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10.03.2008 Crystal Head Vodka
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10.01.2008 Bad Presidents
A little Captain in the White House?
On what level is this a good idea? Are they suggesting that we need a president who drinks Captain Morgan rum? That's what America needs? A frat-boy with questionable taste in alcoholic beverages who can "party like the legend" and drools over the morganettes? That's taking this whole I-want-a-president-who's-just-like-me thing a bit too far, don't ya think?
Maybe they are suggesting that Captain Morgan himself should be president. Or just someone a lot like him. A leader of men. A pirate. A killer, thief, and a liar. Wayne Curtis from his book, "And a Bottle of Rum," relays this story:
Morgan's appearance in the streets of Portobelo that morning was a surprise, but his reputation for brutality had no doubt preceded him. Coastal residents generally found it to be unwise to withhold information about hidden riches if Captain Morgan knocked on their doors. Those who did would be stretched on the rack, or have flaming sticks tied between their fingers, or a cord twisted around their head so tightly that their eyeballs popped like grapes from their skins...
Hmm. Interesting. Needless to say, whatever way you shake it, I'll take my White House sans the Captain.
9.26.2008 Rachmaninoff had Big Hands
8.15.2008 Internet Meme Map
Dipity.com has a fascinating chronological map of the history of internet memes. It is a really nice information layout. Timelines really are generally the wayto go. Just ask National Geographic. They have placed bigger (more popular) memes towards the top of the screen, which is a great navigation element. You can also drill down and display all of the content from a given time period. Clicking on a topic will launch a window to either read about the item or watch the video.
On a side note. It's also fun to see how we have advanced in our tastes.
On a side note. It's also fun to see how we have advanced in our tastes.
We've been having a laugh recently at the content of some of the spam emails in our junk mail folders. Some of them are ridiculously raunchy, some are pretty hilarious, and others, well, they're downright poetic.
So, to prove our point, we've selected some of our favourite ramblings and convinced our friend Spencer Deville, the poet, to give us his dramatic interpretations.
So, without further ado, the fist volume of Junk Mail Poetry.
Junk Mail Poetry - Volume 1: Happy Face from Mouse & the Billionaire on Vimeo.
Snap, snap, snap, y'all.
So, to prove our point, we've selected some of our favourite ramblings and convinced our friend Spencer Deville, the poet, to give us his dramatic interpretations.
So, without further ado, the fist volume of Junk Mail Poetry.
Junk Mail Poetry - Volume 1: Happy Face from Mouse & the Billionaire on Vimeo.
Snap, snap, snap, y'all.
Labels: Fun, Junk Mail Poetry, videos
6.22.2008 Robot Band
5.12.2008 Power Rangers Nike Ads are Funny
5.05.2008 Lunch Date!
Hey there. I miss you. Let's grab a falafel and a coke. But I know we're both strapped for time, so let's make it quick. Bon Appetite.
Lunch Break from Mouse & the Billionaire on Vimeo.
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Lunch Break from Mouse & the Billionaire on Vimeo.
(Burp)
4.16.2008 Theremin Cat
4.03.2008 For O'Brien
3.04.2008 Dukeing it Out
But come now, senators. Why do you have to fight? Can't we be relaxed and groovy? Can't we have a little fun with our fellow man? Can't we put down our gloves and pick up a Mai Tai? Those are some good questions, my friend. Hold down the Q key while watching the animation to find out.
Enjoy, America!
Labels: Fun
3.03.2008 Philly Tease Break
or
"How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Awesome"
or
"Winter of our Content"
Team Lamigraw opened up their lovely home to us this weekend, and we took the city by storm. We slept in. We ate delicious tomato-basil soup and grilled cheese sandwich lunches. We drank local micro brews infused with espresso / curacao. We read books. We ate pizza with figs. We ate delicious brunches. We discussed life, loss, and first loves. We visited quaint, obsessive-compulsively organized used book stores. We bought an amazing porcelain rum decanter from the 1940's with a painting of a ship on it. All in all, we had an amazing time with two of the most amazing people on the face of the planet. You should give it a try sometime. You won't be sorry.
