DSD

Finally, a good expla­na­tion for some pic­tures of St. Sebas­t­ian that hith­erto had always mys­ti­fied me.

(Part of an adver­tis­ing cam­paign for Comics Museum Lucca.)

An amaz­ing lit­tle stop-motion film set to Copland’s Hoe­down from Rodeo by Eleanor Stew­art at the Glas­gow School of Art.

So amaz­ing. Inter­na­tional version:

And for this ver­sion, in addi­tion to a cat, you need an exer­cise ball:

An arti­cle in today’s Boston Globe described an intense stand­off between Pres­i­dent Obama and a house­fly that thought it could be a whitehousefly…

Dur­ing a White House tele­vi­sion inter­view with CNBC’s John Har­wood, the pres­i­dent tried shoo­ing the fly away, say­ing, “Hey! Get out of here.”

Har­wood offered, “That’s the most per­sis­tent fly I’ve ever seen.”

Obama paused for a moment, seem­ing to study the fly’s flight path, and then he sud­denly slapped his right hand down on his left. The fly had bugged its last com­man­der in chief.

“Nice!” Har­wood said to the sounds of a few claps in the back­ground.

The look of con­cen­tra­tion is price­less. Also, I think that fly took up about $1,000 of pres­i­den­tial time.

Not sure what’s going on here, but it’s amusing.

Found this gem in Bal­akov’s lego Star Wars flickr set:

There’s some more good stuff up there — for instance the Prints pho­to­set, which con­tains this iconic image:

Wow. Just wow. See if you can guess what’s wrong with this recent post at Pho­to­shop Dis­as­ters…

The won­der­ful and mes­mer­iz­ing Offi­cial White House Pho­to­stream included a par­tic­u­larly fan­tas­tic photo recently:

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff mem­ber can pat his head dur­ing a fam­ily visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The young­ster wanted to see if the President’s hair­cut felt like his own. (Offi­cial White House Photo by Pete Souza)

What could be better?