artist gregory euclide

interesting painter. whimsical, conceptual "landscapes".


definitely click through, as the scale of this image doesnt quite convey the work. much bigger images on his site. my favorites are mostly in the 2005 section.
gregoryeuclide.com

what a girl really wants- "shoes" by kelly

update- Jillian Barberie of "Good Day LA" loves "shoes" too. check out the footage of her geeking out to the song on air- here

peaches in the studio with joan jett

good stuff.
as anything having to do with peaches, all minors must be accompanied by an adult. just kidding, they blur out the nipples, so its work safe. =]



more studio time with peaches-
part 2
part 3
part 4

calligrapher/letterform artist Yves Leterme

"skin deep, soul deeper"

i stumbled upon this gentlemans work accidentally last night, and color me impressed. what a find. those that know me know that i have a major soft spot for calligraphy, graffiti, fonts and all types of letterforms. this guy does some absolutely beautiful work. great style. he makes me terribly ashamed of my own handwriting.
a couple examples-


link to his online gallery

water as musical interface

the toriton plus- still seemingly in its development stages, although a neat idea. i actually remember playing a similar instrument like 15 years ago at an earth day festival, except in this case it was a huge, shallow copper tub filled with water in a little room filled with speakers that you slapped at or splashed, and it picked up and amplified the vibrations of the copper. i think. it was definitely fun, though.

superflat monogram(?)

beautiful louis vuitton ad created by artist Takashi Murakami. an updated alice in wonderland, in which a girl, while waiting to meet her friends outside of a store, has her cell phone eaten by a Panda, who then promptly swallows the girl - and down the proverbial rabbit hole she goes. or in this case, panda esophagus.


higher quality divx version available on stage 6-
superflat monogram

it is on- reinventing culture

this is a pretty awesome and powerful all encompassing 22 minute music and video mix titled "reinventing culture" done by thinktoy(music) and dizzywizard(video). hosted on the stage 6 video site, which requires divx to view. site will automatically prompt an install of divx when you visit. if you dont already have it, its worth the effort. tons of classic nineties dance tracks. and theres some nsfw bits.

link-reinventing culture

virgin galactics spaceship2

take a virtual flight inside spaceship2, virgin airlines first tourist centric space craft. tickets are 200,000, in case youre wondering.


for more info check out space.com

found magazine

found is a magazine/website containing all kinds of goodies in the form of photos, drawings, writings and other bits of randomness found in the trash, on the street, or wherever these things happen to surface.

foundmagazine.com

hilarious telemarketer prank

link

very funny. guy gets it proper.

trapped in the clauset

santa takes on the r. kelly classic.
major blasphemy warning.
part1

part 2

part 3



update- it occured to me that some people who might visit this blog could have somehow missed the glorious epic that is r. kellys "trapped in the closet" series, a.k.a. the most self indulgent retarded piece of shit songwriting and subsequent video making fiasco EVER. that makes it funny.
i dare you to watch all 12(12!) episodes-
trapped in the closet part 1
and i double dare you to watch r.kellys special commentary version. so insightful.
commentary part 1
and if you are still alive after that, i really really dare you so hard to watch the live version.
TitC LIVE-link

ask the fruit cake lady

the fruit cake lady was an occasional tonight show guest who offered her sage advice to the people. she passed on just recently, so here is a highlight reel of some of her best moments.

kung fu kitty

now this, this is some awful filmaking right here. its a kung fu movie called simply, the cat, and the cat apparently knows kung fu. this is the epic battle of cat vs. the junkyard dog.

that finishing move was devastating!

ahh, the christmas spirit

theres a really drunk homeless dude stumbling down the street in front of my apartment singin cameos "word up" really badly, and really loudly. just thought i would share.

dmv "prank"

part 1

part 2


hilarious clips from the dvd "teenagers from uranus"
kind of oddly disturbing though. with all the talk you hear of "tightening security" and terrorism and all that, i just cant believe that this was allowed. it just doesnt make any sort of sense. who the hell was working that day?

