This one, "The Saga of Biorn," is sort of in the middle; a bit silly, perhaps (and maybe mildly irreverent), and nowhere near as "Backwater-level" creepy or memorable. But I think I found myself drawn to it because it plays (in a gentle way) with the ridiculousness that so often occurs when we attempt to imagine the afterlife.

Bertrand Kulik is a 34-year-old concert violinist who graduated from the Royal College of Music in London. He lives in Paris (in the 15th District), and he's a photographer who does AMAZING things with raindrops. But it's his work with spiders -- or with one particular spider -- that really caught my attention.

A "ludicrous new instrument" that "uses 2,000 marbles" to "make music" has been washing over Facebook (and through my FeedReader) all week. Quite the online phenomenon, really. Now as we all know, Internet notoriety is not necessarily predicated on quality. But in this case, Wintergatan's Marble Machine is absolutely deserving of that honor.

Captures my oddly-frantic ennui of the moment perfectly. Of course, "perfectly capturing" bizarre-yet-real moments is what The Brothers Chaps do best. That's what helped to make Homestarrunner.com such "must-see InterWeb TV" in the Susanka household for years. And why I've got my eye on "Two More Eggs.")

I really love the sound the body of the guitar makes when it's struck like this. Always so much louder -- and yet, simultaneously, more mellow -- than I'm expecting.

Here's an exchange that took place in our house yesterday that suggests that my kids tend to think of more abstract concepts in ruthlessly literal terms (at least in the early years). Also, I'm not sure this way of thinking about the mind is entirely incorrect.

“The Present” is a graduation short from the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. “The Present” is based on a great little comic strip by the very talented Fabio Coala.

There's actually a significantly longer Collider interview with the master himself, and it's great and you should definitely watch it. But this one seems a bit more unique to me, because it's not highlighting his craft so much as it is the incredibly high place he holds amongst his artistic peers.

 Meet Usman Riaz, a 23-year-old Pakistani artist who is a classically-trained pianist, who taught himself to play the guitar by watching Internet videos, and who is a TED speaker and senior fellow. Yes, that's right. I said he was 23.

Sorry.