Whale Fall is a beautiful, cut-paper animation illustrating what happens to the body of a whale when it dies. Sound morbid? It's not.

Whale Fall (after life of a whale) from Sharon Shattuck on Vimeo.

5:46 am is a hauntingly lovely imagination of an empty, flooded Paris.

5:46 am from ArtefactoryLab on Vimeo.

Literally

Alimation - Annecy Festival 2011 from Alexandre DUBOSC on Vimeo.

A Cosby sweater! (This is a charming project.)

I have several hundred photos from the past month that I am sorting, editing, and color correcting for the web. In the meantime:

This is what democracy looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

December and January have been busy for me. Fun, exciting, and hectic. Also, as tends to happen in winter: cold, dark, and snowy.

Between traveling, getting a couple of colds, starting projects, and occasionally curling up in my cave to hibernate, I haven't posted much. I'd like to start making up for lost time.

Over Christmas, I took a trip out to the east coast, and got there just in time for the big December blizzard.

Also out in the blizzard was Jamie Stuart, "Idiot with a Tripod," who shot this excellent short video using a Canon 7D. It's a really nice piece of work. Even Roger Ebert loved it. Check it out yourself!

Idiot with a Tripod from The Mutiny Company on Vimeo.

When I watched this amazing video, all I could really think about was the precision required to not smash into each other in the water at some point.

Have some wonderful oddness. I can't stop re-watching this video:

NPR is featuring some neat "ground as backdrop" photos at the moment.

I'd already seen Oren Lavie's "Her Morning Elegance"

as well as "Sorry I'm Late"

But Strawberry Swing was new to me.

And now, into Friday we gooooooooooooooooo!

I've done many of these things. Doing things alone can be wonderful. It isn't necessarily better or worse than doing things with a companion or two, but it is definitely different.