What I have been staring at this week

Here is a video of Virgin Galactic spaceship two. This is the first commercial spaceship ever made. While it will only be for suborbital flights it is still a significant step in mankind's journey to the stars.

Here are some interesting art images. It is amazing what can be done with paint water and a camera.

When I am stuck in a car or working on a project that does not take a lot of thought i like to try to imagine how other directors would treat major movies. This all started with the new star wars trilogy and trying to picture attack of the clones would be like if directed by Ang Lee. That said i am intrigued by this video of david lynch explaining why he turned down directing Retuern of the Jedi.

We talk a lot about accomplishing our goals here, so I thought I would share this story of some one chasing a dream with you. Christoph Rehage set out to walk from China to Germany and blog about his travels as often as possible. he did not make it as far as he wanted to but learned a lot about himself along the way. Here is a video he put together documenting some of the physical changes he went through.

And one more link that I just cam across courtesy of D20 Source and will only be interesting to my fellow gamers out there. Here is a list of all the edtions of Dungeons and Dragons with a bit of history on each.

Any way have a great weekend and I will be back Monday to share more thoughts about how to get your life to were you want it to be and rising up from the ashes of our defeats. If you have something you think i should be staring at leave me a link in the comments below.

What I have been staring at this week 2

We start off this link fest with a bit of art and the artiest talking about her proses at Art from the Hart.

Why not start now has interesting thoughts about home and what it means to us.

Gizmodo had this incredible stop motion animation from the New Zealand Book Council. While it is a beautiful and stunning piece of work it is also a bit hypocritical. How many books had to die to make this?

If you have trouble with homonyms like I sometimes do take a look at Alan Cooper's Homonym List to help clear up confusion. Quick, easy, and useful even if some of the definitions are a bit self indulgent. Not that I am one to talk after the Goal Post on monday.....

Enjoy the links and have a great weekend. Rember to come up with your list of goals for monday and have a great day.

What I have been staring at this week

So welcome to the inaugural addition of "what I have been staring at this week". If you can think of anything that I should be staring at next week let meknow in the comments section. have a great weekend.

The Chatty Dm had a talk about the changes he made in his life and how they have paid off.

At the Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin talks about some great tips to avoid nagging. While not all of them will work in every situation most of the are great advise.

I spent some quality time this week with Mozilla labs Jetpack gallery and found some good tools for reworking how I interact with my computer.

Now for something I look forward to every week Edmund Finney's quest for the meaning of life. One of my favorite web comics out there at the moment.