"Born in 1987" is a show at the Photographers' Gallery in London featuring the art of the GIF. They'll be displayed on a big screen, and area also on the website I linked above. By nature limited, this form forces the artists to work small: in time, in the number of colors, and in space. I'll post a couple of the ones that caught my fancy under the ( Read more... )

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Why can I not find a vodcast of AMVs?

Bonus question: why am I up past 1am when I'm driving to Portland tomorrow?

The two questions are not entirely unrelated.

I was on hold with the downtown Seattle public library trying to see if there is a central place to mail flyers for Foolscap as there is for the King County Library System (there isn't, but I'm getting a list of who to mail them to). The on hold music was sort of nice, and then an announcement came on that said there was a website where I could see ( Read more... )

The first and best (and eponymous) Muppet Movie came along in 1979 before VCRs were affordable. My friend Bobb worked as a projectionist at the time, so I asked him to record the audio for me directly from the projector. I wound up with two audio cassettes, and even now can recite great swathes of the movie. I've never done this with any other ( Read more... )

When I first saw the headline of this entry I totally saw Jesus as one of the 3 Stooges! Nyuk nyuk nyuk...

Old pal Bobb points me to a great commercial featuring Ray Bradbury.

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