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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 4/11/2023: Gallimaufry [1]

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Date: 2023-04-11  

In case you missed it: Colbert’s team makes good use of the theme from the 1981 Dudley Moore film Arthur, for a little song about the Former Guy. [1:16]

I suspect six minutes of this is too much for many folks, although it is kind of mesmerizing, but it’s worth a peek. This guy takes a selfie every day for ten years, in the same pose except that he makes occasional small movements (head turn, sip of coffee, etc.) at the rate of one frame a day, so he ends up with kind of a flip-book animation. You have to admire his commitment to the bit. Occasionally, he travels, providing brief exotic backgrounds. In about 2018, he acquires what I believe is a cockatiel, who does not have the same commitment to moving only one frame a day. [5:56]

Since we’re vaguely on the subject of parrots, here’s a discussion of how parrots are physically able to form human words, and why they do it. [5:03]

A very short musical interlude: duet for French horn and chair. [0:15]

At the Metro Richmond (VA) Zoo, Zoe the orangutan didn’t know how to nurse her baby, because she had been orphaned herself. The staff came up with an unusual plan to help her learn. [3:11]

British artist Zak Miskry recycles parts from discarded electronics and bits of scrap metal to make charming animal sculptures. I recommend the “portfolio” page on his website, where each thumbnail is a link to lots of photos of that creature. [3:08]

You don’t have to look far on YouTube to see somebody complaining about the amount and density of exposition found in films of director Christopher Nolan. On this subject, British comic Michael Spicer does not fall into that trap — he knows how to show, not tell. I don’t even know Nolan’s work, but this still cracks me up every time I watch it, because Nolan’s far from the only one to make films like this. Title: “That Scene in a Christopher Nolan Film When You Give Up Trying to Follow the Story”. [3:15]

I wrote a KTK last year about AI art, and if this excellent Vox explainer had existed then, I’d surely have included it. The question is, why does AI art have so much trouble with hands? [9:57]

I had no idea White House Plumbers was about to be an “HBO Limited Series”, but according to this trailer, it’s coming to HBO Max on May 1, with Woody Harrelson as E. Howard Hunt, and other cast as listed. Could be worth seeing. [2:38]

I think this is pretty cool. I knew on some level that a chrysalis for a butterfly isn’t the caterpillar wrapped IN something (like a cocoon) — it IS the “caterpillar”. But I could never really get a grip on what was going on in there, and now I can! [3:29]

Finally, two great musical geniuses, Duke Ellington and Stéphane Grappelli, get together on French TV in 1973 to play an over-far-too-soon medley of Solitude, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, and It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing). [4:11]

How are you all this evening?

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