New York Naval Battle

The idea of fighting in a real naval battle scares me to death...

but a mock one that inspires one to dive into the history books, make art, and reenact old times sounds exciting.

This is what some people in NYC did:

Photo taken from Wired.com

Photo taken from Wired.com

Photo taken from Wired.com

Read the article and see the short video on this exciting endeavor...

...thank goodness I wasn't a condemned criminal in Roman times.

A few of my favorite things!

I like one of a kind items, perhaps that's why I treasure polaroids.  No matter what you do, there is no way to make an exact duplication of a polaroid.  Each one is perfect in its own individual way.

Here is the first in a series of many favorite polaroids.

A frenzy of petals...

Taken in the summer of 2005, at my friend Mary's wedding.

Too bad I only have one box of polaroids left...  Someone make some more please!

Dude Bro!

I don't know if it's because of the crazy girlfriend, the craigslist ad, or the amount of "Bro" posting on Caleb Roy's Facebook page.

But this is funny:

Read the rest here.

I can't add him as a friend (and don't really want to), but I can still read his wall that is filling up with ridiculousness like this:

For your viewing pleasure...

Last year when I went to the Berlinale International Film Festival I had the good fortune of meeting and becoming friends with Ewan Jones Morris from Cardiff, Wales.  He is one of a group of people who began the Sleeveface craze.  But I mostly remember him, for his welsh shoes, red hair, and the adventures we had with our other new found friends watching movies, getting tipsy on expensive champagne (don't worry, it was free for us), and trekking to German clubs with pink fur walls.

Just yesterday I saw a new short film that Ewan made.  And I loved it.  Set to the music of Cate Le Bon, this is a story about a girl who births leaves and melons.  With her you enter a world of mod eye makeup, enchanted forests that house mythical beasts, paper towns with little people, and avant-garde collages.  A mixture of live stop motion and collage like animation this is a visual smorgasbord with, to my eyes at least, retro and vintage inspiration.

 

  

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

So, with that colorful preview, I invite you to watch.

Cate Le Bon - Hollow Trees House Hounds from Ewan Jones Morris on Vimeo.

Everything is beautiful...

...at 120 frames per second.

For those of you who see the above statement as gibberish, a normal video/film usually is shot between 24 and 30 frames a second.  So, if you are quadrupling that, everything is slowed way down.  Slow motion looks so beautiful, because the world becomes drawn out, the stress of everyday movement is sucked away, and fluidity abides.  Especially in skate videos. While I am naturally drawn to the world of skating I'd like to think that this video (by Opus Magnum Productions) would be enjoyed by all.



Pretty music, lovely camera moves, slow motion, old places.

What's not to love?

Gimme, gimme, I want, I want, I NEEEEED!

I like baking.  I like shopping.  Put the two together and you get Sur la Table.  I found this website the other day via a post featured on The Bedlam of Beefy.  As I browsed through the store I saw that they had an entire section of bundt pans...thus:

Use that pan with my current favorite recipe book, and I'll be "cooking with gas" as my Daddy would say (even though I currently am having to use electric...grumble, grumble).  The recipe book in discussion is the one below, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World.  My Daddy, who is the furthest thing from a vegan even loves the finished products.  In fact, I don't know that I've ever served one two a vegan yet, but everyone loves the recipes.

Mother O' Pearl!

What Hair!
 

Found in a box of other random photos and consequentially purchased from a little shop in Brugges, Belgium.