Archive for October, 2007

Cool wood sculptures by Livio De Marchi

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Livio De MarchiLivio De Marchi does work in glass and wood. His wooden creations are the ones I really think throw him over the top. He sculpts life size and larger objects. He sculpts everything from people, to books and even whole cars. It is very impressive work. The best thing he created was a floating wooden car that he drives around Venice. Is it a boat or a car? Either way they say he is the only man who drives a car in Venice.

Here is a YouTube video of his wooden Ferrari floating in the canals. He also has a terrible website at liviodemarchi.com. Even though the web site is painful it does show a lot of his work. If you like wood working or carving you need to check out this guys stuff.

Its Halloween the greatest holiday of the year

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Great flash based web sites

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The Mix HeadThe art on the web site themixhead.com is pretty cool. It will not blow your socks off or anything but it is fun to look at and very unique. The website however is freaking great! There is not a ton of content but the navigation and presentation are over the top. Basically the web site is just a portfolio of the artist Ulyana Kalashnikova. If you appreciate good web design you need to check this site out.

There is also this very cool web site done by HBO called hbovoyeur.com. I have not checked out the whole thing yet but it seems to be some sort of voyeur mystery show. Some people in the forms are complaining about it so I am not sure if it is a dead project or an ongoing one. Either way it is interesting. It lets you click around building windows and watch people as stories and plot develop.

The work of Joshua Ellingson

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Joshua Ellingson work from joshuaellingson.comSo I found some work by Joshua Ellingson and thought it was pretty decent. His web site is joshusellingson.com. He also has work on Flickr. I really like the color schemes he uses. He also has some interesting motion and perspective in a lot of his work. Some of his work is in some pretty big magazines like Popular Science and Wired. The only think I did not like is that a lot of the work is very tired. It is the same old manga inspired stuff everyone is doing. I really don’t care for his painted figurines at all. They are detailed and well done but they are nothing unique. He is a commercial artist and it is not always possible or desired to push the creative edge as far as you can all the time. Some times you have to create what others want the best you can or tone down the creative juice so the work hits a wider mainstream audience. I would be curious to see some of his work that is not commercial orientated. Perhaps everything he does is this very stylized vector manga work though.

He has some really good work and some of the stuff I like the most has very bright contrasting colors and unique perspectives. It is a very stylized and computer created art so it will not appeal to everyone but you can still appreciate the original characters.

Well I’ll be, that lady is peeing standing up like a feller

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

P-MateFor those that still think everything that can be invented has already been created I brig you the P-Mate. It allows women and I suppose men with real tiny dicks to pee standing up without getting it all over you fancy hiking pants. I think this product is funny. At the same time however it is very useful and I’ll pet any las that goes hiking or camping would love a nice five pack for Christmas. You still have time to place you holiday order!

Funny for those who don’t do web design

Friday, October 26th, 2007

OnionThe Onion Radio News hits yet another home run! However please note todays side splitting funny has some potty words in it.

Funny for dorks only

Friday, October 26th, 2007

This is not funny to anyone but those that do web design. Not even all those may find the humor. This is how you get the Google van to not crawl your house. You know the van Google is using to create street view.

I wanna be a sloth!

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

I was unaware of this but sloths get all the chicks. Who knew! To think my teachers were always telling me to stop being a sloth and get some work done… bastards!

If you like your humor in higher quality you can watch this video here.

You will want a Chumby

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

ChumbyNo you pervert this is not a sexual item or even an innuendo. The Chumby is a fancy new elctrogizmo that each an every person will want. Well minus the Amish because they don’t have electricity or access to the internet.

It is a fancy little computer encased in plastic and fabric with a 3.5″ touch screen. It also has USB ports, Wi-fi connectivity, squeeze sensors, motion sensors, a headphone jack and speakers. The Chumby web site claims it will sell for under $200. Basically is is like a really awesome alarm clock/ decoration/ bathroom gadget. It plays movies, displays pictures, has over 20 alarm clocks available when I looked, shows traffic, displays stocks and does anything else a computer can do. It also lets you send messages and whatever to a friends Chumby. I am actually quite surprised Apple did not come out with this baby. It looks like an Apple sort of deal. Course then it would cost $600 instead of $200, be completely square because Steve Jobs has a square fetish and not be as customizable as this sucker.

