Mini Monet
Kieron Williamson is an 8 year old painter who is being compared to Monet and sold 33 pieces of his art for $270,000 in 30 minutes.
Archive for 'Cool People Videos'
Move Over Mozart
In 2004 the TV news program 60 Minutes brought us the story of a musical prodigy by the name of Jay Greenberg or “Bluejay” as he referrers to himself. By the age of 12 Bluejay has already composed 5 symphonies. Here is a follow-up story on Jay.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is the man behind it all. “People with passion can change the World for the better.” In 1984 this is the commercial that launched an empire. The following videos share some of his successes.
Random Act Of Kindness At A Baseball Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xDSSie6kHs This is a very cool video of a young man who gets a baseball that was tossed up into the stands and gives it away to a younger boy who was disappointed because he didn’t get the ball.
Bono And The Blind Guitar Player
This is a cool video of Bono inviting a blind guitar player (Adam Bevell) out of the crowd up on stage to play with him and afterwards gives him the guitar as a gift.
JK Rowling Talks At Harvard
These are the videos that show the commencement speech given by JK Rowling for the graduating Harvard class on June 5, 2008.
Jeff Bezos Goes To Princeton
This is the video Jeff Bezos who is the founder and CEO of Amazon giving a speech to the graduating class of Princeton University.
Bannister Breaks The 4 Minute Mile
This is the video about how on May 6th 1954 Englishman Roger Bannister becomes the first man in history to run the mile in less than 4 minutes. Since then the World record for running the mile was reestablished on July 7th 1999 by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco turning in a time of 3:43.13. [...]
Is That A Fly?
This video is not for the faint hearted, watch Alex Honnold climb a sheer cliff wall like a fly climbs up a piece of glass.
8 Hour Chase For Food
This video is from the BBC’s “Life of Mammals” documentary series showing how some people have to chase down their food for 8 hours through brutal conditions. I’ll never whine about having to go to the store again.
