Interesting article on the cassowary bird and The Daintree Rain Forest at Idle Words. (photo: Sam Tan)

MP3s: Typhoon, Dreams of Cannibalism. The Will Callers, House Of Falling Cards.

Wil Wheaton explaining why it’s awesome to be a nerd is, well, pretty darn awesome.

Impressive hand drawn map of New York by Jenni Sparks at Kateoplis.

An NYC Apartment Ad Glossary. See also: The Worst Room.

Masterpiece In A Mug: Japanese Latte Art Will Perk You Up.

Loving the work of paper cut artist Nathalie Boutté.

Revisits:The Mindset Lists. Dorodango. David Maisel Photography. How To Care for Introverts. Totally Tiny Arcade.

Every smile makes you a day younger. Smile is a song. (Music was composed by Charlie Chaplin.) A smile is also The Universal Language. So smile, darn ya, smile!

Liontamer by Glen Baxter

Time for a little Ze Frank goodness: Sad Cat Diary. (via)

MP3s: The Orwells, Other Voices. Daughter, Smother. Marie Laá, Without You.

“Been there, done that” scenario for anyone employed in the field of, or familiar with, network security. IT Security in a Nutshell. (via)

Join the movement to bring the 2014 X Games to Detroit at Facebook. See also: twitter, video.

I do enjoy me some robots, zombies, and aliens. Illustrated Aliens has robot aliens. Double cool.

Recently noticed: Sharing Time. Cowbird. Lifestream Blog. (via)

Revisit: Aidan Gibbons’ The Piano is a touching retrospective of an old man’s life, based around the evocative imagery created by his piano playing. Stream or download free. (ad-supported site) The haunting music is by Yann Tiersen and may be purchased at Amazon here.

More revisits:Gerd Arntz Isotype Archive. Memory. Art of the Title. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

“You can’t run from your problems, which is why I’m saving up for a jetpack.” Shoebox

Can’t get away from Tiersen. (Sad to think we’re watching faces and dreams now long gone. Ah well.) Anyway, currently listening to Tiersen’s ‘La veillée’ for the zillionth time. Thoughts abound of 1890’s Montmartre, dark salons, round fringed settees, illicit trysts, and marionettes. Wonder if there’s a single film that might satisfy these daydreams?

What now? I suggest we disperse.

Toad Noir, Moon 69, and fleamarket photos by the fabuloso Michael Kupperman.

MP3s: Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, Retreat. Shivery Shakes, Temporary Vacation. Hollis Brown, Walk On Water.

Bisous Les Copains is a very nicely done animated gif project by Guillaume Kurkdjian. Enjoy.

Steps is the first in a series of “Amazing in Motion” projects created by Lexus. Directed by Daniel Kleinman ‘Steps’ tells the story of an 11-ft tall figure brought to life by puppeteers as it moves through the city in search of something. Touching.

Revisits:The Visual Telling of Stories. Secret Fun Spot. Big Happy Funhouse.

“Congrats to Miley Cyrus for being #1 on Maxim’s Hot 100. Also, congrats to Billy Ray Cyrus for apparently being the new editor of Maxim.” Damien Fahey

Short post as it’s raining. Hard. Perfect for lounging about, maybe a movie that drifts into a nap. Happy trails, poopsies.

GE’s Tumblr, an adjunct to GE Reports (engaging stories), is proving to be fascinating on its own. (image source)

MP3s: Slow Magic, On Yr Side. since78, travel mix. The Dadada, spring mix.

A mysterious box provides an extraordinary escape for a prisoner. Or does it? Room 8, a short film from the imagination of James W. Griffiths.

Holy vertigo, Batman! If ever I suggest having a picnic here, assume i’m seriously off my meds and take appropriate action

Chineasy is a visual-based learning system which teaches Chinese characters, simple stories and phrases. Our aim is to bring down the great wall of Chinese language. (via)

Revisits: Mr. Happy Man. The Lost Tribes of New York City. I Am.