The code is open source and downloadable from their site so you can create or hack it with whatever you want. Did I mention is also runs flash? They have patterns so you can design your own fabric case. They even give you engineering drawings so you can model you own hard body! Basically they sell you this sucker for under $200 let you have at their web site for FREE and give you the tools to do what ever you want with it.

Imagine waking up in the morning to the singing of your Chumby you named Fred dressed in hot pink spandex with rind stones. While you roll around groggy it gives you the weather and tells you how much you lost in the stock market the day before. Then at the last second it yells at you to get your lazy ass up and flashes a picture of you boss yelling because you are late again! You jump from bed and start you day. Now if they could only make it able to make an egg McMuffin and a cup of Earl Gray to send you out the door with.

I have not seen one in person yet as it looks like they go on sale perhaps in November but I am pretty sure I would love this thing.

What should be read - The Constitution

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

The guy in this video is a huge dork. However he does make some very good points about the crap we are wading through right now with Dubya.
Dubya = Adolf (perhaps)

Besides the video below this one has some good points as well.

I reached the end of the internet and blew chunks everywhere

Friday, October 19th, 2007

JabberwockyThe internet does have an end. A place where all things die and you go no farther. I have been there Timmy and I am not a better man because of it. Run away now! Run away quickly and don’t look back!

Remember the Jabberwocky from Alice in Wonderland. Well the end of the internet makes him look like a pussy. There are no pots of gold like at the end of the rainbow. No Timmy the end of the internet will damage your brain. It will haunt you my friend. It will haunt you the was drinking Blatz beer (don’t believe the hype it sucks) and seeing how many jalapeños you can eat does.

A friend who chooses to remain nameless (you’re a black hearted bastard Agent Asshole) had heard of this site on the radio and was cruel enough to share it with me. I am a curious bastard and I leave no stone unturned so I of course pointed Firefox in it’s direction and have regretted it ever since. I will NOT give you the URL. Not because I don’t want to inflict this pain on you, but because I have no desire to have a talk with your therapist. You can however witness the damage this site does my going to YouTube and doing a search for “2 girls 1 cup”. YouTube will not show you the site but it will show you the reactions to people viewing the site.

If you are a sane person you will now go on with your life and do nothing. If you are a curious bastard you will go to YouTube and see the pain I speak of. If you want to lose sleep and be damaged for life, and are smart yet dumb as an ox you will be able to locate this site.

Don’t do it Timmy, go play in the park instead. There is nothing to be gained and so many brain cells to damage. Not to mention the waste of a perfectly good lunch. Quite seriousstop at YouTube and go no farther! For those that I have pushed this moral dilemma on, I am truly sorry!

Welcome junk mail and make it fun

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Junk Mail WarLike every other person on the planet I used to hate junk mail. I am referring to the snail mail flavor here, you know the ink on dead trees sort. What a waste! It is never for crap I would even want. I received an email about 8 years ago that I still follow today. Yes grandpa email has been around that long. All that crap that comes in your mailbox has a little magic box in the stamp area that says “no postage necessary if mailing in the United States”.

Well who pays for this you might ask! Well Timmy it is the credit card companies and any other soulless bastard that sends junk mail. You see if you send that envelope back to them they have to pay the postage to get it there. The email I received 8 years ago said to cut your name and address off the junk inside and put everything else back into the envelope and send it back. I stopped doing that 6 years ago. Now I stuff everything back in the envelope. Leaving your name on the contents has the advantage that they know who sent it back and if they are smart they will remove me from their mailing list. I am obviously not interested since I did not fill anything out. This is a great way to recycle as well since most bulk mailers have a decent recycling program. Once they see you have not filled the paper work out they will pitch it into the recycling bin… but not until after they have already had to pay the extra postage and someones wages to open that damn envelope.

There is no down side! They can not send you a credit card or anything else if you don’t fill out the paperwork and sign it. In the eight years I have been doing this I have received only one response. They send me another “postage not necessary” envelope telling me I forgot to sign my application and put my social security number on it. I stuffed that back in the envelope and sent that back as well.

This can be taken even further. Besides the fact that sending all this crap back helps keep the post office in business it is possible to use it for your own marketing. When you send the envelope back you can advertise your web site, send nude pictures of your neighbor, or just tell a joke. Use this link to watch a video on some of the possibilities.

Be creative and make it a family project!