"How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Awesome"
or
"Winter of our Content"
Team Lamigraw opened up their lovely home to us this weekend, and we took the city by storm. We slept in. We ate delicious tomato-basil soup and grilled cheese sandwich lunches. We drank local micro brews infused with espresso / curacao. We read books. We ate pizza with figs. We ate delicious brunches. We discussed life, loss, and first loves. We visited quaint, obsessive-compulsively organized used book stores. We bought an amazing porcelain rum decanter from the 1940's with a painting of a ship on it. All in all, we had an amazing time with two of the most amazing people on the face of the planet. You should give it a try sometime. You won't be sorry.
2.25.2008 Indeed!
Hey there.
Let's cut through the riff-raff. You want to know what's going on with us? We want to tell you. Let's make this happen. First, you should know that we received perhaps our final snow of the season this weekend. It wise nice to see a little bit of the old powder before it starts warming up.
I've been old-schooling the new school, taking the little snippets of code out on the blacktop and destroying them in a rowdy game of 3-on-3. This semester is amazing, and all of my classes are pretty darn fantastic. If you want, check 'em out. Design & Education / Max/Msp 2 / Compuation Major Studio / Physical Computing / and the oft-mentioned Magic++. I've also updated the links page to include some of my CDT buddies. Enjoy!
The cocktail-making business is A-plus. Nathan "The Gentleman" Dumas has taken me under his wing, ferrying me on quests and bestowing on me the classic literatures of years past. We've filmed a new Cocktail Kitchen, and I hope to have it up by the end of the week.
We went to the opening of the Michel Gondry "Be Kind Rewind" exhibit at Deitch a few weekends ago. Very playful and light-hearted stuff here, almost like being allowed entry into one of his music videos. If you're in New York, you should swing by and give it glimpse. Make a movie there if you have time.
And, towards the future: this weekend we and the Lami graws will take Philly by storm. There will be amazing times, and there will be pictures posted. We promise (fingers crossed).
Well, we're out of time. Thanks for chatting with us for a bit. We hope everything in your neck of the woods is top notch, and let's talk more soon.
Cheers!
Let's cut through the riff-raff. You want to know what's going on with us? We want to tell you. Let's make this happen. First, you should know that we received perhaps our final snow of the season this weekend. It wise nice to see a little bit of the old powder before it starts warming up.
I've been old-schooling the new school, taking the little snippets of code out on the blacktop and destroying them in a rowdy game of 3-on-3. This semester is amazing, and all of my classes are pretty darn fantastic. If you want, check 'em out. Design & Education / Max/Msp 2 / Compuation Major Studio / Physical Computing / and the oft-mentioned Magic++. I've also updated the links page to include some of my CDT buddies. Enjoy!
The cocktail-making business is A-plus. Nathan "The Gentleman" Dumas has taken me under his wing, ferrying me on quests and bestowing on me the classic literatures of years past. We've filmed a new Cocktail Kitchen, and I hope to have it up by the end of the week.
We went to the opening of the Michel Gondry "Be Kind Rewind" exhibit at Deitch a few weekends ago. Very playful and light-hearted stuff here, almost like being allowed entry into one of his music videos. If you're in New York, you should swing by and give it glimpse. Make a movie there if you have time.
And, towards the future: this weekend we and the Lami graws will take Philly by storm. There will be amazing times, and there will be pictures posted. We promise (fingers crossed).
Well, we're out of time. Thanks for chatting with us for a bit. We hope everything in your neck of the woods is top notch, and let's talk more soon.
Cheers!
2.14.2008 Happy Creepy Baseball Valentine's Day
2.11.2008 Stockbridge
We spent last weekend in beautiful Stockbridge, MA. We slept inside this Norman Rockwell painting. In the building on the far right, to be exact. The centuries-old Red Lion Inn, where we had some delicious breakfast, wonderful snow-covered times, and a fantastic old-fashioned at the old-fashioned bar.
We also visited the Norman Rockwell Museum where we discovered we liked Mr. Rockwell, as they constantly refer to him, a whole lot more than we expected.
2.06.2008 The Car Music Project
The Car Music Project, under Bill Milbrodt, has turned a 2008 Ford Focus into 31 different musical instruments for a recent commercial.
Apparently they are fully functioning instruments, and certainly they are awesome.
Watch for yourself.
