Ample Sanity

Sound and Sight

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:06:10 GMT

"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur." Henry Miller

Tim Flach photographs animals, and does it exceedingly, wonderfully, uniquely well.

Curiosities are little flights of fancy.

I just love Joe Sorren's Blog. So pretty and soft and relaxing.

Watch: The Harvest and Stitchprobe. (via no fat clips)

Film Revisit: Mickey's Buddy, a poignant tale of an old man and his beloved pet, by Pete Paquette.

Fido has a new medicine chest.

MP3: Circus Time.

Games: Powder Web Toy. Adventures of Tinger. Detective. Pittoch.

Recipe: Browned Butter Scotch Pie.

Retail Therapy: Please don't eat the flash drive.

Captured: Toppled. Freight. Sentences. Grip (grip-inspired).

Revisits: Time for Hope. Time Standing Still. Time Tales.

Listening To: Stadt Sound Station.

Found Sentence: They planted traditional college foliage. Ivy, trees, hemp.

If you made noise right now, what color would it be?

Shadow or Light

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:52:00 GMT

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." Plutarch

A minimovie is an episodic documentary consisting of 8 to 10 episodes. Episodes are 7 to 10 minutes each. Put together, they form a self-contained story. Minimovies explores a new narrative and visual style of documentary filmmaking. You can watch the Minimovies here or simply download them to your digital device of choice.

Beth Cherry. One page. No archives. Simply something to say. (via kottke)

Fish and robots? I'm so there. Brian Despain creates incredible art. (via notcot)

Intrinsic Nature is a wonderful community of music and art creatives. Quite enjoyable. (via coolstop)

"I love waiting for your flash to load. I've got fuck all else to do." Essentially a blog, Web Without Sense is a gallery of common place website annoyances on the Internet. Equally, it is satirical dialogue aimed to get a message across while being frank and outward. (via it's nice that)

Lovely song, this (Richard Hawley, You Don't Miss Your Water). And a lovely, summery, colorful cake.

World, meet Norbert.

Shoebox List: Quote of The Day.

Use color to find interesting Flickr photos. Multicolr Search Lab.

MP3s: Sir Richard Bishop. Crazy for You. Sea of Love.

Games: Calamity Annie. Cryptrover. El Laberinto Esferico. Bombermaaan. Pacozyx. Choke On My Groundhog. The Great Bathroom Escape.

Recipe: CSA Slow Cooker Curry.

Retail Therapy: Thai Paper Journal.

Other Points of Interest: BBC Sport's Olympics Monkey. Free RSS Icons. The Killer. Dark Knight Review. Typing Machine. An Olfactory Meditation.

Revisit: Forget The Film, Watch the Titles. Rivertrout. The Art Zone. The Database of Virtual Art.

Listening To: Aine Minogue.

Found Sentence: I'll come to your party dressed as a shadow.

Are you mostly shadow or mostly light?

Strange Ways

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:12:06 GMT

A friend emailed and mentioned in passing a recent odd habit he has adopted in that he compulsively straightens things. Ha! I do believe i have him beat in the peculiar department with just the following two examples from amongst many to choose.....

Other than less than a dozen visits to family members, i haven't been inside anyone else's home in more than thirty years.

I love books and have been a voracious reader since age three or four. Until four years ago, that is. I have been reading the same one book for just over four years now. It's isn't a terribly lengthy book, a mere 338 pages. And while it's certainly enjoyable, it isn't what anyone would call a masterpiece of fiction. Still, immediately upon reading the last page, i turn compulsively to the first and begin again. Just a few paragraphs a day. I tried reading something else about six months ago, but couldn't focus and felt agitated, so i no longer make the attempt. I think my fate is to read this book, and only this book, for as long as i have breath.

So my question is, "Can you beat me in the harmless peculiarity department?"

Howday

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:03:29 GMT

Mmmmm.... lounging about, watching a beautiful film clip by the talented Carlos Lascano, listening to this fall and runaway, downloading more great papertoys, reading a Locust St. post, and still trying to find my place in the world. And how goes your day?

Dazzling

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:11:14 GMT

Realization, Ethical Questions, Children, Dignity, Simplicity, Love.

What dazzles YOU?

Don't Become One

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:29:28 GMT

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." Leo F. Buscaglia

Days With My Father is both beautiful and poignant (via hello bauldoff). Related Link: I Photograph to Remember.

Pledge your miles and win a Trek bike -- Take the go by bike challenge.

