James Winters got with his wife, two kids, and his nephew last weekend to produce this tribute to MCA. What better (and cuter) way to pay tribute than to dress up kids as adults and have them reenact Sabotage, one of the greatest music videos of all time? That’s exactly what they did. Check it out after the jump.

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We are constantly being asked “what is Public School?” We’re not a traditional agency, but we’re not a loose co-operative. Trying to explain what that means though has been difficult. Thankfully, the talented folks at Leo Burnett were able to make some sense of my rambling explanation and have created this great little video out of an interview we did during South By Southwest. Check it out after the jump.

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Our good friends, the Butler Bros rebranded the Austin Children’s Museum recently and along with it created a video in support of the launch. It’s a playful look at the power positive creative and scientific influences on children can have in the future, specifically 2042. Check it out after the jump.

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This video by Ryan Perera isn’t really telling me anything new about procrastination, but it is doing one thing. Helping me procrastinate and doing so with a little eye candy. Check it out after the jump.

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After admiring Brent’s work for a long time, I finally got to randomly meet him in Marfa last September. He’s a great guy with fantastic work. This portrait of Ted Turner is one of my favorites, and is featured on his new site. He has a ton of new work, and some older stuff I had never seen before. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

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Here’s your little does of “humanity isn’t completely doomed” for the day. A 9 year old boy builds an entire arcade out of cardboard in his Dad’s used auto-parts store. He gets one customer, filmmaker Nirvan, who then crowd sources a ton of people to come play this little boy’s arcade. The end result is the little boy saying it was the greatest day of his life.

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I could stare at this beautiful wind map all day. Built by Hint.Fm, it uses hourly forecasts from the National Forecast Database to give you an idea of how air is traveling across the United States at any given moment. It’s incredible.

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In February I photographed a few more cowboys for my All-Around Cowboys series. One of them is named Mike Querner and lives in Temple, Texas. After I photographed him, I asked if I could film him doing a poem so I could show people back home and online what Cowboy Poetry is all about. I figured this one would be a good place to start. Check out his quirky and funny poem after the jump.

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I studied political science at the University of Texas, and by chance one semester, I took a photography course taught by Professor Dennis Darling that would eventually change my life. Dennis normally taught graduate journalism programs, but once or twice a year he would teach the course I took, for students who were majoring in things outside of communications and journalism. It focused around the basics of using a camera, but for me would be the eventual basis for a career change.

Well this year Dennis has turned 65, and has opened up the archives of his life’s work to some of us who have stayed in contact with him. For the last few months, a couple times a week we receive an email with a single photo and a short caption. The shot above is one of my favorite’s that I have received thus far. Taken in 1975, it is of a Ku Klux Klan member and his wife in East Texas. Dennis’ work is incredible and spans many decades. Luckily, along with me, he has also been forwarding his work to some folks at NPR, who decided to publish a bunch of it today on NPR.org. If you’ve got the time, I’d recommend checking them out. They’re powerful pieces of work.

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