People say “They don’t make ’em like that anymore.” They are wrong.
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
New up on the wall
Just got two new things framed. When Sam was little, her mom made her a cross stitch pillow with a scene of animals calmly gathered around a lion. We’ve put it in a deep shadowbox so it can go up on the wall for Secret Project Baby‘s room.
We also have a memento from Japan that we’ve never figured out how to properly display. Â We loved the idea of Furoshiki – little cloth wrappings that you can reuse. We bought a really nice one and, after trying some other approaches, found a way to really show it off.
I also just got some new panoramas from friends for above the dining table and I’m excited to try them out!
Secret Project B – We’re having a baby!
Sam and I are having a baby boy! We are due August 2, and we are so excited!
This was our first introduction to him – but he’s big enough to kick now. Feeling that kick was a magical moment – I’m going to work so hard on being a good dad, and I’m thinking a lot about what that means. Sage advice is very welcome.
Aesop Rock’s new adventure: The Uncluded
This is a good mix of soft singing from Kimya Dawson and the rhyme tornado of Aesop.
Also, catchy as hell.
Do Not Touch – celebrating the death of the pointer
I like music videos that can’t be on MTV. The new web enables new art, and that’s what I’m interested in.
You will interact, you will be part of it. Go now – and I’ll be part of the video with you. We’ll play a game, we’ll be a mask, we’ll fight a boxer, together we will make a smile. One of those pointers is mine!
See you on the internet…
Daler Mehndi – TUNAK TUNAK TUN
Oh, I laughed at it the first time I saw this video.
Some sort of captain-planet style arrangement of Daler Mehndi meteorite brothers dancing in a CGI hellscape?
Years later, I’m still listening to the damn thing. It was my first Pandora station.
Not just me. Here’s a metal version.
And here’s your soundtrack for your lunch hour: 1 hour and 30 minutes of Tunak Tunak Tun.
Google’s “Blink” fork of Webkit is a good thing
Browser diversity is something web developers and designers moan about.
“Too many browsers! Too many differences! No one interprets css the same way!”
Everyone remembers the IE6 Pain, but IE was the first browser to do AJAX. Diviersity is good – that’s how evolution moves fastest. It’s also messy, but that’s evolution for you as well.
A fire underground
A fire is burning deep underground where you can’t put it out.
Pockets in earth whistle and moan with the fires exhalations. Everywhere your land whispers to you that change is happening where you can’t see. The earth is churning and bucking like there is a beast trapped deep beneath, struggling to escape and walk free over all you love.
Your house is unsettled.
Cracks spider out from the foundations of your living. The pictures fall. Everywhere, the scent of ash, the fear of the beast loosed.
What can you do but lie in your bed, afraid, wake, hang the pictures, patch the walls?
Could you dig down to it? Would you put it out or fall in, letting the flames run through you?
Lie in your bed as it all burns.
We walk behind you
We went to the Nick Cave concert Friday night with Rob and Sleep Goblin. You know how good he is, how much I like the Mercy Seat. This is his new jam.
The video really reminds me Clayton Cubitt‘s trailer for Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine.