Watch this totally freaky yet completely awesome animated short. It’s smartly done and the details are lovely.

This makes me laugh every time I see this gimmick in movies/tv shows.

My favorite comment on the Boing Boing post about this:

“I love it when computer nerds possess magical powers. I also want to one day make cop shows, so when the time comes to use ‘hey, could you enhance that image?’ the tech guy adds page curl, lens flare, and little unicorns.”

(Thx for pointing it out Marc!)

Adam and I were driving around Sedona just after taking some sunset photos of the red mountains and we decided to drive into a little shop we passed along the way.

Yup. Smack dab in the middle of beautiful natural landscapes was this little UFO shop, Ye Olde UFO Store. I’m such a big geek it made me giddy to be there. It was totally touristy what with all their props around the outside the shop, but what got me giggling was the music they were pumping outside as well. It was the theme to the X-Files. (hee!) Took some outside shots then went into the store. Part of it was selling stuff.. t-shirts, books, videos, etc. But the other part was about sightings in the area, tales and photos of locals or investigations. A large TV played some random UFO sighting DVD and there were cases of material. It was a shop and a tiny museum. It was all very interesting I have to admit. A third part was devoted to items about Area 51.

I bought a t-shirt (couldn’t resist) and chatted a little bit with the clerk. She asked me if I’d been to any of the vortexes in Sedona. Um wha? So apparently there’s a lot of little hot spots in the area.. places the people have either seen activity around or the land is different. There is something about the iron deposits too.. but I forget the details and don’t feel like looking them up right now. But anyway, she gave me a map and said that one of the easiest ones to get to was Bell Rock (all the big rock/mountains around are named.. there is Snoopy and Coffee Pot too for example.) She said you don’t even have to be very close to it to “feel” the vortex.

Side note – we went to Bell Rock a few days later and I didn’t feel anything. Boo.

Another was located on the Boyton Canyon trail – we took that trail on our trip too but I will tell you about that in another post.

So the UFO shop was a cute little stop I’m glad we came across. I had no idea it was there during all my Sedona research. Here’s a few more photos from outside of the shop: