Video Sunday: Neil Gaiman on a Trampoline (there…. that’ll get my stats up)

Happy Valentine’s Day everybody!  I know I did this video once before, but now it’s pertinent!  That and the fact that I couldn’t find anything else.  Did you know that The Marzipan Pig by Russell Hoban (one of the finest l’il ole video adaptations of a picture book you ever did see) isn’t anywhere online for the embedding?  Boggles the mind it does.

Video #2: Also not too shabby.

Moral of the story: In Texas, everything is bigger.  Even the author visits.

Thanks to Sergio for the link!

Of course, I do wonder what the problems are with the spaces.  Librarians are forever at the mercy of architects and designers who come up with cool ideas and ignore practical concerns.  Someday I hope to write an article for SLJ or someone about new libraries and children’s rooms and why it is that the folks who hire these designers never seem to care about how the buildings will work in the long term (or why they sometimes eschew the advice of the folks who work there).  One of my pet peeves, you see.  Thanks to AL Direct for the link.

Okay.  This is on-topic but the set-up is pretty intense.  There are multiple steps involved and I actually had to have my mother explain it to me.  I didn’t get it the first time, just leapt straight to the video.  So!  Don’t do that.  First there was a Discovery Channel ad that folks really liked quite a lot (and, truth be told, it’s very catchy).  You can see that here.  Then my second favorite web comic xkcd did a strip based on the song.  Still with me?  Good.  Because next someone turned that strip into an animated web video.  And finally this video was created by Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle.  It’s full of web phenomenon folks.  You may recognize Hank Green, Neil Gaiman (on a trampoline at one point, I believe), and Cory Doctorow amongst many others. 

Geez.  Big time thanks to Making Light for stringing all the connections together and to mom for explaining it to me.

And finally, here’s the off-topic video.  Full disclosure, my buddy Dan does this little web series called 9 A.M. Meeting.  Good stuff.  I find them witty little vids.  A good string of strange mental meanderings.  Bonus: This one contains an oblique reference to Twilight.  So maybe it’s not as off-topic as all that.

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