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(h/t Rick Dakan) “Do you want to be a nicer person? Are you looking for inspiration to do good things? Well keep looking. But if you’re into opening up terrifying vistas of reality then the Esoteric Order of the Old Ones and Cthulhu Cultists want to help. Contact us today to find out how.” This cross-stitch animation by Holly Klein took two years to produce and animate. Maggie and Mildred from Holly Klein on Vimeo. Here’s an interview with the artist.
How long did the film take to produce and how did you do it? Here’s a half hour doc about maker culture. Makers – A short-subject documentary about the Do-It-Yourself Counterculture (click through to see a larger, higher-res version) Makers – A short-subject documentary about the Do-It-Yourself Counterculture from Brian Boyko on Vimeo. Makers is a short subject documentary, filmed at Austin’s Maker Faire, 2007, about the people behind the do-it-yourself counterculture [...] JB’s favorite Mighty Boosh song. (I have too many to count.) Cheese is a kind of meat A terrific bit of surreal, hand-drawn animation, The Head by parquerama. Click through for the larger version at Vimeo. TheHead / hand-drawn animated short from parquerama on Vimeo. For those of you unfamiliar with Chatroulette (possibly NSFW) here’s Kottke’s perfect summation: “I spent about 30 minutes on Friday night on Chatroulette (very NSFW). You push the start button and you’re instantly in a video chat with some random person. During my session, the average “chat” lasted about 5 seconds and I observed several people [...] Rollicking tune about the most important dilemma of our day. Maurits Fondse Terrific promotional video for the New Zealand Book Council. Pages of books are cut into shapes and animated. Umm, that description doesn’t really do justice to this spectacular stop-motion work. Class all day Friday and Saturday, assignments (including a real-work-as-opposed-to-school-work deadline) due Thursday, Friday, Saturday, & Sunday. And then the push begins to finish 5 projects due the first week of December. If I weren’t doing so much work and school, I’d be writing more about hyper-polarization and how communities can search for common ground, [...] Cool animation and explanation of how a virus invades your body. David Bolinsky did the animation. Here he is talking at TED in 2007. Here is his short piece “The Inner Life of a Cell.” It took more than a year to create these 8 minutes of animation. A few days ago my to-do list hit TWENTY items, but by the end of the weekend I should be down to ten. In the meantime, here’s a brief interview with Jimmy Wales. What is your greatest hope for the next 10 years? This headline – NASA to Bomb the Moon Friday, reminded me of this Mr. Show skit. Look out moon! America’s gonna get ya! Nifty animation for Beethoven’s Fifth.
Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean? Clear explanation of why we need health insurance reform (h/t tiny little dots) Animated by Andy Lubershane. JS pointed me to this cool story about the power of the sun. The Carrington Super Flare In 1859… “Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes [...] The Story of Marjoe (1972) via Wikipedia - “Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, is a former revivalist who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four, and then outright notoriety in the 1970s when he starred in an Oscar-winning, [...] Bugs Bunny in Glen or Glenda? Bugs Bunny in “Glen or Glenda” Pushing Rope posted this hour-long interview between the Orlando Sentinel editorial board and Representative Kosmas.
I listened to about 5 minutes before I got too bored to continue, but Hussey listened to the whole thing and offers up some of the key points in the post. Coburn is right! We don’t need government sticking its nose into health care. What we need is neighbors helping each other. Exactly. Since I’m not sure which of my neighbors need help, and which don’t, I have a proposition how we can make this work. First, I don’t mind pitching in some money regularly to help out [...] Consumerist, via Foodgeekery, reposts this cell phone recording of KFC’s latest sally in the War on American health. And, Patton Oswalt thought the “sadness bowl” was the lowest KFC could sink. Obesity actually shrinks your brain, which might explain why logic and reason don’t mean diddly-squat in our health care debates. School is just around the corner, and just because you won’t be attending university doesn’t mean you can’t sit in on some lectures. Academic Earth collects individual lectures, and the lectures from entire courses, and puts them up on the web. Here, for example, are four lectures on copyright law. “This course is an introduction to copyright [...] there was a time before we were born MGMT performing This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) *** Shawn Colvin performing This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (one of my favorite covers). Never for money, always for love. *** We’ll make it up as we go along. Put away that gun *** Turn like a wheel inside a wheel. The Sweater by Meryn Cadell “Girls, I know you will understand this, and feel the intrinsic, incredible emotion. You have just pulled over your head the worn, warm sweater belonging to A Boy. Now you haven’t had a passionate kissing session or anything, but you got to go on a camping trip with him and eight [...] “His name was Harvey Milk. And he was here to recruit us, all of us, to join a movement and change a nation. For much of his early life he had silenced himself. In the prime of his life he was silenced by the act of another. But in the brief time in which he [...] Pastor Drake unabashedly says he’s praying for Obama’s death. He and Osama bin Laden both want the president of the United States to die. Bill O’Reilly is attacking the father of David After the Dentist. One of these is insignificant and the other appalling. O’Reilly and I disagree on which is which. 1950s educational film on how to survive a zombie attack. What To Do In A Zombie Attack (via Missions Unknown) America’s Best Christian, Betty Bowers, explains Biblical marriage. (Thanks, JB!) In this episode Dr. Steve Brule extols the pleasure of sweet berry wine. Den of Geek offers up some suggestions for the top scenes about taking drugs. They include YouTube clips when available. The second batch of 25 is here. If I had the time I’d download all of these, stitch them together, and play them at my next out-of-control drug-fueled orgy. Here’s Jackie Gleason in Otto Preminger’s Skidoo, a hard [...] |
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