Lisa’s popup book
OK, still listening to Lisa Hannigan (myspace), since I can take lots of melancholy when I want to relax. But I’m posting this because of her beautiful popup book (by Jamie Hannigan and Maeve Clancy).
The Raven
Wonderful, brilliant, romantic, funny, thrilling, naughty Poe. Our greatest classic writer. Happy birthday, bicentennial poet. Vincent Price reads:
Pink elephants
Dumbo (Disney 1941) drinks from a water barrel filled with champagne by mistake and starts seeing pink elephants on parade. Pink elephants? The Veuve Clicquot must have been exceedingly good that year. A certain lady who really likes that particular kind of champagne is celebrating her birthday today … so happy birthday, dear Dolcevita! Truly […]
The tilt-shift harbor
Tilt–shift photography makes life-sized locations or subjects look like miniature-scale models. The ultra-short depth of field tricks the eye into thinking that the shot was taken with a macro lens, or close-up filters. Here is a video by Keith Loutit using tilt shift shot in time lapse that makes a busy harbor look like a […]
sleep tight
I’m off to bed. Tokyo is asleep, too. Photostream found through the wonderful engrish brog, my absorute favolite. And here’s something from a blog dedicated to cute things falling asleep. No! Yes! The things people blog about!
Anne in Wonderland
You simply must see the great Disney exhibition at Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich, which traces the European images that inspired the look of Disney’s films. I had some surprising insights. And the gauches, pastels, oils and paintings on celluloid produced in the Disney Studios are just delightful. (Exhibition through 25 January 2009.) As I […]
Janelle Monae
Hot stuff. Beautiful jazz voice. Quirky imagination. Playing a robot in love and singing about “the walking dead”, Janelle Monae is anything but robotic. She comes from a family that suffered from crack addiction, so she’s got a good attitude about keeping her head straight. Coming from the underground scene, she counts Prince among her […]
