While Busy Making Other Plans …

Too good not to share

(once you get past the commercial)

 

 

One of my L.A. photographer friends passed on this piece, done by official Texas state photographer Wyman Meinzer with music by Doug Smith.  I am told that Meinzer graduated from Texas Tech, then moved back to his ranch near Benjamin, Texas so he could begin his photography. He is said to have lived in a dugout for several months, to be in the middle of the roadrunners, coyotes, and snakes.

(Watch in fullscreen, with your speakers on!)

Wyman Meinzer’s West Texas from Wyman Meinzer on Vimeo.

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In one of the fastest weeks on record, Nik appeared at the train station in Portland, only to have to awaken very, very early a few days (minutes?) later to return.  Ivi later paid an even shorter spring break drop-in.

 

See NPR’s story on this mapping technology here.

… basketball flops … ever …

 

Listening to BBC radio news this morning, I hear that a bunch of newspapers in the U.S. are withholding today’s Doonesbury comic from their readers. In case you are unlucky enough to be reading one of those papers, here is the comic strip in question, along with a story on the L.A. Times’ decision to move the strip from the comic section to its Op-Ed pages.

LA Times on Doonesbury

Ivi, this could be you …