Things You Could Do

2009-03-15T10:21:00.000-07:00

Daito Manabe is a Tokyo musician/artist who's work explores how audience and musician interact with music. Here, he's wired four of his friends with electric stimulation pads, so their faces are controlled by his music.

My favourite ST:TNG Episode

2009-02-02T00:10:00.000-08:00

Pas de deux by Norman McLaren, - NFB

2009-01-23T05:51:00.000-08:00

The National Film Board of Canada has begun the process of putting their catalogue online. I could go the easy route with this, and post the Log Driver's Waltz, but instead I'm going to show you one of the most beautiful things ever put to film. Made in 1968 by Norman McLaren, here's Pas de Deux:

The Amazing Lyrebird: The Unseen Footage

2009-01-23T05:17:00.000-08:00

A clip from the deleted scenes special feature of David Attenborough's The Life of Birds

Internet Archive: Details: This Is Hormel

2009-01-21T16:29:00.000-08:00

Click the happy gentleman below to view one of the most disturbing G-Rated videos on the internet. It's a tour of the one building no sane family would want to tour: the Hormel Plant, home of fine canned meat products.

It's half an hour, but it will give you an "exciting and educational" "new awareness of meat processing". Highlights include: the processed meat vats, the cow skinning, and the dead looks on the employees faces.

Where can I find my own Chris McMillian?

2009-01-20T06:54:00.000-08:00

Bartender Chris McMillian prepares a traditional Mint Julep while reciting Joshua Soule Smith's loving ode to the drink, written over 100 years ago.

I'm afraid he's among the last of his breed - bartender as craftsman.

You have questions - Yahoo! has answers.

2009-01-20T06:03:00.000-08:00

Would my armpit hair ever grow ??( I am almost 17)?

Sometimes it Feels Like I'm Nothing More Than a Team of 5 German Puppeteers, You Know?

2009-01-20T06:01:00.000-08:00

Do Not Hug This Man:

2009-01-20T05:27:00.000-08:00

From the aptly named Everything Is Terrible, which you should all be reading anyway.

Are you still doing that hand thing? I heard you were doing the hand thing today. God, what is that?

2009-01-19T12:24:00.001-08:00

(This is a more realistic take on the same themes discussed in The Delicious. Chchchchcha.)

Song of the Moment

2009-01-18T21:18:00.000-08:00

Dolly Parton inexplicably and wonderfully covers Collective Soul's Shine

N.I.A.B.M.O.A.H.P T.L.O.B.P

2009-01-18T21:13:00.001-08:00

Now this is a table I'd like to find myself sitting at.

(Related: how do you distract a room full of pirates while your partner tries to discover their hidden electronics? you know the answer)

The Contrabass Orchestra #1: The Contrabass Saxophone

2009-01-18T21:04:00.000-08:00

The term contrabass (derived from the Italian contrabbasso) refers to very low musical instruments; generally those pitched one octave below instruments of the bass register.

Pitbull vs. Balloon

2009-01-18T20:59:00.000-08:00

Crushed by the beauty of it all

2009-01-18T20:09:00.000-08:00

Sometimes art is created when an artist has a great vision, and wants to share it with the world. Other times, it's created when an artist has a great amount of gum and wants to share it with no one.

Lorum Ipsum

2009-01-12T19:12:00.001-08:00

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