Category Archives: Playing

Old new media

OK, so it’s an ad, but it’s only 1 min long. I like the “amazing pen-tip interface.”

Black Friday

Here’s an animation that offers another perspective on Picasso’s wrenching painting Guernica.

Future of Computing?

I’m all about the video, for one more week. (24,000 words to go! 5 more days! Ack!) This is fun-zooming animation; next will be a very different zooming animation.

Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo.

Deep in the pool

I am still very busy, trying to get to 85,000 words by Nov. 30. It will be a squeaker, but I’m really hoping to get to the end of the story (and hoping that it’s around 85k). Last year, I wrote 60,000 words in November, but that got me only 7/8 through the story. I [...]

Power up!

I am very busy writing, but I had to take ten minutes out to watch this whole video. That’s how I know you should start at the 0:40 mark and stop when she starts talking about the monkey–unless you need a pep talk, then keep going.

Chillaxing

Perfect vacation afternoon: Sitting in a lawn chair at the edge of Grand Traverse Bay, sipping a cappuccino and reading a book during the break between films at the Traverse City Film Festival.

Coming Soon: The Last Airbender

(from YouTube)
Please let it be a worthy successor to the Nickelodeon series….

Wednesday on PBS: “The Music Instinct”

Musician and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, who followed his popular-science book THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC (2006) with THE WORLD IN SIX SONGS: HOW THE MUSICAL BRAIN CREATED HUMAN NATURE last year, is co-host of an interesting-looking two-hour documentary that explores the science behind music. The program will air on many PBS stations starting at [...]

Ouroboros cat

When you’re too sick to read…

I’ve been home sick for 3 days; stupid cold. But thanks to Netflix streaming video, I’ve been auditioning animes to see if I want to watch the whole series. After 3 no-good ones, I found one I liked—then watched the whole thing online. Argh!
 
New anime open-music obsession: Noein! (via YouTube) 
Pre-teen angst plus multiple-dimension space-time epic [...]