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Alex, of the most inspired blog I’ve been reading lately, is on a Geo-inspired drinking spree that’s lasted long enough to be a vision quest. According to #twitter. Here’s something Alex posted, that I like. I don’t think it’s necessary to swear, but I do think I’m trying to be funny. Or, sometimes, I’m trying to be honest. I’m kinda easy to find online, and what’s here and there is OK with me. So, if you are down with that, let’s make things metal.

Also: Happy Monday everyone. Here is a segment of Lost & Found 2007 which I made to introduce the most inspired coffee propaganda ever filmed. And I don’t mean the dethklok part.

Coffee transition L&F07 from velocorapture on Vimeo.

Mashup Lost & Found 2007 from velocorapture on Vimeo.

The whim to make movies for my own enjoyment has lapsed a bit since the thirst was slaked by an avalanche of WORS videos. I’m hoping to free myself a bit and start up a WORS remixed video series for any and all who share the editing bug. And maybe to get around to editing some of my own fair-weather footage, for nostalgia’s sake. In the meantime, I spliced and uploaded the mashup from 2007’s Lost and Found DVD. The theme that year was ROBOTS. Or, maybe, that my job was sucking my soul out of my eyeballs. You can be the judge.

I had a poster of MLK at the Washington Monument up in my lab, with the note to self: “My heroes had the heart.” The theme for L&F 2008 and 2009 (as yet incomplete) is NATURE. I’ve been out in it, and am about to get back to it in the black freezing fog this MLK day. And you know how I mean that. Peace.

Big ups to my cousin for sharing these selections.

Know what I’ll be watching next time I’m on the trainer - the National Film Board of Canada just posted Murray Siple’s feature-length documentary Carts of Darkness. The film follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver.

I’ve been a fan of this guy since his sweet wheelchair accessible home was featured in Dwell. Some people can see the doors of chance standing open. Can’t wait to see where he’s going.

…or my hard drive, actually. I swear on a pile of dead laptops that I meant to get around to the annual Lost&Found DVD. This year, it might arrive nearer Valentine’s Day. Maybe President’s day? We’ll see. In the meantime, here’s my very favorite from last year’s DVD, which I spliced together from a Sponsor Reel and an 80’s-vintage music video.

Intro Lost&Found2007 from velocorapture on Vimeo.