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Today’s video break: Close encounters of the banjo kind

Mary — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:07:58 +0000

I can hear Truffaut laughing in his grave….

Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind from Marc Bullard on Vimeo. Thanks to Neatorama for the link!

Today’s Video Break: Where the Wild Things Are

Mary — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:44:09 +0000

In time-elapse chalk drawing, artist Jamin creates an amazing mural honoring Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are for a Washington advertising agency:

Thanks to Neatorama for the link!

Today’s video break: Dog spends $62 while owners sleep

Mary — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:09:06 +0000

Smartphone with Audible account and credit card info + sweet sticky fingerprints from granddaughter = my dog racking up big bucks in download charges a definite possibility!

Today’s Video Break Google Street View on a Bike

Mary — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:24:26 +0000

Nominate your choice for a visit from the Google Trike! Stonehenge & Warwick Castle have been picked in the UK. Here’s how to add your USA choice (from the Google Blog):

At www.google.com/trike, you can suggest interesting and unique spots in six categories:
* Parks & Trails
* University Campuses
* Pedestrian Malls (e.g., outdoor shopping areas, boardwalks)
* Theme Parks & Zoos
* Landmarks
* Sports Venues (e.g., golf courses, racing tracks, stadium grounds)

Nominations will be open until October 28. We’ll then comb through all of the suggestions and let all of you cast your final votes on a winner from each category for the Street View trike to visit. For any privately-owned or operated location, like a campus or theme park, we’ll work directly with the relevant organization prior to collecting the imagery.

When we unveiled the Street View trike in the U.K., we received more than 10,000 nominations and 35,000 votes; Stonehenge and Warwick Castle were two of the top vote-getters. We can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with in the U.S. — head to www.google.com/trike to submit your most inspired ideas.

Coltrane Animated

Mary — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:53:34 +0000

Check out this video of notes dancing to Giant Steps, the jazz classic. Perfect to supplement a classroom listen-aloud discussion of the awesome audiobook John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, Chris Raschka’s colorful introduction to jazz saxophone master Coltrane.

Thanks to Open Culture for the link!

Today’s Video Break: I’ll Fight You For the Library

Mary — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:34:36 +0000

Awesome, hilarious poetry performance for all school librarians – and those who support student access to libraries! Thanks to slam poet Taylor Mali of Page Meets Stage, for this great Friday morning smile. And if Mali’s voice sounds familiar, he is the terrific narrator of non-fiction audiobooks Close to Shore, Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini, Notable Children’s Recording title Revenge of the Whale (one of my personal all-time favorites), and more.

Thanks to Nina Jackson on LM_Net for the link!

Today’s video break: Just for fun

Mary — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:16:40 +0000

Amazing video: Rube Goldberg to the max – from Britan’s Baynham & Tyres

Today’s video break: Jim Dale reads Return to the Hundred Acre Woods

Mary — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:15:08 +0000

I must admit to trepidation about the authorized new Winnie-the-Pooh book Return to the Hundred Acre Woods by David Debenedicts. But the video of Jim Dale in the recording studio reading the book’s Exposition is calming the rumbly in my tumbly a bit. Click here to find out more about the book from the Penguin Group website.

Today’s Video Break: Stitches by David Small

Mary — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:46:27 +0000

Paul Gagne sent me this note today: ”A number of months ago David Small had asked Gary McGivney, the director who animated David’s artwork for the Weston Woods productions of So You Want to be President? and My Senator and Me, to create a series of short videos to promote his new book, Stitches. They’ve just been posted here. Really an amazing book.” Take a look at the video – the first of five you can view - and I’m sure you’ll agree!

Your appointment’s at 3 (from David Small’s Stitches) from Stitches: A Memoir… on Vimeo.

Today’s Video Break: Aharrr!

Mary — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:40:46 +0000

Hilarious look behind-the-mic of a 10-second voice-over recording session: Ahaarrrr! from Steve Skinner via Proxima UK (where the title is spelled two ways)

Click this link for a marvelous look at the 8 minute film written by & starring Jonathan Kydd and directed by Steven Skinner: http://www.promax-uk.org/result/promaxvideo2col/440.jsp?v=81&n=10023

Thanks to Audiobook DJ for the link!