No! No! This NEEDS to be seen!

I posted this on the Facebook Machine yesterday. Didn't get a lot of feedback. And I'm not posting it IN ORDER to get feedback, but I really REALLY feel strongly about people seeing this. So I'm posting it again. Over here. On Blogger. Which I really only rarely use.

It's a weird video. I'll be the first to say that. This gal posts posts in which she doodles math, basically. And she's a 'personality.' And her singing is weird. But this post is FASCINATING. She talks about modernist composers use of 12 tonal scales (is that the right word?) and what that has to do with art, creativity, math, pattern recognition. All the interesting stuff!

So watch it. Or don't! See if I care.

Don't wanna watch that? Fine. I bet you'll watch this nonsense.

(Oh Jack Black, I can't stay mad at you.)

Obsess-much

Okay. So I have this thing for stop-motion animation. It makes me want to cry I love it so much. I dunno what it is. Maybe it's the idea of a bunch of brilliant artists working together to create something amazing. Maybe it's all the textures. Maybe it's because the movie seems so real and tactile. I get beyond excited when a stop-motion movie comes out and as I've said recently, the fact that one of my favorite Children's Books is coming out makes me triply giddy. But I have to say that the PR for Coraline has really outdone itself. Coraline.com is updated and I think I spent a delightful hour (of time I didn't really have) maneuvering through the website. It is absolutely fantastic. There was one bit I couldn't quite figure out. In Mr. Jones' Study there is a piano, and I'm assuming you have to play something to get something... if anyone figures that out definitely let me know.

Alright I will nerdily sign off.

~Meridth

The Rise and Fall of a Nerd

So being the supportive wife that I am, I decided to send Edward a book to read at night. You know, after he's had the snot beaten out of him during the day, he could cozy up with a with a nice book for a few minutes. I decided for nostalgia's sake, and out of sheer nerdiness that I would send Edward a Choose Your Own Adventure, Prisoner of the Ant People book. Unbeknownst to me books along with candy-bars, and anything pleasurable for that matter, is banned. So Edward promptly turned my package in. He got in trouble of course. Not because he had a book in his possession, but because he was a nerd. No joke! They had him do a whole lot of push-ups for being a nerd. Needless to say I got a scolding in the mail for exposing him.

Hee hee.