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To watch:

This is a FANTASTIC short film about some of the stranger requests for photographs received by the Hulton Archive/Getty Images.  I thought it was going to be a tidy little documentary with amusing anecdotes (the title of the film is “Photographs of Jesus,” after all), and it’s this amazing stop-motion photo-animated romp that is very clever and has totally brightened my day:

To do:

Also, make sure you get mooned tonight.  Tonight’s full moon will be the brightest of the year, with the full moon at its closest lunar perigree since 1993. Last night was trippy enough – you very nearly could have read comfortably by the moonlight.  I have two 8′ long raised beds covered with white frost cloth, and they looked like giant fluorescent tubes laid out in the yard.  I might try to take pictures tonight.

To read:

You’re probably already reading Cake Wrecks, but have you seen the real-estate-photography equivalent, It’s Lovely I’ll Take It?  For as long as we slogged through our house-hunt, we never saw anything this wacky.

Where do your donated clothes go?  Many of them go to Africa to have a really complicated relationship with the economy, politics, agricultural competition, and cultural identity.  I finished this article unsure of what exactly I should do the next time I clean out my closet.

Sappy happy ending story about a dog, a parking lot, a rescue, and a reunited family.