Here is a 12 second clip of a magnificent bolt of lightning I happened to catch yesterday while out doing some filming.
Silkblog
A goat that shoots silk is a work of art.
What will people do for some free gas?
This is a strange little article on what people will do to get some free gas these days, given the outrageous prices. It reminds once again of the desperation, humiliation, and even savagery that people will sometimes go to for as little as $100 in gas. Let’s hope the days of Thunderdome are still far off!
Grizzly Bear - KNIFE
This is a cool song and video. Bizarre and delightfully so.
Fantastic Flying Dildo!
This is just an amazing little piece of footage. Absolutely Brilliant.
Goatsilk’s PORTRAITS FROM AN ARK on Youtube
Goatsilk has just placed all of the PORTRAIT’S FROM AN ARK project onto it’s own tidy little youtube channel. It’s pretty cool. Check it out at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoatsilkArk
For anyone unfamiliar with the PORTRAIT’S FROM AN ARK project, here’s a brief synopsis. When it has appeared in galleries, the videos are activated by voice request activation.
The 55 participants in Goatsilk’s PORTRAITS FROM AN ARK project sat down without knowing what animal they’d be painted to look like. When they were told midway through the filming, they enacted the creature using only facial expressions and minor hand gestures. Each video is set to music that we wrote to bring out the particular spirit of the painted animal, and digital effects are added at the end of each video to define the animal even further.
Photogenic Butte, Montana
If you haven’t guessed yet, Goatsilk loves Butte, MT. and wants to live there someday, to be fully submerged in Butte’s beauty. One remarkable thing about Butte is how photogenic it is. Photogenic-ness is a bit of a mystery, isn’t it? Why do some people always look good in pictures, and others always look busted? When someone is photogenic we have to wonder whether or not the camera captures some attractive energy which is beyond what the naked eye can see. Butte is like this. It’s hard to take a bad picture in Butte, whether you’re in the hills of nearly abandoned Walkerville, the historic district, or the commercial strip. The surrounding mountains and ruins and old mining infrastructure add poetry to nearly every shot/angle. Here is another set of photos from beloved Butte.
Improv Everywhere’s Living Mirror!
Improv Everywhere has done a number of clever performance projects in NYC, including the Central Station and Home Depot freeze/slo mo actions, but this may be their best yet, IMO. They got 15 pairs of identical twins to ride the subway, sit across from each other, and mimic each others actions on the train. Talk about a mindf*%k if you happened to step onto that car. Check out this video to see for yourself. Great idea!
Trout Break The Surface on Quake Lake
Here goes a cool series of photos taken last evening on a Quake Lake boating excursion. The disturbances in the water’s surface are action shots of rising trout, like a fisherman’s dream.
Obama was there! For two days!
I imagined that Obama’s Butte visit was just a couple hours long–a jet pit stop–but today I learned that he in fact stayed in Butte for 2 whole days, and during this time Davis Guggenheim, the maker of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” was making a 5-10 minute documentary about Obama’s campaign using Butte as a backdrop. This seems so genius. since Butte is in many ways like Chicago in its early days. Obama is definitely aiming to have Montana vote democratic in the presidential election for only the 3rd time since 1948. I think it’s a good shot for him. Strategically the Obama campaign and those hovering around it can’t seem to do much wrong. Here’s some evidence he really was there, and you have to love the Butte mining structure in the background. Beautiful!
Oh yeah, and that’s Brian Schweitzer, the governor of Montana, in the lower right there. Apparently there’s buzz about him being one of ones they’re considering for VP. Interesting indeed.
