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Go swimming

–In your one-car garage.

The Urbanite Magazine – SPACE

As a child I was fascinated by the idea of flooding the indoors to make a swimming pool.  Of course in reality this would neither be possible or desirable, or safe for that matter, but whenever it happened in cartoons it was always so cool.  Especially that part where you open a door and the water stays in place.  Glug.

Mark Time

Poynter Online – Late Editor Blames Three Key People for Newspapers’ Demise

I haven’t read Poynter in a long time, years even.  Always a good read.

Trying again…

Spring Time Yay

my what a mighty fine video.

My how clever

Ge has a really neat toy on the web.  Virtual hologram.  Go looky loo.

Step one is to print out a pattern.  Step two, you hold it up to your webcam.  Step three is to trip out.

Moanin’ Low

Have you had the chance to watch Sita Sings the Blues Yet?   This track was featured in it, as were a whole slew of Annette Hanshaw recordings.  This one happens to be my favorite.  I love the melody and phrasing of the chorus.

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

David Seezen at the Open Mic, Paris

My lover asks me:
“What is the difference between me and the sky?”
The difference, my love,
Is that when you laugh,
I forget about the sky.

Nizar Qabbani
, Syrian poet, born on this day

I heart cave paintings

And now they’ve found more of em.
Thousands of 6,000-year old cave paintings found in Peru’s Amazon region | Peruvian Times

The 11 Second Club

Rad.   Every month, animators compete by completing an eleven second clip using the given sound material. 
The 11 Second Club