Practice Practice Practice

Over on the Ashtanga EZ Board, there's a link to the most excellent animated loop, one which I can't get out of my head. For the uninitated, it is: Badger Badger Badger, and I warn you, if you watch it, you too may become obsessed with those crazy little jumping badgers, the mushroom and the snake ("ARGH! Snake! It's a snake!"). Badgerx3 (as it is sometimes called) is so intoxicating that there's even a piece on it in Answers.com, which dissects the little loop through more than eight (!) hours of viewing.

What I find most addictive about Badgerx3 is that it truly seems to be a metaphor for the practice of Ashtanga (at least the physical practice).

I wish I had a clue about how to make animated loops because if I did, I would make one called Yoga Badger, and in it, the badgers would be accompanied by the lyric: "Practice Practice Practice Practice Practice Practice Practice" (11 or 12 times). The "Mushroom" part would be accompanied by the lyric, "Ho hum". Finally, the "Snake" portion would be "New Pose" ("Argh, New Pose! New Pose! Argh, it's a new pose!").

To me, that is the trajectory.

But you really have to watch the Badgers to understand.

YC