Friday, August 7, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Laughing...
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words.
The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly
answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are
run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that,
when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
Jewish men.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Leadville, CO
- Sir Edmund Hillary
Friday, July 31, 2009
Inspiration for today......
Children Full of Life, part 1. (watch the rest: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. Total time: ~40 minutes)
This is an incredible documentary about a teacher, Mr. Kanamori, who encourages his 4th grade students to share their feelings and teaches them that their goal in life is to be happy. Very touching, and likely to make you tear up (especially part 4).
Thursday, July 30, 2009
True champions of life = art. Merci
"They are, rather than being someone, doing something."
Merce Cunningham
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Andres Amador... nice work!
Venice Biennale ART
Venice Biennale: Adrian Searle tours the highlights
A dead man in a pool and a hall of broken mirrors ...
the Guardian's art critic
inspects the international
star turns at the
53rd Venice Biennale
Monday, July 27, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Dirk Auer skates down a 860 meter roller coaster
Dirk Auer skates down 860 metre roller coaster in just 60 seconds... jump more watch it in action!
"An adrenaline junkie has taken in-line skating to new heights and set a new world record after racing down a roller coaster at speeds of 56mph.
Dirk Auer decided to go where no sane man or woman had gone before and skated down an 860 metre track in just over a minute.
Wearing specially designed in-line skates, the German made the attempt on the Mammoth roller coaster at the Trips Drill theme park in Stuttgart...
"The roller caster is wooden and so unlike rides made from iron and steel there was always a chance of the odd nail or screw that would not be entirely flat.
If the skates were to catch a stray nail then I could have fallen and I would almost certainly have died. " 36-year-old Dirk Auer said.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Sad news..
"Yellow Submarine" art director dies
STUTTGART, Germany — Graphic designer Heinz Edelmann, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film "Yellow Submarine," has died, his former employer said. He was 75.
Edelmann died Tuesday afternoon in a Stuttgart hospital, according to the city's State Academy of Art and Design, where he had worked as a professor until 1999. No cause of death was given.
Born in Aussig in the former Czechoslovakia in 1934, Edelmann studied at the Duesseldorf Art Academy and became a freelance graphic designer in 1958.
In addition to his work on "Yellow Submarine," Edelmann designed many book covers, including the first German edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings."
In 1989, he won a competition to design the mascot of Seville's Expo '92 world fair, beating 23 other entries with his illustration of a pudgy bird with a rainbow plume and conical beak named Curro.
There was no immediate word on survivors or funeral arrangements.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Th Knowledge Series... a sample
Photography, found objects (old books), the golden ratio
language, values... a series of 10 compositions.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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