current selection | uberzone – botz
feelin’ | bored
this is ridiculously cool. create your own christmas tree via soundwaves.
> v&a sound trees (via design is kinky)
audio christmas trees
you+hp
current selection | the cure – pictures of you
feelin’ | coo
i was discussing some design with my co-worker shannan today, and i mentioned how the “you+hp/everything is possible” campaign was particularly rockin’. the ad firm behind it, goodby, silverstein, was coming out with not only really coo print ads, but also some swish and original commercials. the two that i thought were especially coo were the ones for bang+olufsen…where the soundwaves throughout were visualized, and my absolute favorite…the “pictures of you” commercial where the world is seen as a collage of photos.
> you+hp commercials
> everything is possible commercials
are yew jus’ tryin’ to git me to talk, is that the ah-deah?
current selection | lightning seeds – sense
feelin’ | twangy
theres an article today in the ny times about research being conducted by the national geographic society on the texas twang. i would say that its an interesting article…but i always seem to start these kinds of posts with “theres an interesting article…” so i wont. i find it fascinating how they “romanize” john greers texan accent as if it were a foreign language. the article pointed out the diverging accents of urban and rural texans…and how people from dallas, fort worth, houston, etc generally dont have as pronounced an accent as their rural cousins…which is true. marisol and alice (houston) dont have accents, and ags (dallas) only has a slight accent. i grew up in the boonies of texas…so while i dont know exactly how bad my twang was, im sure it was pretty obvious given the fact that my first friend in nj asked me whether i was from texas the first day i met him. i think i replied “how’d y’all know?” it took me a year or two to shake the accent. my sis tho…i think her accent lingered for years. you know, now that i think about it, hers never really went away.
> the texan twang
> the boonies of texas
which battle royale character are you?
current selection | fiona apple – across the universe
feelin’ | warm
Congratulations! You live! To roam the world, dodging the cops since you’re now wanted for murder. Ah well, you win some, you lose some. At least you have Noriko by your side, now. You’re trusting, honest, tender hearted, and an excellent protector and friend. Tell the whole world how cool and alive you are!
which battle royale character are you? by liz.
yay…i survived! and im also the main protaganist! and i get a sequel! tho shuyas a little sissy…he needs noriko to shoot a gun for him? shiet. at least i didnt end up as the guy who got crotch-stabbed. via hanalei. and no, i didnt like the pics they had…so i made my own.
i dont want any spam!
current selection | flaming lips – bad days
feelin’ | ekki ekki ptang
“…The term spam was applied to unwanted e-mails after a 1970 Monty Python skit in which an exasperated restaurant customer is urged to order the canned meat product until she screams, ‘I don’t want any Spam!’“
this i did not know. you learn many things from the internet…yes.
> wired article on evil evil spam
> spam song!
this ones for petru
current selection | gary jules – mad world
feelin’ | white castled
i smelled the most vile rank white castle ive ever walked into today. we headed to white castle to grab lunch and walked straight into the most rank urine smell…ever. ok, maybe not ever, but when ur about to grab urself a lunch, urines the last thing you want to be smelling. cow poops a close second. we werent sure whether someone just pissed themselves in the middle of the white castle, or whether it was the dude next to the entrance that looked especially stank. our plans to eat in were quickly revised to “take-out.”
anyhoo…i wasnt the best student of structures in school. between the cruv-meister and the anomaly that is petru petrova (“ello. i am pet-ru peet-trova. i haf feef-ty pat-ents.“), structures i-iii werent the most exciting (or comprehensible) of classes in my curriculum. today however would make petru proud. with 10 white castles between me and tien, and an extra 4 from another participant…we created the great leaning tower of greasy boxes which formerly held tiny bite-sized yet still fully satisfying white castles. or the “leaning tower of gbwfhtbsysfswc” for short. with a tinge of deconstructivism and no small amount of effort, its only peers are the san pietro of roma, walter gropius’ bauhaus, and last weeks great stack of take-out chinese food, also known as the great stack of tocf…
in another universe…
current selection | gorillaz v space monkeys – m1a1 (lil dub chefin’)
feelin’ | sleepy (food-induced)
arent “what-if’s” fun? what if i had gone to m.i.t. like my dad wanted? or i never left texas…or taiwan? the ny times wonders what if kennedy was never assassinated….what would the world be like today? today…today…echo….
kasparov finale
current selection | curve – chinese burn
feelin’ | fine
shit, another draw. this is 2 years in a row now. but even tho it was a relatively short game (27 moves) and they drew, it was actually a pretty vicious game. kasparov, as black, stated that he wasnt going for a must-win…just that he would take whatever opportunities were given to him considering that white usually controls the momentum of the game. overt tactical posturing gave way to hi-shooting and tactical trades that basically took away all the big pieces pretty quickly and left both sides with a rook and a queen each. while a draw isnt a bad thing, i was hoping for kasparov to reaffirm the human qualities and tactical nuances of chess. *feh*
> match04 recap
> play-by-play of all the matches (click on “watch live now”)
gawker media
current selection | the beatles – i feel fine
feelin’ | cathartic
i made one of those “no kidding?” discoveries today through a series of links and redirections. there was a ny times article today on the proliferation of professional blogs, in particular nick dentons gawker group of gawker, gizmodo, fleshbot, etc. so while perusing gothamist today, there was of course an entry on the aforementioned ny times article. there was also a brief mention about a fleshbot launch party and the hungarian cartel. so im thinking to myself…ooh, hungarian cartel…and i follow the link to a photo gallery at bluejake of the recent fleshbot party. some of the pictures piqued my interest, specifically the ones of an indoor suspension bridge. im thinking to myself, gosh…that looks familiar. ive seen that before. now do you remember how i mentioned watching people pull up across the street from my building and heading into the swish townhouse while waiting for my party to start? hmm…yes…*bling!* apparently the well-off neighbor across from my apt building with the four-story townhouse decked with swish furnishings that ive always wondered about whenever i walk home everyday…is none other than nick denton, the founder of gawker media. how odd is that? and now i know…
kasparov game 3
current selection | seatbelts – mushroom hunting
feelin’ | cooooold
whew…kasparov took game 3 of the 4 game series on sunday. if he lost the third game, it wouldve been the end of the series. and if he tied, he wouldnt’ve been able to win the series. now the series is even with a draw and a win each. kasparov stymied fritzs opening game with a wall of pawns, bogging down the movement of the major pieces. he then pushed up his queen side and built up his assault force as fritz twiddled its thumbs. kasparov eventually (and easily) set up a ridiculously planned assault up the a+b columns to guarantee himself a second queen, while essentially blowing a big hole open on the black queens side defense. the fritz team resigned on move 45. holla! the final game is tomorrow and the motherfucker better win.
