pam’s posterous

Seeing pictures to go along with the lessons would really help. Plus, Little Pim has that small kid voice. Yeah, yeah, I also have Rosetta Stone software but I can't use it in the car driving or put it on my iPod.

Created by James Powderly and Evan Roth of Graffiti Research Lab for an art project, Throwies can be made at home, yes indeed, following instructions from Instructables.

Materials needed:
Lithium battery
10mm diffused LED
Rare-earth magnet
Tape

Let your light shine!

Thank you, PicoCool.
Additional information at http://www.krftd.com/living_spaces/led-fever/

I'm inspired by the work of the two young American women featured in this video by The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof. They could easily choose another life, but they have chosen this. We all have the opportunity, yea privilege, to turn crap into fertilizer.

For my personal spiritual thoughts on the same subject, see http://40dayfast.posterous.com/growth-stinks

Click on the WSJ link above to read the whole story.

Mesmerizing.

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one take impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean.

We were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst we were in Tokyo.
Take our hands out of the equation... let the camera have its own journey.

I'd taken a cannibalised record turntable with me from the UK with the idea of filming slow panoramas but it was painfully bumpy and stopped every minute.

Then we had our eureka moment and filmed this.

A few years later I was working on a piece of music and married the two together.
The music is all about that feeling when you're half asleep in the sun.. the ambiance of foreign voices becomes a lullaby to dream away.
There's something beautiful in not understanding a language.. it becomes abstract, musical.
Opera is so much better when you can't understand the words!

What we loved about watching this film back was the space that the camera was able to enter.. extremely personal and scrutinising but not too lingering.
dennis

The music is 'lost in a moment' by 'shrift' from the album of the same name.
myspace.com/shriftspace

more trivia: film was originally taken in 1998... married with the music much later.

Thanks for all the positive comments.. will upload a better quality version soon.

Brilliant presentation by Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe. Make sure you listen to the very end and his diatribe on how American culture has "waged war on work" and lost the value, meaning and significance of good, hard work.

I may just have to start watching Dirty Jobs now. Gained tremendous respect for the mission behind the show, which up to now I have completely missed.

Thank you, Nancy Duarte.