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Labels: Fun, Music, Technology
2.01.2008 Carver Bowl
I was reminded of this today, after reading the hilarious piece, Famous Authors Predict the Winner of Super Bowl XLII, by Shane Ryan. Here is the Carver excerpt:
Raymond Carver
I really admire what the Giants have done this season. It isn't often you see a team struggle early, eke out a series of road wins, and still manage to peak at the perfect moment. It's a rare occurrence, I'll say that much.
On the other side, you've got football's version of Goliath. Experts tell me the Patriots are the strongest team in NFL history. From the moment they beat the Colts, they've been earmarked as Super Bowl Champions. It's tough to pick against an undefeated record.
All that being said, I've been so impressed with Eli Manning's development these last four weeks that I'm willing to take the underdog. What can I say? I believe in the New York Giants.
Prediction: Giants 31, Patriots 28
Raymond Carver, edited by Gordon Lish
It isn't a thing you see often, I'll say that much.
They tell me this is Goliath.
I believe in Giants.
Prediction: G.
Funny. You should check it out. The Cormac McCarthy and Kerouac predictions made me laugh as well. So have a good Super Bowl weekend, y'all. I won't be watching since I'll be slinging booze to other people who won't be watching, but I hope it is a thoroughly entertaining and enlightening experience.
1.31.2008 Hey!
Hi. It has been almost two weeks since the last post. In that time we did some stuff, saw some stuff, ate some stuff, and drank some stuff. It was really great.
In more interesting news, here's an awesome video where some scientist fill an ant colony with cement to see what it really look like. You should watch it if you want to be a well-rounded and thoroughly educated person. You should not watch it if you are at all bothered that the scientists killed thousands of ants just to find out how they (use to) live. I wasn't. Watch it.
In more interesting news, here's an awesome video where some scientist fill an ant colony with cement to see what it really look like. You should watch it if you want to be a well-rounded and thoroughly educated person. You should not watch it if you are at all bothered that the scientists killed thousands of ants just to find out how they (use to) live. I wasn't. Watch it.
1.18.2008 Important Issues
First, I would like to extend our warmest welcome to MC Hammerheadshark, artistic/personnel radical and class-act, who has choses us as his first stop in internet discovery each day.
Second. I ate kangaroo last week. Just thought you should know.
Third. It has come to my attention that Lasagna Cat is a hilarious web site featuring live-action reenactments of Garfield's (un)funniest moments over the last few decades. Not to be missed.
Fourth. If anyone has had ideas about upgrading to Leopard and still using their M-Audio peripherals, just abandon them now.
Fifth. Did you know that Lightnin' Hopkins drank a pint-glass of gin everyday and that Leadbelly murdered a couple of people? Fascinating.
Sixth. There's finally a new mixtape up. (And the one from November is finally up in the archives. The new December mixtape is really pretty good, and it features Micah McGraw with nothing but the buffalo. You should probably listen to it.
Well, that's all the time we have allotted, and, as you all know, we have tons of work to get done before next Tuesday's deadline, so get out there and make us proud.
Meeting adjourned.
1.05.2008 Yes!!!!!
1.04.2008 Visions of Sugarplums?
12.27.2007 Attention
12.07.2007 Butter
As I sit here alone, working diligently towards the end of the semester, someone just came on my speakers insisting that it "was too much butter out there," and that he needed to "flitter on. Bye. Bu Bu Bye Bye Bye."
Well, ramble on little doggy. We'll catch you on the other side. Over and out.
11.02.2007 ???
11.01.2007 For Darren
10.30.2007 Taking Model Railroading to the Streets!
He would also listen to more hip-hop than Fleetwood Mac, drink more Malt Liquor than Jaegermeister, and wear more do-rags than white belts, but that's besides the point.
Labels: Fun
10.22.2007 The Peanut Butter Solution
She had never seen it. She was not privy to the hit Canadian-made horror/comedy about a kid who loses all his hair then applies a magical peanut butter solution to his head which causes his hair to grow incessantly.
I had completely forgotten how crazy-weird this movie is. Like, for instance, the part where Conrad, the lovable subpar-acting Asian sidekick, applies the peanut butter solution to his crotch, and the hair starts growing out the bottom of his pants.
