For my birthday this year I got several presents. I was given an amazing pair of socks with blue and green stripes and individual toes- perfect for my individual toes shoes!
I also got a splendid new video of some short works by Buster Keaton. He is my very favo silent film actor. I love the athleticism and daring of the good old no-effects days. It impresses me how much they were able to achieve without the magic of computers. One film in particular, called The Playhouse, employs multiple separate exposures of different sides of the same strand of film to allow Buster to act alongside himself! In one sequence they managed to expose the film nine times without ghosting anything. So freakin genius.
During my birthday week I got to drive in a mini-rainbow. Whenever I drive my orange car, if I see a nice shiny red car ahead I always hope we can drive together for a long time. I imagine how nice it would be if we were followed by a yellow car, then a green car, then a blue car and hopefully to finish, a purple car. Last week this partly came true. Imagine my delight at driving directly behind a red car and suddenly seeing a yellow car on the road! And it moved into my lane behind me. Oh yes sweet rainbow yes! I had a nice afternoon after that.