Celebrity schadenfreude:
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The New York Times Lynn Hirschberg interviews actors in this series called Screen Test. The interviews are a bit self-indulgent to say the least, but I really love the lighting of the interviews and most of the interviews have one or two gem response by the actor.
[Thanks Nick!]
I just received a message through the wire notifying me about a potential threat to the Hot Girl title currently owned by model Jessica Michibata. Sharing the same first name, Australian model Jessica Gomez is half Portuguese and half Chinese and fully one hundred percent future wifey material. Here are a couple photos of her promoting some new cell phone and throwing out the first pitch at some baseball game.
It's interesting that Keith Haring is being used in this ad...
This is a good way to stretch out the lower back. I applaud this message.
Solid stare down.
Yes.
You can also view her in this "controversial" commercial for Diddy's fragrance for women. What a self-serving commercial by Diddy: Here's the set up, guys, for my next commercial. Cast a super fly model chick who will strictly wear only sexy panties or short skirts. Guy will feel her up and make out with her. I will be that guy.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQhaekrXJxg]
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New York Magazine sent writer Neel Shah out about town during Fashion Week with a mission: Hit on tall leggy models. How'd he do at the Prada party?
May Andersen, Elite Neel: [Sidles up] So how about you and I get away from all of this? St. Barts this weekend? May: I only travel with people I know, sorry. Neel: I think we've met before. May: I don't think so. Neel: Are you sure about that? Wasn't it François's party in Bridehampton? May: [Turns away] Neel: Okay, this isn't going so well. Let's start over. How do I get you to come home with me? May: I'm the wrong person for this. I'm a huge bitch [laughs]. I never get "picked up." I like to be the one who pursues. Neel: Well what if I were superrich? May: It's a start.
Neel buddy, she's not even worth it. May doesn't like sushi. Don't tell her this but that's pretty much why I broke up with her. How can someone not like sushi?! Terrible.
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MRod here is a well known advocate of Crocs and as such, I am excited to announce that what Willis was talkin' about was Crocs. In other words, like other luminaries and titans of industry, Gary Coleman wears Crocs, too.
He also wears Canadians tuxedos as well, apparently.
I don't know what more evidence you doubters and haters need. The world of Croc wearers is a veritable Who's Who of the power elite.
[Thanks to Us Versus Them for this find!]
The seemingly superhuman abilities of savants ("like having photographic memory, playing music perfectly after hearing it just once, or doing complex mathematical calculations in one's head") is a fascinating study for many fields of science and human studies. For me it suggests how much further potential we possess as a whole and provides a tantalizing glimpse into the possibilities of the direction that our evolution may take us towards. Although, me personally, I'm still hoping to fall into a temporary coma for a hot second and then reawaken as a savant with the ability to talk to the fishes and other sea creatures. Neatorama takes a look at ten savant individuals with extraordinary abilities. I was particularly amazed by Stephen Wiltshire. He was born mute until the age of 9 where prior to he communicated by drawing. Tellingly, his first word spoken was supposedly "paper." Wiltshire has one particular unique ability where he can illustrate detailed drawings of a city after only seeing it once. For example, check out the mesmerizing video below of him drawing a 33ft long panorama of the city of Tokyo after one fly-over in a helicopter.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95L-zmIBGd4]
There's also Ellen Boudreaux, a blind autistic savant who in addition to being able to musical abilities, she avoid obstacles and obstruction by making chirping noises as sonar while she walks. However, it is this third ability she possesses that really blew my mind:
To help overcome her fear of the telephone, Ellen's mom coaxed her to listen to the automatic time recording (the "time lady") when she was 8. From then on, Ellen knows the exact hour and minute, any time of the day without ever having seen a clock nor have the concept of the passing of time explained to her.
So....what did YOU do today?
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From Julia Allison's "lifecasting" of New York's Fashion Week (Come on, Ashley, get with it. I know you're always right out of the frame of all these front row pictures at the shows. Don't deny it. Get those iPhone stalkerazzi photos up!):
I suppose the line between fashion and costume is rather blurry and gray.