Salvatore Scandurra has an impressive body of work posted. Don't overlook the shorts, like History of Sicily in one hundred seconds

World's Fastest Photo Storage. Fumpr. (via momb)

Lively, Google's virtual world, is made up of individual, but connected, rooms. These rooms can be embedded on web pages, blogs, social networking profiles, etc., creating a potentially massive virtual universe of interconnected rooms. (via submarinechannel)

Kristina Kremer made sculptures while enrolled in classes at the Glassel School of Art. "With skill, imagination and enough clay to pave a thousand tennis courts, Kristina is learning to recast and perfect the human form as we know it."

Cuil is an up-and-coming search engine, but even in its early days, a lot of us are liking what we see.

Tokyo Plastic has a new short film up, "The Electric Koi".

I love simple ideas which encourage connection. Faces of Bellingham. (via dwt)

Sure you love your trendy new tee, but have you considered its "ecological backpack"? Rebel With A Cause. (via feed)

Cave Story ports withdrawn? Rumor: Cave Story on WiiWare.

MP3s: The One I Love. Good Friends. This Is My Country.

Games: 10Gnomes 7: The Solitude. Mockingbird. 365 days of free games. Fireteam Reloaded. Toybox Heroes. Endgame:Singularity.

Recipes: Yellow Pepper, Goats Cheese & Spinach Lasagne. Caramel Cake.

Retail Therapy: burrowburrow.

Other Points of Interest: 7days7authors. My Moonbase Alpha. Sr Garcia.

Revisit: Semicondictor. ProtoZone Interactives. List of Lists. Peter Holub.

Listening To: Georganne Deen, Western Witch.

Found Sentence: The Internet is filled with people trying to make a name for themselves by breaking your code, crashing your site, posting inappropriate content, and otherwise making your day interesting. It doesn't matter if you have a small or large site, you are a target by simply being online, by having a server that can be connected to. Many cracking programs do not discern by size, they simply trawl massive IP blocks looking for victims. Try not to become one.

What DO you wish to become?

Just love each other

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:10:38 GMT

Had planned our usual sharing today but my heart simply isn't in it, and my mind is occupied elsewhere as the death of one of us diminishes us all. Today, my thoughts are of loss and mortality, and, yes, love.

"There is a door my love, that opens for all of us." Bringing The Body Back Home. (via the clerkenwell kid)

Just love each other.

Idle Enthusiasm

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:58:31 GMT

It's summer. Few people blog-read in summer. I expect they're busily trying to obtain national parks concealed weapons permit, vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, or practicing their pole-dancing techniques. No reason for lengthy link-lists or idle chit-chat, even though Estelle Getty passed on, Batman got arrested, Robert Novak picked off a pedestrian with his corvette, and crazy Bai Ling gave the X-Files premiere an extra X or two.

Somewhere Else. Inky. Juan Carlos Federico. Cloudy. Beat the Heat. Odetta.

Found Sentence: Dominican priest St. Thomas Aquinas once wrote, "Well-ordered self-love is right and natural" It seems a great many of my male friends are rather enthusiastic religious followers.

What's the title of your favorite comedy film?

Wild West Weaselbots

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:40:08 GMT

Behold the great and powerful Suck Whistle. (This reminds me of the first time i used a kazoo. Kazoos really should come with a tag that reads "Powered by Hums" -- I damn near blew my tits off.)

It's a cardboard, stopmotion Bric a Brac world. Delightful!

Dabbleboard is a powerful digital whiteboard that's actually easy and fun to use. (via dwt)

NPR API provides a flexible, powerful way to access your favorite NPR content, including audio from most NPR programs dating back to 1995 as well as text, images and other web-only content.

Talented Erin Robinson has realeased her second free adventure game, Nanobots. If her first, Spooks, is any indication, this should be a real treat.

MP3s: It's About Time. Spiders. I Had Something.

Games: Pencil Rebel. Ben There, Dan That. Cowboyana (via auntie pixelante). Soldexus (play or download).

Recipe: Carnitas, Houston Style.

Retail Therapy: Edward Gorey House Store.

Other Points of Interest: Getback. Whoisi. Security Database. LiquidID. OpenDrive. Spectra.

Revisit: Dordles. Craig Persel. Les Aventures d'Oriel.

Listening To: Motel's nice selction found under the Sunday Sunshine.

Found Sentence: Trying to get Vista to run smoothly is like trying to teach a rabid weasel to dance.

What's the last thing that got busted?

Faster Than....

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:28:50 GMT

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