Film du jour: The Collected Works of Jan Svankmajer (available from your friendly neighborhood red envelope-dealing internet DVD subscription service). Svankmajer is a Czech artist who specializes in surreal, experimental film. Some is filmed in stop-motion animation, some is regular animation, and some is live-action. Of the movies on the DVD, some are just plain weird, some are unsettling, and some are whimsical and fun. None of them is more than 10 minutes in overall length: bite-sized bits of entertainment (just like blogs offer "snack-sized" chunks of reading). The first short film is A Game With Stones, and while it isn't explicitly about geology, it does feature a series of beautiful cobbles of varying lithologies, dancing, eroding, and melding with one another. It's eye-catching, though you'll find yourself asking, why do the rocks come out of a faucet? On a clock? As one YouTube user commented: "It looks cool, but I don't get it." Exactly.