Here’s a great segment from Disney’s 1946 “Make Mine Music”: All the Cats Join in.  It’s fabulous.

The background is very minimal.  It’s drawn in place as the characters need it.  This piece is very much about how the characters convey the excitement of the music, some hot Benny Goodman jazz.  The enthusiasm of these kids is positively contagious, as they rear back and fling themselves from point A and go skidding and scrambling while overshooting point b every time.  And great non-rotoscoped dancing.  I dig it.

Watch hundreds of films online for free at NFB.ca » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

NFB.ca launched tthis week. NFB.ca is the National Film Board of Canada’s new online film site that puts hundreds of animated films, documentaries, and experimental films back in front of the people that created and paid for them.

Gnarly. Here is one of my favorites, I saw this one over ten years ago and I still sing the song to it now and then. The Cat Came Back

Today is the birthday of writer Gérard de Nerval who inspired the surrealist movement, and also had a pet lobster, Thibault, whom he rescued from a lobster net while on vacation in La Rochelle.

Where ya house at?


Daniel pointing out his house using the map on the label of a bottle of wine from Île de Ré. 
The Island is famous not for its vinyards, but for its salt farms.  And rightly so: the wine tastes like rock salt.

Why not? A quick bunny wallpaper.

What the Richest Men in the World Don’t Know – The Daily Beast

The best way to learn financial ethics is to study the lives of the nine wealthiest financiers of 1923. A quarter century later, they were all either dead, broke, or in prison.

Here’s a number that I hadn’t heard until just last week. Paul van Dyk — Wir Sind Wir
Doc wants to use it in class next week. I don’t care for the lyrics so much, but the video is really remarkable. It chronicles Berlin from war’s end to the reunification with the singer, Peter Heppner, on the scene with a very convincing mix of historical footage and reenactments.

And a nightmare for others.  Everyone is making fun of Damien Jean, the self-produced up-and-coming anti-pop phenom.   Beady-eyed, somber, white besocked and limber, and generally dorky looking, Damien does a little number in a half-full club with a lovely undersea wall mural.  This video is truly a …video.

Hardly a real hack, but life improving nonetheless.  I like using Mozilla Thunderbird very much, but it has been getting to me how often I miss  the “get mail” button and hit “write” instead.  Then you have to close that new window, click “do not save”, and try again.  Finally it occured to me that you can move the buttons around.  I added a space between those two, and problem solved.

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Minimize to tray is a groovy little add-on for Thunderbird for those of us who like to leave the email client running but hate the cluttered taskbar.