Tumblr (3.0; @gilliss)http://blog.trentgilliss.com/This flight to Chicago is an absolute nightmare — an elderly tour and spring break tans....http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/441387684http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/441387684Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:15:08 -0600I avoid reading her, but I might have to try this one so I can cringe. RT @RDispatches Islam, Meet...http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/441387690http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/441387690Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:15:08 -06003G is saving me from a complete Comcast broadband meltdown.http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/440822491http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/440822491Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:04:44 -0600Always nervous + anxious + sleepless before an @softweets production trip, but this one’s big....http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/440822492http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/440822492Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:04:44 -0600hover from my feet / peer into the depths / that cream-and-berries face / first asleep / rests /...http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/440822497http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/440822497Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:04:44 -0600Laundry, laundry, + more laundry.http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/436900363http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/436900363Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:36:07 -0600Pretty dang funny when I hear the L-man (age 4) tell his mom that her “armpit has a...http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/436308388http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/436308388Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:06:07 -0600This is no longer a family show.http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/433906863http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/433906863Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:13:31 -0600Dear NYT Carpetbagger blog. If you can’t add insight to the Music by Prudence oddity, or even...http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/433906870http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/433906870Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:13:31 -0600““When you put six guys in the finals – that is what you are after, getting six automatic...http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/432521496http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/432521496Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:45:14 -0600wrestlingcoachingsportiowabig ten<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyv417X0tk1qaityko1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>I’d love to hear audio of this collision!</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/animation-of-giant-iceberg-collision-as-seen-from-space/"><b>Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space</b></a></p> <p>The collision in early February of the 60-mile-long B-9B iceberg with the protruding tongue of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertz_Glacier"><i>Mertz Glacier</i></a> in East Antarctica is captured here in a series of satellite radar images.</p> <p><i>Images: ESA</i></p> <p><i>Source: <a href="http://www.wired.com/"><b>wired.com</b></a><br/></i></p> </blockquote> <p>(via <a href="http://scienceisbeauty.tumblr.com/post/430207708/animation-of-giant-iceberg-collision-as-seen-from">scienceisbeauty</a>)</p>http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/430227852http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/430227852Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:45:03 -0600<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8918647&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8918647&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8918647&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>A recent post on <a href="http://blog.speakingoffaith.org/post/430064242/white-mountain-milky-way-trent-gilliss-online">SOF Observed</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b>White Mountain Milky Way</b> <br/>Trent Gilliss, <i>online editor</i></p> <p><img width="67" height="100" align="right" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4289747571_8386ebf943_t.jpg"/>This one-minute <a href="http://vimeo.com/8918647">time lapse film</a> taken in Mauna Kea, Hawai’i made me ache for the magic dome of my home state of North Dakota — the thickness of the galaxy in plain site. The canvas overhead will surely spark your sense of wonder for the weekend. Enjoy heartily.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/430090256http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/430090256Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:34:24 -0600<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="283" id="soundslider"><param name="movie" value="http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/features/ss_ramayana/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml&embed_width=500&embed_height=354" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed src="http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/features/ss_ramayana/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml&embed_width=500&embed_height=354" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="400" height="283" menu="false" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Dig. My colleague over turned me on to this illustrated book at <a href="http://blog.speakingoffaith.org/post/428796985/the-ramayana-illustrated-shubha-bala-associate">SOF Observed</a>. She nabbed the publisher copy, but I won’t hold it against her. Mine’s on the way from Amazon, and I’m looking forward to reading it with the Boy-King and Baby Prince.</p> <blockquote> <p><b>The Ramayana, Illustrated</b><br/>Shubha Bala, <i>associate producer</i></p> <p><a href="http://gheehappy.com">Sanjay Patel</a>, supervising animator at Pixar, has come out with his second illustrated book on Hinduism, <a href="http://gheehappy.com/book2.html"><i>Ramayana: Divine Loophole</i></a>. Patel is one of the few people who have presented Hindu mythology in a way for North American kids to understand, and enjoy. But he also presents the <a href="http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Religions/texts/Ramaya.html">Ramayana</a>, one of the Hindu epic mythological stories, in a wonderful way for adults too — complete with illustrated character bios and geography lessons in the back.</p> <p>He says in an <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/02/from-pixar-to-picture-books/36212/"><i>Atlantic Monthly</i> interview</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“I grew up in a house where there was no explanation—there was just practice. It was like eating for me: ‘Okay, I’ve got to eat. I’ve got to sit down and pray and stare at these wild illustrations of Hindu gods.’ My parents completely subscribe to these stories as philosophy, of course, but it’s also very much a religion to them, and they do see these beings as gods. I would ask my father, ‘Dad, do you really think there’s a blue guy out there?’ I couldn’t really narrow him down on that. But he seems to believe it.</p> <p>So the Ramayana was always something my parents would study and worship, but it had no meaning to me until I read the story. Then I was like, ‘Wow, the characters are so cool. The plot is so cool. What they symbolize is so cool. This totally needs to be told!’ I wanted to use all the skills and the knowledge I’d gained at Pixar to put these ancient stories in a package that’s relatable and entertaining. If I have children, I want them to know something about their cultural mythology in a way that’s fresh and dynamic.”</p> </blockquote> <p>He’s also asked about finding existing images of the Ramayana before creating his book:</p> <blockquote> <p>“I realized after doing some research that centuries and centuries ago, The Ramayana wasn’t actually illustrated. It was sung and performed, and the actors would bring it to life with masks and costumes. Then later, there were these amazing sculptures. So I was looking at that for sure. But artists only really depicted certain episodes in the Ramayana. I wanted to show all those other scenes, like the part where they meet Jambavan the bear! If I were a kid, I’d want to see cool icons and badass graphics.</p> <p>That’s what’s so great about this story. If you want to get into the dogma you can. But on a raw level, these stories are amazing conduits for really deep philosophy. I think that’s uniquely Indian in many ways. It’s this profound stuff but told through stories that common people can completely engage with—avatars and man-gods.”</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/429968515http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/429968515Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:24:52 -0600hinduismmythologysacred textreligionillustrationpixarRE: It’s about as clever as my limited brain functions will allow. http://disq.us/djuqqhttp://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/427952823http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/427952823Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:24:43 -0600Learned last night at @NYPL event that Krista’s new book reached @NYTimes bestseller list in...http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/426409396http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/426409396Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:08:48 -0600These two Delta flight attendants are rather brassy and crass. Ugh. Names change but things stay the...http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/426409378http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/426409378Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:08:48 -0600That’s what I am. See ya NYC. http://post.ly/QjIkhttp://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/426409403http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/426409403Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:08:00 -0600 via tweetie Posted via web from trentgilliss’s posterous | Comment »http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/426165727http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/426165727Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:49:00 -0600Preparing for tonight’s event @NYPL. Oh Nelly! #fb http://post.ly/Qd7fhttp://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/425033096http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/425033096Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:05:20 -0600 via tweetie Posted via web from trentgilliss’s posterous | Comment » http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/424930834http://blog.trentgilliss.com/post/424930834Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:08:25 -0600