{"id":196,"date":"2009-01-23T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-01-23T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:30:02","slug":"friday-night-videos-take-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/friday-night-videos-take-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Videos: Take A Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of my ongoing experiment in coming up with a coherent content strategy, I offer up a week’s worth of fun and\/or interesting videos that I’ve come across.<\/p>\n

It’s been a real rollercoaster of a week:<\/p>\n

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  1. Started out with the fear that Bush would figure out some last, triumphal way of screwing up on his last day in office<\/li>\n
  2. Felt pride, relief, hope and a growing sense of “what the hell just happened to us all?” during the Inauguration<\/li>\n
  3. Felt sick in the aftermath as it turned out the economic meltdown wasn’t going to give us a break, no matter what<\/li>\n
  4. Even sicker when Xeni Jardin championed a documentary about how the U.S. tortured innocent people through depraved intermediaries<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Anyway. Here’s a couple of things to lighten things up –<\/p>\n

    OK, this is childish, and an advertisement to boot, but the only other thing I saw like this was Jim Carrey’s dancing eyebrows in “Me, Myself & Irene”:
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    This gem from the Vancouver Film School that shows off 1) the 3D animation-fu of the creator, and 2) a deep-seated psychological fear of uncontrolled facial hair<\/p>\n