"I don't get it. What's so funny? Why are we laughing?"
"I don't know, man. Whenever a hot girl is laughing, I join in. So shut up and just laugh."
"HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA."
Variety is reporting that Columbia studio has hired two producers from the US The Office to write the script for what would be Ghostbusters 3!
Progress had been slow because of the likely wage demands of the original cast, Variety reported.But the recruitment of Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, nominated for Emmy awards for their work on The Office, to write the script is being seen as a sign that the film will finally be made.
I don't know how well it'll translate today, but I'm excited about this development.
[Thanks Rolando!]
Hayao Miyazaki--creator of Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle which are two of my favorite animated films--in a recent interview about his new hit Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea explains why he favors the traditional pencil over computers:
I think animation is something that needs the pencil, needs man's drawing hand, and that is why I decided to do this work in this way. Currently computer graphics are of course used a great deal and, as I've said before, this use can at times be excessive. I will continue to use my pencil as long as I can.
Not to argue with a master, but Pixar has demonstrably proven that animation doesn't need the pencil, but Miyazaki's drawings are unquestionably infused with something magical that no computer could produce on its own. Tools aside, Pixar and Miyazaki share a commonality in that what makes their films so successful is ultimately great and compelling stories for all ages.
[Thanks Moye!]
Wired has an interesting article about Mario Lavandeira aka Perez Hilton, the celebrity gadfly blogger who operates PerezHilton.com, which he started in 2004 as "a fame-obsessed loner who had just been fired from a reporting job at Star magazine." His site gets millions of hits a day and he's been able to parlay that into a legitimate brand with "four-episode TV special, What Perez Sez (which aired on VH1 to respectable ratings), followed by a nationally syndicated on-air gossip gig with ABC Radio." This is in addition to his upcoming book as well as his own line of Tween clothing. I can't hate on this dude--his core and peripheral material obviously doesn't appeal to me, but I admire his ability to get paid. And man, does he get paid from scribbling childish barely legible observations on paparazzi photos of various celebrities on his website.
Ads on his homepage fetch up to $54,000 a day, and his overhead is minimal—his only employee is his sister Barby, who fields emails and corrects typos. Which means he's pulling down millions a year. The site now averages 198 million pageviews a month, according to the Web ratings service Quantcast.
Don't you sort of hate your life right now?
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In an exercise that will be beneficial to both me (emptying out my Google Reader's "starred" items) and to you (a whole lot of stuntastic things from around the Internets), I'm bringing back an old segment that will be familiar to my oldest readers, "News I Find Interesting!" Here, I will be posting a long list of links and such that I've encountered that I found interesting, amusing, idiotic, titillating, or hilarious, but didn't get around to sharing with you. You may have already seen few, some, or all of the links below, but in any case I hope you will find an item or two of note that YOU will find interesting.
1. The New York City's Department of Transportation has installed nine unique bike racks designed by David Byrne, yes of the Talking Heads fame, but did you know he is also a bike enthusiast? It is only temporary but I hope the powers that be change their minds and make them a permanent addition to the City landscape. More information, including rack location (hi-ho!) here.
2. Do your best Beavis and Butthead laugh when looking at this unintentionally funny sign.
3. Idiot TSA "inspector" breaks commercial airplane. TSA guy should be added to the "no-fly" list as he clearly is a danger to travelers.
4. The DUI Mario Kart experiment. Damn, I'm ready to submit myself as a subject for an experiment like this. Any fellow geek want to organize this?
6. Photos of cute animals + website = Profit! Cute Overload, the popular site of fuzzy wuzzy puppies and kitties, is making the owner some nice chedder from advertising. WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THIS FIRST?!?!
7. People taking photos of Obama. One dude got himself one of those green disposables just for the occasion.
8. All that music you kids are uploading and streaming from Muxtape is costin the company a whole lotta money in the hosting category. Looks like cloud computing might be expensive enough to bring a company crashing back down to earth.
9. Michael Phelps doesn't want to make a splash and piss off advertisers and sponsors. He just wants to be a corporate bitch. Post-college idealist MRod is looking to do the same. Sponsors, sponsor me!
