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This is one of my favorite things I've seen all week: Stop motion video using every day items by Marcelo Costa. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/1105462]
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Zenful video montage of Justin Oliver power sliding and riding around... [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/1784917]
...Except for when he wrecks against a curb while going over 30 mph. Ouch.
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In seven days God created the heavens and earth. In seven days British Mike Harte and Jamie Shovlin imbibed a different bottle of bourbon and produced a single painting of the word Joy each night.
And then there is of course the drinking. Bourbon Joy toys with romantic associations between radical artistry and inspired inebriation. The idea of the radical artist as a human being struggling equally with art and alcohol - an idea concocted in both respects out of a greater myth of human failure - finds tragicomic obfuscation in the programme of curiously local relations underpinning Harte and Shovlin's engagement with each other in Bourbon Joy.
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The blogosphere is abuzz regarding this photo "many are claiming depicts an encounter between now Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (the blonde man on the left with the cameras) and U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Moscow's Red Square." I'm not sold on it, but the resemblance is kind of there. What say you?
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Mother Jones lists 10 people who have profited greatly from the current "global financial and economic crisis."
Jerry Haworth: Haworth is a relatively small-time hedge fund manager (his firm manages in the neighborhood of $40 million), but his "Black Swan Fund" made big-time profits over the past year, gaining 236 percent. The fund is named after NYU professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan theory, which warns of rare, hard-to-predict events that nonetheless have enormous impacts. The fund was "conceived and executed as a disaster hedge, and clearly last year was full of disasters" one fund investor told Bloomberg News. But Haworth announced in early March that he is closing down the Black Swan fund, because, he says, "The market has gone from underpricing risk to overpricing it." Instead, he'll be starting a fund that bets on increasing worldwide inflation.
Pitchforks! Torches! Just kidding. Jokes people, jokes. No need to hire bodyguards.
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Start your Friday morning right with this video featuring Minister Cleo Clariet and his then fiancé Katherine Lane singing a song about breakfast with "no mo' bacon, no mo' sausage" and even "no mo' Capt'n Crunch!" His fiance though looks like she's spacing out imagining eating all that food. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYqM9-Fj0Pg&fmt=18]
Apparently Clariet passed away in 2004, but thanks to the Internet and YouTube he'll forever live on with his song bemoaning a breakfast with no mo' food. I hope wherever he is he can eat all the breakfast to his spirit's content.
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All you haters will probably rejoice at the news that the economic downturn has kicked around Crocs and it may not survive. Their brilliant rubbery shoe-sandal hybrids might possibly be no more.
Crocs faces an April 2 deadline to pay off $22.4 million it owes on its revolving credit line. On Thursday, the company said it is seeking an extension and is in discussions with lenders to secure a new line of credit.The company on Tuesday disclosed that its auditors had expressed "substantial doubt" about Crocs's ability to stay in business.
Relatedly, bucking the trend, Deckers Outdoor Corp has increased sales along with their share price. Oh yeah, they make Uggs and Teva sandals (Boo! Hiss!).
Read previous Crocs coverage and commentary on the brilliance of their sandals here.
Note the million dollar smile, aggressive leg slit, and the classic vintage sepia tone.
Her then boyfriend David Upchurch in the prom photo is a customer sales rep today and refused "to 'kiss and tell' about their time together."
Smart choice Mr. Upchurch, because otherwise you may find 2009 the worst year ever with an IRS audit ("a random occurrence"), a SWAT team led by Delta Force accidentally busting into your house ("an honest mistake"), and your company being denied whatever bailout assistance every other business receives from the federal government ("a crucial and quite necessary piece of paperwork wasn't filed in time, sir").
Peruvian artist Jota Castro doesn't obfuscate his politics, as evident by his recent piece titled "Mortgage" seen below. Check out some of his other work at his website.
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Design and furniture aficionados may desire say, an Eames lounger (WANT) or the Wassily chair (WANT), but Trekkies covet a chair from another universe, that is Captain Kirk's chair from the original Star Trek series. Many are fulfilling their dream by either building or purchasing replicas of the chair and "making them the centerpiece of their homes, thus conquering what is for them a final frontier of domestic décor."
So they make or buy a ready-made chair. Then what?
Some watch TV in theirs, or simply loll, and some seem to find the chair an empowering place from which to deal with others. “When we have a little family powwow — I have four children — I sit in it to lay down the law,” said Mr. Boyd, the auto parts manager.
And most, of course, indulge their fantasies, imagining doing battle with Klingons and otherwise cruising the cosmos. “Sitting in it,” said Mr. Bradshaw, the graphic designer, “I find myself striking an action pose quite unconsciously.”
I don't care who you are, Trekkie or not, but it'd be impossible to not strike a power pose of all power poses while sitting in that chair.
The original chair from the show was auctioned for $305,000 in 2002. It is currently on display at Seattle's Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame of Geeks.
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This is amazing. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYtTtnfmsgc&fmt=18]
Kanye, get this guy on the line!
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A musical based on the life of Bruce Lee (RIP) is coming to Broadway and they're holding an open casting call (today actually in LA...) for the eponymous role.
ADULT BRUCE: Asian. 20's-30's, muscular, handsome, charismatic. Actor must sing well and move spectacularly, training in martial arts is a plus.JUN FAN (YOUNG BRUCE): Asian. Actor 15-20 to play 15. Skinny, gawky, perhaps even a bit nerdy-looking, but able to project fierce intelligence, unbridled energy and boundless self-confidence. Must be able to sing well and move, though dance requirements for this role are less demanding than for Adult Bruce. (Please note if the actor is under 18.)
It sounds strange initially, but this musical concept makes sense. Bruce Lee was a consummate performer in search of acceptance from a whiter wider audience in America. Unfortunately the entertainment industry's racism helped drive him away to Hong Kong. I think if he were still alive today he'd be very excited about this musical as a sign of the fulfillment of his dream.
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Boston Globe's Big Picture has a photo gallery depicting the current economic "Great Recession."
Hotel property manager Paul Martinez kicks in a tenant's door after no one answered the knock during an eviction February 26, 2009 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The tenant said that he was laid off from his job in a retail store two months ago and had fallen behind on his rent payments at the low-budget hotel. (John Moore/Getty Images)
A RE/MAX Central bus advertises tours of foreclosed homes March 7, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The real estate group began giving tours for prospective buyers three times a week in February 2008, in an effort to clear inventory of foreclosed properties. They have seen a steady decrease in foreclosure listings since the summer of 2008 in the Las Vegas area. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Thousands of unemployed Chinese graduates flock to a job fair in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on March 7, 2009. China vowed to help train one million graduates in the next three years to boost their qualifications, and promised loans to business that hire graduates, as unemployment continues to grow. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
