Official animated movie of Tim Minchin’s 9-minute beat poem Storm. Written and performed by Tim Minchin. Directed and animated by DC Turner. Produced by Tracy King. www.stormmovie.net
Tim Minchin’s Storm the Animated Movie
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…awesome. Nothing like a good rant, eh…?
Tim minchin is talented, but he has as much of a belief disease as he claims hippies and religious nuts do. Does anyone with an open intelligent mind truly believe that big pharmaceutical companies don’t often have greedy dirty agendas? come on! it’s just simple capitalist behavior, + the girl has a point there are many ways of treating illnesses outside of normal medicine. Acupuncture is available on the NHS and has been used for thousands of years, is there a definitive scientific explanation for its workings yet it WORKS? There is a post enlightenment horde of ‘savior’ intellectuals, comedians and guardian readers that stand perched high and laugh at anything that is beyond the realms of scientific reason. Of course religion is nuts, + many ideas unprovable, but a closed mind is worse
What a gem, a little beauty, love it
God, I love this poem so much. I live in an Australian town chock-full of hippies, so I have to listen to this from time to time just to remind myself not to get sucked into their vortex of nonsense.
Good old Tim Minchin. Saw his show a few weeks ago; genius.
I encourage scientific investigation, Minchin is spot on with his promotion of not being a moron, that is making reality up, and maintaining this view irrespective of anything that you see.
I think myself included however that we do just this ethically. We are slow to evolve, we no longer directly promote slavery, or exploitation of animals, but we are slow to act to promote further world peace.
At least I do not directly cause others to suffer to satisfy my own wants.
Or at least I do a bit, but not as much as other people.
Or I do in fact exploit many people, but this is of no importance.
But I enjoy the sentiment of Tim’s video, don’t make bollocks up and then force it down other peoples throat.
If the world were 100 people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNnbO8x4JAY
Tim Minchin is amazing..
This is great!! I am on my way up after a depressive episode. I have lived with ppl and in an environment for quite some while where ppl keep telling me medication is wrong and that it is just a process i need to go through, or that source or spirit or some shit is trying to tell me something. They wont even take an asprin if they have a headache because they view the headache as something that has significance and needs to be worked through emotionally… or you could take an asprin. I laughed my ass off for the first time in weeks listening to this. Nice one!!!
This is amazing and hilariously true. the amount of people who don’t or are too ignorant believe in a ever changing science and history is unbelievable. i am willing to believe in any other reasoning to life and whatever else, should there be proper evidence, but there is none so science gives us as humans to get some form of truth to the world and its beings and has real evidence of worth.
Great stuff, was this done in Toon Boom? Flash?
@Tony Marrese
Small correction…acupuncture doesn’t work (any better than a placebo).
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=3029
Ok, that’s not really a “beat poem,” she said pedantically, but AWESOME.
Nicholas:
I had not heard of the 100 people project. I’m glad you put that little plug in there, even if it was a little OT. I look forward to sharing this with my children and wider family.
Tim Minchin’s $#*! Storm?
Isn’t quantum physics magic enough for you mate? Since it appears to operate in a way completely contrary to the accepted human understand of how reality must be. If we set science or anything else up as an unassailable standard, we get situations. Like the one with the two Australian doctors, and the rejected, but real, cure for stomach ulcers.
Alan, how is science an unassailable standard? Science is a method — posit a theory, then try to disprove it. If you can’t, it may hold water. That’s how the doctor you refer to found the connection between helicobacter pylori and stomach ulcers: By applying the scientific method. He theorised that swallowing infected material would cause ulcers, so he did so. Had he not developed an ulcer, his theory would have been void. But he did, and that was the first step into finding the cause of stomach ulcers.
Quantum physics isn’t magic, it’s physics. It just doesn’t answer to former ideas of how the universe works, so new theories were made and old ones adapted. That’s what science is. That’s what it does. Magic is the belief in ritual over observation and understanding.
I really enjoyed this little film… thanks for posting.
@ Tino – no one who has been severely depressed will refute the efficacy of drug therapy. I’m sorry you’re surrounded by people who have no empathy for you. Perhaps you can find the resources to get out of that and into a more positive and supporting situation? Good luck to you.
@Rob – accupuncture does work sometimes. It cured my years-long sinus problem in 12 minutes. Really!
@Alan & Berber: there are no unassailable standards – neither good nor bad. Name someone evil and there exists or has existed someone worse. Name someone good and there exists or has existed someone better. It is one of the truths of human beings: we express the entire range of our potential for good and for evil. We always have and we probably always will.
Liked the film, the use of language, the use of characters, the insight into one of a myriad of perspectives one could take on oberving and interacting with the world. Not particularly interested in whether or not any of the views expressed were open to debate. A really good, thoroughly enjoyable piece. Well Done!