Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Didja know? In-N-Out Burger prints “Revelation 3:20″ on its hamburger wrappers.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Discovered this after seeking out an explanation for the appearance of “John 3:16″ printed on the bottom of bags from Forever 21. The New York Sun sought out shopper reactions!
“Jesus wore clothes,” a 22-year-old from Brooklyn, Jason Schultz, said when informed about the phrase on his bag.
I’m shameless
Michael Kimball guest-edited the Spring 2009 issue of Lamination Colony and included 3 of my drawings in the issue.
Essential Viewing. Period.
via Ainsley Drew @ kottke
I wouldn’t've guessed
From the Mojo Magazine mini-interview with John Cale (April 2009):
What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favorite album?
“Pet Sounds. I can listen to it over and over again and still find interesting little things. And there’s all that innocence, too.”
The Seed
The Making Of ‘The Seed’ is equally fantastic. (via Chewing Pixels)
Don’t be stupid with twitter
Given all the recent @cwalken nonsense, I found Dave Gorman’s reflections refreshingly unstupid:
I could choose to follow everyone who follows me. It might make some of them feel good in the short term. But surely it would be apparent that in such large numbers following is effectively meaningless… so it would be nothing more than a token, empty gesture… and what would the point of that be?
When I tried to explain that, some people got in touch and suggested that I could ‘follow’ everyone but use the filtering system of something like Tweetdeck to ferret out only the tweets from people I was actually interested in.
Which I think meant they were telling me they’d be happy if I pretended to follow them but then used technology to ignore them in favour of other people. What? So not only would they rather I pretended to follow them they wanted to explain to me how this dishonest artifice could easily be achieved.
The argument is that if I (or anyone else with a lot of followers) don’t follow loads of people back then it’s obvious that my use of Twitter is purely selfish and self-promotional. I think they’ve got that completely arse about tit. Twitter works in two ways. Obviously. 1) You send. 2) You receive.
If I follow so many people as to effectively make the receiving part unusable then I’m not being more interactive, I’m being less so because if receiving is rendered useless I’m effectively admitting that I’m only interested in using the send part of the equation. Wouldn’t giving 20,000 people an essentially meaningless pat on the back and the false sense of being followed actually be more self-promotional than using the service to find the things you want to find?
Drinking Beer on Sunday Evening
One day George, he come by, it was Sunday evening. This is when I was living down there at county. So George pretty much got onto me about I should mend my ways, you know, and go to church and this that and the other and everything and I was committing an awful crime by drinking beer on Sunday evening, you know, and everything –
He let me know he went to — I don’t remember if it was the Elwood Baptist Church he went to or the Telephone Baptist Church, you know, but I told him, I said, George, I said, I’ll tell you what, I said, there’s only three things I know about religion.
“Yeah, what’s that?”
I said well, I said, one thing I know about religion, I said Jewish people, they don’t accept Christ as being their Messiah or the Savior.
“That’s right.”
I said that and the Protestants don’t recognize the Pope as being the head, the head of the Church.
“Yeah, that’s right.”
I said, you Southern Baptists, I said y’all don’t recognize one another at a whorehouse or a liquor store either do you? And old George he got up and left and he ain’t never been back, you know, he ain’t come back, you know, and that’s about the truth, you know, it’s about the damn truth about it, you know, yeah, and that’s what I told him, and he, George got in his car and left, and he never did come back and give me any more lectures.
Miss Universe Visits Gitmo
This week, Guantánamo!!!
We hung out with the guys from the East Coast and they showed us the boat inside and out, how they work and what they do, we took a ride around the land and it was a loooot of fun!
We also met the Military dogs, and they did a very nice demonstration of their skills.
We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how they recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books.
The water in Guantánamo Bay is soooo beautiful! It was unbelievable, we were able to enjoy it for at least an hour.
I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.
John Bielenberg and Thinking Wrong
An interview with designer John Bielenberg about Thinking Wrong, keeping an open mind, and the fear of change.
