March 13, 2014
PONO
FLAC is Free Lossless Audio Codec which is used for lossless audio compression. MP3, the most popular audio compression, is lossy; analogous to jpeg for images which is also lossy. FLAC comes from Xiph.org who also gives us Ogg Vorbis, a lossy audio compression scheme.
But an iPod cannot play FLAC files (or Ogg Vorbis, for that matter). Instead, they can play Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC).
On the scene comes PONO (which seems usually to be all upper-case, even though it's not an acronym). PONO is a portable music player from the Neil Young that will play FLAC files. It will also play ALAC, mp3, WAV, AIFF, and AAC. Besides the hardware they will also create the PONO music store, because iTunes does not offer files in FLAC format.
I know I couldn't hear the difference between an MP3 and any lossless format, but I also know some people can.
There's a Kickstarter. Mr. Young set his goal at $800,000 and has raised $2,600,350! They still accept contributions. For $300 you will be permitted to buy a PONO player for $300, which is $99 less than the expected retail price of $399. I see there is a Willie Nelson version that you can get with a $400 pledge. I wonder at the possibility that some of the musicians in that video were enjoying some enhanced listening. Regardless, with a $400 contribution you get a customized celebrity PONO player. Do the arithmetic, this is $200 less than the total expense of the $300 contribution ($300 contribution + $300 PONO player), and for that you get a chrome PONO player laser-engraved with the signature of Willie Nelson (or Tom Petty or James Taylor or Patti Smith or Beck or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young or Herbie Hancock or others!). The top pledge of $5,000 would have gotten you a dinner and listening party with Neil Young and one night's stay at the Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton, but those are sold out.
The PONO player will have 64GB of storage plus you can add a microSD card up to 64GB. An iPod Classic holds 160GB. But if you are the sort of person this device is being marketed to, you will not mind carrying a separate (multi-)terabyte USB drive in your car for the portion of your collection of FLAC files that will not fit in 128GB.
There's a discussion here about sources of lossless music. Even if you make an FLAC file from one of your CDs, the quality can be no better than what was on the CD. What you want is access to music that hasn't gone through the CD process yet. Ideally, you'd like the raw data from the recording studio, but you're probably not going to get that. One person suggests "Take a look at hdtracks.com, itrax.com, eclassical.com, and beatport.com for examples."
The PonoPlayer has two output jacks. The first is a normal mini-stereo output specially designed for headphones and is meant for personal listening. The second is a stereo mini-plug analog output specifically designed for listening on your home audio system, in your car...
Can anybody give me a clue as to what a "normal mini-stereo output" and a "stereo mini-plug analog output" are and what their differences might be. Can't find either term here. Searching for both terms at Monoprice doesn't help me. It sounds like, and in the photos it looks like, two 3.5mm output jacks. Period.
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March 11, 2014
Visitors At Cinémas Palme D'Or
10:45 AM every day until...? Who knows, maybe only a couple more days. Probably not 4K, but if you go see it get back to me about that.
The video above is only 480, so you're getting less than one-eighth of the data. It's like the visual equivalent of Cliffs Notes.
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March 7, 2014
Opulent Temple Returning To Burning Man 2014
After a one-year hiatus Opulent Temple will return to Burning Man this year. No word yet on what their design will be like, but I think we can be sure it will be neither small, quiet nor dark.
Video shot in 2012.
Opulent Temple podcasts if you want a lot more music.
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February 16, 2014
Visitors in 4K
Yesterday I saw Reggio's Visitors and am happy to report that it is much more than faces sliding across the screen, right to left. There are images of urban structures, nature scenes, a cemetery, crowds of people and the moon. I missed whatever credits that might have explained the source of the moon segments. Did Reggio (or one of his many producers) pay to have a 4K camera mounted on a lunar orbiter?
There might have been only a dozen people in the theater, but no one got up to leave when the credits started rolling. I don't think I've seen that at any other movie unless some celebrity was there to speak to the audience afterward.
