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Archive for June, 2011

Muppet Theatre

Saturday, June 18th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

Lance Cardinal from Cardinal designs built a Muppet Theatre Playset from scratch: He collected the Muppet Show Character figures from the Palisades toy company. When the company went bankrupt in 2006, the toy line stopped abruptly and many of the proposed ...

Niche market: inflatable crowds

Thursday, June 16th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »

This is smart: The Inflatable Crowd Company sells inflatable plastic crowds for movies: Amusing planet has an article on them. Flickr has a photo collection as well.

Milky Way time lapse

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

I would love to go there, lay on my back an entire night under these clear skies (Make sure the video is set to HD, and make it full screen.):   Randy Halverson made this gorgeous video of our galactic center from ...

Is a retweet taking action?

Sunday, June 12th, 2011 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »

In her blog post with the same title Marianne Elliot argues that retweeting is not much of an action really. I won't repeat that argument here, you can read her post for that. Her thoughts came in response to an article ...

1000 awesome things

Saturday, June 11th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

1000 Awesome Things is a blog written by Neil Pasricha, that posts one awesome thing in life each weekday. The author says that at the time of starting the site "if you flipped open the newspaper it was filled with ...

Playing for Change ep. 48

Thursday, June 9th, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Taking a stand | No Comments »

Here's another one of these lovely Playing for Change songs: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay Featuring (among others) Grandpa Elliott, of course ;-)