taken from a dream i was having about Florida

My parents took their parents out for Easter dinner and this short exchange ensued. When my parents got home my Dad said, “Your Mom is a bad influence on my Mom.”

Grandma Q: I’m drinking about 5 glasses of water a day since my doctor told me to.
Grandma P: Well, I really like Jack & water, have you ever tried that? It’s so smooth going down, not like some of those heavy drinks…it goes down real easy.
Grandma Q: Well do you take your pills with Jack & water?

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Michel Gondry and Robert Stickgold discuss dreams, filmmaking and the scientific method:

I met the producer of this video, Jacob Klein, last night at the Big Screen Little Screen meetup at For Your Imagination, a great meetup where local online video producers showcase some of their work and then answer questions from the audience and discuss the piece. The discussion focuses almost exclusively on content, instead of the technical side of online video that so many meetups I’ve attended seem to lean towards.

Jacob mentioned that he had interviewed Michel Gondry, and I played it cool, but I gotta admit I was jealous and anxious to watch the interview. Gondry is one of my favorite all-time filmmakers, and this interview is amazing.

Random clips shot today in the drizzle on my street in Clinton Hill. Testing a theory that anything is made more watchable if you play Cat Stevens’ “Trouble” on top of it.

for absolutely anything. Feed your need. http://collectivemasturbation.org/

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Sometimes you eat the ants, sometimes the ants eat you.

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A film lesson in communications, something I tend to have a lot of trouble with.

Harvested and canned for Carp Caviar.

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One night after dinner last week, we examined some cicadas in Nick’s backyard. They were rampant in Indiana this August.

I want to revisit this soon and cut it to music like this guy does so well.

Was just browsing the archive and decided to repost a few older videos…

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This video takes place on the day after the singularity. The information required to make this video came from immediately remembering J.D. Lasica’s review of Ray Kurzweil’s book on the subject. I link it here for those of you who aren’t hardwired yet. Those of you who are already know where to find this information, and have already made a similar aggregational video, if not the exact same one. You know who you are. Or do you?

Music by Adhesion