OK, so it’s an ad, but it’s only 1 min long. I like the “amazing pen-tip interface.”
Here’s an animation that offers another perspective on Picasso’s wrenching painting Guernica.
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Posted 27 November 2009
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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.
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Posted 25 November 2009
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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 [...]
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.
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Posted 18 November 2009
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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.
(from YouTube)
Please let it be a worthy successor to the Nickelodeon series….
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 [...]
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 [...]