youtube happiness

there are just some days when a video on youtube makes you tap your foot and sing a long.

(today was actually not one of those days - instead i was at an all day conference where 50 three to five letter acronyms were buzzing all around my head - but i can imagine it could've been.)

most of these videos are rooted in studioness: you're sitting there in front of your laptop, making models or putting together an animation. your butt is glued to the chair, you've been staring forever at the screen, your mouse finger twinges...
and then a friend says, "hey, check out this video!"

whoops. you're hooked.

some favorites:

"do i have your attention?" > anais with the blood arm >> so catchy




"ce jeu" > yelle >> in case i don't have your attention yet...i will now!
(this one courtesy of flo - the shoes and glasses are a riot!)




"her morning elegance" > owen lavie >> stop motion animation at its prime
(thanks to juliet and our long hours of animating...)




"oxford comma" > vampire weekend >> preppy fun music from columbia grads
(the guy in the white suit was in my creative writing class)

hooray for fromage!

thanks to kcrw's "good food" podcast on raw cheeses, i learned:

cheeses enriched with buttermilk have lactose.

BUT hard cheese has zero lactose.
some medium cheese also has zero lactose.

and some people who are lactose intolerant might just be intolerant of cow's milk, but not sheep's or goat's.

hooray!
(but no matter what, i eat cheese, so perhaps it doesn't make much of a difference.)

quote

“one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

>> henry miller


where to next?


this weekend...the decordova sculpture park + walden pond!

wide angle, wide-eyed lens

gorilla hunting - i believe this was taken for a piece in national geographic
[photo by brent stirton, courtesy of canon-europe.com]

for some amazing photojournalism and portraits from here and abroad, check out photographer brent stirton's work. he works for getty images and has done stints for national geographic, time, and a slew of other publications. the colors, angles, and subject matter are breathtaking and striking - sometimes even disturbing - and make for good eye candy at work.