The NY Times loves it with 5 stars. Roger Ebert liked it enough to give it 4 stars, but he needs to wipe his glasses. He thought the crowd scenes showed "a rush-hour crowd in a major metropolis." The scenes were shot in a studio and the clue to that is the people in the crowds are the very same people we see in individual close ups. Ebert also thought he saw "An inflatable dummy flops around on fan exhaust, presumably stationed outside some car dealership or strip mall lot." It was a crash test dummy that was being shaken around...probably in a studio. The background for all the studio scenes are solid black. The LA Times was not impressed and gave it 2½ stars. Calum Marsh at the Village Voice hated it so much he spent the first four paragraphs of his seven paragraphs re-reviewing Koyaanisqatsi which he also hates. Possibly Marsh was traumatized as a child while viewing Koyaanisqatsi and hasn't gotten over it. "Visitors is a dull etch of digital blacks and grays." I did notice one credit for a "Colorist" at the end of the movie. I guess making sure your black & white is perfect would also require a colorist...at least in Hollywood. There probably is no separate category for a "Grayist."
4K resolution in Visitors is like taking the very best black and white photos you have ever seen that were shot by experts using a medium or large format film camera (I'm talking like Ansel Adams or the photography in National Geographic or some photos in old Life magazine) and then you blow those photos up to cover an entire wall and new detail appears to you. Early in the movie individual faces gradually appear in a slow fade up (is that the right term?) from a solid black screen. Gradually each face becomes completely clear and you think you're there...but a few seconds later you realize the image is getting still more clear as smaller and smaller details emerge. It's like somebody wiped the dust and grease off your HD TV screen and you realized you had been missing half the picture.
This Youtube video purports to be available in 4K, but you need a 4K monitor to appreciate it. And even then it will have undergone some compression, I'm sure, before becoming available on Youtube. Or, you can buy Timescapes. Soon 4K streaming will be available from Netflix for those who have 4K TVs and a 15.6Mbps connection. The video on the film's official website is far short of 4K.
Visitors is at the Landmark NuArt Theater in L.A. until Thursday February 20. It will continue to be shown in the U.S. until as late as the end of April 2014 in Williamsburg, Virginia. After that, maybe you'll have to wait for Netflix to stream it.
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January 26, 2014
It's The Swedes
These Swedish Marines are operating two or three planes higher than our own American military lip-sycnhers. We must close the lip-synching gap!
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January 23, 2014
Reggio Again Again Again Again Again Again
Visitors - with Glass again again again again again again.
If you loved the 'Qatsi trilogy (or some part of it), you'll pay money to see this too.
Variety says it had a world premiere in September 2013, but it's only hitting theaters now (or tomorrow).
More than ever with Reggio’s oeuvre, the viewing experience here requires patience as well as an openness to contemplation. The swelling, repetitive structure of the music works hand-in-hand with the visuals to facilitate this shift to a different level of consciousness, but what it’s all about will remain a matter of individual associations and connections. Walkouts and snores are to be expected, although those on the film’s meditative wavelength will be held rapt.
This is your chance to see real 4K in a cinema. "Far ahead of the curve technically, the pic requires 4K digital projection, which will provide 4,000 pixels of visual resolution as opposed to the 1,000 pixels of standard HD."
The earliest, closest regular showing that I could find will be at the Landmark NuArt Theatre on February 14. BUT LACMA will be hosting a FREE (did I say free? Yes I said free!) showing on February 6 which "includes a conversation with director Godfrey Reggio." When I first read that, I assumed it meant Mr. Reggio would be at LACMA to speak. But it doesn't actually say that. So maybe the "conversation" is an interview that has already been filmed, or maybe Mr. Reggio will Skype in from somewhere else, or maybe he will really really be there.
Here's the website for the movie where you can get a list of opening dates for several cities. It won't open in Boston until March 14 at the Kendall. Wow, what did Boston do to piss somebody off? Or maybe, since it's nearly at the end of the schedule of showings, they hope to be able to park it at the Kendall and show it for months and months and months. It is Cambridge, after all.
Check this out, IMDB lists 11 people with "producer" in their title for this film: 3 associates, 2 executives and 6 plain ol' producers.