I saw a presentation years ago with a guy named Paul Sappho. He was talking about the adoption of new technology and how it takes two generations. For example, my dad has a computer and he’ll do email and that’s about it. I have a computer and I’m more comfortable with it, but my kids are completely fearless. Sappho drew this thing I’ll never forget. It was two mountaintops and he said if you climb up to this mountaintop you can see the other one clearly, but to get there you have to go all the way down. The moral is never mistake a clear vision for a short distance. I totally think that’s happening now, where people like Al Gore see the energy technology so clearly and that’s the new peak we have to climb.
How long has it been
since I’ve given Cindy a good ‘food’ story to laugh about? So here it is:
I buy, prepare, eat and enjoy ‘complete instant mashed potatoes’ (from a box).
the origins of toys
Play-Doh was first sold as wallpaper cleaner, and the unusual origins of other famous toys.
Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright’s son. The original instructions included a how to construct a replica of Abraham Lincoln’s cabin, but also how to construct Uncle Tom’s cabin.
women are leaving Saudi Arabia to shop for lingerie
In Saudi Arabia, only men are allowed to be sales staff, which means, ironically, that women buy lingerie from men.
Under Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islamic law, women are required to cover themselves head-to-toe in black robes in public. But in the privacy of their own homes — and bedrooms — they can wear whatever they want, and sexy undergarments are popular.
But buying them is another story. Fitting rooms are banned in the kingdom — the idea of a woman undressing in a public place with men just outside is unthinkable. So a woman is never sure she has chosen the right size until she gets it home.
“I have bras with sizes ranging from 32 to 38 because I can’t get to try them on,” said Modie Batterjee, Huda’s sister and one of the boycott organizers.
Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood
By Austin Kleon
sidewalk
In the blocks nearest my house, Coral is something between a street and an alley, passing along the backs and sides of houses until it gets closer to the old elementary school.
Mystery Dance
Camera-phone photo inspired by Elizabeth Perry’s "steps". (Drawing featured on the cover of This Is Not the Way We Came In by Daryl Scroggins [Ravenna Press: 2008] and illuminated by Elizabeth Perry in ink and stopped air.)
It’s all over but the shouting.
After a direct message from the proverbial gift horse, I tweeted a sad thing:
I am Robyn Hitchcock
And I am also La Máscara de la Tarantula.
Oggetto
I just finished a redesign of my mom’s website, Oggetto. Oggetto means “object” in Italian, so the site will have objects designed for the home. Right now it’s focus is on pillows. They are as beautiful as she is. You should take a look.
Y’all
UPDATE: Or not.
The cwalken account on twitter is back:
lost tribes of new york
The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.
Beautiful and surprising stop motion
Better in theory than practice
Omegle is an in-browser IM service that picks another user at random for an anonymous, one-on-one chat. For anybody who has spent any amount of time on the internet the problem with the service should be obvious. (via Buzzfeed)
Pot Luck
Pilgrims trek to Pol Pot’s grave to pray for good luck.
“Pol Pot was cremated here. Please help to preserve this historical site,” reads a sign next to a mound demarcated by bottles stuck into the ground and protected by a rusting, corrugated iron roof. A few wilting flowers sprout around the unguarded grave site, which officials complain has been virtually stripped of Pol Pot’s cremated remains by foreign tourists.
“People come here, especially on holy days, because they believe Pol Pot’s spirit is powerful,” says Tith Ponlok, who served as the leader’s bodyguard and lives near the burial ground.
Cambodians in the area, he says, have won an unusual number of lotteries, prompting Thais to come across the border and beseech Pol Pot to reveal winning numbers in their dreams. Government officials from Phnom Penh and others also make the pilgrimage, asking his spirit to make assorted wishes come true.
Washington man tries to pay $206 traffic ticket in urine soaked coins
In explaining why the courthouse couldn’t accept Lynch’s payment, the sergeant wrote that “the pile of coins emitted a strong, pungent odor of stale urine. This was very concerning to me.“
shipping container houses
shoes that grow with children’s feet
