Time Travel IS Possible!

Just watch this wonderful video - the original Jonny Quest opening redone in stop-motion, and be prepared to be utterly SPOILED (you're going to want to see entire episodes like this, now!):

Jonny Quest Opening Titles from Roger D. Evans on Vimeo.

Be sure to visit the artist's additional pages to see more of how he managed this...

The whole thing boggles my tiny six-years-old-again mind.

I'm going to watch it again, probably with a bowl of Cap'n Crunch.

Wonderful Water

Osaka, Japan. A "water printer", which creates images with water:



I couldn't watch this without smiling. If I were there in person, I would be right alongside those kids, ooh-ing and ah-ing!

I wonder how this might look in a darker setting, incorporating some lights?

Ooh! Ah!

Giant Deep-Sea Diver Walks The Streets Of France

Here's a video of a HUGE marionette. It looks like he's about thirty feet tall. He's walking the streets of France, looking for his lost daughter, a twenty-foot tall little girl in a yellow raincoat. He ends up finding her and walking her home.

What's not to like?



I believe this festival happens in Jules Verne's home town, as a tribute to his work.

Big Butter Jesus

During a recent trip near Dayton, Ohio, I took the advice of some strange friends and went to go visit the "Big Butter Jesus" - which is what some heathens call this huge statue of the big J. It's sort of yellowish-gray, and looks as if it might have been carved out of butter. Like for a state fair.

Some motorists get out of their cars and take a picture with three people to the right of the BBJ, making letters with their arms: "Y" (Jesus' letter), "M", "C", and "A". Yup - YMCA!

I just took a stereo photo of the big guy. First, click on the image to make it big, then cross your eyes until you get a third Jesus in the middle...focus, and there he is, in all of his three-dimensional glory!

Oh, and a STRANGE thing: my car's "Check Engine" light had been lit for about ten months - but just as I left the BBJ, the light turned off, and has remained off for several weeks now! NO JOKE. Hmmmm...

Way Groovy Beatles Vid

Here's a vid I only just caught - I guess it's been out for six or eight months, since it's an ad for the Beatles Rock Band. But it's not one of those ugly shots of the game with the wooden moptop cutouts, it's a really SHARP animated "cinematic" version:

Strange And Beautiful

Here's a neat video.

This is a photographic method called "tilt-shift". It is based on the use of certain lenses that have very specific focal lengths, which keep a central area in fine focus, while fuzzing out nearer and farther areas. Which ends up making the entire plateau look like a miniature (as this super-tight focus is often used in photographing tiny objects). This video artist, Keith Loutit, has used this method along with time-lapse, to create a movie that has that "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" stop-motion look to it. In miniature. But it's all REAL. Full-sized people, buildings, ships, mountains, oceans...

I find it all mesmerizing and beautiful.

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Here's another:

The Mercury Men

Coming "soon"...an internet serial sci-fi adventure! Looks pretty impressive!