10. Selections from H.P. Lovecraft's brief tenure as a Whitman's Sampler copywriter. Haha!
11. What makes for a good blog. I agree with many of the points, but I break most of the "rules." I think those traits make for popular blogs, but that is separate from what I specifically enjoy about blogging. In the end, there's no hard and fast set of rules. Do you. Do what you like to do that will keep you blogging, even if it is for just a month or two.
12. LGBTA L.G.P.A, the Ladies Golf Professional Association, is requiring all its golfers to pass a verbal English test or face suspension. This new rule was especially aimed and communicated to the South Korean contingent. It's so jarring to read of something so anachronistic as "English-Only" in the 21st century particularly when it pertains to professional sports which is becoming more and more globalized in a symbiotic relationship for new talent, bigger audiences, and more money. As the Times writes:
Women have been fighting against discrimination in golf for decades, as Augusta National Golf Club — home of the Masters Tournament and still lacking a single female member — shamefully demonstrates. For the L.P.G.A. to impose discriminatory rules on its own members is not only offensive, it’s self-destructive.
And IDIOTIC!
13. Campbell Soup Company's marketing manager writes to Andy Warhol. So pop.
14. Eric Ripert, chef of top restaurant le Bernardin, is blogging recipes of dishes he creates using the common toaster oven. He's JUST LIKE YOU AND ME! Okay, not at all.
15. Drawing with a cup of coffee and a spoon. Genius. I can't wait to try this at brunch next time and piss off the server.
To read more click after the jump...but you've been warned: there's a LOT more to read.
16. Another upcoming show, called The Wrong Door from across the Atlantic that looks promising. The BBC is so on point.
17. Has the identity of the Zodiac Killer been uncovered? He may be....RIGHT BEHIND YOU!
18. The most obsessed Twat Twit ever. Dude gets the Twitter error message image tattooed. I'm definitely "unfollowing" this cat. Freak.
19. Matt Harding, you know the guy who danced all around the world, now brings his schtick to the corporate boardroom to "boost morale." I would jump around like an idiot for a paycheck too. Yea, I'm hating. So what?
20. Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page got a bit of Fall cleaning right before McCain announced her as his BFF (after only just meeting her once).
21. A new study in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics argues that medicine tailored to specific "races" or racial groups are doomed to fail. Although two individuals may be of the same "race," a label that is a social construct in of itself, their respective genomes may respond differently to a particular medication.
23. Bush eats cat on the cob. Haha.
24. This sci-fi film noir short (won a film contest) is pretty good. In a future where cloning is widespread, this detective tries to track down who is murdering his own clones.
25. LA has had a serial killer out there for awhile. Yikes.
26. This teenager started a Zune chat community in 2006. He earned $1,000 a month for a couple years from advertising and just recently sold it for $62,000. I hate my life.
27. Soulja Boy talks about the hacker who hijacked his MySpace and other pages.
28. VPILF. LOL. "Just a heartbeat away from being a PILF." LOL.
29. Headless teddy USB drive. Or in other words, "How to be even MORE creepy at work."
30. Nasubi, the naked guy who lived on freebies for an entire year for a Japanese reality show for a sort of real life Truman Show...except even more fucked up!
31. YouTube Comment Snot - A Firefox add-on that will hide all those stupid comments on the popular video hosting and streaming site.
32. Strawberries and shake, the perfect combination? YES YES YES.
33. Banksy hits up New Orleans. BANKSY -- COME BACK TO NYC! Specifically, come to Park Slope and tag up my apartment building or hell, even my apartment room itself! Thanks!
34. Militant art. ERIN, Please have your [famous] boss buy this please!!
35. I know it's a low blow, but mang, it's still funny. Old guy + young gal = Comedy.
36. Michael Jackson and Emmanuel Lewis vintage video. Back then this was probably considered cute. Today, frightening. I'm watching it and all I keep thinking is "How the heck is no one flying across the screen and tackling Michael while screaming KEEP THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE CHILD MICHAEL!"
