Four-year-old Evelyn Stirling concentrates on her painting as children and their parents create miniature Chihuly chandeliers during the weekly Drop-In Art event Saturday, March 12, 2011, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. On Feb. 25, the museum will host a special Doodle 4 Google Drop-In Art. By Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman Archives

From Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art partnering in Doodle 4 Google contest
The fifth annual competition invites kindergarten through 12^th-grade students nationwide to draw their rendition of the Google

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A cinephile by the name of Benjamin Solovey is working on a high-definition restoration of the cult horror anti-classic “Manos: The Hands of Fate” for a future Blu-ray release.

Solovey has come by the original Ektachrome camera master of “Manos,” a low-budget horror film produced in 1966 by a small cast and crew in El Paso, Texas, and he wants to give film fans a chance to view a clearer, …

Duncan-born two-time Academy Award winner Ron Howard and his actor/filmmaker daughter Bryce Dallas Howard premiered their film inspired by Canon’s multiplatform “Long Live Imagination” campaign to the public starting today on YouTube. The 24-minute film will be on view at www.youtube.com/imagination until Monday.

“When You Find Me” is considered the first Hollywood film in history to be based on eight independently contributed photographs, selected from nearly 100,000 submissions in the “Project Imagin8ion” contest, according to a news release. The short film tells the story of two sisters who deal with …

Duncan-born two-time Academy Award winner Ron Howard and his actor/filmmaker daughter Bryce Dallas Howard will premiere the film inspired by Canon’s multiplatform “Long Live Imagination” campaign to the public starting at 11 a.m. CST/noon EST Friday on YouTube. The 24-minute film will be on view at www.youtube.com/imagination until Monday.

“When You Find Me” is considered the first Hollywood film in history to be based on eight independently contributed photographs, selected from nearly 100,000 submissions in the “Project Imagin8ion” contest, according to a news release. The short film tells the story …

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If you want to add some psychedelic sounds to your Christmas music playlist, Oklahoma City-based rockers The Flaming Lips are here to help. The Lips have launched http://atlaseetschristmas.com, where you can hear their holiday music – or as they put it, “Infinite Christmas Sounds” – streaming continually.

The name of the website – trying saying it out loud phonetically – comes from the Lips’ 2007 secret Christmas album, recorded under the guise of a fictional Iraqui jazz pianist Imagene Peise (again, try saying …

Norman-based Nice People Records is again offering a seasonal music compilation that you can download for free by clicking here.

Here is the tracklist for “The 2011 Nice People Holiday Companion”:

1. The Wurly Birds – Way Up North

2. Low Litas – Holidaze

3. Lizard Police – Xmas Song

4. Luna Moth – Winter Light

5. Chrome Pony and the Chromettes – This Christmas

6. Depth & Current – Lonely Special Day

7. Penny Hill – Wait for December

8. Naked Kids – Christmas Sucks (Without You)

9. Student …

The Flaming Lips (Photo by J. Michelle Martin-Coyne)

In case you missed it Monday night while you were out trick-or-treating, you can now watch Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips perform their trippy cover of the Beatles’ “Revolution” in memory of Steve Jobs on MTV’s O Music Awards at www.OMusicAwards.com/show.

The Jobs tribute is at about the 33:30 mark in this video. Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s widow, introduced the Lips’ performance and praised Jobs as a visionary. The Apple co-founder, whose technological innovations like the iPod and iPad drastically …

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips (Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman Archives)

One of the most popular treats for music lovers this Halloween hasn’t been chocolate covered or individually wrapped. It’s been ear candy from Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips.

The Lips released today their new 24-hour song, “7 Skies H3,” which they are streaming for free at http://flaminglipstwentyfourhoursong.com.

The stream is limited to 999 listeners at a time, and it’s been maxed out much of the day. I’m currently on and listening, but it took a …

Country music star Miranda Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo, is streaming the “Safe” today exclusively at CountryWeekly.com as her “Four the Record” Scavenger Hunt and Sweepstakes comes to its end.

To stream “Safe ,” click here.

Throughout the week, she has been offering fans a chance to hear a new track each day from her forthcoming album and collect badges at the various sites for a chance to win prizes, including a trip to see Lambert in concert. Go to www.MirandaLambert.com for more information.

“Four the Record” is due out …

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I strive to do giveaways on a weekly basis but sometimes do them two or three times in a week. Most often I give away items on my Facebook page, but I soon will begin branching out and using Twitter more for …