Here is a 12 second clip of a magnificent bolt of lightning I happened to catch yesterday while out doing some filming.
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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 [...]
This is a cool song and video. Bizarre and delightfully so.
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This is just an amazing little piece of footage. Absolutely Brilliant.
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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:
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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. [...]
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.
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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 [...]