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A long time ago, in a small town called Portslade, a bunch of Summering students gathered to create a 24-esque spoof on a zero budget. Again.

Created on a portable camera in 2005 and edited on Windows Movie Maker, the technology never ever wanted this to see the light of day. But somehow, we managed to pull it off. We know it’s not up to today’s video standards, but then again, not many home videos are 14 years old.

Now, for the very first time – both the original and the sequel are available to watch online courtesy of YouTube. So put your feet up, grab a coke and brace yourselves for one of the most elaborate home movies of all time.

Soundtrack by Sean Callery, 24 [Original Television Soundtrack]
Used without permission or proper sound mastering… But you already knew that.

View 61 #1 on Youtube here
View 61 #2 on Youtube here

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The Focus

I can often find myself getting lost in myself. My brain can be a infinite abyss of complex realities and unending reasonings.

That is, as you can imagine, only multiplied in times of extra stresses, confusion or uncertainty. And lately, that has felt a little bit like where I’ve been.

Firstly, let me just stress that I am so blessed with the worlds’ best wife and children. I am by no means ‘going through it’. In comparison to many in the world today, I’m living the dream. But every now and again, the minor stresses that I deal with eat away at the joys.

And its times like this that it’s good to stop and re-adjust the focus. This song, recently released by UNITED, is one that really spoke to me in this way.

So often, I feel guilty of loosing focus in the moment of a stressful week or an uncertain bill to pay. So much so that even when I do try to refocus, I miss the most amazing point of all. If only just for the 7 odd minutes of this song, I began to realise that the re-adjustment wasn’t about my focus – but it was all about realising how intensely focused God is on me. Just like He does on all of his children.

And as the universe around us screams of His greatness, it fails to compare, nor does it distract God from His ultimate desire – us. And that’s more than enough to bring my focus back each time to meet His gaze.

But what measures could amount to your desire?
You’re the one who never leaves the one behind.

I’m not a big fan of the aesthetics behind this lyric video, but the song and the lyrics are just phenomenal.

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