Just another WordPress site

Joan C. Gratz’s video Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (YouTube) uses claymation to morph the works of 35 artists into each other. Pretty neat…

In his Monday entry, zefrank describes politics as if he were calling a baseball game (QuickTime video). Hilarious…

Cinematical reports that actor Bruno Kirby died at the age of 57 due to “complications related to leukemia.” This is quite shocking considering his age and his relatively recent diagnosis.

To summarize his career with a soundbite from City Slickers greatly diminishes the true breadth of his career, but I have to agree with Cinematical and admit that I can still hear him ranting about cows and VCRs… 🙂

Shut up! Just shut up! He doesn’t get it! He’ll never get it! It’s been 4 hours! The cows can tape something by now! Forget about it please!   

Bruno Kirby’s other memorable movie roles included the young Clemenza in The Godfather: Part II, Robin Williams’ nemesis in Good Morning, Vietnam, and Billy Crystal’s best friend in When Harry Met Sally, among many others. He will truly be missed… 🙁

Update: Popwatch has a nice tribute to Bruno Kirby, but the highlight of the post is the comments section; all of the reminiscences about favorite Kirby movie and TV moments are really a testament to the impact Kirby had as an actor…

Speedtest.net is a really cool way to determine your Interweb upload and download speeds, allowing you to record transfer speeds to and from various servers all over the world and even share those data with others. Indispensable…

This Google Video of a Blaupunkt TV commercial is pretty funny…

Spell any word out of zombie letters, courtesy of E-Zombie.com. 😉

The Onion weighs in on the FDA’s upcoming review of the emergency contraceptive “Plan B” pill.

xkcd’s work The Blogofractal is an incisive yet humorous look at what captures our attention on the Interweb…

Photojournalist Bill Biggart died when the second World Trade Center tower collapsed on him on 9/11/2001, doggedly shooting until his untimely demise. Miraculously, his legacy lives on:

When [photographer] Chip East was handed the bag containing Biggart’s gear by his widow, Wendy, he was convinced that no pictures had survived. The avalanche of falling debris had blown off the backs of the two film cameras. There were several rolls of film in Biggart’s bag; however, the lids of the film canisters had been peeled back, allowing light to fall into the cassettes. Finally, East turned his attention to the digital camera. It was covered by ash. The lens had been sheared off at the flange. But when he opened the chamber that held the compact flash card, it was pristine.

Check out the amazing photo gallery of the images of 9/11 that were recovered from Bill Biggart’s camera, many of which offer unparalleled or heretofore unseen vantages of the tragedy.

Cinematical has the scoop on an unusual version of the Star Wars saga:

[You may have] heard about the dude who performs the entire original Star Wars trilogy by himself in only one hour (not to be confused with the folks who spit out the original trilogy in 30 minutes). It’s pretty impressive stuff and I’d love to check it out one of these days. However, what’s even more impressive is Adam Long’s plan to write and direct a 20-minute version of – get this – the entire Star Wars saga. That’s right, all six films packed into a very tiny 20-minute window.

I’d go see it…