I was reminded today of one of my favorite users on Zoto. I used to do quite a bit of searching for photos to feature on the home page of the site each week. I remember being thoroughly amused the day I stumbled upon a user named jumpingboy.  He and his dad started a photo project and posted their pics to Zoto. His dad took a photo  of him jumping everyday for a year. I featured him more than once. He took some great pics. 

More photos of jumping boy on zoto: http://www.zoto.com/site/#USR.jumpingboy

I saw this on Twitter today. Gave me a chuckle.

http://www.misscellania.com/miss-cellania/2008/7/9/merged-books.html

"Where's Walden?"- Alas, the challenge of locating Henry David Thoreau in each richly-detaile d drawing loses its appeal when it quickly becomes clear that he is always in the woods.

"Green Eggs and Hamlet" - Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger through his head? I would not, could not, kill the King. I could not do that evil thing. I would not wed this girl, you see. Now get her to a nunnery.

"Paradise Lost in Space"- Satan, Moloch, and Belial are sentenced to spend eternity in a flying saucer with a goofy robot, an evil scientist, and 2 annoying children

I've been searching for a book club to join for awhile but I haven't had any success. Since I couldn't find one to join I decided to start one of my own using a nifty site I discovered last year called Meetup.

Meetup is a social network that provides tools to help users start local community groups and clubs. The meetups (groups) are all self-organized. Meetup organizers plan events and post details online. Members simply RSVP whether or not they plan to attend the events. Meetups around Oklahoma City range from things like Mommy groups to more niche meetup groups like the Ghost Hunters meetup. You can easily browse meetups your area and then join (but you have to have signup for an account first).  All in all, it can be a fun way to meet new people.

Today was my first meetup as an organizer and as a member and I really enjoyed myself. I met some intelligent and interesting people and I'll definitely be checking out some other meetups soon.

If anyone is interested in joining the book club, feel free to sign up. OR if you're not interested but you think that maybe your girlfriend, wife, mother, sister, or even that cousin with a lazy eye might be interested then send them this link.  Have them sign up and join us. The more the merrier.

http://bookclub.meetup.com/1321/

I've put together a list of the choices for what we'll be reading next. I'm still waiting for everyone to send in their vote. So if you plan on joining, let me know which one you want to read.

Sunday's At Tiffany's by James Patterson

As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend-a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael-but only she can see him. 

Years later, Jane is in her thirties and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they've really been reunited.

496 pages

The Host By Stephenie Meyer

The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.Featuring what may be the first love triangle involving only two bodies, THE HOST is a riveting and unforgettable novel that will bring a vast new readership to one of the most compelling writers of our time.

640 pages

The Road By Cormac McCarthy

A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape covered with the ashes of the late world. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender despairing and hopeful spare of language and profoundly moving The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery and the essential sometime terrifying power of filial love. It is a masterpiece.

254 pages

Life of Pi By Martel, Yann Martel

"The Jungle Book meets "Not Wanted On the Voyage in a triumph of storytelling and originality: a novel, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. Piscine Molitor Patel, nicknamed Pi, lives in Pondicherry, India, where his family runs a zoo. Little Pi is a great reader. He devours books on Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, and to the surprise of his secular parents, becomes devoted to all three religions. When the parents decide to emigrate to Canada, the family boards a cargo ship with many of the animals that are going to new zoological homes in North America, and bravely sets sail for the New World. Alas, the ship sinks. A solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the surface of the wild blue Pacific. In it are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a zebra, an orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. With intelligence, daring and inexpressible fear, Pi manages to keep his wits about him as the animals begin to assert their places in the foodchain; it is the tiger, Richard Parker, with whom he must develop an inviolable understanding. Yann Martel's "Life of Pi is a transformative novel: a book to delight in, to talk about and treasure. It will convince the most jaded among us - and remind the rest - that something grander is afoot in our lives than we may have realized.

368 pages

I've been a fan of Eric's work since my early days as a flash designer. His images on flickr are beautiful, engaging, and inspiring. It's a real treat to see them come to life through video