Day: September 13, 2008

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Bowl Of Noses

Ritual Demon Subjugation Dances

They are being performed free all over NYC this week.  Maybe this will make sure Obama is our next president.  Get out demons!

The dances are performed by 13 monks from Bhutan.  FreeNYC has the whole schedule here.  And these are those dances:

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Bowl Of Noses

Homemade Doctor Who

It’s the weekend, so we are watching the Doctor.  We are almost done with Season Two.  Soon we will have to say good-bye to Rose.  It’s tough to get enough.  I am sure that they can’t make them fast enough.

Thankfully, the fans have started to make their own.  BoingBoing tipped us to this “sweded” adventure.  It’s gets big points for the Dalek costume.

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Bowl Of Noses

A Rainy Day Adventure


Okay, it would have to be a VERY longgggg…. rainy day, but….

Here’s a 10,000 page coloring book!  So what if they only have come up with 600 of the pages so far.  Picture how tall the book will be!  Picture what it would look like if you wallpapered your apartment with the sheets you colored in!  If you had put each drawing up somewhere in your town, where would each one go?
Better get those crayons out.  Colored pencils if you prefer, but what a marvelous project regardless.  Now I can’t wait for the storm clouds to come in.
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The Next Good Idea

Decrease Your Junk Mail

Back in June, we told you how to stop credit solicitations. In August, it was how to opt out of  both credit solicitations and phone sales.   Now is your chance to do the same with junk mail. It’s only in it’s Beta stage, but ProQuo is here to save your day — and a few trees. Did you know:

Each year, 100 million trees are used to produce junk mail in America. That’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.

Americans receive nearly four million tons of junk mail each year.

More than 28 billion gallons of water are wasted to produce and recycle junk mail each year.

Check it out. It’s pretty simple.  They also have a good list of 10 Creative Ideas Of What To Do With Your Junk Mail here.

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These Are Those Things

Exciting New Work: Perish Factory

A couple of months ago I stumbled on Perish Factory, the work of an animator also known as Lung.  I posted the video Butterfingers on Bowl Of Noses yesterday as it gave my son giggle fits.

Lung’s work is wonderfully diverse, covering a dizzying array of animation and live action styles.  His work is both simple and complex at the same time — something I truly enjoy.
The promise of the internet to deliver new work from new sources hasn’t quite been delivered in my book.  I know the work and the artist are out there, but all of it is still too hard to find.  We all need to take a greater role in curating to our friends, and hence T.A.T.T..