I am kindly inviting anyone who is interested to participate in a project I thought up yesterday.

Yesterday, instead of working at a real job that pays in real money, I dug out my geetar and happened across an old book of children's poetry I purchased in Honduras. This book, titled The Golden Treasury of Poetry, Selected and with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer is the same book my father used to read to my siblings and me when we were wee people. It has fantastic illustrations by Joan Walsh Anglund. My copy was published in 1961 and has a tattered cover. Anyhow, I began flipping through the book and reading excerts from poems to Wade who paid attention for about two minutes before flying his die cast DC3 around the house.

As the DC3 made it's rout, I became fascinated once again with Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll's classic nonsensical poem. With my guitar at my side it didn't take long before I was trying to force music to the rhythm of the words. I spent about two hours trying different chords etc... Wade, meanwhile, took off his diaper and put on his rubber boots to splash in the blow up pool on the porch. A couple of possibilities for a song using Jabberwocky as the lyrics emerged.

Here is the project that I thought would be kinda cool: The Jabberwocky Song Project. To participate simply put "Jabberwocky" to music and post it over at archive.org. Use the search term Jabberwocky. Over time, if people participate, a collection of Jabberwocky songs will develop. I think it sounds fun. Having said that, I have no idea if I will have time to produce a finished Jabberwocky song. I am very very busy being unemployed.

If you are unfamiliar with Jabberwocky write a nasty letter to your high school lit teacher and read the following classic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

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I've highlighted two very talented digital video producers this week... My good friend Patrick recently turned me on to 599 Productions. They seem to have a penchant for time-lapse photography and have produced some wonderful videos from still photographs. They also have some cool music videos and short films on their site. Be sure to check out the 720p versions if you have the bandwidth and CPU. I've noticed that some of these videos are starting to appear on YouTube and so the word is getting around about 599 Productions. I recently made friends with Taymar Pixley of PixleyFlix Productions. She started the Santa Barbara Indie Producer CoOp on Ning.com and has organized some great meet-ups and events for local media professionals. I think her site is a great example of what kind of information people are looking for when searching for creative professionals like Taymar. Today, we are featuring one of the posts for The Love Project. Check out their Surf Divas project too. Enjoy!