i think the guy they mention in this post was in my graduating class from cornell architecture. i mean, i knew a bruce engel, and i do vaguely remember him making a 2×4 lamp for something. at least i think it was him…
ok, digging deeper and tracking it back to the source, yep…same bruce. nice guy.
> 2×4 lamp (via gizmodo)
> sandbox design
philip johnson died last week??? i had to glean this info off a reference from a moma article from today…
so fucked up…yet inspirational.
> man pees way out of avalanche (via bo-ra)
there seems to be an excess of stupidity going around these days. why is that? must be coincidence.
boy, biological provider of bad dna, sue school to end summer homework. quote said no-future twit…”It didn’t completely ruin my summer, but it did give me a lot of undue stress both at home and at work,” the high school junior said Thursday. “I just didn’t have the energy or the time for it.“
translation: “im a lazy fuck and id rather be downloading porn.”
school and work cause stress? get outta town. i thought “work” was a synonym for day-spas and grapes fed to you by a harem of virgins. you have no future little boy.
and the dover area schools of pennsylvania have begun teaching “intelligent design“…the first schools in the nation. the universe is so complex…there just has to be a higher power that coincidentally fits perfectly our singular notion of a judeo-christian god. there just has to be. in other news, an entire district of schools in pennsylvania have collectively shafted an entire generation of students.
> lazy shit sues to end summer homework (via cnn)
> pennsylvania teaches intelligent design (via cnn)
news article on stupidity for the day. right-wing bible thumpers claim spongebob squarepants promotes homosexuality, proceeds to lodge pole further up their collective ass. pro-stupidity group focus on the family claims that a new video being sent to schools around the nation that promotes diversity and tolerance is pro-gay because spongebob holds hands with patrick. yea, hello. on the eve of president bush, lord of dumb’s inauguration, it seems any and all right-wing extremists feel empowered to bring up topics of dumbness. and in other news, we’re screwed.
choice quote: WAFF spokesman Mark Barondeso told the newspaper that anyone who thought the video promoted homosexuality “needs to visit their doctor and get their medication increased“.
ooh shit, almost forgot too…wanted to mention the new forthcoming signature ipod series! you know me and all things apple. yea, theyre gonna be like…really great.
> new signature ipod series (via janelle)
rock thru neo-tokyo with the new book cruising the anime city by patrick macias and tomohiro machiyama. wired has an interesting article on the new definitive guide to otaku-ness and manga/anima obsession while roaming thru the streets of tokyo. it points you in the direction of such locales as the mandarake superstore…where everybodys dressed as a sailor moon character, electronics center akihabara, and the yokohama marine tower shown in macross. woo…word’em up. its not only a guide to the fanatical, but also an homage to the pervasiveness of the pop culture. dig the life-size gundam yo.
most will probably not get the fanaticism of japanese pop culture, and i personally couldnt (wouldnt) ever jump off that deep end, but as macias explains, “there are people in the book who are astronauts of the imagination. they are far out there. i think the rest of the world could stand to do that a little, too.“
> cruising the anime city (via wired)
in case you didnt know the holiday season was upon us. penny arcade yo…ballsacks.
ooh i know, ill pass along this fun little article i came across. stupid celebrity childrens names! celebrities, as you know, are crazy. and they like to name their kids stupid names. with the birth of her twins hazel and phinnaeus (wtf?), julia roberts joins a growing pantheon of high-profile people who tripped out a little too much on pain-killers and gave their kids names like rumer glenn, scout larue, and tallulah belle (bruce willis and demi moore), coco (courtney cox and david arquette), and the motherfucker of them all…fifi trixabelle, daughter of bob geldof. bob you mean asshole. also mentioned in the article are apple (gwyneth paltrow and chris martin), pilot inspektor (jason lee), audio science (shannon sossamon), and puma (erykah badu)…but i actually think those are rockin’ names. well, jason lee couldve spelled “inspektor” right and it wouldve been cooler, but whatev. its better than rob morrows kid tu…tu morrow. fucking hilarious.
> stupid celebrity childrens names (via washington post)
heres a nice example of how NOT to use the rockin’ transformers in a commercial. via #!/usr/bin/girl, this half-coo commercial featuring a transforming citroen…that dances. while this can indeed be a rockin’ thing (b-boy soundwave for example), having the transformer prance around like a fruity hybrid of disco-jiving saturday night fever john travolta and moonwalker-era michael jackson looks all kinds of wrong. like really wrong. still worth a look tho, if only to see what the upcoming transformers movie could potentially look like…sans disco-jive.
ADDENDUM
well this explains alot. thanks to fonz for pointing out that it was justin timberlakes choreographer marty kudelka who was mo-cap’d for the dancing. hello fruitiness.
> transforming…and dancing citroen (via #!/usr/bin/girl)
> hello, my dancing sucks (via fonz)
