8 March 2009

Thru-You: Kutiman, the YouTube Maestro

I'm in awe. I'm awestruck. I've visited the land of awesome.
There is so much great stuff on the Internet that you might despair of all that you will never see. But then there are the gems you find.
For example: Thru-You.
Kutiman, according to Wikipedia, is an Israeli musician, composer, producer, and animator. And he has made [...]

23 October 2008

Free Culture 'Take Backsies' on Flickr

Ice House ruins in Tyler, Texasphoto by Terry Shuck (crowt59)Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
I can't remember when or how I first found Terry Shuck's work on Flickr, but I immediately became a fan of his photography. It appears that he uses HDR techniques quite a bit, although I can't tell what all magic he summons [...]

3 September 2006

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I was simmering, simmering, simmering. Emerson brought me to a boil."-- Walt Whitman
A while back, a coworker lent me a book called Self-Reliance, "The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living." Edited and introduced by Richard Whelan, who says that he loves Emerson's essays and has read them many times [...]