cellophane sixty-six

Short Film (Ski)

2012-01-25T13:40:00.000-08:00

Being There - Happy New Year from Field Productions on Vimeo.

Quote

2012-01-13T13:54:00.001-08:00

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today." - Groucho Marx

Graphic (Christmas)

2011-12-21T14:02:00.001-08:00

Via Plan59.

Kim Jong Il And Stuff

2011-12-19T10:49:00.001-08:00

Not too many people smiling at this Tumblr.

Cycling Good

2011-12-19T10:09:00.001-08:00

Here's why.

Fox (News?)

2011-12-13T12:25:00.001-08:00

Today's thought: If this numskull image appears on your news channel, can you actually call it "news"?

What's Your Christmas?

2011-12-01T10:54:00.000-08:00

This:

Or this:

Quotes (2011. 1968.)

2011-11-22T12:25:00.000-08:00

"Go get a job, right after you take a bath."- Newt Gingrich to Occupy Wall Street, 2011.

"You need a good haircut. That's all that's wrong with you. . . There are two four-letter words I bet you folks don't know: 'work' and 'soap,'" - George Wallace to hippies, 1968.

Congressional Chart

2011-11-18T08:49:00.000-08:00

Street Art (Spain)

2011-11-17T15:06:00.000-08:00

Letter from a 6 Year Old

2011-11-04T12:27:00.001-07:00

Transcript and back story via Letters Of Note.

Photo (NY 1943)

2011-10-18T14:44:00.001-07:00

View closer at Shorpy.

Short Film (Fish In Barrel)

2011-10-07T14:05:00.000-07:00

Quote

2011-09-30T09:53:00.001-07:00

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon

Short Film (Paris)

2011-09-28T11:54:00.000-07:00

Skyliners Paris trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

Imagined Political Slogan

2011-09-23T10:09:00.000-07:00

Sign held at rally by Tea Party Scuba Diver:
Keep your air out of my air tank. I'll decide when I want to breath!

Quote

2011-09-21T09:00:00.000-07:00

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman

Mr. Rogers Makes His Case

2011-09-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

Short Film (Los Angeles)

2011-08-08T10:54:00.000-07:00

LA Light from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

Planet Of The Apes (Remix)

2011-08-04T16:11:00.000-07:00

Any long time reader of this blog will know that cellophane 66 loves all things "Planet Of The Apes" (Original POTA, of course).
So this video remix throw-down via YouTube is a natural must post here.
Favorite moment: Heston's glow stick necklaces. Chimp it up, bro!

Short Film (Dancers)

2011-07-29T13:44:00.000-07:00

Photos (Pink Panther)

2011-07-28T13:33:00.000-07:00

Via internet k-hole.

Tunnels Below Europe

2011-07-28T12:59:00.000-07:00

But for what purpose? Via BLDGBLOG.

Democrats (The Party Of Reagan)

2011-07-21T13:42:00.000-07:00

Short Film (Street Cross)

2011-07-18T15:37:00.000-07:00

Photo

2011-07-14T14:01:00.001-07:00

More work by Celine Clanet here.

Inside Rain

2011-07-11T15:50:00.001-07:00

From an art installation by The Glue Society. Details via Creative Review.

Short Film (Longboards)

2011-06-16T14:23:00.000-07:00

Carving the Mountains from Juan Rayos on Vimeo.

Short Film (Whole Foods)

2011-06-15T15:12:00.000-07:00

Quote

2011-06-14T15:32:00.000-07:00

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
—E.L. Doctorow

Short Film (Venice Beach)

2011-06-10T14:58:00.000-07:00

Photo

2011-05-27T10:51:00.001-07:00

via Modern Ruins

Photo Bama

2011-05-03T14:11:00.001-07:00

Nervous Time

2011-05-03T09:16:00.000-07:00

Photos taken in the White House on the night of the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden.

e pluribus unum

2011-05-02T09:49:00.000-07:00

Graphic

2011-04-28T14:35:00.001-07:00

Via Plan 59.

Quote

2011-04-12T09:05:00.000-07:00

"A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless." - May Sarton

Images From Japanese Evacuation Zone

2011-04-08T12:28:00.000-07:00

Via Newsweek.

