I'm not sure of the veracity of this note, but since I found it on the Internet it must be true.
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[I recently attended the Affordable Arts Fair with Pooja and Munira. Photographs of the pieces I enjoyed. When I remembered I snapped the artists names.
Elisabeth Lecourt, $3000.
Interactive! Touch!
Maria Clemen, $1350
Top, Boyarde Messenger, $2,750. Bottom, Tom Leighton, $4500.
Nicolas de Saint Gregoire, $4200
James McCune, $1400
Jordan Eagles, $10,000
Nickolaus Typaldos, $500
Susan Jane Belton, $1200 each
Ruby Rumie, $7000
Nicolas de Saint Gregoire, $10,000
Rona Yefman, $1500
Shai Zurim, $4000
The Little Artists, $1800
Pooja, $Priceless
Mrod, $7000
Fun promo stop-motion video stitched together from 4,000 photographs. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/4472980]
More at Yo Dawg Yo!
[Thanks Nelson]
This is an older piece from the Atlantic Monthly written by Matthew Stewart who founded a consulting company despite his lack of MBA credentials. It's still an interesting read.
The strange thing about my utter lack of education in management was that it didn’t seem to matter. As a principal and founding partner of a consulting firm that eventually grew to 600 employees, I interviewed, hired, and worked alongside hundreds of business-school graduates, and the impression I formed of the M.B.A. experience was that it involved taking two years out of your life and going deeply into debt, all for the sake of learning how to keep a straight face while using phrases like “out-of-the-box thinking,” “win-win situation,” and “core competencies.” When it came to picking teammates, I generally held out higher hopes for those individuals who had used their university years to learn about something other than business administration.
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More awesome music videos like this one, which "was filmed over one lively night in Soho (8pm to 5am)" with "a body harness attached to the actress." [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7zYpITAhKQ&fmt=18]
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This user interface makes me feel like I live in the future.
[Cool find Ashley!]
Star Trek themed entry of sneakers, bachelor pads, interview with the director and more!
Sarah Maple is a young UK artist where "much of her inspiration originated from her being brought up as a Muslim, with parents of mixed religious and cultural backgrounds." Her photography and paintings have an obvious pop wit tilt with a sharp edge behind her come-hither eyes, most evident in her self-portraitures, which deal with themes of, to step outside the realm of pedantic art-speak, "being a woman, Islam, sex, drugs, and fucking off." Her pieces are entertaining, but I'm more curious to see what her next stage will bring.
Check out this disparity in terms of bang for your buck between seeing a baseball game at Yankee Stadium or at the Mariner's Safeco Field.
Option 1: Two tickets to Tuesday night, June 30, Mariners at Yanks, cost for just the tickets, $5,000.Option 2: Two round-trip airline tickets to Seattle, Friday, Aug. 14, return Sunday the 16th, rental car for three days, two-night double occupancy stay in four-star hotel, two top tickets to both the Saturday and Sunday Yanks-Mariners games, two best-restaurant-in-town dinners for two. Total cost, $2,800. Plus-frequent flyer miles.
As Melissa points out:
This Dude! card from the Curiosity Shoppe could work for many occasions… “Dude! It’s your Birthday!”, “Dude! You’re getting married!”, “Dude! You had a baby!”.
Crude euphemism aside (I keep it classy around these blog parts), the McGangBang is a McChicken sandwich placed inside a double cheeseburger. I love American ingenuity during these desperate times.
Photograph by Adam Hester of Darth Vader doing yardwork. The force can't help much with leaves.
One of my all time favorite scenes from Ricky Gervais' Extras is his desperate character's conversation with Patrick Stewart (playing himself), a scene which has now been mashed up with Bambi into this brilliant video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2WWeq9-QKA&fmt=18]