11 Channel Views
0 Subscribers
23 Original Pandas (added 080429)
14 Improved Pandas (added 080430)
17 Ringo Buys a Rifle (added 080504)
2 For What It's Worth (added 080509)
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56 Total Video Views
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Beltane Issue of Rending The Veil
The Beltane issue of Rending The Veil (www.rendingtheveil.com) is now available!
Click on over and check it out!
Click on over and check it out!
Friday, May 9, 2008
Nature vs. War
Two items dominating the news lately:
Cyclone Nargis, and the fighting in Iraq.
The Iraq conflict has claimed over 95,000 lives (by some counts) since the fighting began in March 2003.
Not to be outdone, Mother Nature slammed Myanmar (Burma) last Friday, and the body count there is already estimated at 100,000, with tens of thousands more missing, and tens of thousands more expected to die from exposure, malnutrition, dehydration, and cholera.
Everyone talks about the weather, but who's doing anything about it?
Obviously, the weather is a greater danger to human life than humans are. Something should be done. A law passed, a sanction levied, something. As thoughtless and cruel as humans can be, we are simply no match for the devastating power of the planet we call home.
Cyclone Nargis, and the fighting in Iraq.
The Iraq conflict has claimed over 95,000 lives (by some counts) since the fighting began in March 2003.
Not to be outdone, Mother Nature slammed Myanmar (Burma) last Friday, and the body count there is already estimated at 100,000, with tens of thousands more missing, and tens of thousands more expected to die from exposure, malnutrition, dehydration, and cholera.
Everyone talks about the weather, but who's doing anything about it?
Obviously, the weather is a greater danger to human life than humans are. Something should be done. A law passed, a sanction levied, something. As thoughtless and cruel as humans can be, we are simply no match for the devastating power of the planet we call home.
YouTube Videos
It's all a matter of perspective.
To me, making these videos has been an educational diversion, a hobby that gives me a "legitimate" excuse to surf the web and goof around with music, images, and snippets of fact. (Also an exercise in anger-management and restraint, when certain Micro$loth products crash for no particular reason ...)
But in sharing "sneak previews" of my vids as I finish them, I hear that they are "art" - a skillful blending of sight and sound and social commentary that informs, entertains, and appeals to both hemispheres of the brain.
And so I am graduating to the "next level," and have put together my first political video, which will debut on my YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/wildaspie) on Sunday.
I'm still not sure if I'll only add one a week as I'd initially planned, or go for two a week (probably Sundays and Wednesdays) since I'm making them with greater ease and speed than I'd anticipated. I guess we'll all see ...
To me, making these videos has been an educational diversion, a hobby that gives me a "legitimate" excuse to surf the web and goof around with music, images, and snippets of fact. (Also an exercise in anger-management and restraint, when certain Micro$loth products crash for no particular reason ...)
But in sharing "sneak previews" of my vids as I finish them, I hear that they are "art" - a skillful blending of sight and sound and social commentary that informs, entertains, and appeals to both hemispheres of the brain.
And so I am graduating to the "next level," and have put together my first political video, which will debut on my YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/wildaspie) on Sunday.
I'm still not sure if I'll only add one a week as I'd initially planned, or go for two a week (probably Sundays and Wednesdays) since I'm making them with greater ease and speed than I'd anticipated. I guess we'll all see ...
My YouTube Count
10 Channel Views
0 Subscribers
22 Original Pandas (added 080429)
13 Improved Pandas (added 080430)
14 Ringo Buys a Rifle (added 080504)
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49 Total Video Views
0 Subscribers
22 Original Pandas (added 080429)
13 Improved Pandas (added 080430)
14 Ringo Buys a Rifle (added 080504)
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49 Total Video Views
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Ruining some stuff for you
Just thought I'd put an end to some of those "unanswerable" questions:
Q: Which came first, the chicken, or the egg?
A: The egg. Chickens were selectively bred around the 7th century BCE, long after other birds were laying eggs. So even if you don't accept evolution (and dinosaur eggs), the egg came first.
Q: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
A: No. Sound is the ear's transmittal of energy waves to the brain. Without an ear (and brain), waves aren't sound. However, the falling tree does produce the same disruption in the air whether or not it can be heard.
Q: Can computers see more colors than the human eye can?
A: No. Firstly, computers don't "see," sight is a function of the eye and brain, neither of which is available to a computer. Secondly, colors are a human construct, a method the brain uses to distinguish variations of reflection of light received by the eye(s). A computer can theoretically parse more shades of defined variation, but the definitions must be programmed first, and how would we know it can parse them past subtleties we can see? Who wants to take a computer's word for anything?
Q: Which came first, the chicken, or the egg?
A: The egg. Chickens were selectively bred around the 7th century BCE, long after other birds were laying eggs. So even if you don't accept evolution (and dinosaur eggs), the egg came first.
Q: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
A: No. Sound is the ear's transmittal of energy waves to the brain. Without an ear (and brain), waves aren't sound. However, the falling tree does produce the same disruption in the air whether or not it can be heard.
Q: Can computers see more colors than the human eye can?
A: No. Firstly, computers don't "see," sight is a function of the eye and brain, neither of which is available to a computer. Secondly, colors are a human construct, a method the brain uses to distinguish variations of reflection of light received by the eye(s). A computer can theoretically parse more shades of defined variation, but the definitions must be programmed first, and how would we know it can parse them past subtleties we can see? Who wants to take a computer's word for anything?
Monday, May 5, 2008
Slightly Twisted Videos
Recognizing that YouTube is the new opiate of the masses, I have been keeping myself happily busy learning "movie making" and putting together some videos to songs I enjoy.
This "Improved Pandas" video was the second one I did, fixing some minor flaws. Enjoy!
(Also feel free to subscribe to "my channel" - I'm adding new videos on Sundays.)
This "Improved Pandas" video was the second one I did, fixing some minor flaws. Enjoy!
(Also feel free to subscribe to "my channel" - I'm adding new videos on Sundays.)
Sunday, May 4, 2008
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