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I don’t know what you call this — it appears to be some form of motorized paragliding. There were a couple of guys taking off from Anna Maria Island when we were there in Florida during the biting cold spell this January.
Whatever it is, like jet skiiing, off-road biking, and similar activities it’s probably fun [...]

Before “upgrading” your Netflix instant-watch player, think about it.
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HISTORIA DE UN LETRERO (THE STORY OF A SIGN)
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Jerry Levitan, working with direction Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and digital artist Alex Kurina, has produced an animated version of an interview he made thirty-eight years ago with John Lennon. Levitan was fourteen at the time, and Lennon was generous in answering his questions.
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Paul Rand offers some answers in this four-minute video. According to the youtube info, it was “created for his posthumous induction to the One Club Hall of Fame in 2007.”

I like this 1966 video by artist Bruce Conner — featuring the beautiful Toni Basil performing Breakaway (hard to believe she is the same person who did Hey Mickey) — which I originally saw at a retrospective of his work at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. What a surprise and delight to discover [...]

This is brilliant.

Russel Brown has an interesting sequence of tutorials on working with video in Photoshop.

In part one he demonstrates combining two video sequences using a layer mask
In part two he shows how to blend objects over time
In part three he explores spot colorization and looks further at video blending and painting over time

These techniques require CS3 [...]

Maybe it makes me a wuss, but I don’t care. I just have no interest in seeing violent films. Even though I host a blog about Mesoamerica and the Maya world, for example, I still haven’t seen Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto. In the New York Times, I read – in a generally positive (!) review by [...]

A Flickr set.

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Most discussion of type in film centers on anachronisms — how could characters in a movie set in the thirties read materials set in a typeface designed in the sixties — that sort of thing. Or you hear “I loved the credits typeface, what was it?” (The folks at typophile.com always know the answer.) Rarely [...]

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Two hours with Julio! (In Spanish.)

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In New York Magazine Daniel Asa Rose quotes Annie Dillard as giving up writing:
“I’m tired,” declared the 62-year-old Dillard, who says that she won’t be doing any more touring, public readings, blurb writing, or letter answering. “I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read. I’m glad to [...]

Below is part one of the Disneyfied copyright video.
I previously linked to part two — which proves the information must be reliable.