According to the Wall Street Journal it was edited on some Macs:
To realize Mr. Reggio's vision on a $6 million budget posed a series of challenges, not only in the digital manipulation of nearly all the images, but in generating the final product in higher resolution. "We hot-wired the Macs to deal with the tremendous amount of computing power we needed," said [film editor Jon] Kane. "There's no one crazy enough to do that."
That would have been before the latest Mac Pro came out. I don't know exactly what hot-wired Macs would look like. It makes me think of battery cables and a dirty screwdriver.
The review in the NY Times reveals that the film is not 100% face shots.
The human faces are contrasted with recurrent images of an abandoned amusement park and of a large, empty building that resembles an institution of some sort. There is a sequence, filmed in Louisiana bayou country, of trees growing in water. Shots of the moon's pockmarked surface suggest that "Visitors" is a journey to the moon and back. The title evokes science fiction, and the gorilla echoes "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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January 6, 2014
The Breaking Bad Wire
This one is for the second season.
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December 28, 2013
Great L.A. Walk 2013 Photos (part 1 of 2)
These are some of my photos from the Great Los Angeles Walk of 2013, which took place on the Saturday preceding Thanksgiving. It was from Echo Park to Santa Monica via Sunset, Whittier and Wilshire. I managed to finish just after sunset so there enough light to continue getting photos with my GoPro the whole way...although in the last few blocks of Wilshire there were a lot of blurry ones. In this post I've got photos from only Echo Park and Sunset Boulevard - roughly the first half of the walk. (The complete set can be seen here). Most were shot with the GoPro, but there are some I shot with a regular, handheld camera.
![[09-02-51] Echo Park - Queen of the Angels](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7310/11060929434_00c3c2afee_d.jpg "[09-02-51] Echo Park - Queen of the Angels")
We met up at the Queen of Angels in Echo Park.
This quaint restroom building in Echo Park holds a surprise inside.
Open a door on the restroom, go inside, and you will find yourself plunged into darkness. The only light inside leaks down from a vent high in the wall overhead. There are no electric lights - and no missing electric lights. It is nothing but a very small, but tall cubicle, with a prison toilet and a toilet paper dispenser. You had better memorize the position of everything before you close the door, because you won't be able to see it after the door is closed, unless you've brought a flashlight, and I had not. This photo makes it look much brighter than it really is.
We start off and a few people notice my GoPro.
"Boutique Stompboxes" by acidfuzz.com
The Olive Motel on Route 66/Sunset Boulevard. Built in 1946. Have to leave a $5 deposit for the TV remote, even if you don't want to watch TV, according to the Yelp reviews. A number of reviewers praise the water pressure and availability of unlimited hot water. For example:
Well, let me clarify that this is NOT a "3 star hotel" - it is a half-star motel. But! If you are passing through town, or passing out in town as my friend and I were at 4am after a bit of a bender, you cannot beat a $42 room (that's $42 dollars - cash - in total) in this seedy, run down parking lot compound.But there is hot water in the shower in the morning and, really, the room isn't dirty or anything. It's right near Echo Park, I believe, and, I can only imagine that once the right hipster or band or culturati stay here, it's cache will increase 100-fold. Stay here, enjoy the price - I have stayed in plenty worse for plenty more - and party on!
Good timing by my GoPro camera.
There's a lot of sidewalk dining on Sunset Boulevard.
Hipster street gang with what is called a "Silver Lake pitbull."
The message is: drink Bushmills and say "Yeah, bitch!" I'm pretty sure.
Horror of horrors! This is exactly the sort of commercialization that BMORG does not permit, especially if Burning Man isn't getting a cut of the action.
Last year I documented every marijuana facility we passed, but this year there seemed to be a lot more. Fewer, however, than restaurants offering sidewalk dining. This particular location at Hollywood & Sunset was the flashiest.
The bridge from Kaiser Permanente to the Children's Hospital...which is just west of the marijuana doctor's office above.
I didn't need their test to know if my personality was free or not. Right across from Kaiser.
The dogs get bigger as you move west into Hollywood.
KTLA.
Chase Bank at Sunset & Vine, designed by Millard Sheets. Originally it was a Home Savings bank and stands on the site where the first full length Hollywood movie was made. It's not easy to find out what the first full length Hollywood movie was, but I think it may have been The Squaw Man by the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in 1914 (Jesse Lasky and Sam Goldwyn, partners). It was Cecil B DeMille's first production. Photos of the interior of the bank can be seen here.
