epjohanson at gmail dot comTumblr (3.0; @cvaldaisnotbig)http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvbvqhe8bk1qznwteo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/303161216http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/303161216Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:32:41 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-vi19z4LEi0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-vi19z4LEi0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.notcot.org/post/27241">#27241 - Todd Lapin created Telstar Logistics, a…</a></p> <p>Timelapse through the Panama Canal.</p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/295253088http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/295253088Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:50:07 -0500““The emancipation of social mores has played a bizarre trick on men and women. Far from giving free rein to the joyous effervescence of the instincts, it has only replaced one dogma with another. Reined in or forbidden in the past, lust has become mandatory.””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/87662/The-Love-of-Lust">The Love of Lust</a></em>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/293494633http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/293494633Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:58:09 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-dadPWhEhVk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-dadPWhEhVk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/TtUHKSQo_gY/video-the-300-robot-death-film-that-landed-a-30-million-deal">Video: The $300 Robot Death Film That Landed a $30 Million Deal [YouTube]</a></p> <p>Fede Alvarez spent $300 on this and now has a $30M contract with Sam Raimi’s studio (the director of Spiderman). Nuts.</p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/293457931http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/293457931Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:25:01 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BadAstronomyBlog/~3/kxgUOTHD7HE/">Mumps outbreak in Brooklyn</a>: <p>[<b>UPDATE</b>: I have been informed <a>of an article online</a> that indicates that many of the parents did not vaccinate their children…</p> <blockquote> <p><i>…because of their religious beliefs. But local religious leaders said there is nothing in Jewish law that prohibits vaccination. “That’s ridiculous,” said Rabbi David Eidensohn, a frequent Orthodox Jewish commentator on family issues. “Any parent who doesn’t get their child vaccinated is being foolish and endangering the entire community.”<br/></i></p> </blockquote> <p>Swell.]</p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/293445869http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/293445869Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:14:39 -0500<a href="http://www.booooooom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/luke_gregory_01.jpg">Luke Gregory</a>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/288971126http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/288971126Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:49:49 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8050122&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8050122&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8050122&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>I wanna be a surfer somedays.</p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287939626http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287939626Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:43:18 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/17jymDn0W6U&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/17jymDn0W6U&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Every known bloppity bloop in the universe. By the AMNH.</p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287935141http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287935141Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:39:08 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="293" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6820896&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6820896&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6820896&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="293"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Eames video for Polaroid.</p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287697489http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287697489Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:28:05 -0500<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kusyrhGk0S1qznwteo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.booooooom.com/2009/12/17/artist-chris-duncan/">Chris Duncan</a></p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287583576http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287583576Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:23:41 -0500<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kusymhVPx01qznwteo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.booooooom.com/2009/12/17/artist-painter-david-cahill/">David Cahill</a></p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287580716http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287580716Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:20:40 -0500<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kusxrb7MRV1qznwteo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BadAstronomyBlog/~3/hkoVrRZFYXc/">Titanic iceberg headed for Australia</a></p> <p>Beginning of the end.</p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287563005http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/287563005Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:01:59 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tE4lqYzS2m0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tE4lqYzS2m0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Trailer for the new origami doc “Between the Folds”</p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/283443591http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/283443591Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:27:21 -0500<a href="http://BURGER EMERGENCY!">http://www.burgerclubny.com/2009/12/burger-emergency.html</a>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/274909351http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/274909351Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:28:23 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku1bsyKyeY1qznwteo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/266455184http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/266455184Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:12:34 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7835527&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7835527&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7835527&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Yeasayer’s new video for <i>Ambling Alp</i></p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263954749http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263954749Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:31:27 -0500<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxs57TkW01qznwteo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Nov 29, 2009</b> . Sisters, OR<br/>Speaking of outdoor mid-afternoon naps being interrupted by grisly Oregonian incidents — Jim, the caretaker, told me about something that happened to him seven years ago. Jim loves to explore big, desolate regions of Oregon by himself, especially in the southeast corner of the state, a barren expanse of mountainous desert where neighboring towns are sometimes separated by six-hour drives. He goes out there to look for arrowheads and petroglyphs, and generally to be alone with nature (and his ubiquitous walkman, which plays books on tape). One day he was driving through a reservation, and stopped for lunch in a dried up lake bed, at an empty camp site. He noticed that strangely, there was a yellow oil cloth spread out over a tree stump, like someone had prepared for a picnic, but then abandoned the idea. There was nobody around as far as he could see, so he sat down next to the tree stump, spread out his lunch on the yellow tablecloth, and opened a bottle of wine. When he finished eating, he lay down for a nap, under the hot midday sun. He had his headphones on, and was listening to NPR. They were having a retrospective of Billie Holiday, and just as he nodded off, they played her song “Strange Fruit”, about African American slaves who were hanged from trees in the south. He slept for a while, and then woke up. There was still nobody around. He packed up his lunch, got back in his truck, and headed home. That night his wife, Patti, was cooking dinner. Jim was sitting on a stool in the kitchen, and the local news was on. He glanced at the TV and noticed they were showing footage of a desert landscape that looked a lot like the spot where he had lunch. The camera panned, and showed a tree stump covered in a yellow tablecloth. Baffled, and suddenly with goose bumps, he stammered something to Patti and swung to the TV to turn up the volume. The news report was saying that a man had committed suicide that afternoon by hanging himself from a tree, about 100 yards from the tree stump with the yellow tablecloth. Apparently it happened around lunchtime, and the cops had found the body in the late afternoon. Jim reckons the man was hanging there as he was sleeping, and he hadn’t even noticed.<br/><br/>—<br/>Jonathan Harris<br/><a><a href="http://number27.org">http://number27.org</a></a></p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263755123http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263755123Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:15:06 -0500<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxryptcHG1qznwteo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.booooooom.com/2009/11/26/artist-painter-brandon-bird/">Brandon Bird</a> </p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263751636http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263751636Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:11:12 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xl1lLze5ZpM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xl1lLze5ZpM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263750257http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263750257Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:09:37 -0500<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxrk9U8J01qznwteo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.booooooom.com/2009/11/27/artist-james-hopkins/">James Hopkins</a></p>http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263744196http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/263744196Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:02:32 -0500