Video Sunday: From Ping-Pong to Amiable Police Detectives

Step aside, Lord and Taylor.  Take a back seat, Macy’s.  The real windows to be watching this holiday season are in Melbourne, Australia.  It’s Olivia as read by Dame Edna with windows to match.  Would I kid you in this manner?

Producing something as original as The Invention of Hugo Cabret was a feat in and of itself.  So making an audiobook of that book would take some additional originality.  Scholastic Audio solved the conundrum and then had Mr. Selznick explain what they did.  Pretty cool.

Now I was shocked SHOCKED to learn that author/illustrator Scott Fischer created a wide array of fun videos regarding cereal.  Shocked, I say, because no one told me about them.  I can’t embed them either, but if you’re interested, they’re pretty cute.  Here is Video #1, Video#2, Video#3, Video#4, Video#5, Video#6, Video#7, Video#8.

Oh, Jon.

In other news, Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon was an Al Roker book club pick. 

So a friend of mine says to me, "Hey. Did you see the Parks & Recreation episode that made fun of the library?  And I say, "Uh, no."  I’m not asking you to watch the whole thing here, but the parts at the beginning about the library are, indeed, quite amusing.

It’s weird when a fellow in your workplace goes to work for Washington.  But that’s what happened with David Ferreiro (described in this article as looking, "as much like an amiable police detective as an academic") who is now our National Archivist.  And after reading this article, I want that job too.  If only it encourages Michael E. Ruane to write about me. 

For your off-topic madness of the day, I fell in love with this little piece.  The term "dreamlike" is bandied about to describe pretty much anything that tries for the slow surreal.  I’m going to go out on a limb here and saying that this video, on the other hand, is the real deal.  The fact that it also happens to be a sheer delight is just icing on the cake, really.  Drawn, who I lifted this from, described it as, "Lois van Baarle’s graduation animation for the Utrecht School of the Arts, Trichrome Blue, is a hypnotic underwater Through the Looking Glass odyssey presented as a strange, futuristic commercial."