More YouTube

It’s called “Air Tap” and it sounds pretty cool.

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YouTube Sodom: Top 10 Questionable Groups

What a great website. Personally I think “Girls Getting Pantsed” should be at the top of the list.

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Fireworks factory explodes

Seeing a fireworks factory catch on fire is only exciting in the very end.

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Flying motorcycle video

This is actually a really good idea! I wish I had an extra $25,000.00.

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Improv Everywhere

New York City must be a fun place to live:

The third installment of our Mp3 Experiment series was the biggest and wildest yet with over 600 participants. If you’re unfamiliar with how The Mp3 Experiment works, check out The Mp3 Experiment and The Mp3 Experiment 2.0. Like the previous installments, the basic premise involved participants downloading an Mp3 from our site, transferring it to their portable player and then showing up at the event ready to press play simultaneously with others.

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Alexander Calder’s Circus

When I saw Alexander Calder’s mobiles at the Smithsonian in Washington DC years ago, he quickly became one of my very favorite artists. Toward the end of his career AC made small sculptures out of wire and other random objects. Here is a great collection of movies made in the sixties of his twisted circus figures (4 parts):

Carlos Vilardebo’s 1961 film of Alexander Calder’s “circus,” an intricately assembled performance piece played out by handmade characters including jugglers, sword swallowers, clowns, and animals. These figures, crafted from a collection of “cork, wire, wood, yarn, paper, string, and cloth,” were each assigned a series of movements and manipulated by the artist to perform specific circus acts. With performances held at various locations in Paris and New York through the mid 1930s, Calder’s circus helped to establish him in avante-garde circles. Jean Cocteau, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier, Thomas Wolfe, and André Kertész were among those who saw the celebrated Cirque Calder over the years.