race

A race between ketchup, mustard, and hotdog in between innings at the Durham Bulls Stadium. Place your bet and then hit play.

practice

Coming back from break during practice. If you play a brass or wind instrument and you live in the area, write to let me know if you want to be in an unusual marching band. I'll pass your info on to the organizer.

dance

David K. Rose and Casey Porn were showing their paintings at Wootini tonight.

I must admit that my poor dancing looks rather shabby compared to these guys. This really seems like the only way to dance.



A better shot of the robot-ed dude:


Burrito Bunker update: I'm still freaking out. They remain closed.

rap

All right, I give in. It's just too cool not to mention.

Billy Sugarfix wrote a rap about Carrboro and Jason Meeks and Brian Risk shot a video for it in which much of the town's businesses and people are featured (including the mayor). I had no idea that people loved Carrboro this much. (I do, too.) You can see the video tonight at the Cat's Cradle. Come at 8:30, pay $3.

You should really check out the lyrics at their website. Sort of Lazy Sunday-ish but you know, more Carrboro-y.

Here's an article about the shoot as well. That's where I stole these photos.





More of my own videos soon. But I trust that you saw the Stephen Colbert one?

plea

The Burrito Bunker has been closed for three weeks. I'm suffering from withdrawal.

bury

Satanic ceremony? Superstitious ritual? Or just some fun on a sunny day? Guess. Just guess!

project

During the Full Frame Film Festival yesterday I worked in the booth at Carolina Theater's Fletcher Hall. It was the first time that I got to see 35 mm projected. This was a shadow on the floor during the screening of THE HEART OF THE GAME.

flutter

I won't say exactly why I found myself in the parking lot of Wendy's just now. But I did. It happened, yes, I admit it. Anyway, something caught my eye as I was in the parking lot. Something getting all excited about their big streetlight, way, way, way up there in the air. But it wasn't any ordinary moth. It was a huge Mothra moth! Or butterfly? Am I confused?

To be clear, I'm not sure why the creature suddenly got tired and was laying down and being all still for me while I took its picture. I hope it is not sick. I'm thinking that it's okay because it was flying just seconds before it started hanging out on the ground. But still, why would it do this unless it was sick? Anyway, I hope my poking does not look too menacing. I feel bad that I poked it. But I did.

Sorry.

seethe

This installment is from one of my best friends who was gracious enough to let me post this. This is footage from the Kilauea volcano in the Volcano National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii. This movie has sound. It is mostly the wind.

Kilauea has been erupting slowly since 1983. From some Googling, I think she must have been standing in the caldera which is a crater. Most of this volano is under sea level.

I especially like the last few seconds of this video when the cooled lava crust is shown up close. She said that the surface was sharper than glass which made for a treacherous hike. Boiling rock, man. It's serious stuff.

Special thanks for this.

twist

Archer Graphics in Carrboro has these two gigantic fishing poles. They both appear to have been successful in catching fish.

type

Thrift score yesterday. This is a fun Valentine typewriter made by Olivetti.

draw

On Friday Gary Baseman was in town for a few hours. He does amazing artwork, works on the animated series, "Teacher's Pet", and is probably best known for the look of the Cranium board game. Here's a little movie of him drawing in my friend's book.

And here's a still photo of the finished little guy that he drew.

lie

The smoking gun on Katrina. This movie has sound.

swim

My boyfriend's fish!

fly

This is a music box. The birds move with the inside mechanism because they have magnets on their backsides. Magnets on your butt!

drive

There is a train that runs alongside the bike path I take to school every day.

drink

Okay so the bedroom is the bird room now. I've got 6 framed drawings of birds, birds at the birdfeeder curtains that I made, and some big fake crows up on a shelf. I want more bird stuff but it has to be representational - I think it's more weird that way. (Yeah, I know it's weird to want a weird bedroom but it's the only room that's totally mine and I wanted to try out this idea that birds, en masse, are creepy. Just one bird? Cute! But a lot of birds? Get outta here!)

Anyway, the drinking bird (below) is the star of the bedroom even though she is not representational. But she's allowed because she's got chutzpah! She's the life of the party. But she's always thirsty! We cater to her every need. We are slaves to the drinking bird, we are.

mnftiu

David Rees is awesome.

choose

The following video documents a phenomenon which happens to be the very best thing about the town where I live. It is. I don't care what anybody says.

like a band-aid

I love you but you need to remove the John Kerry sticker from your car.

We all failed to mobilize more people around John Kerry and the Democrats. Obviously, this is one of the reasons we lost. This nostalgia for a different course of events in 2004, while understandable, is not helpful because it prevents us from seeking clarity about who we are and what we want. And, by the way, what we want is more than "not Bush" or "not the neo-Cons". What in the heck is our vision?

Here are some instructions on how to remove a bumper sticker from your car.

Make your own bumper sticker to inspire change. If it applies to the 2006 elections, great. But it certainly doesn't have to.

Buy sheets of vinyl that you can use in just about any printer. Use Word to make your stickers (make the font big) if you want or go for Adobe Illustrator if you are fancy. Know that colors tend to fade on home made stickers unless you use a sealant. (Just plain old black and white will do fine for a while without sealant though.) Then load up your printer, print them out, cut them out, and put them on your car.