The Flight of Europa by Paul Manship.
Location of the first Emmy Awards - January 25, 1949.
Crossroads Of The World - Built in 1936, it is known as " America's first outdoor shopping mall."
The Hollywood Center Motel which looks pretty creepy even from across the street. It has a 7-Up branded soda machine in front. When was the last time you saw one of those? Three Yelp reviewers were brave enough to admit staying there and none of them liked it. It has what purports to be its own Facebook page, but it might be just the creation of a "fan." It includes posts like "Don't forget, it took a really bad father to make such a good prostitute; at the Hollywood Center Motel" and "AUTUMN SPECIAL -- 10% off if you can prove your bed bug infestation originated here." It was used as a shooting location for at least four movies and TV programs, the most well known of them being L.A. Confidential. IAmNotAStalker.com tells us this was where Matt Reynolds (played by Simon Baker) died.
In the scene filmed at the Hollywood Center Motel, Hush-Hush magazine editor Sid Hudgeons (Danny DeVito) and Detective Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) set up a sting operation to catch the Los Angeles District Attorney in an illicit rendevous with homosexual prostitute [Simon Baker].
Real people have died there, too. From the December 7, 1986, L.A. Times: "The name of Dean Karny, the prosecution's star witness in both cases, has come up in connection with the murder of Richard Mayer, 21, whose decomposed body was found Oct. 18 stuffed in a trunk in a room at the Hollywood Center Motel."
A description of its place in Rock 'n Roll history is found in "Where the Action Was: On the Inside of the Evolution of Rock 'n' Roll" by Mark 'Hoss' Amans (Facebook):
HOLLYWOOD CENTER MOTELBack to Los Angeles
I moved into the Hollywood Center Motel on Sunset Boulevard. For anyone in this business, the Hollywood Center Motel was the beginning, the middle, and sometimes, the end of the road. More dreams began and ended there than any other place in town. No one ever passed through there without being adopted by the manager, whom we always affectionately called Mom. Mom gave me special treatment and a discount on the room. I lived there at two different times. There was a large building behind the motel where groups used to rehearse, so there was always a lot of rock 'n' roll being played. Being a night person, I always slept in until about noon if 1 didn't have to go anywhere. One day I woke up and heard Buffalo Springfield rehearsing. Dewey Martin, who I had talked about earlier as being the first drummer for Kris Kristofferson, was in the Buffalo Springfield, and so was David Crosby. A lot of groups used to rehearse there, and I would go over and watch sometimes. It was just right around the corner. I have a lot of fond memories of the Hollywood Center Motel. Mom always had pictures of the groups that had stayed there in the office on the wall, and there were a lot of them, including the Raiders. To this day, it is still there. I have driven to it and looked around a couple of times; it brings back memories, but it is pretty run-down now. But it is definitely a landmark in Hollywood for rock 'n' roll. It is on Sunset Boulevard and Highland.
Hollywood High whose mascot is the Sheik, which is supposed to be based on the Rudolf Valentino film. I can't find any reports of any controversy about that name. A list of celebrities who attended Hollywood High is here. Big names: Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Carole Lombard, Alan Ladd, Laurence Fishburne, Cher, many more.
The Liberal and Household Arts Building at Hollywood High. Built with aid from the Public Works Administration and completed in March 1938 at a cost of $230,425. The architectural firm was Marsh, Smith and Powell.
In-N-Out next door to Hollywood High.
7039 Sunset Boulevard looks like it should be architecturally interesting, but I was able to find an interior video shot by a real estate agent and it's just a dull little office building set back from the street behind an iron fence.
They also have flavored oxygen.
The Griddle Cafe gets nothing but 4- and 5-star reviews. After walking past dozens of cafes with sidewalk dining, all with immediate seating available, it was a surprise to come across this crowd. The line stretched quite a way down the sidewalk. The food I saw being served was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Huge pastries/pancakes/sump'n that filled entire plates, oozing brown sugar, syrup, powdered sugar, and probably pure glucose as well. Yelp reviewers mention the Chocolate Chip Crusted French Toast, Apple Cobbler French Toast, Pancakes with Kahlua and Bailey's Whipped Topping, Pancakes With Oreos & Whipped Cream. See photos of the food here. The Griddle Cafe menu lists all their rich, sugary breakfast items, plus creative egg dishes, and lunch and dinner meals. You can get salads and fresh fruit, too.
