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Need inspiration?  Check out these 3 creative endeavors:

Sea Organs Zabar: This is a set of stairs that descend into the coastline at Zabar, Croatia.  They have an internal tube system that permits the water’s organic flux to send sound thru the tubes and report out of harmonically crafted pipe holes along the walkway.  Check out the schematic below and visit this link to hear the sound it produces.  As well, you can purchase a 70 minute disc of the sound at the Sea Organs Zabar site (which is also a pretty unique website design.)

2. Blackpool High Tide Organ: 45 foot tall, concrete/zinc/copper/steel, and its internal structure contains eighteen organ pipes powered by 8 tubes that run directly into the sea.  Gorgeous structure.  Check out the Wikipedia article for more details.

3.San Francisco’s Wave Organ: A clandestine location along the eastern edge of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this work of environmental art is best heard at high tide around 5am on Saturdays.

[This article was inspired by a post I found at Oddstrument.com.]

Dale sent me a few of this guys drawings a while back.  Luckily I still had one on my desktop.  I don’t have a link to a site for him because it was a bitch to Google this guy and come up with the Peter Taylor I was looking for - so find him yourself.

Oh yeah, sorry to have vanished.  Things have been rather odd in James land the past few weeks.  Usually life is either good, bad, or neutral - but never a mixed bag.  Lately, I’ve had the party mix and, although I’m quite happy, I’m looking over my shoulder often.  Here’s a short list of what’s happened lately - hit a guy on his bike with my car, ended my contract after 2 1/2 years at the job, getting more freelance work, finished the first cartoon with my production company and sent it off to Adult Swim, met a great lady (of course she’s moving away soon), clean bill of health at the dentist, great parties with great friends, my back healed so my ankle nearly broke…

So, yeah, I’m sorry and still love you all and love blogging.  I’ll be more regular.

How much did Ming kick universal Ass?  Check out this Movie Villians blog to find out how he ranks compared to other famous big screen bad asses and sociopaths.  And riddle me this: WHAT MOVIE WAS MAX VON SYDOW NOT IN?!?!  I am seriously going to check my homemovies to see if he shows up anywhere.  Trivia about Max - Adolf is his middle name.

The F.B.I has decided to let one of their agents investigate the case of D.B. Cooper again. For those of you who’ve had your head squarely planted in someone other idiot’s asshole for the past 3 decades, Cooper hijacked a plane, released the passengers for 200 G’s, then kept the crew as hostage to fly him to Mexico City but bailed with a parachute between Seattle and Reno.

First off, aren’t we fighting a war on Terrorism? Even ONE more man investigating terrorists - RATHER than some some non-descript dude desparate AND stupid enough to only ask for 200 Grand and then jump from a plane only to LOSE a portion of the cash in the wilderness - will make me feel a little safer about not having people massacred because they worship Capitalism and happen to be broadly defined as a “Westerner”.

Second - come on…really, just come on already. This is just fucking stupid. A 36-year-old case, beyond-the-statute-of-limitations is suddenly “hot” again? Guess what, so are my testes in May. Let’s all move on, watch Grey’s Stupidity, drink bad German beer that all the plastic people on 20 second clips sip, or whatever lame, Caucasian dogshit that American’s are currently zeitgeisting into the next painfully embarassing fad.

Christmas Tree.

Ike Turner.

Hayden Panettiere.

Teddy Bear.

Alfred Nobel.

No. I don’t need LSD and I haven’t come out of a closet. But, please, friends…bear with me for a week or so. I’m going to be posting photos in pursuit of an web-based experimentation. “You will hear little of Max Bialoystok in the days to come…”

Here is the first photo… Vladimir Putin.