More photos of the Garden State are up on Flickr

I used to make a lot of animated gifs. In some ways, they’re better than Flash. They’re easier to experiment with, less time consuming to create, therefore more fun. If Gilliam wasn’t using them for his Monty Python Animation, it sure looks like he was.

Here’s how to build animated gifs with Photoshop

What kind of role would you have played in that suit/skirt world? I’ve never seen the show, but I love Dyna Moe’s style.

Thanks to Karol of Alarming News, more Mad Men Illustrated by Dyna Moe.

For all the WindowsXP users out there who have managed to sidestep Vista. Thanks to WP designer.

33rd and 6th

In his post The First Man In Space… Skydiving Down To Earth, Ace linked to this video and said:

So, in 1960, this cat ascends to 30km above the earth in a balloon and…. jumps. He accelerates to 900 mph (I guess terminal velocity’s a lot higher when the air is thin). He actually broke the sound barrier, without a vehicle.

He was testing to see if high-g acceleration would kill him, by the way. It didn’t, but he didn’t know that when he agreed to try it.

Here’s more about Joe Kittinger, who has “logged more than 11,000 hours of flight time in 62 different types of aircraft including 5,300 hours in jet fighters and 1,000 hours of combat flying, is a Master Parachutist with over 100 parachute jumps, made five high altitude balloon flights, and has extensive experience in low altitude helium and hot air balloons.”

Now there’s a man who needs to have a movie done about his life. I’d guess that Tommy Lee Jones could play the older Joe, but who would play the younger..?