Happy Halloween

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By Cameron Suey, Britt Crawford, and Orion Kellogg
Directors Commentary

My Work Sends Me Places. Like Germany.

"Is this your first time in East Germany?"

It took me a while to figure out what the aging cab driver meant, and a few minutes more to realize that it had been a bifurcated state for the majority of his life.

What an odd and wonderful place.

I was in a trade show, in the massive convention center in Leipzig, pitching my wares to various European magazines and websites.


Leipzig itself is gorgeous, a thoroughly modern city, where 500 year old buildings sit next to modern glass edifices.


Berlin is like a textbook of history, covered in monuments and scars.

I'm wanting to leave work early, so I'll let these pictures speak for themselves:

My Photos of Germany
Dave Cerra's Photostream
My Photos of Greenland and Baffin Bay

Surreal Day

So…

I’m outside my office hanging out, talking about my recent trip Germany. I mention to my friends (who for comedic future reference, are composed of an Indian, and a Native American) that I find it weird that everywhere in Europe, they refer to Native Americans as “Red Indians.”

Cam: “…And they say this in all seriousness, without a hint of irony.”
Shawn: “Yeah.”

At this moment, a woman walking her stroller by me, turns and begins to yell. I miss the first few words, because, people generally don’t yell at me, and it’s kind of disjointed.”

Lady: “Red Indians? What do you mean Red Indians? What about Brown Indians? There are Blond Indians!”

I’m missing the meat of what she said, because it made no sense. It dawns on me that she walked by, heard only a white guy saying “Red Indians”.

I walk up to her, trying to talk over her shouting:

Cam: “Ma’am, please let me explain- Okay, you’re taking this out of context- That’s not what- I was talking about European Nomenclature, here!”

She turns and walks off, refusing to listen, and still yelling at me.

I walked back to my group and we all sort of stare at each other. A few moments of quiet later:

Shawn: “…I’m a Red Indian”
Gary: “… and I’m a Brown Indian”

It was bizarrely funny, because clearly, this lady just wanted to be angry, and I gave her the perfect, if completely context-less excuse.

But now I’m bummed that our lives intersected for just a few seconds, and she got the exact opposite impression of who I am and what I believe. We’ll both go to our graves with that awful little misunderstanding floating there, unresolved.

Oh Dear Lord.

The Horror...

I Love My City

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

No commentary, just some information.

A friend of a friend lived close enough to give these updates, and share these amazing pictures:

Words
Pictures

The Internet is Dying.

Or at least I thought it was earlier. Turns out there was a major power outage in Soma, and it took out a big chunk of the net that was based there.


The Scoop
The News
The Drunk Employee Rumor
...which leads to Angry Mobs

Sunshine

It ain't perfect, it straddles too many lines (is it a character drama, or a disaster B movie?), it's ultimately derivative, and it's cursed with some silly dialog and plot points, but god damn if it ain't beautiful...

Blogs are for sharing unwanted opinions

Animals is the second best Pink Floyd album ever, and I will fight anyone who says different.

Space Madness

I like that space can still be terrifying in a Flash Gordon sort of a way:

Mysterious Cavern on Mars
It's a bit of a mystery how it's there, why it's so deep, and what caused it.

Hexagonal Storm on Saturn
A coworker tells me this is the reason for Colony Collapse Disorder in bees... see, all the bees are being recalled to Saturn...

Daily links to things what amuse or fascinate me.

The Future is amazing. Photosynth is a program (or an evil robot) that procedurally analyzes all photographs in the public sector tagged... say... Notre Dame. And then maps the data as a three dimensional model where you can find the angle and distance that every picture was taken from

Demonstration Video
Try it yourself (requires plugin)

Behold, my formidable web-presence!

BeenUp2
Facebook
Pownce
MySpace
Flickr
Yelp
Digg
Last.FM
GoodReads
Netflix
sf0
imeem
Warfish
Twitter
43 People
YouTube
Blogger (Ha Ha)

I still don't know why I know why I have a blog...

But this seems as good a reason as any...

My Top Ten movies of 2006:

1) Fountain
2) Children of Men
3) Departed
4) The Proposition
5) The Prestige
6) A Scanner Darkly
7) Tristam Shandy
8) Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
9) Prairie Home Companion
10) Little Miss Sunshine

Honorable Mentions:
Brick
Miami Vice

Top Ten Albums of 2006

1. Gulag Orkestar / Lon Gisland EP by Beirut
2. Avalanche / Songs for Christmas by Sufjan Stevens
3. Crane Wife by The Decemberists
4. Ys by Joanna Newsom
5. Destroyer’s Rubies by Destroyer
6. Letting Go by “Bonnie” Prince Billy
7. Return to Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio
8. Eraser by Thom Yorke
9. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood by Neko Case
10. Ships by Danielson


Honorable Mentions:
The Way the Wind Blows by A Hawk and A Hacksaw
You in Reverse by Built to Spill
Everything All the Time by Band of Horses
At War with the Mystics by Flaming Lips
Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins

...being the first post of a refurbished blog...

...in which I say very little, directly or otherwise, but do direct you this delightful game that I am fond of playing:

SFZero