Photo

2011-04-07T09:00:00.000-07:00

By Sterling Allen via i heart photograph.

Quadrocopter

2011-04-06T09:00:00.000-07:00

Tsuchinoko

2011-04-05T09:00:00.000-07:00

Wild Base Jump

2011-04-04T15:31:00.000-07:00

Photo (St. Patrick's Day)

2011-03-17T14:49:00.001-07:00

Quote

2011-03-17T14:44:00.000-07:00

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Graphic (7Up)

2011-03-11T13:34:00.001-08:00

Like the new 7Up logo. Same color theme as JIMMY THE CHICKEN WRITES A BOOK!.

All The Buildings In New York

2011-03-10T10:07:00.000-08:00

Hand drawn. See the details here.

Bridge Delivery

2011-03-03T15:18:00.000-08:00

A journey.

Tura Satana

2011-02-07T17:58:00.001-08:00

One of the greats.

Woman's Best Friend

2011-01-17T14:10:00.000-08:00

In this photo from Brazil.

Quote

2011-01-17T12:32:00.000-08:00

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." - Eleanor Hibbert

Bumper Sticker Idea

2011-01-13T10:41:00.000-08:00

Palin/Snooki 2012
Take America back to "Reality"

Photos: Detroit

2011-01-03T13:36:00.000-08:00

In ruins. Via The Guardian.

Happy Christmas

2010-12-24T09:00:00.000-08:00

Via Plan 59

Quote

2010-12-15T08:38:00.000-08:00

"He who opens a school, closes a prison." - Victor Hugo

Fear Of Heights

2010-12-14T14:42:00.000-08:00

A job I couldn't do.

Video

2010-12-10T14:01:00.001-08:00

Photo (For Winter)

2010-12-06T14:49:00.000-08:00

Bicycle: Unchanged

2010-12-01T14:07:00.000-08:00

What I like about bicycles is that they never change. They are the same beautifully simple machines they have always been. 1912 photo below via Shorpy.

What Obama Has Done In Two Years

2010-11-02T12:14:00.000-07:00

Actually, a lot.

Motor City

2010-10-20T13:08:00.001-07:00

Via a post at David Byrne's blog about Detroit.

Maps Of Europe

2010-10-19T12:45:00.000-07:00

America's view:

And other perspectives via Strange Maps.

Short Film, Coachella

2010-10-18T14:58:00.000-07:00

It's Election Time!

2010-10-13T10:59:00.000-07:00

Clown News

2010-10-06T13:44:00.000-07:00

Tiririca!

Photo

2010-09-27T12:42:00.001-07:00

Poll

2010-09-22T14:40:00.000-07:00

A poll you can trust.

Chart

2010-09-16T12:23:00.001-07:00

Video (High Seas)

2010-09-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

Rough seas.

Harlem Night Clubs 1932

2010-08-31T10:13:00.000-07:00

Details at Big Think.

Photo c.1910

2010-08-25T11:14:00.000-07:00

From an incredible series at The Big Picture of color photos taken in Russia a hundred years ago.

Good Tree Gone

2010-08-23T14:15:00.000-07:00

Story here.

Poem

2010-08-15T13:38:00.000-07:00

This poem, it seems to me, honors anyone ever lost at sea.

New Religion
by Bill Holm

This morning no sound but the loud
breathing of the sea. Suppose that under
all that salt water lived the god
that humans have spent ten thousand years
trawling the heavens for.
We caught the wrong metaphor.
Real space is wet and underneath,
the church of shark and whale and cod.
The noise of those vast lungs
exhaling: the plain chanting of monkfish choirs.
Heaven's not up but down, and hell
is to evaporate in air. Salvation,
to drown and breathe
forever with the sea.

Short Film

2010-08-11T15:17:00.000-07:00

Photo

2010-08-11T13:41:00.000-07:00

More photos by Johanna Heldebro.

Poem

2010-08-02T14:47:00.000-07:00

As a fan of a good rack of ribs in summertime, I am compelled to post this poem by William Notter called "Half-Rack at the Rendezvouz".