37. Cute Overload. Damn, this puppy whistling is so cute I want to just pop it in the microwave on high heat.
38. Hysterical Nickleback parody. Seriously, I wasn't going to watch it because well, I hate Nickleback, but I'm glad I did. Hilarious.
39. Oddly compelling video put together using photos of Bush, Obama, and McCain. It sounds a lot more interesting than it reads.
40. This cat bento box should have two heads.
41. Nine breathtaking bridges. Although I'm pretty much amazed by any bridge which I think are amazing feats of engineering.
42. Obama needs to unleash his moneyed advantage and buy up some keywords.
43. GUTEN TAGGGGG! Breakfast for yo brain!
44. As Gawker says, this story is the most Onion like story yet. It reminds me a lot of the vibe of St Louis.
45. North Korean anti-America propaganda posters.
46. The most unhappy dogs in the world. I would be too if I had to wear what they were forced to wear.
47. Camouflage art.
48. If a black hole accidentally occurred here on earth, what would the repercussions look like? Like this.
49. Parking tickets for those who've crossed the line.
50. Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die" dead at 47.
51. Train nearly runs over idiots. It's a "HOLY SHIT" sort of a moment in the video.
52. "Old man" does magic tricks on subway trains and amusement parks. The last one is hilarious.
53. China isn't the only country that lip synched its Opening Ceremony. Those Aussies did it as well during the Sydney Olympics.
54. How did we end up with a drinking age of 21 in the first place [in the US]?
55. Zombie emergency procedure. Guide on what to do in the event of a zombie attack.
56. Heh. Evily genius in today's age of hyper-connectivity. Fake Following.
57. The Japanese Anna Kournikova...sourta.
This is a hot live performance of Regulate with Warren G on the mike and Travis Barker and DJ AM. Man, it's been a long while since I've heard this song. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7s9nW6CDCc]
And here's the original music video with Nate Dogg.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhWGDGHupYA]
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All the goodwill Justin Timberlake has earned in my book with his consistent dance pop hit making abilities just got flushed down the drain after I read this claim from him in the new Fashion Rocks supplement to GQ.
It's funny, I keep hearing Ashton Kutcher say how he was responsible for trucker caps. I've heard him make that statement before. Trace [his childhood friend] and I were wearing them when we were seventeen.
Terrible.
Pretty absurd (Note Michelle Obama pulling off a fierce blue steel):
And in case you forgot the scene this was taken from, then here ya go:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUqrVvr6iBo]
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Jesse McCartney (in a surprising buzz cut) covers T-Pain's "Buy you a drank (Shawty Snappin')." Don't judge me when I say that it's...surprisingly...listenable. What? I work out.
P Diddy been video blogging and it's some entertaining shit, in the sense that it's him being him without all that snazzy MTV production editing crap. Here, he is explaining why Diddy, owner of private jet, is flying commercial. Simple. Mainly because:
...gas prices are too motherfuckin' high.
The fact that your boy Diddy is flying commercial is "PROOF that gas prices are too high"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdbQ9cyvYI]
Ah, good stuff. What's next? Diddy on Amtrak? Diddy on Chinatown bus?
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So "super model" Marcus Schenkenberg works out at my gym regularly. Stop your swooning ladies. Anyway.
My twitter update on this matter:
It's intimidating working out next to Marcus Schenkenberg. I feel like I'm 10 yo again, wearing my coke bottle eyeglasses & Crosby sweater.
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Check out the performance by American Craig "Hot Lixx Hulahan" Billmeier who is the 2008 World Air Guitar Champion. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efNdI8uzWN8]
My friend Miri Park won the first season of this competition. I didn't know her at the time of course. I do remember actually trying to go see the national round which was taking place at the seedy Pussycat Lounge, but leaving without seeing any of the performances because the line and wait was too long. It's funny to me now how big the whole event has become now.
Check out Miri's badass performance:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI8MwX3Zczw]
Click here for more information on her at the Air Guitar website.
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Your evil spawn and her vacuous hubby, Brad Pitt, make about $40 million a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children, trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity. - Roseanne Barr