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How to be Alone

I had something else in mind for this week’s Wordage post, but this video—created by by filmmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter Tanya Davis—was floating around my social media circle this morning and I loved it. Hope you do too.

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Stop-Motion Using Colored Dice

I so admire the clever minds that conceptualize and create stop-motion projects. What vision, focus and endurance they must have.
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Music of the Spheres: Redux

For the love of all things cool and artistic and musical, you must check out the SolarBeat project. The White Vinyl Design group has given a tone to each of the planets in our solar system, worked out their rate of travel, and then kicked them off on digital orbits, leaving the viewer/listener to adjust [...]

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