AllVideos plugin from JoomlaWorks. This only converts the bigger 40 or so video sites and .movs and .flvs when there is a full, direct URL, but not, as far as I am aware, swf files.
There is a code over-ride plugin but it didn\'t work the last time I tried to embed video. Long answer - but there you go!
best, Nic
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