This is an ancient Hopi prophesy story about the Landlord Masau’u who lives in a cave at the centre of the Earth. His tenants, who live and work the land, are troubled by disturbing events on the land.

The story resonates with what is happening in the world today and teaches us to have faith in the goodness and wisdom of the Universe.

The video was inspired by a fascinating book, Earth Mother, Our Womb of Life, free to download here.  I highly recommend it!!

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This is a passenger’s view of an amazing day on the  Shap – Settle – Carlisle steam train line.

I used the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow (live version) sung by Eva Cassidy – it’s absolutely beautiful.

Editing my videos means listening to the same music dozens of times. I know I’ve got a good song if I’m not pulling my hair out after so many listens. This song by Eva Cassidy has become one of my all time favourites.

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Tina is looking for a date – this is her video profile. This is German interpretation of a scene from the play ‘Personals’.

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In June 2010 Viral Verse tracked down Polarbear and Luke Wright, two of the UK’s leading performance poets, as well as George Palmer, marketing man at Apples & Snakes, the UK’s foremost performance poetry collective, to talk about money and poetry.

How do they make poetry pay? What advice do they have for struggling poets? The talk turns to inspiration and future plans. All interesting stuff!

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Losing yet again.

On a short trip home to Montreal I did this video outside Tim Horton’s. It’s always great to edit footage from a different place – the light, sound and feel of the footage is wonderfully new.

A quick look at what I did in 2010.

If you have any queries or comments, please contact me, Vanessa Plain, at  viralverse@gmail.com

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The original 1963 TV skit by Freddie Frinton is shown every New Years Eve in Germany, Denmark, Holland and other Scandinavian countries – it is as traditional as Charlie Brown and the Grinch.

Fiona and I decided to do a remake – with a little poetic licence.

See the original Dinner for One here.

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I attended an Intelligent Design conference to find out if it was ‘religion masquerading as science’. The attendees were mostly Christian, but the speakers and subjects were all about science.

ID is a compelling argument (which deserves better press). It’s disappointing that the debate is reduced to religious rhetoric, but on the other hand the fierceness of the debate has compelled scientists to come out of their labs and share some amazing research – especially in molecular biology.

My only gripe is the use of ‘Naturalism’ as meaning mechanicalism, materialism – a derogatory term – when it is in Nature that we find the incredible complexity that spawned the debate in the first place. So I made this video. I submitted it (unsolicited) to an Intelligent Design conference hoping they would use it – they didn’t.

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