Bollywood He-Man Musical

Described as “Absolutely Terrifying” by io9.com, this clip from a 1989 Bollywood He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Musical is unbelieveable.

I do agree with one thing they said on io9.com though,

“Reminder: What can be seen, can’t be unseen.”

The Robots Will Never Win

… as long as there are people with the passion and skills of this man. Go ahead and laugh at this slightly overweight Street-Fighter wanna-be, but I promise you that you’ll want him on your side one day.

I feel safer knowing there are others out there who will help protect us against the eventual robot monkey apocalypse.

Red Rabbit | Secrets

I really liked this.

From the creator Egmont Mayer:

A man lives alone in a small apartment. The little contact he had with other people has dropped to zero since the rabbit appeared. Every attempt to get the rabbit out of his apartment has failed and since he is not sure whether or not pets are allowed in the building, he does not let anybody enter his apartment.

From whitezine.com:

When you start living with a secret, it begins to be harder and harder to “live”. No social life, no love life, no family life. But if you look deeper and deeper you’ll find out that everybody has a secret, even your neighbour. An awesome animation film in 3D made by Egmont Mayer. Check out his blog.

No 3Gs, But UPGRADE!

I finally broke down and decided to upgrade my iPhone.
I will let my photos explain.

Currently:

Soon:

I will post updates on how the surgery goes.

Dr. Brown ain’t just a soda!

2014 World Cup Stadiums In Brasil

Check out the pics located at Arch Daily of the Stadium designs for the 2014 World Cup in Brasil.

The only really interesting one to me seems to be the rectangular one, below ground, and green. Who care about the stadiums really, Brasils fans are the real attraction.  How fun.

VIA: Arch Daily

Interesting Numbers

6174 is an interesting number. And so is 1729. In fact, some people claim that there is no such thing as an uninteresting number.

What are some more?

Ukelele Musical Mustachios

This quote says it all:

Complete Guide features complete coverage of the 25 major moustache groups, enabling you to instantly identify any moustache you spot without even putting down your ukulele.

Lol.

Thanks to xylocopa.com for sharing this precious gift to humankind.
I think my favorite is the LARP-Stache.

Guides like these are very important. (thx beardrevue.com)

The 20 Types of Art Students

This is a really great set of sketches done by Chuck Dillon, categorizing the different types of students he’s had in the past 10 years of teaching art at the Hussian School of Art in Philidelphia. I think I fit into the Average Student more than any of the others. Yay average!

Please check out his blog, and specifically his post about the 20 types of art students. Very funny funny.

Instore Show

A shamless attempt at creating links to my company blog post about the recent Instore Jewelry Show we were at.

Check it out if interested.

Houses That Move Me

If  I were to have a genie offer to whisk me away this minute, it would be to this amazing elevated house.

Lofted Forest Home

Thank you Rover Harvey Oshatz for having such an imagination! I want to go play.

According to the architect, it is a physical manifestation of the “fluidity and complexity of music.”

I think it does that. Seems like it would be super peaceful up there.

More images HERE. Thx swipelife.com.

Ramp House

Here is a cool house with an option you dont see very often (unfortunately).

It is a perfect blend of skate ramps and house, neither one nor the other, but both. So cool.

I love the fireplace in the middle of the room.

Built in Athens, Greece as a rooftop addition to an existing building, Ramp House is a new take on the idea of home:

“Basic house elements such as the fireplace and storage units are hidden inside the ramp forms. I also tried to combine the street aesthetics of the skate scene using concrete and the cozy atmosphere of a house using wood. So concrete walls mold into the floor and then concrete turns into wood to create a ramp partition with the kitchen. In that way, the whole space is in actual motion and somebody can flow from one space to the other, skating or walking.”

If you’re interested, there are a ton of pictures of the space on the Archivirus site.

Via: ArchDaily.

My Secret Army

You may wonder why I haven’t been updating as much lately, you,  my loyal fan.

Is he busy twittering away, was there a free icecream buffet somewhere, did he join a rebel group of freedom fighters in Azeroth?

The truth is that I have been secretly traing an army. My own private army of battle toads.

This recession will never take me and my army alive. We are prepared.

Fine Art Star Wars

I love this collection of beauties. Star Wars references, either subtly or running wild and untamed, have been added to some of the classic images of the fine arts world. Bravo to SomethingAwful.com for gathering this fine collection. A few below, and many many many more too!

The Greatest Thing Seen So far Today : 4/3/09 edition

VIA: Thinkgeek.com, via Kyle, thx!

No adult size. …Yet!

Youth Animators

Baha’i Youth Animators, amongst other things, are usually young adults who help the youth and jr-youth of a community devise and implement plans of community service as well as look to their spiritual, intellectual, and creative development. This is the stuff folks. There is much more that goes on, but alas I am not experienced as of late.

Check out the supa-dupa fly video below. Some friends of mine are in it, and I am immensely proud of them, and equally as ashamed that I’m not doing more. Dang Yo! Really really amazing. Keep it up.

The Andrew Johnson creation below, needless to say it fits all my criteria: awesomeness, check: Star Wars reference, check: people working for unity, check. This is a great picture, and I would go see the film.

