A visual message for peace

Here's a creative example of adding the visual to the verbal to amplify the narrative. I Met The Walrus is an amazing six-minute film which earned an Academy Award nomination for best animated short early this year. This is the story: In 1969 14-year-old Jerry Levitan "armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation." Read the story on the film's website and watch the film below. You'll want to view it several times to catch all the simple yet very creative visual effects. Jerry Levitan captured a wonderful and real moment with John Lennon on that day in Toronto almost 40 years ago; the message seems just as fresh today.

You can have it if you want it
Just in case some of the younger readers are not as familiar with the Beatles and especially Lennon's message of peace, here are a few vintage music videos from Lennon and The Beatles. Seems like the message of peace is needed now more than ever.
 • Revolution
 • Hey Jude
 • All You Need is Love
 • Don't Let Me Down
 • Imagine

Here's a CBC story about the film.

Comments

[Peter]

Missing link:
War is Over (If you want it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbKsgaXQy2k&feature=related

[roman]

What famous muscician did military service
and didn't bitch about it. How many of today's
worthless "peacenik" musicians would do that?

http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/elvis-in-the-us-army.jpg

[Mike]

Great link about Elvis!

Peace is only good for
cowards, appeasers, and prisoners.

If you want peace you have to kick ass
like General MacArthur did. Now, that is a
liberator

[Kimberly]

I disagree with roman and Mike. I believe that war and hate only fuel our savage nature. Are we not meant to grow both as individuals and as a people? Finding and accepting peace and love is the only way this world will survive.