Last week was a doozy, wasn’t it? A new plateau of virtual madness. First, we had the smoking redneck daddy, Tommy Jordan, shooting his daughter’s laptop in a calmly recorded diatribe against adolescent disobedience on facebook. We think this guy was a complete jerk, but public...

Whether or not you’re a Bronco’s fan, or just a football fan, you’ve probably heard of Tim Tebow‘s “Tebowing.” After a successful touchdown, he’ll put his elbow to his knee, fist to forehead, and take a specially postured moment to thank God. We’re all are familiar with...

If you’re looking for “art” that has a widespread and significant effect on people, you won’t often find it in museums and art galleries. These are great places to enjoy the fruits of bygone eras, or maybe do a bit of pricey home decorating. But if you’re looking...

Recently the 26 year old Rutgers graduate and prankster “journalist” James O’Keefe has been in the news for masterminding a damning hidden camera taping of Ron Schiller, the now former director of NPR. The sting operation, and subsequent manipulation of the tape, produced a...

The National Enquirer is reporting that Steve Jobs, the genius tech guru and CEO of Apple, has only approximately six weeks to live. Many people are dubious of stories that appear in The Enquirer, but in fact their reporting tends to have some validity. I’ve found that often times they...

The first thing I saw when I checked in on facebook today was this video featuring Los Angeles reporter Serene Branson losing all verbal faculties while trying to deliver some news on last night’s Grammys. I thought it was strange and hilarious. Some people were saying she was drunk,...

In a brand new dance video for 2011, Paul talks about how to train yourself, and reflects on the most influential advertising campaign of all time: Nike’s JUST DO...

Paul explains why you have to be careful not to be overly hygienic with yourself or your children. You can’t sterilize everything or you’ll end up sterilizing your...

Paul reminisces about the days before e-mail, when mail came in limited quantities depending on the the size of your mailbox.

Paul demonstrates the simple mental exercise of renaming everyday objects. Forcing yourself to do this is not only fun, but the drill actually exercises the parts of your brain that you need to stay creatively fit. Join Paul in discovering that a toothbrush is a dental guitar, and much ...

Over the last year, Goatsilk (www.goatsilk.com) has been collaborating with Paul Crik to produce a new motivational and life skills program called “Killin’ It.” “Killin’ It” is a lifestyle approach for the 21st century. It’s a philosophy of living that...

Wow. The images combined with the music in this video make it weirdly emotionally charged, and give it some unique artistic flare. Check it out…if bone-breaking ski jump falls don’t make you too queezy. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view

At first you’ll be like “what the hell is going on here!?” especially if you don’t speak spanish, but wait until halfway through for a...

Here is a 12 second clip of a magnificent bolt of lightning I happened to catch yesterday while out doing some filming. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]

This is a cool song and video. Bizarre and delightfully...

This is just an amazing little piece of footage. Absolutely...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

Here are a few pictures from the 4th of July Parade in Butte, Montana. Barack Obama was actually in Butte today, and it had been publicized that he would march in this parade. Can you imagine the world’s eye suddenly turned on Butte? It reminds us of a time long ago when candidates...

Well, we’ve arrived at episode #20, the grand finale goal for Goatsilk’s Daily Treasure’s project. 20 days of treasure hunting, 20 rapid-fire videos with accompanying e-bay auctions. We’ve been heartened (and surprised!) at how many of Goatsilk’s Daily Treasures...

When scouring the wild land gets tiresome, we head for more urban terrain. West Yellowstone. It’s easy to find the valuable booty left behind by the millions of tourists passing through this hotspot at the edge of Yellowstone park. Yesterday we found a most curious object in a patch of...

Today we stumbled upon the remnants of an individual with big dreams. Nestled into a remote and stunning hillside (we had to hike into 4 miles to get there) we found the modern day equivalent of some Grecian ruins. Bare steps, a fireplace, and a plumbing system with some genius behind it...

History has taught us that rural life is hard. The prairie can rip you to shreds mentally. Communities are built and sustained on the understanding that you don’t let your melancholy bring the group down. But obviously people everywhere in every time have betrayed this “group...

Every so often, we find something that gets lost before it ever even gets used, and that’s the case with today’s find, a Verizon cell phone car charger. The packaging is sealed but weathered, indicating it’s been exposed for some time, but the charger itself appears in fine...

Here on Silkblog, Goatsilk likes to make you think, laugh, delight, and cry. Today’s daily treasure is somewhat of a heavy one in more ways than one. This golden bolt is solid as can be, produced in a time before steel was anodized. But we also believe this bolt to be a piece of the...