“Watching the videos Bynes posts on her Twitter doesn’t feel like watching someone giving a poor performance. It feels like watching someone lose her mind.” Nathan Pensky

That’s it, poopsies. Lumineers, swiffer duster, then something in the way of strictly brain-optional entertainment. Have a happy.

Loving the colorful, witty pop culture inspired work of New York-based artist Marz jr.

MP3s: Rhye, Open. Vampire Weekend, Ya Hey. Aly Tadros and Ben Balmer, Whim. Natural Child, Let the Good Times Roll. Polytype, Cyclone. …..and a bunch more.

Rejected Submissions to NASA’s “Send a Haiku to Mars” Contest.

Bouncy, musicy, creative fun. Shugo Tokumaru “Katachi”.

Isn’t this piece by Xiamen, China based artist Oamul Lu, aka Lumao, lovely and delicate? See everything on the blog at a glance here. (via)

Enjoying Klaus. Perhaps you might as well. (via)

Tidy respository of jQuery plugins. Unheap. (via)

Revisits: Notes from the Road. Microcar Museum. Caught by the River. Poncz Magazine.

“In an interview with Piers Morgan, Lindsay Lohan revealed that she’s only taken cocaine ‘maybe 4 or 5 times.’ Not 4 or 5 times in her life, but during that interview.” Jonas Polsky

Teetering and hungry. Maybe barbeque and fart balloons will help.

Notes from the Field: Museé Fragonard | Atlas Obscura

MP3s: The Bad Lovers, Things That I Forgot. Sleeping at Last, Uneven Odds. The Low Anthem, Charlie Darwin. Amy Speace, The Sea and The Shore.

heheh. Anne made me smile again.

This symbolically approached film by Michael Frei invites us to think - do contrasts attract or not? If we have a counterpart in a parallel world, can we meet and become entwined in another world? Or are we supposed to maintain the universe in balance? Not About Us.

“You’ll smile during the day but every night you will toss and turn…..” down the rabbit hole.

From The Lenz is a multi-media company based out of San Francisco, started by artists with the common goal of creating things that move, feel and inspire the soul. And i’m loving it, particularly “luminance”. (via)

I’m terribly unfond of people, but some of my best friends are deer. Chloe, in particular. She has a deformity of the mouth and jaw that makes foraging for food in winter snows difficult at best; she comes to my patio door when starving, allowing me to stroke her as she eats, putting up with my chatter. Three winters together so far. Such a beautiful creature. And so you can imagine the goodly amount of time spent weeping when I read this last evening. We humans can be such an appalling species. Some of us truly need to rot in Hell.

The only way to grow poetry is to make it a habit. Nurseries of Verse by J. Patrick Lewis.

Revisits: Pulse. Fontastica Pixel Pattern Fonts. Amy Winfrey. Amuse Bouche Recipes. Al Dente.

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.” LJ

For the life of me, i’m sure i’ve forgotten something. Probably for the best, considering. Perhaps i’ll low-five myself anyhow. Later.

Totally Tiny Arcade is a collection of 27 PC minigames inspired by 80’s classics like Frogger, Space Invaders, Pac Man, etc. (see also: retrospec, my abandonware and how to play abandonware games.)

MP3s: Calvin Love, Missions. Broke For Free, The Gold Lining. Cayucas, East Coast Girl. Soft Moon, Breathe The Fire.

In the autumn of 1998, a profound tragedy echoed through a small Michigan farming community and twisted the well laid plans of a young prodigy in strange and inspired ways. Juggle & Cut.

Global Oneness Project: Sharing films, media and educational materials that connect us to our greater human potential. (via)

Digging the “designy illustration” of Mikey Burton. Very nice indeed.

Enjoying Darcel and Friends remixes. Quite smile-worthy.

Some folks know how to live and simply do it well. Sunsets, Biking, Walks, and Coleslaw.

File this one under Songs For The Goddamn Open Road. Gallup, NM.

