The best thing about this video is how much fun all the participants seem to be having. [Tip o' the hat to Brené Brown.] A Year Ago: Crouching Rabbit, Hidden Detail Here’s another in my unsung-decorative-details vein. I spotted this hardworking hare while I was hunkered down to photograph some nearby foliage… [read more]
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If at first you don’t succeed…
My favorite thing about this video is the furtive glances he gives to the audience. But pretty much the whole thing is made of awesomesauce. A Year Ago: Introducing: FRAME THIS Magazine! Got some wall-space that needs livening up? Feeling like sprucing up your surroundings with something beautiful? Don’t want to pay a lot for…
Tasty
Love this! It’s both practical (you can actually learn how to make guacamole) and phantasmagoric. I adore the gaming theme that runs through it. Supah clevah! ᔥ via zefrank.com A Year Ago: Arabesque Yes, it’s another brown picture.… [read more]
Aurora Oceanis
Every now and then I like to fool around with hyper-shortform video. I actually prefer to think of them as extended stills rather super-short videos. A Year Ago: Mt. Vernon Vista How different, do you suppose, would the view have been… [read more]
A Little Funk
This kind of improvisational bravura delights and inspires me. It’s important to remember, however, that this is a skilled performer—he’s not only creative and playful, but obviously also incredibly hard-working. His fluidity may originally have come more easily to him than to the rest of us, but I can guarantee that since then he has…
Why yes, I AM fabulous!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a horse more conscious of its audience than this one. The stallion pays perfect attention to the trainer at the center of the arena, but also visits and poses for the camera and onlookers (presumably) behind the window at left. Picture this gorgeous creature prancing across a flowering mountain…
A Little Perspective
Last week I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Lawrence Krauss entitled “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” It was a mind-bending overview of contemporary cosmology. I have always been fond of the big questions, even when the likely answers point to my own insignificance and profound existential emptiness. The universe is…
The Cat in the Box
The world class performance artist Maru gives us another brilliant piece, demonstrating his deep roots in Japanese culture. This is the record of a box cat. I am beginning this account in a box. A cardboard box that reaches just to my hips when I put it on over my head. That is to say,…
What Snow Is Good For
[Hat tip: kottke.org] Big fat, juicy, flaky flakes of snow are snowflaking their way down to the ground in mass quantities. I suppose you could say it’s quite beautiful. And—for fifteen minutes anyway—I’d probably agree. Winter has finally arrived. When I was much, much younger, I enjoyed skiing. This was back in the day: skiing…
Look Up
The single most reliable practical advice I can offer people who want to shake themselves out of aesthetic doldrums is “Change your point of view.” Now obviously that can be construed metaphorically, and while that’s indisputably a good idea it doesn’t quite count as practical advice. No, I mean it literally: change your point of…