Category: Media
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Kite Festival
Redondo Beach put on a kite festival, so I went to make some photographs of kites. It was kind of interesting seeing all of the different kinds and colors of kites.
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xkcd makes me laugh
I love xkcd. This one about Causation/correlation made me laugh out loud for a surprisingly long time.
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Road Trip Through Southern United States
I just got back from a road trip through the Southern United States. I’ll post a travelogue later, but for now, here are some Road Trip Photos. And, since I spent a few days in New Orleans, a separate album of just New Orleans Photos
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Star Trek — The Opera
How much do I LOVE Robot Chicken? I would totally go see an Opera about the Wrath of Kahn. In fact, somebody should really get on top of producing that one because it is dripping with 13 kinds of awesome. Le Wrath di Khan
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A Best of List That’s Worth Checking Out
Kottke’s Best Links 2008 actually does have a number of good links. This is definitely worth checking out.
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The Ultimate Blog (?)
Check out this blog. It’s full of rude language and snarky comments about cute pictures of animals. That’s pretty much the holy trinity of the Internet right there. Did I mention the language is rude? Yeah, if you don’t like swear words, this one may not be for you.
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Getty Villa Art Festival
The Getty Villa put on some kind of Greek family festival today. I went because a group called The Boxtales was going to be reenacting stories from Homer’s Odyssey. They were surprisingly good, and now I’m thinking I want to try to see one of their longer “adult” shows. I also went because the Getty…
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Toshiba Timesculpture Ad
This ad from Toshiba is crazy. I think I understand how they must have done it, but I’m overwhelmed by the amount of time and money it must have taken.
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Spiders
I went to check out a bunch of spiders at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. I was hoping there’d be a bit more variety/color, and I kind of wish I hadn’t just sold my macro lens, but you can see a few spider pictures. It was kind of a fun Halloween type of thing…
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That’s a Lot of Young America
For the past 11 months, I’ve been listening to The Sound of Young America podcasts. Today, I finally made my way to the end of their back-catalog of archived episodes. That’s 256 episodes in 11 months. Assuming 30 minutes per episode that’s more than 128 hours, and that’s a pretty conservative estimate since many of…