Artist Tadaomi Shibuya

love this guys work.  it shows some real attitude, style, and technique.

best place to catch up is on his Myspace page. we’re the same age, woot.

He hails from Yokohama, Japan.

Love it.

I Love You

What a great  project. I Love You cards. I think I’ll try and score some, or make my own.

Via Heidi @ iloveyoucards.org:

Come & Get Your Love:

Welcome! You found me! One thing is for certain… folks everywhere, they love LOVE! For me to cover printing and shipping costs, I humbly come forth and ask for your help. For just $5 you can help spread incredible joy, and feel awesome at the same time! Bonus! We are all in this together, make it happen, show your support… go team!

If you need a foreign language or special order card… email me!

I love you (seriously.)

-Heidi

Happy Birthday William Gibson

Thanks for all the good reads sir!

Here’s a great site with good info on this great Sci-Fi writer. Enjoy!

The Evolution Of Life In 60 Seconds

I found this great video experiement today.

“A video experiment in scale, condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute.”

It really gives you a different perspective, one that’s not quite so “me” (humans) centered.

Click on image to go to the video.

by Claire L Evans

Added benefit: I discovered Seed magazine.

Very cool site. “Science is culture” is the tag line from their home page.

Looks definitely worth exploring some more.

Rubinos

Just wanted to throw a shout out to some really great pizza.

Rubinos in Bexley, OH. Nom Nom Nom.

Columbus Crew Schedule 2009

The Columbus Crew is getting ready to start their defense of their impressive 2008 MLS Cup winning season soon, and doing duty as a good fan, I present you the 2009 schedule.

Below you’ll find links to popular calendar formats. Click the XML button to add the feed of the calendar to an RSS reader type program/live bookmarks/etc, the iCal button for your calendar program like Apple iCal or Google Calendar, and the HTML button will simply show you a browser version. You can now sync your Google calendar with your iPhone, sweet!

Tucson Gem Show

Check out a little post at my company’s blog about the recent AGTA GemFair we were at during the almost month long Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.

Genius Tiered Buying Options

This is really genius. These are the type of things where creativity really pays, because you never know who that one person is who will really go for something, regardless of the price. I think trapeze lessons with members of Nine Inch Nails would be cool. Anyone have a spare $75K?

VIA: Techdirt.com

Over the past year or so, we’ve chronicled multiple different musicians adopting a “tiered” approach to selling things. It makes a lot of sense: give people different options, and added value for paying more, and they’ll often take you up on it. Two of the more impressive examples of this were Jill Sobule and Trent Reznor (two very different artists, obviously). Now it appears that Josh Freese, who has played drums for Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails in the past (as well as spending time in Devo, Guns N Roses, the Vandals, and backing a bunch of others… including Sting, Katy Perry, Clay Aitken and various others), is releasing his latest new album with a rather hilarious (if hopefully tongue in cheek) take on the tiers (thanks Brian).

The tiers start out normally enough, though, there doesn’t seem to be a free tier (boo!) and the prices even seem slightly higher than Reznor’s successful tiers. But then, he starts adding a ton of higher end tiers with various (often extremely funny) options — all involving access to him or other musicians he’s played with (access is a scarce good, of course). It starts at the $50 level, where you can get:

“Thank you” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like “Is Maynard really THAT weird?” or “Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?” or “Are Devo really suburban robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of dads from Ohio?” or “Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?” It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want. And then gets more involved (”lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you’re into)”) the more you pay. At $1,000, there’s: “Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on YouTube, of course).” And, of course, all the way up at $75,000 you get the following:

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• T-shirt
• Go on tour with Josh for a few days
• Have Josh write, record and release a 5-song EP about you and your life story
• Take home any of his drum sets (only one, but you can choose which one)
• Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from Tool’s Lamborghini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while
• Josh will join your band for a month … play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.
• If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4-day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
• Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
• If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a U.S. resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks
• Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna

He may just be mocking the concept, but it’s pretty amusing, and I’m sure plenty of fans will take him up on the lower level offerings, at least. Though, he may want to watch out. As Jill Sobule learned, even if she thought no one would take her up on the $10,000 option, someone did. For Josh, at $10,000, that would mean that someone gets to spend some time at Disneyland with Josh — and then get to keep his Volvo station wagon (yup, that’s what it says).

Worlds Largest Lightning Rod

Even better than I imagined.

I posted last year about the mega building being built in Dubai, UAE, the Burj Dubai. It reminded me of the buildings I saw in the Star Wars movies from the city-planet of Coruscant. What could be better than that? As it turns out, the Burj Dubai is much cooler than that. It is a pimp bonafide hustler in the area of attracting lightning.

Check out Zeus’s favorite target:

Fuzzy, but awesome:

From a car window:

Several strikes in slow motion:

Wii Surfing Google Earth

Another entry for you from the “future is on its way” department:

Wii balance board/Google Earth mashup.

Germany’s Research Center for Artificial Intelligence has hacked together a Wii balance board with Google Earth to go surfing, as kottke says, “like the Silver Surfer.”

