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Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding of Up & Over It hand dance to Yolanda Be Cool‘s We No Speak Americano.

What a treat to find Ira Glass and Chris Ware‘s Lost Buildings online so it can be shared.  Support this kind of work by purchasing the Lost Buildings DVD and Book from NPR.

Lost Buildings

Who knew you could get a dirty toy tractor covered in brown paint?

Dirty Toy Tractor
Meijers – Findlay, OH
January 8th, 2011

The population of the world has increased by roughly 3 Billion folks between when I was born in the mid-70s and now. Not quite double but relatively close.  Certainly cause for pause.

National Geographic – 7 Billion

Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four

Discovered this amazing stop motion graffiti this morning thanks to Snap Judgment‘s Facebook.  The work is directed/animated by Blu, produced/distributed by ARTSH.it and a soundtrack by Andrea Martignoni.

BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Reading the comments behind this week’s South Park censorship headlines when someone posted this video of author Philip Pullman fielding criticism on the title of his new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

I recently discovered the song Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and can’t get enough of it.   The energy and Jade’s voice are amazing.  Check out their KCRW performance too.

The video‘s a few months old but worth posting in honor of the iPad hitting the streets.

Trying to refresh my memory on how to do time lapses so nothing too special. Took a picture every 20 seconds and glued it together at 30 fps.

Check out an earlier post for the scoop on how this was created.