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Moogie Wonderland

In celebration of the anniversary of Robert Moog’s birth, Google’s Doodle of the day is a working Moog synthesizer. Let me say that again: A WORKING MOOG SYNTHESIZER. Today’s gonna be a wash for me now.

Posted by If You Find The Earth Boring... on May 23, 2012

How To Draw A Bunny

Chuck Jones shows you how to draw Bugs Bunny: [youtube XlpRoyjX-mQ 600 400]

Posted by If You Find The Earth Boring... on May 22, 2012

A Joyful Noise

Sun Ra appeared on this Earth approximately on this day 98 years ago. In addition to being the namesake of this here humble weblog, I’ve already featured a few posts on him. Here’s the documentary A Joyful Noise. [youtube UINN_bQzCPE 600 400]

Posted by If You Find The Earth Boring... on May 22, 2012

Sabotage

As a weekend tribute to Adam “MCA” Yauch, Portland film dude James Winters enlisted his wife (film crew) and sons and nephew to re-film The Beastie Boys’ 1994 music video “Sabotage”. Here it is: [vimeo 42106181 600 400] …and here’s the original: [youtube z5rRZdiu1UE 600 400]

Posted by If You Find The Earth Boring... on May 16, 2012

Powers Of Ten

Perhaps my favorite short film of all time. Now on ye old internet. I make my students watch this film and they laugh because it was born before they were. [youtube 0fKBhvDjuy0 600 400]

Posted by If You Find The Earth Boring... on May 15, 2012