It actually looks pretty lame, but it really made my imagination run. I can see this really going places. I need to eat better and workout more. I want to live long enough to see all the really cool things the future has in store for me. No more of this.

Huge CCTV Fire & Chinese Censorship

Ah! Fire, Fire!
I’ve done a few posts on these buildings, and it came as a shock to me today, 8 days after it happened, that there had been a huge fire, and one of the buildings in the complex, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, completely burned out!

This wiki page explains everything better than me, but see below anyway!

Images and video instantly got out thanks to individuals using Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc…, but if you were in China the next day looking for news online or over the airwaves, you were outta luck.  The LA Times had a good article about it.

The fire started when fireworks somehow lit the building on fire. Fireworks are illegal in Beijing except during special festivals, such as that night, the final night of the Spring Festival / Chinese New Year celebrations.

The CCTV (China Central Television) is THE state run television service in China, and has long been seen as a large agent in spreading the Chinese government propaganda. This is the reason you see comments like the one below:

“As long as there aren’t any injuries, let it burn. They don’t need so many buildings [in]the first place,” wrote one typical anonymous poster at the popular news portal Sohu.com. “CCTV enjoys too much luxury already. They will always have enough buildings, even though this building is down.”

Since Chinese media outlets weren’t allowed to show/report any of what was going on, the chinese netizens took it upon themselves to show the world what was happening. Of course I am noting it because it is hilarious. You’ll see.

Only one person, a firefighter, lost their life in this catastrophe. They are holding 8 men who arranged the fireworks display, without obtaining a permit first. Ouch!

There was a rumor that the fancy metal exterior of the building,  a zinc and titanium alloy, could be to blame as well.

Rocket-ship Flower Vases

Perfect gift for the space-obsessed dreamer in your life. Oh, and they need to like flowers too.

Vases by Martin Bu, Slovakia.

Facebook Fears Vogon Poetry, Recants

Looks like the threat of  Vogon poetry was all that was needed:

Blogging FTW.

Facebook TOS Fear My Vogon Poetry Revenge

For those who haven’t heard, Facebook (new owners of you), have recently changed their Terms of Service (TOS).

In short, all of the content you’ve ever uploaded on Facebook can be used, modified or even sub-licensed by Facebook in every possible way – even if you quit the service.

The TOS says the following:

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.

To be fair, I don’t believe that Facebook is trying to take over our lives (OMG i must check status updates!) with the TOS, and I don’t really see them taking advantage of it.

However, should Facebook infringe on my goodwill, I promise nothing less than a full scale Vogon Poetry Slam.

by rogue_pigeon

Not familiar with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, or the 3rd worst poetry in the galaxy? I give you a brief description:

Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem “Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning” four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been “disappointed” by the poem’s reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled “My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles” when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.

Facebook, Im sure you realize that even though you have 175+ million subscribers, there are still more copies of HHGTTG in the universe, and if you make us fill our profiles with Vogon Poetry, you will be solely respnsible when the Vogons come a callin’.

Be very afraid Facebook.

Final Watch – At Last!

Needless to say, I’m seriously excited. The Last Watch/Final Watch, the final book in the amazing sci-fi/fantasy series by Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko has come out. Yay! Now to wait for my paycheck Friday so I can go buy it before my trip.

I just realized this: the new Twilight vampire series of books totally bites off of this series. Punk! In these books magical humans known as Others can enter a  different world known as the Twilight. Vampires etc. abound in the series too. Lame, Stephanie Meyer, Lame!

I assure you though, this series is as Sheboygan (read: unbelievably awesome) as it gets. No sparkles. Read it!

“We are the Others. We serve different forces, but in the Twilight there is no difference between the absence of darkness and the absence of light. Our struggle is capable of destroying the world. We have concluded a Great Treaty, a truce. Each side shall live according to its own laws, each side shall have its own rights. We delimit our own rights and our own laws. We are the Others. We establish the Night Watch, so that the forces of Light may monitor the forces of Dark. We are the Others. We establish the Day Watch, so that the forces of Dark may monitor the forces of Light. Time will decide for us.”

Wizards, witches, warlocks, vampires, creepies, crawlies, watch out, here I come.

See my previous post or click here for more  info on this series.

Friday I’m In Love

One of the greatest moments in tshirt design.

From my favorite tshirt shop: Threadless.com

For those who don’t instantly recognize this, well I still love you, and here you go:

From The Cure’s song Friday I’m In Love:

I don’t care if Monday’s blue
Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don’t care about you
It’s Friday, I’m in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn’t even start
It’s Friday I’m in love

Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate…

I don’t care if Mondays black
Tuesday, Wednesday – heart attack
Thursday, never looking back
It’s Friday, I’m in love

Monday, you can hold your head
Tuesday, Wednesday stay in bed
Or Thursday – watch the walls instead
It’s Friday, I’m in love

Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate…

Dressed up to the eyes
It’s a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throwing out your frown
And just smiling at the sound
And as sleek as a shriek
Spinning round and round
Always take a big bite
It’s such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It’s Friday, I’m in love

I don’t care if Monday’s blue
Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don’t care about you
It’s Friday, I’m in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn’t even start
It’s Friday I’m in love