Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The best video you will see today: TNT's "push to add drama"
For the launch of a new TV channel--TNT--in Belgium, they placed a big red push button on an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. A sign with the text "Push to add drama" invited people to use the button. This is what happened. . .
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Mitt Romney Delivers Last Night's Victory Speech
by Jack Brummet (hand-drawn/digital hybrid)
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This may be our final Enumclaw/Horse post. . .
By Jack Brummet, Animal Husbandry Editor
One of our readers (and the person who actually inspired us to start this blog 7+ years ago after reading his) passed along this image. I'd credit him, but I'm not sure he'd want the public credit. He passed it along, obviously, because at one point years ago, we fairly obsessively covered the "Enumclaw horse story" with a dozen articles, drawings, and paintings. . . Interestingly a couple dozen people still arrive here every day via Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc., looking for the Enumclaw articles and drawings. Thanks S!
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One of our readers (and the person who actually inspired us to start this blog 7+ years ago after reading his) passed along this image. I'd credit him, but I'm not sure he'd want the public credit. He passed it along, obviously, because at one point years ago, we fairly obsessively covered the "Enumclaw horse story" with a dozen articles, drawings, and paintings. . . Interestingly a couple dozen people still arrive here every day via Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc., looking for the Enumclaw articles and drawings. Thanks S!
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Photos from my daughter Claire's trip to India
My daughter Claire has been traveling in India for the last three months. Here are some selected photos from her stay in an ashram and as she traveled around the country (this is her second visit to India). We were with her for two weeks of her first visit there, which ended up lasting for over two months. Visiting India was probably one of my favorite trips of all time. The people, the history, the sounds, smells, flavors were just stunning and amazing. I envy Claire this trip. It would take six months of traveling there to just scratch the surface. . .
Claire with her teacher Vishva and wife Chetena’s daughter, the amazing 5 year old Uma.
"This is an old friend of Vishva’s and he came to teach our 6am class one day during the course. He is 104 and still going strong on the yoga tip. His name is Yogananda. One of the memorable pieces of wisdom he left us with was “Milk silent killer”.
At a Shiva sunset ceremony in Rishikesh.
"My yoga sisters and brothers." Claire spent a month at an ashram in Rishikesh, becoming a yoga teacher. This is her graduating class.
This is one of my favorite picture of Claire of all time--taken at her graduation in Rishikesh (see previous photo). This is her with her teacher, Yogi Vishvketu, or, Vishva.
Bisecting prayer flags.
This is the view from Claire's room/apt. in the mountains, where she lived for a month and made many friends.
"My homegirls just finished their exams. They are so happy. We went to a Shiva Temple near a river to party."
Claire's friend, the monk Sangee, makng dinner for them.
"It snowed so much at my house. They haven’t had snow like this in March since the 80’s. In this shot, Claire hiked up into the mountains, a couple of hours above her apartment..."
"This is Tenzing. He and I are almost exactly the same age. When he was 14 he left Tibet on foot. He said it took him 27 days to get here. His family gave him the equivalent of 2000 rupees before he left ($40US). He has been living here on his own since."
"The most snow anyone had seen this late in many many years."
The train Claire rode on for 40 hours after leaving Rishikesh (note to Claire: I rode the train Seattle to NYC twice...80 hours+).
A ceremony on the river that takes place every single day.
Claire's friend the monk Sangee, with his favorite beverage--Mountain Dew, or as he calls it, Dew.
Claire and Sangee on a rooftop.
What a wonderful shot...
Trichy, Tamil Nadu
Ooty, Kerala. The kids in the 'hood.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
The First Photograph Of The Finger (Fingers, No. 27)
By Mona Goldwater, Signs, Symbols, and Gestures Editor
In this photo from 1886, pitcher Old Hoss Radbourn, at the far left in the back row, gives the finger to a cameraman. It is the first known photograph of someone giving The Finger.
In this photo from 1886, pitcher Old Hoss Radbourn, at the far left in the back row, gives the finger to a cameraman. It is the first known photograph of someone giving The Finger.
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Middle fingers of the month, No. 26 (subset: women giving the finger, part 3)
By Mona Goldwater, Gestures and Signs Editor
A new roundup of middle fingers. About half of these were sent in by readers... /Mona
Some of my selected recent finger compilations on All This Is That
A new roundup of middle fingers. About half of these were sent in by readers... /Mona
Kathy Griffin
this is "someone," but I don't know who...
Some of my selected recent finger compilations on All This Is That
All This Is That: Middle finger of the day: the sun gives earth the finger
All This Is That: Middle Finger of the day, No. 24
All This Is That: Middle finger of the day No. 21 ("the women can do it ...
All This Is That: Finger of the day, No. 22
Finger of the day: More celebrity fingers
Damaged Slide
A damaged slide of Jack by Keelin Curran,
"restoration (scraping some strange goo off the slide)"/digitization by Jack Brummet
"restoration (scraping some strange goo off the slide)"/digitization by Jack Brummet
Keelin took the shot, and it sat in a box for decades. I don't know how it got damaged (none of the others were), but it's pretty cool. I don't know if they still have these cars on Amtrak--it's like an observation car with a big round dome on top...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Photo: Arkeo-Corinth at Sunset
By either Jack Brummet or Keelin Curran, 1982, Corinth, Greece
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Land crabs in Bucerias
by Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Editor
One night last week in Bucerias, we were watching a movie in our casa after dinner. Keelin heard a noise and walked over to investigate. She didn't quite eek, but she had found something. We turned down the volume on the movie and you could hear it walking, clicking, across the floor. It skittered under the couch, which Señor Daveed and I moved. Standing on the floor looking up at us was a land crab.
We had never seen one before in all our trips there. I don't know much about them other than crabs run the spectrum from fully aquatic to fully terrestrial. Even the most fully terrestrial land crabs must return to the sea to lay their eggs, so they don't live too far from the beach. In our case, the beach was about half a block west of us. It would have gotten pretty interesting if, say, thirty of them had invaded our house. . .
One night last week in Bucerias, we were watching a movie in our casa after dinner. Keelin heard a noise and walked over to investigate. She didn't quite eek, but she had found something. We turned down the volume on the movie and you could hear it walking, clicking, across the floor. It skittered under the couch, which Señor Daveed and I moved. Standing on the floor looking up at us was a land crab.
We had never seen one before in all our trips there. I don't know much about them other than crabs run the spectrum from fully aquatic to fully terrestrial. Even the most fully terrestrial land crabs must return to the sea to lay their eggs, so they don't live too far from the beach. In our case, the beach was about half a block west of us. It would have gotten pretty interesting if, say, thirty of them had invaded our house. . .
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