ecosphere ecosystems

this is kinda cool, a great teaching aid for understanding ecosystems.
" The Original EcoSphere® is the world's first totally enclosed ecosystem - a complete, self-contained and self-sustaining miniature world encased in glass."
"Unlike an aquarium, this little world is a closed ecological system. Light gets in, but nothing else - no food, no water, no nutrients. Everything must be recycled. Just like the Earth. In our larger world, we also - plants and animals and microorganisms - live off each other, breathe and eat each other's wastes, depend on one another. "

eco-sphere.com

mixed nuts

one womans commentary on the "family experience"

chick tract mentions harry potter

i dont know if you have ever been lucky enough to receive a jack chick religious tract, but if you havent, you are missing out on some first class entertainment. i first came into contact with them when i waited tables as a kid, and on sunday afternoon you would get these asshat customers, fresh out of church, that would leave them as tips. i hope those people rot in a special hell.
anyhoooo,
if you need a good laugh, and dont mind being reminded over and over that you are going to burn in hell for all eternity, check out this collection of "chick tracts"-
www.chick.com
direct link to one of my favorites, entitled "bewitched"-
bewitched

atari 2600 portable!

no frickin way!
way!


here is how it was done.

the principia discordia

the principia discordia
blast from the past like whoa.

GREATER POOP: Are you really serious or what?
MAL-2: Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously. Either way it is irrelevant.

GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.

GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.

GP: Why do you deal with so many negatives?
M2: To dissolve them.
GP: Will you develop that point?
M2: No.

any robert anton wilson fans in the house? he just started a blog on blogger.
robertantonwilson.blogspot.com

realtime earthquake resources

weve had a couple nice little 3.7 shakes over the past few days centered in berkeley on the hayward fault. ive felt a ton of minor shakes and shimmies since ive been in san francisco, but few substantial ones yet. pretty wild. its insane, once you start paying attention, just how many little earthquakes are happening every day all over the world.
anyway, if anyone is intersted, heres a link to realtime earthquake info, shakemaps and seismographs.
quake.wr.usgs.gov
wheeeeee!

line rider- urban run

for those of you who havent seen it, line rider is a little online app that allows you to draw a series of ramps and hills for a little man on a little sled to ride down.
try it here- linerider.com, and then you might understand how insanely great this is

continuing on a theme

although hagrid should really be dumbledore.

store wars

join cuke skywalker, obi wan cannoli, tofu d2, c3peanuts, and the rest of the organic rebellion as they battle against darth tater and the dark side of "the farm"....funny, clever and remarkably well done star wars parody about organic foods from a few years ago. definitely a classic for the ages. "search your peelings, cuke." heheheh.

american illustration 20-25 & american photography 17-22 archived in full online

ai-ap.com

this is a huge resource. american illustration and american photography are both juried annuals containing hundreds of examples of work from some of the best professional minds(or hands or eyes) in those fields. i used to spend hours at the library when i was a kid looking at these books, and its great to see them available for free online, to browse through anytime i want.

blue planet- the deep

nature is creepy. really, really creepy. particularly in the deep deep sea. this series explores the freakiest of freaky creatures that live down there. narrated by our old chum david attenborough.
part 1 of 5

pt 2
pt3
pt4
pt 5

edo-period wildlife illustrations

pretty substantial collection of links to book scans featuring all sorts of different wildlife.
link
kind of difficult to navigate unless you know japanese, but all you need to do is click on
this icon-and youll find it.
lifted from boingboing who lifted it from pink tentacle. i dont know who they lifted it from. =]

magnetic bracelet

pretty clever. but thats not all!
this is just one in a full line of magnetic jewelry available from dynomighty.com

triumph of a heart

best bjork video ever.

unfortunate

yeah, call me juvenile, but....so i was reading this article on bbc news about a recent study claiming that circumcision dramatically cuts AIDS infection rates, and about halfway through this penis centric article i hit :

"Dr Kevin De Cock, director of the HIV/Aids department of the World Health Organization...."

oh my. how unfortunate.