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A video showing off an enormous double-yolked chicken egg. http://erikras.com/2011/09/29/huevazo-enormous-egg/

A timelapse video taken over three days of strawberries slowly rotting and mold growing. It has always annoyed me that strawberries go bad so quickly. Music: Evil March, by Kevin MacLeod. Photography and video by Erik Rasmussen, http://erikras.com/

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A quick timelapse video of the full moon rising last night.

Two-year-old Nora answers a barrage of questions.

Some greeting card artwork by Joyce Rasmussen.

20-month-old Nora sleeping with Sam, her west highland terrier "uncle".

For the fifth Sandwich Party, I made a BLTCH, basically a BLT with cheese.

My ten-month-old daughter shows off her abilities to A) Spit in your face, B) Applaud herself for it, and C) Pull on your zipper.

A 7-month-old, Nora Rasmussen, demonstrates proper rolling over technique from stomach to back.

My six-month-old daughter, Nora, shows off her ninja kung fu skills. Needless to say, it's tough to dress her when she's like this.

My daughter, Nora, sings at the top of her voice at midnight when she should be sleeping.

Playing the Sitting Up...Falling Down game with my 5-month-old daughter, Nora. She hasn't quite mastered the sitting position, but at least she can be light hearted about her failure.

Bagpipers and drummers march through Colindres, Cantabria, on special three-legged Cantabrian clogs.

At roughly the rate of a minute hand, Nora pivots around the center of her activity mat about 180° in 25 minutes.

Getting dressed with Grandma and Grandpa.

Four month old Nora is not sleepy and doesn't want to go to bed.

My four-month-old daughter, Nora, playing and rolling around on her activity mat, doing slightly more than she did in the previous video of her on the mat.

A few video clips of my daughter, Nora, smiling at 3 months old.

The box said "20 minutes from start to finish" (including the 15 minutes in the oven at the end!). This timelapse video spans an hour of preparation. That magic polymer "clay" stuff is NOT easy to get flat and smooth. In the end, though, we are happy with the result.

Erik, Betsy, and Paul perform a blues song about getting old. Words by Paul Rasmussen. Lyrics and story at http://tinyurl.com/omblues

My daughter Nora showing off her communication skills at 2.5 months old.

Every morning, Nora does her calisthenics routine to strengthen her muscles.

It's tough to keep that noggin in the air, eh, Stevie?

Who says you need to be able to stand up to dance a bluegrass jig?

Watch my daughter fall asleep at 200x. It's not a quick process in realtime.

My two-month-old daughter plays a game of "blanket face" with her mother. Entertaining and informative about what to do when a person catches on fire!

Changing my daughter's diaper. She was one month and two days old when this was filmed.

At only one month old, not much happens on the "activity mat".

Playing with GE's augmented reality app on plugintothesmartgrid.com.

Paul (harmonica), Erik (guitar), Dennis (mouth harp), and Merle (guitar) jamming at Myrtle Beach.

Putting up some "Lack" shelves from IKEA in my office.

Children from a local school dressed up for Carnival in Spain.

Nobody can jam out to the bongo drums like my friend, Alan Green.

At Waterway Hills golf course in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, you park on one side of the Intracoastal Waterway and ride a gondola with your clubs over to the golf course on the other side.

San Miguel recently introduced new metallic beer bottles as a novelty gift with the purchase of a 12-pack. They're awesome!

erik-rasmussen.com welcomes in 2009 by looking at a common holiday tradition in Spain: eating 12 grapes, one for each chime of the clock in Madrid, at midnight on New Years Eve.

The moon and planets aligned on December 30, 2008. Here, though, you can only see the moon followed later by Venus.

The Spanish Christmas Lottery's grand prize (El Gordo) goes to Soria.

For some reason, whenever I thaw frozen peas with warm water, 20% of them float. Weird.

A timelapse video of a sunset in northern Spain.

A sunny day with enormous waves in Santander, Spain, on October 26, 2008. Part of the walkway around the seal exhibit was cordoned off to protect the tourists from the waves.

A paraglider swoops down at me in Laredo, Spain.

Dancing in Mondragon on October 11, 2008.

Watch John McCain and Sarah Palin morph into The Simpsons characters Mr. Burns and Marge Simpson. Vote Burns in November!

We won't know who George W. Bush's successor will be until November, but if we morph Barack Obama's face with John McCain's, we can see a face that looks a little bit like the next US President.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are morphed into Simpsons characters Carl and Lenny.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden's faces morphed together into Barry-Joe Obamden. Pretty scary, but not as scary as the merging of the Republican ticket.

Ever wonder what McCain and Palin's love child might look like? Gross! Me neither. But here's the answer! Watch as John McCain morphs into Sarah Palin and back again.

El Arrebato sings the Himno del Sevilla (the hymn of the Seville Football Club) in Laredo, Spain, almost exactly one year after the sudden death of Antonio Puerta.