While awaiting a 5 hour rain delay, the respective baseball teams for University of San Francisco and University of Connecticut got into a lengthy dance off. It gets particularly hilarious after the 1 minute mark. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aazG7dMhE7I&fmt=18]
It is always unacceptable, but the big eyed blond thinks racism is high-lar-ious.
I like how if you didn't get that the targeted woman is Asian in this PSA, they reinforced it with the always reliable chop sticks and bowl of rice that us Asians always eat. Too bad if I could, I would eat rice every day. Damn you rice for being so delicious.
[Thanks Moye]
On just her second time ever playing, (which also happens to be my favorite casino game) Patricia Demauro broke the world record for the longest craps roll on Saturday night by rolling the dice for four hours and 18 minutes at the Borgata Hotel Casino!!! [Via]
I saw Terminator this weekend. Verdict: Meh. Save yourself the 12 bucks and go get a sandwich instead from Porchetta.
More interesting than the movie is the director's name, McG. Frankly it's a real asshole-y sounding name, but the explanation is pretty straightforward.
"Believe me, I know, people hear the name and they just think, 'That guy must be a jerk,' " the 38-year-old said with a groan. "And having it hasn't helped me, that's for sure. But it's what everybody has called me forever."
The moniker wasn't handed to him at a college keg party or when McG worked as a top music video director during the 1990s; it was hung around his neck by his parents who put "Joseph McGinty Nichol" on his birth certificate back in Kalamazoo, Mich., but then decided "McG" would be a tidy way to avoid household confusion since the boy's grandfather and uncle were also named Joseph.
Other asshole-y sounding names: Stone Phillips, Vin Diesel, and Joseph Stalin.
Barnaby Barford creates these wickedly subversive figures from ceramic porcelain pieces he finds.
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A Flickr member shares this advertisement that has been running in a local Kentucky publication. The only thing missing I guess from this ad is maybe including an open bar or at least drink specials.
RISD student Dylan Hayes reduced Street Fitgher 2 to its most basic pixelated element as demonstrated in this clip of a fight between my boy Ken and Blanka. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/4504861]
How many of those braces that are part of his trademark look do you think Larry King owns? In a Q&A for TIME, he responds:
Never counted 'em. But my guess would be--there are suspenders in New York and Washington and, of course, at my home in Los Angeles--150. But they can't be clip-ons. Every pair of pants I buy--jeans, anything--we sew in the suspender buttons.
Now you know. You're welcome. Now go away.
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Broken and twisted chairs.
RISD student George Dubinsky's recent "broken arm chair."
Versus
A special edition "twisted" version of Thonet's iconic "No. 14" chair to commemorate their 150th birthday. More here.
A fashionable gal I know recently commented on an interest in obtaining some sneakers. She rejected my initial suggestion of Crocs, so my next recommendation is this hybrid, a collaboration between Art Center College of Design student Nancy Wu and Nike, which combines an uptown look with a downtown style. Wu's beef jerky "Chanel" purse is also deliciously clever.
Buy it here.
Sam Tayler-Wood's self-portrait series "Escape Artist" reminds me of the recently mentioned piece here by Daniel Eatock.
A couple Chinese guys had some pretty bad days. Up first is a bicyclist who runs into a gnarly pothole on the sidewalk.
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Next, we have Lai Jiansheng who helped along Chen Fuchao's suicide pondering on the Haizhu Bridge by shoving him onto an air mattress. He was annoyed at the traffic delay caused by Fuchao.
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This is my life.
By Julien Vallee
Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaDaniel Eatock's "Up and Down" (that's what she said) features "one coloured balloon (filled with helium) touching the ceiling connected by a white ribbon to a second balloon (of a different colour) filled with breath (exhaled by a member of the gallery staff) resting on the floor." Seeing this installation provided a moment of zen for me today.
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My fellow blogger Andrew Hearst over at SUNfiltered posted this amazing VHS shaped tribute by artist David Herbert to Kubrick's 2001 (one of my all time fave movies).
Relatedly, you can get caught up on entries I've posted that you may have missed on SUNfiltered here.