Next door to The Griddle Cafe is the Directors Guild Of America. The lady in the foreground is one of only two non-Great Walkers who commented on my GoPro. She asked "Looking for some intense action shots in Hollywood?" Then she headed into the Directors Guild, so maybe she could have offered me professional advice.
That giant iPhone was aqua colored.
Welcome to the Sunset Strip! The Sunset Strip was the stretch of Sunset Boulevard that was not in Los Angeles. Today it is part of West Hollywood.
Carney's, where many of the walkers had lunch. 4-stars on Yelp. Burgers and dogs.
8760 Sunset Boulevard was built in 1967 for plastic surgeon Dr. Richard Alan Franklyn. The architect was Oscar Niemeyer who designed civic buildings for Brasilia. Today the building is occupied by Mutato Muzika, the music production company of Mark Mothersbough, founder of Devo.
The Viper Room was partly owned by Johnny Depp until 2004. River Phoenix died here in 1993. Long before it was The Viper Room it was a hangout of Bugsy Siegel and Mickey Cohen. This mural of Johnny Cash was created by David Flores.
The western end of the Sunset Strip where we transition from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills.
Sunset Boulevard through Beverly Hills is fairly uninteresting. It's almost 100% residential, enclosed behind high walls and foliage.
Well, this was a little bit interesting.
I believe this is an LADWP underground reservoir.
And then there's the interesting Beverly Hills Hotel.
Modern architecture is rare in Beverly Hills.
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December 24, 2013
Drinking In A Chevy Truck On A Dirt Road With A Girl In Tight Jeans After Sundown
OTOH, what Grady Smith likes.
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December 23, 2013
Still No Marriage In Alabama, But...
The Prancing Elites of Mobile, Alabama, were invited to the Semmes, Alabama, Christmas parade. Some objected.
Semmes has a population of 2,897 and covers only 2,100 acres. It was incorporated in 2011 and, if I can believe my eyes, you can buy fireworks at Christmas time there.
Here you can see the Dallas Cowgirls. Not too different, except there are more Cowgirls and they show more skin. I think in some people's minds the Cowgirls rank right up there with Jesus and God.
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Don't Show Me
Chad Rizner of 4058 Newcastle Lane, Jefferson City, Missouri, coordinated his Christmas light display with a recording of the Missouri Marching Band playing "Missouri Waltz" as they perform it between the 3rd and 4th quarters. I predict this will not go any more viral than this single post.
See. But you can hardly blame Mr. Rizner. Some Missouri fans show you the complex choreography that goes on in the stands while the state song plays.
- Sway your arms
- Clap and move around in no particularly coordinated fashion while singing the lyrics which seem to go "Ta da da da da da da da naaaa."
- Then mime being a drummer and say Go, Fight, We're In, Tigers
- Followed by some coordinated wiggling and clapping and more singing of those great lyrics.
- Finally, send 'em out like you know what you're doing.
To cleanse your mind, here's Mr. Johnny Cash singing it the way it should be done.
Note: I'm a Missouri graduate so I get to say all this by right.
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December 19, 2013
Berklee Students at the Museum Of Fine Arts
Berklee is one of the great music schools in Boston. The Museum of Fine Arts is exactly what it sounds like.
Notable grads of Berklee include Melissa Etheridge, Keith Jarrett, Quincy Jones, Joey Kramer, Patty Larkin, Branford Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Herb Pomeroy, Billy Squier, Trey Parker and Brad Whitford. The list of Grammy winners is longer. Only four Oscar winners. There are more Emmy winners. But only two Tony Awards.
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December 17, 2013
Spark: A Burning Man Story Nominated For Two Oscars
Both nominations are for Best Original Song; Let It Go and We Ride.
You can listen to all the songs from the soundtrack here.