She had a truck, red hair,
and freckled knees and took me all the way
to Memphis after work for barbecue.
We moaned and grunted over plates of ribs
and sweet iced tea, even in a room of strangers,
gnawing the hickory char, the slow
smoked meat peeling off the bones,
and finally the bones. We slurped
grease and dry-rub spice from our fingers,
then finished with blackberry cobbler
that stained her lips and tongue.

All the trees were throwing fireworks
of blossom, the air was thick
with pollen and the brand-new smell of leaves.
We drove back roads in the watermelon dusk,
then tangled around each other, delirious
as honeybees working wisteria.
I could blame it all on cinnamon hair,
or the sap rising, the overflow of spring,
but it was those ribs that started everything.

"Half-Rack at the Rendezvouz" by William Notter, from Holding Everything Down. © Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.

Quote

2010-07-16T10:55:00.000-07:00

"He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world." - Thomas Jefferson

Photo

2010-07-09T13:32:00.001-07:00

Quote

2010-06-28T14:23:00.000-07:00

"We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are not the best informed as to the events of the last sixty centuries."- Will Durant

Sheer Joy

2010-06-24T12:52:00.000-07:00

These videos make me happy.

Graphic (For Father's Day)

2010-06-21T10:31:00.000-07:00

Via Plan59.

Graphic (For Flag Day)

2010-06-14T15:29:00.001-07:00

2010-06-07T14:59:00.000-07:00

Here's a cool video take on this series of photos posted here previously.

Running on Empty from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

Photo (For Memorial Day)

2010-05-28T15:07:00.001-07:00

Photo (Random)

2010-05-25T14:36:00.001-07:00

The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald in wax. Via Bad Postcards.

Quote

2010-05-18T12:55:00.001-07:00

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." - Albert Einstein

Street Art Boston

2010-05-13T10:25:00.001-07:00

For Mother's Day

2010-05-10T14:44:00.001-07:00

Q&A from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

Photo

2010-05-04T08:53:00.001-07:00

Photo

2010-04-29T12:34:00.001-07:00

Photos by Jean-Pierre Attal

Quote. For Earth Day

2010-04-22T08:00:00.000-07:00

"The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature’s beauty and simplicity." - 14 year old Anne Frank who spent more than two years hiding indoors and unable to step outside.

Iceland Volcano Video

2010-04-21T09:24:00.000-07:00

Dramatic images here.

Tornado Derails Train

2010-04-19T14:19:00.000-07:00

Locker Room Honesty

2010-04-16T10:04:00.001-07:00

New York Yankee, Chan Ho Park explains why he had a bad game.

Fox News. There's Spinning. And Then There's Lying.

2010-04-16T09:09:00.000-07:00

I get that some people are buying into the narrative they sell, and there is a lot of money made from it - but you can make a lot of money selling crack too. At some point they need to ask, "How low can we go?"

Wing Suit Flyovers

2010-04-14T15:06:00.000-07:00

A Tale Of Two Open Microphones

2010-04-06T12:00:00.000-07:00

I can't help but point to these two recorded open microphone clips and the differences they reveal.
The first from Bush/Cheney:

And this from Obama/Biden:

In the first, the word "asshole" is used in malice against NYT writer Clymer, and almost immediately, Cheney jumps in to validate Bush's comment (like a schoolyard boy mimicking a friend who has just made a bad choice).

In the second, even though Biden uses the F bomb in a moment of excitement (not anger), Obama, as usual, has none of it and continues as if nothing was even said. He doesn't get pulled into sloppy Joe's gaffe. This is Obama's huge advantage. He always comes off as the guy with the most dignity.

Letter From A 12 Year Old Girl 1702

2010-03-29T15:03:00.000-07:00

"Beloved Father" via Letters of Note.

I'm Just A Bill

2010-03-25T12:44:00.001-07:00

Ekranoplane!

2010-03-24T11:39:00.000-07:00

From a series of photos taken of an old Soviet project of a plane that flew just above the water. The "Caspian Monster" was designed originally as a fast troop transport. Some versions of the plane still exist. Video here.

Martian Avalanche!

2010-03-19T13:43:00.001-07:00

Via Fogonazos.