Here’s a super fun game that will have you drawing all kinds of lines to try to guide the dropping balls into the cup. Sounds easy. Try it. It gets harder and pretty close to insane.
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Special Treat For The Anti-Defamation League: How to Build a Mosque
Since the Anti-Defamation League has just decided to support the mission of bigots opposed to the building an Islamic center in the vicinity of the World Trade Center site in New York City, I thought I’d offer them a special presentation on the building of a mosque.
Another suggestion for all bigots like those who work at the Anti-Defamation League would be to schedule a field trip to a local mosque to see just how well-treated one is upon entering a mosque. If you have never been inside a mosque I would recommend going. What you imagine goes on inside a mosque is most certainly not what goes on inside a mosque. Give it a try sometime. Get to know the people inside the building and when you start to feel really bad about the way you have behaved, just chalk it up to your own uneducated imagination.
Here’s an article about the raging anti-Muslim attitudes spreading across the U.S. and Europe.
Animation: Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
In this Oscar-Nominated short, Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, directed by Nicky Phelan and produced by Darragh O’Connell, old Granny tells a tale that goes a bit off the rails as all good stories should do. It’s hilarious. It’s got a maniacally angry ‘elderly fairy’ who crashes the fairy tale party and spreads her bile around the joint in a most amusing tirade.
Anti-Defamation League Joins Anti-Mosque Bigots in Hatred
Anti-Defamation League - Fighting Anti-Semitism, Bigotry and Extremism - Yeah, unless you're a Muslim.
The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that ostensibly stands up for religious freedom and tolerance in the United States has shocked and disgusted many people, including me, by announcing their opposition to the construction of a mosque in the vicinity of the World Trade Center site.
In the vicinity! We’re not talking about on top of Ground Zero. We’re talking about nearby, somewhere in the general neighborhood in New York City.
The Anti-Defamation League appears, as a result of this bizarre proclamation, to be an organized group of bigots pretending to support tolerance.
Muslims have every right to build a mosque near the World Trade Center site. There’s nothing inappropriate or wrong about it. In fact, I think it shows a concerted effort to be a thriving part of the New York community. It’s healthy to build this mosque. It’s a better decision than building the ever-stalled ‘Freedom Tower’ which never gets an inch off the ground. Why not rename it ‘Freedom Hole.’ These people who have been protesting, including some of the relatives of 9/11 victims, are nothing more than the worst form of bigot. They couch their hatred in ‘protecting the emotional well-being of families and victims.’ By their logic we should cordon off every site of a plane crash and forbid construction by people who are of the same religious beliefs as the pilots. We should ascertain the religion of every person who commits a murder and prevent people of that religion from ever constructing churches near the murder sites. Insane. Hateful. Nonsense.
Muslims are not terrorists. Muslims are simply people who worship in a particular way. Associating Muslims with terrorism is bigotry by definition. I think someone should build a mosque on top of the Anti-Defamation League.
Here is what the Anti-Defamation League says:
Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam. The bigotry some have expressed in attacking them is unfair, and wrong. But ultimately this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right. In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain – unnecessarily – and that is not right.
So don’t build your mosque because it’ll make a bunch of backwoods idiot bigots feel bad. Wow! I’m just blown away. You know, I never give money to organized bigots. But I’ll certainly contribute to the mosque-building fund if there is one.
This insidious and creeping connection of Islam to terrorism is becoming very dangerous. It’s getting worse quickly. It’s spreading all over the U.S. and Europe. If the Anti-Defamation League feels that is can say something like this then we are in very bad shape indeed.
Podcast Novel: A Princess of Mars (Chapter 20)
This is the first John Carter of Mars novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of the Tarzan books. It was his first novel, published in 1917 and it’s a work of rip-roaring science fiction that has inspired many of the great writers in the genre.
Chapter 20: John Carter, on the edge of starvation finds himself as an unwanted guest in a vast atmosphere generator.
You can find all the previous chapters of the book here.
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Read by Alessandro Cima
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Animation: Hanabeam
Look at this astonishing music video from a Japanese breakbeat duo called Hifana. It explodes.
Gojin Ishihara’s Freak Art for Kids
Pink Tentacle has an amazing collection of freakishly bizarre Japanese children’s book illustrations by Gojin Ishihara from the 1970s. His marvelously comforting work features various humans being eaten, strangled, decapitated, tortured and generally threatened by every sort of demonic beast possible to imagine.
Well worth your time.
Film: Electro-Magnetic Flight And You!
A fantastic low-budget retro science fiction military training film for our brave UFO-fighting squads! Electro-Magnetic Flight And You! was made by Angus Lyne in 2006.
Film Noir: The Big Combo
A great old film noir from 1955 starring Cornel Wilde. The Big Combo, directed by Joseph H. Lewis is about a tormented detective, Leonard Diamond, who becomes obsessed with taking down a nasty gangster called Mr. Brown. There’s a woman stuck in the middle and Diamond wants to save her.
The film is loaded with superb noir imagery and maintains a good level of tension all the way through. There are also lots of choice tough-guy lines.
Kenneth Anger Makes a New Film for Missoni Fashion House
The great American filmmaker, Kenneth Anger, has made a new film called Missoni. He shot it for the Italian fashion house Missoni as part of their Fall 2010 advertising campaign. The film includes members of the Missoni family engaged in dance-like movement and poses. Can advertising be art? Yes, when it’s done by an artist.
Anger has made another beautiful and mysteriously layered film. Apparently, he has gone digital, using something called a RED digital camera. It has some characteristics in common with 35mm cameras. Anger appears to be using it as freely as he used 16mm cameras.
What’s really interesting about this whole project is its reason for existing. I think the Missoni advertising angle is just an excuse. I think they just wanted to be in a film by Kenneth Anger.
Gallery of Pinhole Camera Photos
Here’s a gallery of photographs made by pinhole cameras. This image is by Noriko Ohba.
Making a pinhole camera is pretty simple. In some cases you can simply take the lens off of a camera and replace it with some tape that has a hole in it. Here are some instructions.
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Film: The 1910 Challenge
As the 2010 Tour de France bike race winds its way through the French Pyrenees mountains, cyclists and fans everywhere are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first time a stage of the race went up the Pyrenees. The range is rugged and steep, presenting the riders with a greater challenge than the more gradual ascents of the Alps. In 1910, riders first hazarded the devastating climbs. Now, bike clothing manufacturer Rapha has produced this beautiful film about four riders celebrating the Tour’s Pyrenees anniversary by riding up a mountain called the Col du Tourmalet. That’s the mountain that the current Tour de France race is on at the moment. These four riders pay their respects to the 1910 racers and their equipment by enjoying every hardship presented to them by the mountain and the wet weather.
I do a lot of mountain road riding in California and I can appreciate the difficulty of this incredible Col du Tourmalet climb. I’d love to do it myself. Equipping yourself with water, food and repair items to set out over remote slopes is a very focused and exciting thing to do. I recommend it to anyone.
Animation: How To Feed The World
The real problem with feeding the world properly is the production of meat. Meat is a very destructive product because it is a huge polluter and uses land inefficiently. Denis van Waerebeke made this instructive short film about world hunger.
Photo: Window Flowers
Animation: Table For 2
A nice little love couple enjoying a simple meal together with plenty of food and knives and forks to throw. A messy relationship. Strong table required. Israeli filmmaker Dafna Axel made this as her graduation project film.