This is a little dated but I went out to "Strong Island" for Christmas this year to hang out with my buddy Stan and his family. While there we drove by this RIDICULOUSLY decorated house that attracted swarms of cars like moths to a flame. I saw it and was like I gots to get me a photo of this absurdity. If I was a neighbor I would definitely pull the plug on this. It was a freaking traffic jam on this block.
A portrait of Marlon Brando from sketched using words from the Godfather script for purchase.
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PB: OMG you are so hyper...You have verbal diarrhea! PB: Is this what happens when you don't talk to me for 8 days?
Me: Don't make fun of my ADD!!!
- Ayo
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Yay! Starting off the new year with a fresh start.
Got leftover champagne from your new year's eve party? Here's a list of websites offering suggestions on what to do with that champagne. Apparently it's a great ingredient with seafood. This sounds particularly awesome:
Chef Bryan Voltaggio from Volt in Frederick, Md., suggests putting leftover champagne in an ice-cream maker. The resulting sorbet will have a bubbly effect and can be served atop raw oysters for brunch.
Mmm. This makes me want to go to Balthazar for some oysters!!!
New York Times photo essay on Department of Sanitation workers who clean up Times Square after the ball is dropped. This is what's going on in my head right now:
HD teaser trailer for the upcoming Street Fighter movie that's sure to be awesomely terrible starring future wifey Kristin Kreuk playing the eponymous role of the hero. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9CaMGqTu18]
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8 year old Yuto Miyazawa is ridiculous on the guitar. [youtube=http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=qizRvpYHmrw&fmt=18]
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Paul Goldberger lists the ten best buildings in 2008 for the New Yorker.
In time for the 2008 Olympics, the world saw the fruits of China’s decision to put aside nationalism, hire the greatest architects from around the world, and let them do the kind of things they could never afford to do at home. That brought us two of the greatest buildings of the year, Herzog and de Meuron’s extraordinary Olympic Stadium, the stunning steel latticework structure widely known as the Bird’s Nest; and Norman Foster’s Beijing Airport, a project that was not only bigger than any other airport in the world, but more beautiful, more logically laid out, and more quickly built.
Also, Herzog and de Meuron met in kindergarten at the age of 6.
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Photo from Nnamdi's very low key birthday party (although it's messed up that they put the birthday boy on the bottom right corner of the group photo).
Build your own squid and release it Internet Ocean at this interactive site developed for the Te Papa's Colossal Squid exhibition at New Zealand's national museum.
