Don't mess with Delaware

I am not sure what Graham Annable thinks of Delaware or how we got picked for the bumper sticker but here is a video short entitled "Don't mess with Delaware".



Unfortunately, I have met the Delawareans depicted, usually farther south below the canal or closer to the Delaware river up on the northern part. In the youtube intro he says, "Never trifle with a state. Any state. Even Delaware."

(via Flight, via Grickle, Grickle blog)

Cyano-kicking donkey derived from "copyrighted" Smithsonian pix

BoingBoing can usually be counted on to get up in arms about overly zealous copyrighting or copyrighting material that might not be. It seems that the Smithsonian institute has some questionable copyright language about pictures on their site which may be government works and thus not subject to copyright.

I can't believe they didn't do the first thing I would do with the kicking donkey sequence from the Edward Muybridge cyanotypes, which is, turn it into an animated gif. Please enjoy a cyano-kicking donkey curtesy of public.resource.org who is trying to free them, Edward Muybridge who took them (around 1886), the Smithsonian that preserved them (and should free them), and Gickr that did the animated gif heavy lifting. I thought this might be a fun addition to the derivative works that Carl Malamud already compiled with these pictures.

The web helps everyone to be an animator!

The visit to MoMA inspired me to doodle. Drawn pointed to PicTaps, the work of motion designer Masayuki Kido. (They found it through Cartoonist Dave Roman)

I drew my traditional Spike and the magic of the web and a person with some creative programming skills brings him to life. Click on the embedded player above or on this link to see my creation.

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There are almost three hundred thousand of these things. Some people would think nothing of a dancing crucifix, Mickey Mouse or other sacred images from our culture, plus other pictures you might see in a stall in the toilet at the bus station and other profane images of our culture (not going to link to those). Put links to your own or your favorites in the comments.