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will brady's ruminations
2007-12-16
distractions
Orangina was my favorite carbonated soft drink before this advert. This cinches it! Exotic, original, perverse, imaginative. I loved it! Actually,Orangina's ads are often wild and entertaining. Here are a couple of others: Internal Disco and Futballers.
Orangina was my favorite carbonated soft drink before this advert. This cinches it! Exotic, original, perverse, imaginative. I loved it! Actually,Orangina's ads are often wild and entertaining. Here are a couple of others: Internal Disco and Futballers.
SEEN ON: Thought Gadgets |
Labels: advertisting, distractions, Orangina
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2007-12-15
distractions
I've maybe been too serious these days.Here's a pleasant distraction
Grip, is the first video of Roel Wouters aka Xelor. it's a one take, top shot music video with trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects. The video has been recorded live, as part of the opening 'Nederclips' at the Stedelijk museum's Hertogenbosch SM'S (curated by Bart Rutten).
The project was commissioned by the TAX-videoclipfonds. The important criteria were that the audience at the opening would be able to witness the whole shoot, and that the videoclip would be added to the exhibition immediately after the shoot.
Grip, is the first video of Roel Wouters aka Xelor. it's a one take, top shot music video with trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects. The video has been recorded live, as part of the opening 'Nederclips' at the Stedelijk museum's Hertogenbosch SM'S (curated by Bart Rutten).
The project was commissioned by the TAX-videoclipfonds. The important criteria were that the audience at the opening would be able to witness the whole shoot, and that the videoclip would be added to the exhibition immediately after the shoot.
FOUND AT: Panopticist |
Labels: distractions, humor, installations, typography, video, YouTube
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2006-05-08
2006-03-25
organization
Do you regret that you are not organized enough? mc.clintock.com has paved the way to being complete organized.
The site's author can speak best about the degree of obsessive detail which comprises the site:
I also admire the site for the pure clean design of it. And... you can get gift items depicting the site's contents, if you'd like to.
The site's author can speak best about the degree of obsessive detail which comprises the site:
mc.clintock.com was originally developed as a way to test Apache configurations.Everything from collections of miniature tools [some of which actually work] to the contents of the refrigerator and the underwear drawer are carefully catalogued for the inquisitive viewer to behold. More work that I would want to take up and do, but you've got to admire Mr. McClintock's tenacity.
Really.
But it also comes down to an appreciation for documentation and lists, as well as a keen appreciation for the absurd aspect of "revealing" the contents of my home to the entire world. There isn't much in my house that isn't also in everyone else's house, and precious little that's not visible to the casual visitor, but almost everyone I've spoken to sees this project as either an incredible intrusion, or as an invitation to be robbed.
I also admire the site for the pure clean design of it. And... you can get gift items depicting the site's contents, if you'd like to.
DISCOVERED while looking for a photo of spring clamps |
Labels: collections, design, distractions
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2006-03-23
distractions
Gay Bowling? . It must be. Why all the rainbow coloration? In Vernon, Connecticut. Now for all those fundie bowlers out there, don't send me hate mail on this. If you do it shall be cheerfully deleted.
Gay Bowling? . It must be. Why all the rainbow coloration? In Vernon, Connecticut. Now for all those fundie bowlers out there, don't send me hate mail on this. If you do it shall be cheerfully deleted.EXPERIMENT: I uploaded this picture directly using Blogger's upload feature. Not sure I'll use it often as I lack control over size of the image. Seems that the code Blogger provides doesn't easily translate into standard html.
Labels: distractions, local scenery
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2006-03-21
our surrealist society
I must be losing something in the translation, but none of my Bibles have the Prince of Peace espousing body slamming, choke holds and clotheslines as proper avenues of evangelism. Not even in the writings of Apostle Paul [who, in my mind was the most aggressive of the early disciples] can provide me a hook to connect this to. Maybe it's kind of like the Crusaders, if they don't convert, pummel the crap out of them, steal their riches in the Name of God.
Weirder still, this site is not the only "Born Again" stomper site. There's also the Ultimate Christian Wrestling, itself an adjunct to Harvest Church in Atherns, GA, which describes itself as a "...Spirit-filled fellowship where everyone is welcome..." Of course, Harvest Church also has a "Motorcycle Ministry", though it's not clear what that's all about either, that approach seems well, more travel based than aggresso.
Having so pointedly commented on this [in my mind] abberation I must confess to finding fondness for the wrestlers modest Christian Garb [go check out those cod pieces].
Weirder still, this site is not the only "Born Again" stomper site. There's also the Ultimate Christian Wrestling, itself an adjunct to Harvest Church in Atherns, GA, which describes itself as a "...Spirit-filled fellowship where everyone is welcome..." Of course, Harvest Church also has a "Motorcycle Ministry", though it's not clear what that's all about either, that approach seems well, more travel based than aggresso.
