{"id":3838,"date":"2016-05-23T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T02:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2016-05-23T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T02:45:15","slug":"editor-smiles-warmly-toward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/editor-smiles-warmly-toward\/","title":{"rendered":"THE EDITOR SMILES WARMLY TOWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unique YouTube channels that you oughta subscribe to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrand Illusions\u201d is the YouTube channel of Tim the Toyman, an old British fella with a MASSIVE collection of toys and novelty items. His videos range from about 45 seconds to 20 minutes (!), and center around a single item or a category of them, be it playing cards, unconventional lighters, strange bottles, toys that look like fish, or one of his most recent: brushes! There are all kinds of toy collection channels on YouTube, but Tim is one of the only people that never talks about the value of the toys or the brand or anything like that. He is just a funny old man with a deep, abiding appreciation for toy design, mechanisms, and how they function; and \u201cGrand Illusions\u201d is his way of sharing his life\u2019s work with the world. His charming persona, dry wit, and clear passion for these \u201cfunny little contraptions\u201d keeps me coming back. Quite extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>She said \u2026 I don\u2019t know where I discovered the channel of \u201cShopdogsam,\u201d but I\u2019m glad I did. He\u2019s a hippie grandpa with a thick Tennessee accent, a love of engines and Hostess cupcakes, a stuffed parrot, long white hair, and a longer white beard, and most of his videos are stream-of-consciousness monologues about \u2026 well, it\u2019s kind of hard to say. But he\u2019s oddly fascinating, talking into the void of YouTube-land as if it were an old, trusted friend, as he rolls an industrial spool around or eats ice cream and cupcakes with chopsticks. He\u2019s an oddball for sure, but again \u2026 it\u2019s all super compelling. And that\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna say about that.<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Cottingham recently deleted his YouTube channel, but he still has a large collection of material on Vimeo. He runs a coffee shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has released just a shade fewer than five hundred videos of \u2026 I guess I\u2019ll let ol\u2019 Theo himself explain: \u201cI am Christ, Christing the Christ, teaching all who will to become it also, through my words. These recordings are me speaking the first person words of God I am for you to learn to do also, where you record it, study it, learn from it, surrendering daily to the process of The New Covenant so you experience the transformation of Christ to become it in your two shoes becoming a new creation person of leadership in your country.\u201d And if that doesn\u2019t at least intrigue you, you are a lost cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrand Illusions\u201d is the YouTube channel of Tim the Toyman, an old British fella with a MASSIVE collection of toys and novelty items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}