We live off the land, but we also live off the water! Today, our search took us to the bottom of Wade lake, where we made a strange discovery of a pair of aviator glasses lined in old masking tape. One can only imagine how these modified glasses came to rest on the lake floor- to be found...

A Mailbox is in some ways like a book cover, where the pages of our lives–or at the least, junk mail!-get torn out daily. This beautiful country-style red flag mailbox was discarded in a nearby woodpile some time ago, but has now been found and “rebound” – so to...

You never know how far back in time an object might take you. In Montana, parts of the land were covered by ocean water many millions of years ago. Today we stumbled upon a rocky beachside littered with perfect fossils of organisms that once lived on the ocean bottom. Up for auction today is...

In Charles Bukowski’s word’s – one out of every hundred broken shoe laces puts someone in the nut house. Lighting matches in the outdoors is no different. Out on the hunt for Goatsilk’s daily treasure earlier today we found a matchbook stripped clean, tucked under a...

Here is an astonishing clip I shot a few days ago while driving along quake lake in light snow flurries. It’ s a group of big horn rams involved in some strange dynamic: they appear to be hostile but also trying to hump each other. Clip starts in black and white and switches to some...

Well, we’re at the end of another week of the Goatsilk’s Daily treasures project. Amazing! Our first two auctions from early last week have ended, and both the antique pepsi bottle and the Model T door handle have sold to lucky bidders! Today’s bounty was a bit more...

Today’s discovery of a partially carved white arrowhead is linked to the story of Noah Epstein, the son of Jewish immigrants who came to Montana, via Ellis Island, in the late 1800′s. Noah’s dreams of converting to Native Americanism eventually came true in this heartening...

This Cisco Systems Teitlist golf ball is an obscure little item to find out here in the sage brush. A recent deposit on the land, it serves as a reminder of a life of leisure and relaxation with friends. A Cisco Sysytems golfball stands for a way of life that isn’t a struggle, but a...

Goatsilk is joined by Dr Roy Winters, founder of the Northwest Gold Institute. He finds a gold-sieving pan from the frontier days which he believes may have belonged to the first female gold digger, Molly Kearney. He tells a fascinating (and tragic) story which would make anyone want to own...

Well here’s a surprise. Today we found something buried in the ground which is not from the past, but the future. Amazing. Items from the future – not surprisingly – are quite desirable. Hurry up and place your bid HERE! Get the latest Flash Player to see this...

Exquisite new footage of bluebird chicks only hours after hatching.  These little guys hatched from the beautiful eggs shown last week in THIS post) Amazing to watch their almost featherless bodies squirm in contest for the warmth of the middle. This is a picture of life, raw and tender...

We took a jaunt up to Bozeman today to pick up my brother at the airport. It was stormy on the way back down 191 but there was crazy wildlife. The spring season is indeed the ripest, the rivers full, animals are out in droves, everything fresh, raw, biting. We stopped a couple times to...

This classic sharecropper’s shovelhead auction caps off a bountiful week of treasure hunting on the land . We like to think of it as a regular work week, and we’ve already begun to see the profits with fresh ebay bids for the antique pepsi bottle, the turn of the century water...

This pillow found by the side of highway 87 near the Raynold’s pass bridge has been touched by the artful hand of nature. It struck us immediately as having similar qualities to a Vija Celmin galaxy drawing, or maybe a combination of Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin. This pillow is alive,...

Today’s auction features a perfectly weathered turn of the century water pail. Sometimes you find something that has aged in a truly magical way, and this pail is one of those things. Found nestled at the root of a sage bush, it’s likely not been touched by anyone until we found...

While out scouring this afternoon, we came across a particularly delicious item, a perfectly in tact Ford Model T door handle. We anticipate that with a little love, care, and research, this item should bring in some big bucks on ebay. Have a look at our docu-discovery video below, complete...

For the next 2 months, keep an eye out for “Daily Treasures” posts. These are part of a project that we’re kicking off today where we put up for auction (on ebay) various found objects we discover on the land surrounding the cabin we’re currently staying in. We want...

Last year about this time I made this blog post about the national on-line fascination with Kimbo Slice. At that time he was just beginning to be known a bit for his videotaped bare-fisted back alley fights, and the fact that fellow internet sensation Bas Rutten was supposedly beginning to...

I came across this song by Stereo Total while listening to Pandora the other day. It struck me immediately so I went to youtube and looked for videos and found this little 3rd party video which I think is pretty great. I like how the author wrote out the words as he draws, rolls, and lights...

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