Having so pointedly commented on this [in my mind] abberation I must confess to finding fondness for the wrestlers modest Christian Garb [go check out those cod pieces].
FIRST SEEN AT: Pam Spaulding's House Blend |
Labels: distractions, humor, social comment
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2006-03-18
life's difficult questions
Things I continue to wonder as I watch the boob tube
• How does Tai get around all ther zoning regulation when Extreme Makeover begins tearing down a house and triple-sizing it?
• How do all these financially challenged families helped out with the new house, have to give it up because they can't afford property taxes?
• How much does Rey Mysterio [as well as the other pro wrestlers] have to contribute as co-pay to their health insurance plans?
• ...or does Vince McMahon's corporation WWE self insure their employees?
• Do Fox News staff really have special riders in their contracts that personally protect them from libel suits?
• How does Tai get around all ther zoning regulation when Extreme Makeover begins tearing down a house and triple-sizing it?
• How do all these financially challenged families helped out with the new house, have to give it up because they can't afford property taxes?
• How much does Rey Mysterio [as well as the other pro wrestlers] have to contribute as co-pay to their health insurance plans?
• ...or does Vince McMahon's corporation WWE self insure their employees?
• Do Fox News staff really have special riders in their contracts that personally protect them from libel suits?
Labels: distractions
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prostitution
Who is the latest hooker cruising the corporate johns up and down K Street? Why, none other than John Ashcroft. Always good to know that a hard core whore rarely gets up from working.
According to a recent New York Times article [subsequently published on AOL News]:
Who is the latest hooker cruising the corporate johns up and down K Street? Why, none other than John Ashcroft. Always good to know that a hard core whore rarely gets up from working. According to a recent New York Times article [subsequently published on AOL News]:
Mr. Ashcroft has become a Washington lobbyist, setting himself up ...and marketing his insider's knowledge of how Washington works.Integrity! Nothing like a breath of fresh air in the cesspool known as Washington, DC.
For corporations seeking contracts from the growing homeland security budget, Mr. Ashcroft promises to draw on his central role in the war on terror and in helping set up the Department of Homeland Security. For companies in trouble with regulators, he says his experience in cracking down on corporate corruption can provide valuable insights.
One of Mr. Ashcroft's newest clients is ChoicePoint, a broker of consumer data that is increasingly being used by the government to keep tabs on people within the United States. The company received millions of dollars in contracts from the Justice Department under Mr. Ashcroft as part of the war on terror and has now hired him to find more."The Ashcroft Group contacted us and we initiated a relationship," said Chuck Jones, a ChoicePoint spokesman. "He's got a lot of knowledge that could benefit ChoicePoint."
Before the 9/11 attacks, there were few commercial opportunities at the Justice Department. Since then, the department has become a major clearinghouse for large contracts related to homeland security.
Mr. Ashcroft promises to guide companies through the maze, saying, "I have been at the heart of the war on terror."
After helping prosecute executives at Enron and WorldCom, Mr. Ashcroft also says he can counsel troubled companies on how to deal with government regulators and avoid the fate of Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that collapsed after it was indicted in the Enron scandal.
"They need someone who can take threatening circumstances and neutralize them," Mr. Ashcroft said. "I'll be a lightning rod for people facing serious challenges."
Mr. Ashcroft is the only former Bush cabinet member and, by anyone's reckoning, the only former attorney general to have registered as a lobbyist. Many former attorneys general have had lucrative careers as political fixers without calling themselves lobbyists; in that sense, Mr. Ashcroft is being more transparent than his predecessors.
In a mission statement to prospective clients, he boasts of his connections. Mr. Ashcroft and "his talented team," the statement says, "have developed and cultivated close relationships with leaders in the corporate world as well as with officials in the top levels of the U.S. Government."
His staff includes David T. Ayres, his former chief of staff; Juleanna Glover Weiss, a Republican lobbyist and a former press secretary to Vice President Dick Cheney; and a Republican fund-raiser, William C. T. Gaynor II, who helped raise more than $300 million in the 2004 election. He opened his office 10 months after leaving the Justice Department.
Fellow Republicans praise his venture. "To have someone around to guide you to protect the assets of the corporation, it would be John Ashcroft who you would want at the table," said Donald L. Evans, the former commerce secretary. "Any C.E.O. in the 21st century would want him."
To maintain his conservative ties, Mr. Ashcroft signed up as a visiting law professor at Regent University, a school founded by Pat Robertson, the political evangelical broadcaster.
Read the whole article.
FIRST SEEN AT: Huffington Post | and, in case you are wondering George Clooney did NOT write the article.
Labels: distractions, politicians, war profiteers
¶ 00:26 0 comments
2006-02-07
distractions
This is addictive: Falling Sand. Make certain you have adult supervision to pull you away from the allure of falling sand, water, salt and oil [so to speak].
Labels: Chirag Mehta, distractions, falling sand game
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