Tilting at windmills for a better tomorrow.
For those about to adopt Dali’s paranoicritical method, we salute you.
Carmina Burana (Alternate Lyrics)
I’m almost convinced the original Latin is somehow an encrypted version of something much more surreal. The brain is a strange and wonderful place.
Thanks mnep
A bit post-facto, but when am I not late to the party? For n+1 mag, old friend A.S. Hamrah offers his typically surly, dryly hilarious Oscar preview. Excerpt:
I can’t say anything about Juno because I didn’t see it. I didn’t see it because I hated Little Miss Sunshine so much. After I saw Little Miss Sunshine I really wished I hadn’t. I refuse to make that mistake again. If that’s what a feel good movie is, I can’t stand to feel that good. It’s physically painful for me to feel that good.
Righteous CD cover meme image pool happening on Flickr these-a-days.
1. First, you’ll need a name for your band. This will be the first article title on WikiPedia’s random page selector.
2. Now for the all-important album title. Grab the last four words of the very last quote on the quotationspage’s random quote selector.
3. And of course, the album art. Yours will be the third picture, no matter what it is, on Flickr’s most interesting page.
Run your elements through the Photoshop sausage grinder, emulating the style of an album you already own (if you like), and out comes an album cover that looks like it could be at home in the Indie or Alt.Whatever section of your local record store.
To get yours into the pool, you’ll need to join the pool, then go to your uploaded image and click the “Add to pool” link right above it (I’ve always thought Flickr made the process of playing in photo pools unnecessarily complicated).
Think you can tell a fine artist from a fake? Or an artist from an ape, for that matter? Actual Faulkner from a machine translation from German text? Reverent quizzes let you try your hand. Kinda funny, kinda pointed. (n.b. I only got 100% on Pollock or Birds, though Amy did get close on Fine Art or Fake). The bell curve shows the bulk of the population batting around 70-80%.
I’ve never used one, but Amazon recommends I give it a shot. Were it not for the “Six Feet Under” marathon Amy and I undertook around this time last year, digesting the entire series in a couple of months, I’d have absolutely no idea what this ad was referring to. What I’m trying to figure out is why this ad came up while purchasing Robyn Hitchcock back-catalog from the Amazon MP3 store. There’s got to be a connection there somewhere… “Heavenly nightshade. It’s where you came from.”
Science time, boys and girls.
Now, all we need is a worldwide power source strong enough to cool road surfaces to negative bajillion degrees and we’ve got free transportation!
Far out — BBC: A giant Pacific octopus living in a Cornish aquarium has formed an unlikely bond with a child’s plastic toy. Louis regularly plays with the Mr Potato Head figure which was given to him as part of an enrichment project at Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium.
Nature and the mind, never cease to amaze. Nice collection of things people have seen in the clouds. You couldn’t Photoshop this if you tried.
So Tomorrowland wasn’t supposed to be a Disneyland-only thing? You have to wonder whether the Imagineers really did think we’d achieve this kind of transportation utopia, or were fully aware that they were projecting a full-on fiction.
The film seems to blur the line between futurism and science fiction (futurism being an honest attempt to predict). Technology that never arrived aside, one of the the most amazing aspects of this is the fact that it takes no account of the population explosion. These cars have the road as much to themselves in the projected future as they did when the film was made in the 1950s.
Thanks Jeremy
Thumbtack Press hosts a gazillion great pieces of indie art (whatever that means), available as posters. A friend tracked down this excellent collection of art posters made from common spam taglines. Also loved “Realize your dreams with our help for a short time.” How promising! Also: “This secret weapon will give more power to you little soldier.” Little soldier thanks you. See also: Spam Plants and Spamland.