beautiful, funny, sad & true

At rehearsal today, the director told us about this series of videos where a guy took each cartoon strip of Garfield and turned it into a live-action video, and then they have a remixed song or a little video after it too.

Well, I was intrigued, so I came home and found a few. I started watching them and found that they are completely strange and mesmerizing. They’re some of the weirdest things I’ve seen in a long time, but they’re done as a tribute to Jim Davis, out of love. See for yourself:

See what I mean? They’re crazy, but you can tell that the filmmaker isn’t making fun of the strip. This seems to be a bit of an obsession, but then isn’t that where all the best things come from? I’ve said it many times before; the worst crime of all is to be boring.

Check out the web site for all the videos you can handle, and then some.

Here’s a video of the seagull that followed J and me all the way from the north end of Cannon Beach clear down to Haystack Rock. The white one wasn’t far behind him, either. When the brown one finally gave up on us and flew away, the white one stayed behind to make sure we weren’t holding out a secret food stash for him.

Ah, nature.