(after the fact, I always wish I’d shot more video of moments like these – but in the moment I worried about annoying others sitting nearby, plus I didn’t want to just experience the whole thing through the camera viewfinder. That annoying clicking sound is something internal that my point-n-shoot camera introduces as I try to adjust functions ...doesn’t even make that sound when I’m using it, but somehow it’s there in the video afterwards. :(

(Saw these guys perform this at The Purple Pig Music Festival in 2014 --> incredible band)

Life is like a rollercoaster

Worth listening to again:

Hope my family won't hate me for posting this... I tortured them all with Christmas crackers that included whistles so that we could all create music together (sort of like a bell choir except with whistles) ... this is how we ended up:



The immediate response to my question at the end cracks me up :)

Beautiful!




(Vimeo caption: Trailer of our short film based on a poem of Jacques Prévert "Tant de forêts". The poem speaks of the irony of the fact that newspapers warn us about deforestation although they are made of paper themselves.)

Day 3 of painting workshop, at a woman's house on West Lake Rd.

Genius.

Video footage from the Albuquerque, New Mexico 42nd Annual International Balloon Festival.
I want to go to there.

music: The Guess Who
video: clips from Disney's 1929 Silly Symphony "The Skeleton Dance"; animation by Ub Iwerks

100% pure awesomeness

reminds me of John Held Jr. illustrations

Couldn't help myself ;)

ah yes indeed it's fun times

Burt on drums is the best!!!!!!!!

right on

2 bird videos

random enjoyment from the internet: bugs & frogs edition!

Hubert Duprat's art collaboration with Caddisfly Larvae (via) - I've never seen this:








Description copied from Wikipedia: Hubert Duprat is a French artist known for his unusual work, an artistic intersection between caddisfly larvae and gold, opal, turquoise and other precious stones. Caddisfly larvae live in fresh water and naturally construct elaborate protective tubes for themselves from materials found in their environment. Under natural conditions they use the objects found in their stream bed homes such as pieces of wood, fragments of fish bone or crustacean shell, grains of sand, plant debris and small stones. The tubes serve various purposes; the stones are used to increase traction in fast-moving streams, they serve as disguise for the soft-bodied insect and the spiky bits make the tube and thus, the fly larva, more difficult for predators to swallow. Duprat, born in 1957, began his work with caddisfly larvae in the early 1980s. He collects the larvae from their normal environments and he takes them to his studio. There he gently removes their own natural cases and puts the larvae in tanks filled with his own materials, from which they begin to build their new protective sheaths. When he began the project, he only provided the caddis larvae with gold flakes. Since then, they have enjoyed various semi-precious and precious stones, including turquoise, coral and lapis lazuli, as well as sapphires, pearls, rubies, and diamonds.


the squeak of a Desert Rain Frog (via) -

It was an honor to help commemorate this event with my novice videographer skills. A group of Naples women joined the One Billion Rising event for V-Day on Valentine's Day (click here for more info about V-Day) to bring awareness to women's rights around the world. The experience gave me new-found respect and admiration for the women in our community, bravely expressing their passion for this message.

I like this description one of the women who participated wrote on Facebook:

"All great things begin small... a small group of women danced for a very big cause- the message is huge- the need to be heard is enormous! Many stood in solidarity with us, clapped hands, carried signs, smiled, hugged, took photos, jumped in, became aware. One Billion Rising. Spread the word to protect our sisters and our daughters, and their daughters…"