I know that these videos are old news, but they are certainly worth watching if you haven’t seen them yet. These videos are from “Ms. Peachez” from from Shreveport, Louisiana. We’ll start with my favorite, “Ms. Peachez in the Tub.” You can find me in the tub, filled with bubbles washin’ my bootie (you hear me!!).
And now for another great single from Ms. Peachez… Fry that chicken! Fry that chicken!
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Today is my lovely boyfriend Yakir’s birthday. I found this cool claymation from Mamshmam on YouTube and I thought I’d post it to say “Happy Birthday, Yakir!”
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I don’t have an explanation for this. Just watch it. You won’t be sorry.
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If you weren’t already aware, I am totally obsessed with my dog. His name is Shechi and he is the best!
His name, Shechi is part of the Hebrew word for armpit, “Beit Shechi.” I named him Shechi because when I got him he stuck his head in my armpit and in my boyfriend’s armpit and so there was really no other name to give him! About 50% of people think it’s a cute name and the other 50% think it’s disgusting, but I don’t care. I think it’s just swell.
In any case, today I was bored so I made a video of Shechi so that you can see him in action. If nothing else, it will brighten up your day. Enjoy!
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Wayne Kusy is a Chicago-based outside artist who builds models of 20th century ocean liners. On first glance there is nothing out of the ordinary about these model ships. However, if you take a closer look you will see that Wayne Kusy’s ships are made entirely out of toothpicks.
Kusy began building with toothpicks when he was in the fifth grade and has been building ever since. For a living he works in freelance computer graphics. However, in his spare time he builds model ships out of toothpicks to relax.
Kusy has built a number of models of famous 20th century ocean liners. His collection includes the Lusitania, which is currently on display at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. The Lusitania is 16 feet long and constructed from 194,000 toothpicks and 5 gallons of glue. It took Kusy approximately two and a half years to build this ship.
Kusy also built a 10-foot long model of the famous Titanic, using 75,000 toothpicks and 1 gallon of glue. The Titanic took Kusy about a year and a half to build.
The Cutty Sark, an 8-foot long model made with 12,000 toothpicks and 130 ounces of glue, took approximately a year and a half to build as well.
However, Kusy’s most impressive ship would have to be the 1936 Queen Mary, a 25-foot long model built using 814,000 toothpicks and 19 gallons of glue. The Queen Mary took Kusy 8 years to build, collectively.
Though Kusy had never actually been on the Queen Mary when he built the ship, his model is very accurate. He looked at blue prints, photographs and mechanical drawings and even had an LA helicopter fly over the ship to take pictures from above.
When asked why he builds model ships from toothpicks, Kusy answers, “For the heck of it!”
Thanks to WayneKusy.com for the photos!
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For those of you that don’t already know, I LOVE LOVE LOVE stop motion animation. I love to make stop motion animations, I love to think about stop motion animations and I love to look around on YouTube for hours for cool stop motion animations.
I decided to put together a small collection of some of my favorite stop motion animations so here they are!
This first is a white board animation by “Ljudbilden & Piloten”. You must watch it, it is amazing.
Next is a must see for all Tetris fans… It’s “Human Tetris” directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond. He also did Human animations for other games including Space Invaders and Pong. You can watch them here.
Next is a really cool stop motion animation created on Post It notes, like a flip book. The video, created by “TheGaurk” (sorry, I don’t have a name) was made by drawing on nearly 770 Post It notes!
Finally, here is a really cool stop motion animation by PES, who I wrote a post about a few weeks ago. It’s probably the tastiest fireplace ever!
I hope you enjoyed watching these. Please let me know if you have seen any great stop motion animations that you think I would like!
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For years I have been trying to find a good book about philosophy. I have always found the ideas behind different philosophers and philosophical concepts to be very interesting and I’ve wanted to learn more. The trouble is, most books on philosophy are written in such dull language that I couldn’t make it through the first chapter without falling asleep.
Therefore, when Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein’s book “Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar” caught my eye in a bookstore in Washington’s Reagan National Airport I just had to get it. “Plato and a Platypus”, a New York Times Bestseller, is a book that is all about understanding philosophy through jokes.
I purchased the book in the airport, opened it up and started reading immediately. I couldn’t put it down! In fact, I had read through all 191 pages before my plane even took off (though I must add an aside to say that our plane sat on the runway for 4 hours due to bad weather…).
“Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar” is, in my opinion, a work of genius. It goes through the history of philosophy from Metaphysics to Meta-Philosophy, stopping to joke about Logic, Epistemology, Ethics, Religion, Existentialism, Politics and Relativity on the way. Cathcart and Klein do a great job of explaining different philosophies and philosophers in layman’s terms and use jokes (and good jokes at that!) to help them explain.
The duo break down Existentialism into a single statement: “You haven’t lived until you think about death all the time,” and they use jokes to explain other difficult philosophical concepts. I think it is quite obvious that I highly recommend this book.
And on an end note, here is my favorite joke in the book. It is used to help explain Aristotle’s distinction between essential and accidental properties. In the book, Cathcart and Klein write that According to Aristotle, “essential properties are those without which a thing wouldn’t be what it is, and accidental properties are those that determine how a thing is, but not what it is (I. Metaphysics).”
“Why is an elephant big, gray, and wrinkled?”
“Because if he was small, white, and round, he’d be an asprin.” (Cathcart & Klein)
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A few weeks ago I went to the “Shekel Store” in Tel Aviv, an Israeli equivalent of American Dollar or 5 & 10 stores. I walked through the entire store filling up a basket with what was basically tons of crap– I got a bunch of little plastic animals, some popscicle sticks, a small toy gun that shoots blanks, birthday candles, dominoes, bubbles, drink umbrellas and more. By the time I got out of the store I was 100 shekels poorer (about $28) and had 2 bags full of stuff that I probably don’t need, but had to have just the same.
My purchase also included a little yellow toy saxophone, a ton of balloons and some pipe cleaners. When I got home I used these items to make the following video, which I have called “The Saxaphoon.” The music is John Coltrane’s rendition of “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things.” I hope you like it!
I plan to start making a lot more stop motion animations with all of the “crap” I bought at the Shekel Store, so keep an eye out! I should be posting more soon…
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So it’s Toilet Humor Tuesday again. Instead of posting a video this week I decided to post a comic to try out Apple’s Comic Life Deluxe software that I got when I got my new computer.
I realize that this comic is neither hilarious, nor attractive. However, it does contain my personal favorite pick-up line. So…did you wash your pants with Windex or what?
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