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The New York Times did a cool video article on Pixar Studios:

Their working environment is, well, unique!  Read the full story here.

Noah Kalina started taking a self portrait of himself on January 11, 2000 and hasn’t stopped yet.

6 years of these self portraits are found in a video I found by chance on YouTube – it’s set to a powerful piano piece by Carly Comando, and shows 6 images per second of Noah as he ages over the course of 6 years – from January 11, 2000 to July 31, 2006.

Noah’s eyes are entered on the camera as the age progression occurs and his background changes, creating the effect that he’s staring at you with those big, sad, brown eyes. The work is really powerful -- transcending normal YouTube offerings and entering the realm of art.

Amazing.  Noah is still taking pictures – you can see them here.  I hope this video is either updated or a new one is made following his progression from 2006 to the present.

Xkcd had this to say about Youtube Comments:

How devastatingly true.  YouTube is a great resource for videos on the internet, however for every great video, there is a Swamp of Sadness surrounding it – idiotic, poorly spelled comments making you lose your will to live.

But rejoice!  A Luck Dragon is here to help in the form of YouTube Comment Snob for Firefox!  You can select just how badly written comments have to be to be blocked, or you can set the filter to zero and effectively block every single one!

Download YouTube Comment Snob here.

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos got me looking around for some interesting Sagan interviews on the Youtube.  I found some interesting ones, including the one below.  As you can tell from the title of this article, this clip shows quite the line-up for a television program:  Arthur C. Clark, Carl Sagan, and Steven Hawking discussing some of the biggest ideas of our time!  Enjoy!

If you’ve never seen Carl Sagan’s poetic series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage you simply must.  It’s a beautiful trip through our universe’s history and far more than a science documentary.  Carl Sagan’s thoughtful and compassionate narration makes every episode of Cosmos spellbinding.

So it was with some trepidation that I watched “Carl Sagan -- A Glorious Dawn:”

I think Carl would have liked it…

If you’re interested Amazon has a good deal on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.  Why not pick it up?

Wow. I just can’t get enough of this guy (whoever he is.)  I have to laugh everytime I watch this.   His rambling, self assured self promotion is Patrick Bateman-esque for certain.  You have to respect his enthusiasm… but wow.

“This is the most impressive business card I’ve ever seen. It’s mine.”

Amazing.

I’ve been humming this song all day now.   Good music, funny actors and some decent looking guys… all wearing Fanny Packs.  I kinda want my own now…