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Category Archives: Joyously Wasting Time

Stunning Film by Mirko Faienza. WATCH THIS!

The music! The editing!  The images. This is as much fun and as beautiful as anything I have seen on the web. I have a large monitor and had the sound up, on HD and on full screen. I have watched it several times now. Mirko Faienza, you are a gift! Thanks to Miss Cellania [...]

Delicious, Crazy Rube Goldberg Variation

My friend Gil found this and sent me the link from YouTube. It is hilarious and another example of people with FAR too much time on their hands. But thank goodness for the time wasters, they make life so much fun sometimes. Link.

How to Tell Art from Trash.

David Bartley is responsible for overseeing the art in storage at the Walker Art Center. In this video he displays five works from the Walker’s collection that must be explicitly labeled as art to save them from being mistaken for trash.
Thanks to my friend Dwight for this. He is a technician at the Vancouver Art [...]

More Incredibly Great Stop Frame Animation

Thanks to Wooster Collective!

Shadow Animation

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish.

Get Out!

Multi award-winning short animation. There’s a reward for seeing it through to the end.
Link. Thanks to TYWIWDBI.

San Fancisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby, 1975

Stumbled across and purchased an actual print of this film back in SF while working on a project for the SF MOMA. Amanda Pope did a great job capturing the spirit of creativity and the event itself. I wonder where all of these cars are today?

Link. Thanks to Boing Boing.

The Olympics at Holt Renfrew

My city is going a bit crazy. The Olympic Games begin here on Feb. 12 and it is the warmest January in recorded history here. The Snowdrops and Croci are blooming. There are buds on the trees and no snow on the local mountains so they are making snow day and night. Downtown is transformed. [...]

Japan Rice Artists

The only problem is, you need an airplane to see them. Thanks to my friend Norman.

A Video of My City Goes Viral (at least locally)

Today,  aLOT of people sent me this video of fog moving around in my hometown.
“Vancouver City” music video is an artistic collaboration between Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD. Linda Ganzini’s beautiful and haunting vocals blend with the unique musical style of Serge Chubinski-Orlov who produced and wrote Vancouver City. For more information and music downloads go [...]