More strange cuteness . . . or cute strangeness.
Muffin Films is a collection of short animated films made by Amy Winfrey for her MFA thesis project at the UCLA Animation Workshop. All films are about muffins, talking muffins, muffins that are good to eat. . . .
That about sums it up. Talking muffins that are good to eat. Enjoy!
Brrrrrrring!
(Do today’s children even know what that black object in the foreground is?)
A Quotation
“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
—Gilbert K. Chesterton
What a neat way to learn about music!
The San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas have created this site that tells you more than you probably ever wanted to know about Beethoven’s third symphony, the Sinfonia Eroica, but presents it in an incredibly interesting and entertaining manner. I would love to see more sites like this one!
This reminds me a little bit of the show Dogfights on the History Channel, which combines first-hand accounts of famous air battles with new computer animation, bringing history to life in a unique and exciting way.
I really appreciate the use of new technology to illuminate “old” information and preserve its value and accessibility to us today.
Dorothy Sayers’ Birthday
Somehow or other, and with the best of intentions, we have shown the world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore—and this in the name of one who assuredly never bored a soul in those thirty-three years during which he passed through the world like a flame.
—Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957)
So far, I’ve only read a couple of books by Sayers (Are Women Human?
UnderCover Artists’ Sketchbooks
“This web site was mounted to accompany the exhibition Under Cover: Artists’ Sketchbooks (August 1 – October 22, 2006), and focuses on ten sketchbooks. Every page is reproduced—front and back (recto and verso)—and can be seen all together or sequentially.”
The site includes sketchbooks belonging to Edward Burne-Jones and Frederic Leighton among others.
Anne Frank’s Birthday
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
—Anne Frank (1929 – 1945) from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
My Birthday
Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, – a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
—George Herbert
From my reading . . .
In a secular society, art itself can be the subject of a religious type of devotion. It’s common to hear artists talk of their work as being their religion
—their personal salvation and also their hope for the world. ‘Given the ever-present absence of God,’ concluded the atheist art critic Peter Fuller, ‘art, and the gamut of aesthetic experience, provides the sole remaining glimmer of transcendence.’
From Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts
