Time to tune out the circus of lunacy that is Wa$hington and regroup. How about some whacky, wonderful humor from Cracked ("America's only humor site")? Don't answer -- it's already done.
Two exceptions to the lack of accessible webcams are Ai WeiweiCam (has an interesting back story) and Damien Hirst's site, which features timelapse videos taken in his studio. I guess watching art being created realtime is as interesting as watching paint dry (if that's a pun, it was intended). Here's a link to one of his works being created, "Monochromatic Sectors from Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Colour Ring, Dark Centre."
It seems the majority of artists have moved to YouTube. While I was looking around, I found some interesting stuff about painting techniques. You can take a look at what I found in this playlist. Here's a sample, one by pdranitsin:
After starting, then abandoning, a post about all the products Google now offers that began to look like an advertisement for them; and then trying to figure out why my machine gets lost in the ozone when I leave it for 5-10 minutes (I think it's one of Microsoft's September updates), I've decided to find something more fun to post about today.
About two months ago I started playing World of Warcraft (be very, very careful -- it is indeed addictive). Besides its intriguing quests and multitude of environments, it has some of the most beautiful artwork I've seen. Take a look at this trailer for the new expansion pack, Mists of Pandaria:
***
***
In WoW, as in many MMORGs (Massive Multi-player Online Roleplay Games), there are races, mobs (aka creatures), and non-player characters (NPCs) that advance the storyline. The members of each race have a dance that can be initiated by the player. The following video, uploaded by ShadowRoxas87, shows the origins of these dances. I'm guessing that this is the uploader's version of history, but it's amusing just the same.
***
***
Here's another one of the dances from Patricia Rosa that was filmed in game:
***
***
And here's a video I found that is just too funny. It was uploaded by thesolekeep, and is an ad for Mountain Dew.
Here in Anchorage winter's moving in. Yesterday the wind howled and rattled the trees and it rained most of the day. In keeping with the mood I'm serving up some blues 'cause I like them. My friend Shal, who sang with a band called Java, is my blues mama; she recommends artists and sends me links to their music.
Here are five for Monday, plus an irresistible cut from the movie "Blues Brothers":