Or how about the fact that The Signor kidnaps little kids and forces them to work in his magic-paintbrush-making sweatshop? Forgot about that. Or the fact that the magic-paintbrushes create life-like paintings that you can walk right into? Nope. Did I remember that Conrad starts pretending to be the Signor's son for some reason. Not at all.
It's a weird movie. It's creepy, and I feel like I should be a whole lot more messed up than I am for watching it such an impressionable age. It is truly bizarre, and you can watch the whole thing on Google video. So you should.
10.18.2007 We Fight on the Virtual Level
He also had a small liquor store a block from his house where we would go and play Street Fighter 2, fueled by jumbo packs of Mambas and Gatorade. He played as Ken. I played as Guile (which strikes me as weirdly patriotic looking back. Or maybe I just liked his haircut). Another friend of ours loved Blanka. I bet you could do a study linking personality to the character picked in Street Fighter 2.
I haven't played SF2 in years now, but it will always be the game that reminds me of adolescence. That feeling of freedom. Leaving the house on your own with 5 dollars in quarters jangling in your pocket. Riding your bike a little farther than you are allowed. The sickly sweet taste of processed sugars.
Now that I'm older, however, I like a little classier of a game. Something that still has the turmoil of a Street Fighter 2, but with a little spiritual depth. That's why I play Bible Fight over at Adult Swim, where Biblical characters go head to head in combat. Jesus sends loaves and fishes. Moses calls a toad hailstorm. Noah induces a stampede of animals. This is the game for the contemplative man.
10.12.2007 Nothing's Gonna Ever Keep Me Down
10.04.2007 Ban-terrific
Micah's recent post reminded me of this thing I did a few years back. I just found it the other day. It's pretty entertaining if you've got 15 minutes to kill. Give it a listen.
Rich Richards - Live at the Concert Place (mp3)
Rich Richards - Live at the Concert Place (mp3)
You might have already seen this, buy I don't give a damn. I think it is gorgeous.
Labels: Design, Fun, Photography
10.02.2007 Jazzy!
9.28.2007 Christmas is Coming Early This Year
8.21.2007 Really?
Here's a fun a thing I learned today during an apartment-search break: Back to the Future, one of my favorite films of all time, was filmed twice.
On November 26, 1984 filming began on the movie, with Eric Stoltz in the role of Marty McFly. After more than four weeks, Spielberg and Zemeckis decided that the chemistry between Stoltz and Christopher Lloyd wasn't working. So they recast Michael J. Fox in the role. Apparently there are a few of Stoltz's scenes still in the movie, most memorably, the long shots where Marty drives the Delorean in the mall parking lot. While we may not ever get to see the first cut of the movie, there are tons of great stills here.
You learn something new every day.
On November 26, 1984 filming began on the movie, with Eric Stoltz in the role of Marty McFly. After more than four weeks, Spielberg and Zemeckis decided that the chemistry between Stoltz and Christopher Lloyd wasn't working. So they recast Michael J. Fox in the role. Apparently there are a few of Stoltz's scenes still in the movie, most memorably, the long shots where Marty drives the Delorean in the mall parking lot. While we may not ever get to see the first cut of the movie, there are tons of great stills here.
You learn something new every day.
2.28.2007 Who Needs a Winnebago?
2.23.2007 Sasquatch!
Legend?
Fact?
I know at least one person who believes. Make that two. Joan Ocean, dolphin communicator, has spent some time studying the Sasquatch and has some theories of her own.
Here's a pop quiz. The Sasquatch can do which of the following:
- Read
- Write
- Shape-shift
- Voice Project
- Create Infrasound that affects the environment
- De-materialize at will, or cause you to have an experience of lost time so you think they de-materialized.
- Travel 300 miles a day on foot.
- Live in well-lighted underground facilities
- Contact and live with Star People
- Tell us about our past and our future.
- Have lived here longer than the human race.
If you answered "All of the Above" then you've obviously visited Joan Ocean's web site, which is fascinating and should be read in its entirety.
2.19.2007 Hoagy Meowmichael
2.02.2007 Tell the Marketer
This guy has basically the same idea, only he's a lot funnier than I ever was. And he involves murder. And insinuates the telemarketer is a homosexual. All in all, pretty successful if you ask me.
Labels: Fun
