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Snowpocalypse, take three

Snow is lovely, and shoveling can be fun. But I draw the line at storms that dump more snow after one has already cleared it away three times in 24 hours. Just saying. The flakes should stop, at least, while one is actively clearing them away. And DC, for sure, should never need to use [...]

Posted 06 February 2010 † nickyp § Thinking ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Guest post

Gifts from the spouse: buds beneath heavy snow on bough spring will come

Posted 03 February 2010 † nickyp § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Stay tuned

We are in final edits on a cute little video showing some of the fun stuff people do to celebrate Brain Awareness Week, which this year will be March 15–21. It’s my first foray into video-making since the early 1980s, and I am quite a bit rusty, so this will be an “unauthorized” version, but [...]

Posted 28 January 2010 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Snowpocalypse

This is down our street 12 hours after the 24+ hours of snow stopped (4 pm, Sunday, 12.20.2009). No driving today! The car at the corner turned back and didn’t come down the street. Taking advantage of the camera’s POV. Cleo is tired from a day of running from window to window.

Posted 20 December 2009 † nickyp § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Old new media

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

Posted 03 December 2009 † nickyp § Marketing ‡ Comments (0) °

Black Friday

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

Posted 27 November 2009 † nickyp § ‡ Comments (0) °

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.

Posted 25 November 2009 † nickyp § ‡ Comments (0) °

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 [...]

Posted 21 November 2009 † nickyp § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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.

Posted 18 November 2009 † nickyp § ‡ Comments (0) °

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.

Posted 04 August 2009 † nickyp § Reading ‡ Comments (0) °