Indie Game Revisits: Locomalito. TIGdb. Ishisoft Games. Little Girl in Underland. Cave Story Deluxe Package.

“Ann Coulter said ‘zero immigrants should be collecting government assistance’ and ‘we have our own native-born losers.’ She seems fun.” Rex Huppke

Ten brain-dead points if you lean on the burner of the stove without first checking to insure some nimrod hasn’t left the burner on. Extra points if you were the nimrod in question. Filed under: real talent.

Lars Henkel | Illustration & VIsual Communication

MP3s: The Quiet American, Keys To The Kingdom. Airstrip, Sleepy. Phosphorescent, Song for Zula.

Waggish is David Auerbach on literature, philosophy, film, etc.

Love these bits of no-frills advice at HoNY.

”..it would have been well for Miss Young if she had confined her rope-walking feats to localities in which she had the water beneath her..” London’s Forgotten Fallen Woman.

Here’s a lovely trip Back to Burma with Steve McCurry.

The likeness is uncanny. Clearly, that fellow on the bottom is my reincarnated crabby Uncle Poot.

Love the crazy, wonderful, creative stuff by Serge Bloch. (note: may have a harmless, content-related pop-up.)

CSS flexbox playground and code generation tool: Flexy Boxes. (via)

Revisits: Newsboy Cap for Cats (etsy). Disconnect. List of Lists. Edgar Mueller. Fritz Kahn (see also: Industriepalast).

Well, lesseee. Have a nagging headache and it’s too early for a bottle of happiness, but the R.I.P.D. trailer is fun. Also, men are idiots. Delicious, but idiots never-the-less. Over and out.

Love the vibrant, exciting art and illustration of Gordon Wiebe.

Have a ton of to-dos t’day, plus a family member sick and another just back from a week-long trip with a load of dirty clothes. But I did find a few extra minutes during breakfast to toddle around Tumblr a bit:…..

Paolo Tedeschi, Oh Sister. Dustin Harbin, Nobrow Illustrations. Andy Draws Cats, We’ve all been there at least once. David Lanham, Scout. Patakk, a nifty animated thing. Radiance 101, The Red Balloon. Skip Dolphin Hursh, animated shapes.

Later, poopsies.

Whether arranged or found in places, creative faces make me smile.

Guaranteed to make your day! Something aMRAZing by Jason Mraz. Might work better if we get up and join in. ‘Bout to get all silly up in here.

MP3s: David Ramirez, The Bad Days. Fol Chen, I.O.U. Nick Drake, Things Behind the Sun.

Solidarity plus sandwich seduction. Delicious.

Original online series Lauren, Season 2 premieres Friday May 3rd with 12 new episodes. Excellent!

The art of mix and match: Love this notable lady’s entire ensemble, right down to the shoes. Well, perhaps not the hosiery - have to give that some thought.

The Kama Sutra Project alphabet. Fabulousness by London-based french illustrator Malika Favre.

A young couple confronts a painful future by looking to the past. Short film directed by Joshua Leonard, starring Lukas Haas and Kelli Garner. The Youth in Us.

Aren’t these light sculptures by Roseline de Thélin lovely and astonishing?

Simple blog. And quite good. atem.metameat. (via)

Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies? Yes, please. (site has ads)

Another, uhhhh, great recipe? First, catch your pig.

Jawbone TV is chockful of culture, ideas, silliness, and absurdities. Haven’t clicked all the links, so you’re on your own in that respect, but I did find several enjoyable things.

Revisit: 126 PNG icons in eleven sizes, black and white. Simple Icons. (via)

Revisits: Jeremyville Community Service Announcements. Hel-Looks. One-Liners. Vectorpark.

“If the American people think that just because they voted us into office and pay our salaries, benefits, and pensions, we are somehow obliged to listen to them, they are sorely mistaken.” The Borowitz Report

Not one to brag, but I do believe I’ve got this foot-in-mouth thing nailed.