Here's a touching, lushly animated short video which might ultimately be a poke at the eye of someone's ex-girlfriend. Russians. What can you say that hasn't been said a thousand times in books best measured by the pound?
Damage A Short Film from Vladimir Vlasenko on Vimeo.
And a quick one to clear the palate.
Huh? from Paul Rayment on Vimeo.
Have a great weekend.
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Friday, December 19, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
Weekend Video: Solus
This week's video is a pretty, deliberately simple, story about searching for what you need in the universe. And finding it, and finding what you were looking for, too.
Take a few minutes and enjoy the stunning colors, and affecting music. Then take some more time and let the story unfold for you over a couple of days.
SOLUS from Identity Visuals on Vimeo.
Identity Visuals has a more detailed description of the whats and the hows that's worth reading, too.
Have a great weekend.
Take a few minutes and enjoy the stunning colors, and affecting music. Then take some more time and let the story unfold for you over a couple of days.
SOLUS from Identity Visuals on Vimeo.
Identity Visuals has a more detailed description of the whats and the hows that's worth reading, too.
Have a great weekend.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The Most Wonderfullest Length of Time of the Year
It's the holiday season. With the whoop-de-do.
You know. THE holidays. Things kick off with Thanksgiving, carry on with--depending on your ethnicity and religious background--St. Nicholas day, or Chanukah, and jump into high gear right around now with Christmas celebrations. The Muslim calendar and the various Western calendar don't sync up in a 1:1 way, and this year a couple of Muslim holidays occur during the Holiday Season--Arba'een, and Mawlid an-Nab.
Solstice for humanists and science pagans, yule for the drinkers and mystical pagans, and holiday parties schools and in homes for children, families, and friends, and so on.
After Christmas day, there's a whiplash-causing slowdown in public celebrations, a collective hiccup leaping the culture to New Year's Eve, as if nothing interesting happens in the intervening week, and the sooner we all forget about Little Drummer Boys, Noel, and Just a Half a Drink More the better off we'll be. So unless you actually celebrate Kwanzaa, you should only pay attention to it to the degree that you can make cheap, lazy jokes about it.
That paragraph was a long sentence crabbing about a couple of different holiday season trends. Because crabbing about holidays is part of the fun. My son and I sat near an older pair of couples at a too-tasty-to-be-good-for-you chain restaurant last night, and I got to hear rather a lot of crabbing about the relative merits of "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays," and whose feelings getting hurt count for more.
But wait! Just because Christmas day, and even New Year's eve, is over doesn't bring the holiday season to an end. Twelve Days of Christmas is a tradition carrying forward from Christmas day, the First Day of Christmas. This overlaps the Holy Day of the Solemnity of Mary, and (depending on your calculus) either overlaps or is the asymptote of Epiphany. And for many people, if your tree is till up now, you're really milking the season.
Of course, when we're dealing with Time, Celebrations, and Season things rarely have firm cut-offs, and the holiday season is an excellent example. There's Epiphany, and then there are two or even three more possible dates for Christmas, depending on your ethnicity and faith tradition.
And… and… for the really ambitious, I'd say the Holiday Season really extends from Halloween through Ground Hog Day. Which is more than a quarter of the year, just like a real season (in those parts of the world with four seasons… whoa).
So I say, enjoy the most expansive holiday season you can. Be kind, be generous, be open, remember the love of those who left, and consider hopes those to come. Let it become a habit for the whole year round.
You know. THE holidays. Things kick off with Thanksgiving, carry on with--depending on your ethnicity and religious background--St. Nicholas day, or Chanukah, and jump into high gear right around now with Christmas celebrations. The Muslim calendar and the various Western calendar don't sync up in a 1:1 way, and this year a couple of Muslim holidays occur during the Holiday Season--Arba'een, and Mawlid an-Nab.
Solstice for humanists and science pagans, yule for the drinkers and mystical pagans, and holiday parties schools and in homes for children, families, and friends, and so on.
After Christmas day, there's a whiplash-causing slowdown in public celebrations, a collective hiccup leaping the culture to New Year's Eve, as if nothing interesting happens in the intervening week, and the sooner we all forget about Little Drummer Boys, Noel, and Just a Half a Drink More the better off we'll be. So unless you actually celebrate Kwanzaa, you should only pay attention to it to the degree that you can make cheap, lazy jokes about it.
That paragraph was a long sentence crabbing about a couple of different holiday season trends. Because crabbing about holidays is part of the fun. My son and I sat near an older pair of couples at a too-tasty-to-be-good-for-you chain restaurant last night, and I got to hear rather a lot of crabbing about the relative merits of "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays," and whose feelings getting hurt count for more.
But wait! Just because Christmas day, and even New Year's eve, is over doesn't bring the holiday season to an end. Twelve Days of Christmas is a tradition carrying forward from Christmas day, the First Day of Christmas. This overlaps the Holy Day of the Solemnity of Mary, and (depending on your calculus) either overlaps or is the asymptote of Epiphany. And for many people, if your tree is till up now, you're really milking the season.
Of course, when we're dealing with Time, Celebrations, and Season things rarely have firm cut-offs, and the holiday season is an excellent example. There's Epiphany, and then there are two or even three more possible dates for Christmas, depending on your ethnicity and faith tradition.
And… and… for the really ambitious, I'd say the Holiday Season really extends from Halloween through Ground Hog Day. Which is more than a quarter of the year, just like a real season (in those parts of the world with four seasons… whoa).
So I say, enjoy the most expansive holiday season you can. Be kind, be generous, be open, remember the love of those who left, and consider hopes those to come. Let it become a habit for the whole year round.
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