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Month: January 2014

  • Damn Rabbit.

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    THE GAP by Ira Glass from frohlocke on Vimeo. This is another version of this video. I think I posted the first one a few months ago. I need to hear this a lot. I feel like this phase will never end, but I’m hoping by the time I’m 60 the quality of my work…

  • Skin, a short film

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    SKIN from SkinShortFilm on Vimeo. A child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town, is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. But just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.

  • Trending

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    Masculinity climbs her stomach. Vines of hair she doesn’t give a shit about showing in public. Cut off shirt, electrocuted hair, where she’s from tweezers and wax are as hard to come by as a good meal. Her boyfriend doesn’t care, tracing his finger along her richest vein. She lets herself grow, skips breakfast and…

  • Neil’s Wheeling 6 Jan 29, 2014

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    (This is way more exciting that anything I’m doing lately…) Here’s number 6! —– Tim reports: [Steve adds clarifications in brackets] So far it looks like my most recent and lengthy post went out OK. I’m gonna stick around on the computer here for a bit just to see if I get one of those…

  • Neil’s Wheeling 4 & 5

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    Neil’s Wheeling 4 Jan 27, 2014 Friends; For those of you who are not keeping up with current events, here is a summary. Myanmar Myanmar’s government is continuing to push back against calls for an investigation of the reported massacre of more than 40 Muslims in early January, saying that militants had infiltrated the restive…

  • My happy places

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    Another beautiful weekend. Pool, hiking, dark beer, friends. I’m going to ride until the wind shifts, but lately the wind is at our backs, helping us forward. Last week, Pat got a job offer. No more social work, which for him is a weight off and for us a new future. In a few years,…

  • Reinventing The Music Video, One Street Corner At A Time (NPR Story)

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    A French website La Blogoteque has begun filming bands and musicians in impromptu places around the world. The company is based in Paris, but they’ve filmed in Ohio, Africa, all over the world. They’ve created some of the most original music videos, like flash mobs, the feelings, the art is all authentic. The band in…

  • Neil’s Wheeling – Sunday, 26 Jan. 2014

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    This guy Tim is doing all of my work! Perfect. Now, all I have to do is insert smart-alecky comments in brackets {like this}. I slept through Saturday, so today we have two days’ worth of notes in one email. -Steve Saturday, Jan 25, 2014 Second day. Mind = Blown. Biggest deal was a 3…

  • Neil’s Wheeling #2‏

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    Fiends; I wish that I would have thought of this before: a chaperone with a smart phone who can send emails. What a gift to the news-hungry folks back home! -Steve Tim reports: First 24 hours on the ground and Wi-Fi is sketchy still. Totally amazing day, street level all the way. Got our overnight…

  • At it again…

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    Whenever my Grandpa goes on wild adventures, my uncle Steve gives us the play by play. Where was he last time? Anyway, I think I posted his updates on the blog and I’ll do it again. Thanks, Steve. I’m stealing straight from you: Friends; Just when you thought it was safe to read your email,…