Clip from the film with We Ride:
Here's where Let It Go appeared in the documentary:
Before you start making your Oscar bets, be aware that there are 75 nominees for Best Original Song. We must be living in the golden age of film music!
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December 12, 2013
"Happy" Choreography
In the 2 PM segment they're still in Union Station, but starting 20 minutes in you will see TWO men who have dressed up for the occasion and dancing in a way that suggests they were trying for something like the musicals of the '40s and '50s. Fred Astaire has little to worry about yet, but with a little more practice...
This is the first pairing I've seen and the first evidence of real rehearsal - although I'm sure all the other dancers have worked hard too.
Then at 44 minutes we get a triple! All men again.
Real hard work begins at about 52 minutes where we find a dancer in high heels (female). She is gonna make it in Hollywood, no matter what.
At 3 PM we get what I think is the choir at the First Baptist Church in Pasadena.
At about 52 minutes we move to a cemetery which was a little challenging to identify, until we got this shot in the 4 PM segment:
It's Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena.
Then at 4 minutes we get a boy/girl couple dancing.
A surprise comes at 16 minutes when we see a man who one might think is too big to dance, but he does better than a lot of the skinny people.
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December 4, 2013
Union Station
I don't know what to make of the fact that the clocks in the station say it's after 2 PM and the angle of sunlight seems to match that.
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December 3, 2013
I Guess France Doesn't Have A Law Against Stupid
So they had to investigate Bob Dylan for "incitement to racial hatred" according to Reuters. ABC News says preliminary charges have been filed, but there may be no actual difference between those two reports. Anyone familiar with French law is invited to comment and clear it up.
My usual habit when we hear that some so-and-so made an unbelievably outrageous statement is to go try to find the full context. In well over 90% of the cases, the outrageous remark is something out of context and not very outrageous at all - this is true clear across the entire political spectrum. So I went to find this Rolling Stone interview and it's a bit weird that some of the keywords reported by news sources (like "Croation") can't be found by searching, but I'm not inclined to paranoia.
I found the interview and the stuff that has gotten people inflamed is on page 3:
Do you see any parallels between the 1860s and present-day America?Mmm, I don't know how to put it. It's like . . . the United States burned and destroyed itself for the sake of slavery. The USA wouldn't give it up. It had to be grinded out. The whole system had to be ripped out with force. A lot of killing. What, like, 500,000* people? A lot of destruction to end slavery. And that's what it really was all about.
This country is just too fucked up about color. It's a distraction. People at each other's throats just because they are of a different color. It's the height of insanity, and it will hold any nation back – or any neighborhood back. Or any anything back. Blacks know that some whites didn't want to give up slavery – that if they had their way, they would still be under the yoke, and they can't pretend they don't know that. If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood.
It's doubtful that America's ever going to get rid of that stigmatization. It's a country founded on the backs of slaves. You know what I mean? Because it goes way back. It's the root cause. If slavery had been given up in a more peaceful way, America would be far ahead today. Whoever invented the idea "lost cause . . . ." There's nothing heroic about any lost cause. No such thing, though there are people who still believe it.
He starts out excited but mostly correct, and then just drops into stupid. And for more context just continue to page 4 and read his answers to questions about President Obama.
(*The latest estimate is that 750,000 died in the Civil War, but that's neither here nor there.)
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November 24, 2013
Happy
First I came across this music video which seems to be four hours of individuals dancing and lip-synching (with professional skills) to a simple, happy little tune that just keeps cycling over and over. It is surprisingly easy to watch. The first hour appears to have been shot at the Super A Foods in Eagle Rock.
But it turns out this is just a small part of a project to produce a 24-hour music video featuring that little tune. Here it is: 24HoursOfHappy.com. It has a handy interface that shows you the time of day and allows you to move to other parts of the day. One is satisfied that many young dancers in Los Angeles were kept well occupied for a day.
Is that Steve Carrell starting at 5:08 PM? Yes, yes it is. Now I'm going to have to watch the whole thing without skipping to see if any other celebrities join in.
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November 8, 2013
A′/B′ Comparison
Again, your preference?
Or B′:
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A/B Comparison
Which do you prefer?
Or B:
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