From Wikipedia:
Pat Condell (born November 1, 1951) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality. An outspoken atheist, Condell hosts a series of widely-viewed short video monologues denouncing religion.
(YouTube Video)
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Cornelia with new chicks Cameron and Creemore
New Lady Amherst Pheasant chicks, hatched June 27th, 2008. Our friend Emma suggested the names, carrying the "C" theme from proud parents Corny and Cornelia, and also referencing two local craft beers, which I can get behind totally…
After brooding in her brooding box for a couple of weeks, two of the dozen-or-so eggs Cornelia was sitting on finally produced these little puffballs. This is their third day.
Octagonal Planter Box (large)
I love it when a plan comes together. Unfortunately, this one… not so much. This was intended as the second in a matched pair of planters. But somehow, don’t ask how, this one ended up about 6 inches wider by the time it was assembled. “Measure twice, cut once” only works if you actually cut to the same size that you measured. Oh well, now I’ll have to make another one.
9/11’s a Lie, 9/11’s a Lie
The power of disco shall free us from tyranny.
(YouTube video)
Playing the Building
From David Byrne’s website:
Playing the Building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
In this video interview, David Byrne describes and demonstrates the installation (warning: short commercials)
Additional video here.
Koyaanisqatsi
From 1982 to Google Video, here is the entire 85-minute feature film Koyaanisqatsi.
From Wikipedia:
Koyaanisqatsi, also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.
The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means ‘crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living’, and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.
The film is the first in the Qatsi trilogy of films: it is followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. However, due to copyright issues, the film was out of print for most of the 1990s.[1]