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Bingo

John Cooper — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:26:50 +0000

Wish this bingo board was published back when I was in college (in Easton, Pennsylvania). It’s good for a reality-based laugh, and it also brought back memories of working at the Circle Systems factory in Easton with Ben and Don. And too, memories of driving up North 611 along the Delaware River, a particularly beautiful section of the state.

Source: iwastesomuchtime.com via Dania on Pinterest

Pants Full of Awesome

John Cooper — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:06:37 +0000

Thank you Tim for finding this gem. I want a pair of disco underpants too!

Charlton Heston breakbeats and scratches his way to the Ape Hall dance contest…

Japanese Speed Folding

John Cooper — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:33:38 +0000

It’s not an origami bird or a paper plane, it’s a laundry-folding method, and it has just now topped my must learn list (even ahead of learning to speak Spanish and read music!).

Tellin it like it is

John Cooper — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:13:40 +0000

Maurice Sendak folks..and Stephen Colbert. A smile on the face.

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SOOTW 1

John Cooper — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:58:28 +0000

Song obsession of the week:

“Tin Man” by Future Islands
“Baby Says” by The Kills
“Ballad of Spider John” by Willis Alan Ramsey

Future Past

John Cooper — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:37:20 +0000

Cool video/short film. Riffin on the advent of science and the spectacle of space I suppose…technology…I am guessing. Set to a click-clack drum beat steady and melodic organ laid on like thick electric jelly.

El Diablo – Applescal from Amos Mulder on Vimeo.

Cold. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

John Cooper — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:23:47 +0000

Mark told us about this film last night after our soccer game. Looks like a great, intense movie.

And it’s a climbing movie as a heads up…Filmed by Corey Richards, one of a three-person team comprised of Richards, Simone Moro, and Denis Urubko on their ascent of Gasherbrum II (summited February 2, 2011). Directed and well-edited by Anson Fogel. Rock and Ice says, “a winter ascent of an 8000-meter peak has never been completed in the Karakorum.”

COLD – TRAILER from Anson Fogel on Vimeo.

7-Minute Type

John Cooper — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:43:06 +0000

Wonderful, ‘micro-documentary’ about typography from PBS.

Road Trip 2011

John Cooper — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:16:12 +0000

Road Trip 2011, a set on Flickr.

The photos are up! At least some of them. Stories will either have to wait or be told. Time for bed.

Oliver Jeffers

John Cooper — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:31:17 +0000

We were given or bought a copy of Oliver Jeffers wonderful children’s book, Lost and Found. Both the illustration and the story are wonderful and like many really good children’s books, the illustrations say and express so much that the words become full like balloons and it is easy to read these volumes over and over again, which is par and requisite for reading to children (and perhaps an interesting possibility for jaded, busy adults to look more deeply, to see anew, to look deeper…).

Today, I stumbled across a video interview with the Ireland-born Brooklyn artist himself and am now quite motivated to find more of his work.