from the headlines
Big bellied man robs jelly-bean store
The mysterious Google Street View ‘Horse Boy’ has reappeared on the streets of Aberdeen, after a short, unexplained disappearance
While no-one knows who Horse Boy is or what the point of him is, there are theories.
Eric Schmidt’s Internet Mulligan
“I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” he says. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.
“I mean we really have to think about these things as a society,” he adds. “I’m not even talking about the really terrible stuff, terrorism and access to evil things,” he says.
WTF
‘Sweet Home Alabama’ is the number one summertime driving song in the UK.
The latest survey by vehicle information experts HPI’s reveals that when the sun comes out to play, drivers reach for Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Sweet Home Alabama’. Voted as the UK’s favourite summer driving song by HPI’s customers, it apparently has us rolling down the windows and enjoying a good old fashioned summer holiday sing along.
Remember that, Neil Young.
‘Invisible monkey’ stars in Dodge car ‘commerical’
As explained in Chinese, with CGI and subtitles.
quote out of context
No one could immediately say whether there was a connection between the mysterious Jean M. Barrie and the fetuses; whether someone else might have hidden the remains in the trunk; and whether the Peter Pan connection was anything more than a coincidence.
coming out of sleep
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Douche-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile
Two Broad Arrows
Rapha and Ridley Scott Associates have teamed up to make 3 short films. The films are each available for 24 hours only. I missed the first one but very much enjoyed Two Broad Arrows (which is available until Saturday at 12:00 AM GMT) and look forward to the final one which will go up next Friday at midnight (GMT again).
Update: Head over to the Rapha homepage before midnight GMT to see the full film.
headline of the day, III
Jakarta launches women-only train carriages to avoid groping
headline of the day, II
Olympic figure skater uses leaf blower to dry Porsche Boxster, burns down mansion instead?
Internet egg salad algorithms…
… recommend that I pair my classy dinner with a Pinot Grigio. Something dry? Crisp? Full of acidic backbone? In a box?
Philip Selznick, 1919-2010
Philip Selznick is dead:
Selznick was considered a founder of the institutional perspective in organization theory.
“He showed that organizations are living institutions imbued with cultural and informal characteristics that can constrain and also enhance rationality,” said Lauren Edelman, associate dean of Berkeley Law’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and a professor of law and sociology.
headline of the day
App Store Director Revealed to Be Former Fart App Developer
remember
Saturday is post a video story day.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner
Cooper and Deron and Cindy and Daryl know who I’m talking about. It’s the perfesser — Dr. Tee — in Denton, Texas. I done told her about my Lyme disease diagnosis, and she wrote:
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives you Lyme, you make margaritas.
Alice Laussade: Restaurant Critic Extraordinaire
There were only two things at Zaxby’s that bugged me.1) Their cute menu misspellings like “Zappetizers” and “fingerz.” If anyone from corporate had been there, I would have my-two-fingers-up-their-nosed them. And 2) The Zax’s sauce weirded me out. It was just a little bucket that came as a side for my chicken finger(z) and it tasted like ranch plus menstruation. Don’t ask how I would know.
The Cartographic Me (Plate I: Legs)
They looked like maps — the wan portions the Amazon or the Orinoco or the Congo and all the rest the Vast Uncharted Interior.
Big and the Kindle
In Big (1988) Tom Hanks plays a boy who makes a wish to be older, and then overnight is older. He starts working for a toy company and his crowning achievement is something that looks and seems to function an awful lot like a Kindle. In the movie, this ‘electronic comic book’ can be made for $7 and retailed for $18.95
Criminals will automatically be enrolled, their irises scanned once convicted. Law-abiding citizens will have the option to opt-in.
A company called GRI is retrofitting the entire city of Leon, Mexico with iris scanners.
When these residents catch a train or bus, or take out money from an ATM, they will scan their irises, rather than swiping a metro or bank card. Police officers will monitor these scans and track the movements of watch-listed individuals. “Fraud, which is a $50 billion problem, will be completely eradicated,” says Carter. Not even the “dead eyeballs” seen in Minority Report could trick the system, he says. “If you’ve been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you’re a known shoplifter, for example, you won’t be able to go into a store without being flagged. For others, boarding a plane will be impossible.”
Project Bandaloop on Thanksgiving Tower
A troupe called Project Bandaloop performed in Dallas Tuesday.
Suspended by wires, an acrobatic troupe performed and danced on the side of the 50-story high Thanksgiving Tower.
I wish I had known about it.
from the comments
Here’s a favorite Theodore Roethke poem that your paintings (and Michael’s comment) reminded me of:
–Night Crow–
When I saw that clumsy crow
Flap from a wasted tree,
A shape in the mind rose up:
Over the gulfs of dream
Flew a tremendous bird
Further and further away
Into a moonless black,
Deep in the brain, far back.
Broken Embraces
See it as soon as you can. There are small injustices around us every day but the fact that this was not even nominated for an Oscar in the category it should have won is a different sort of sadness.
From the Comments
Pam:
I hardly remember attending the opening of this show, for example, because I was too busy trying to organize everything, get drunk, hide in plain sight and socialize.
How’d you like a nice . . .
OFFER: 5 Big Jugs of Hawaiian Punch Juice
Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:59 am (CDT)We have 5 huge jugs of Hawaiian punch juices unopened that we got on sale
and never drank and they’re just taking up space. You pick up!
Must be willing to drive to Dubuque.
Map moves from archive to artwork
“Rivers, Rails and Trails.” Miller Nichols Library addition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The official title of the 1926 document is blandly descriptive: “Industrial and Railroad Map of Greater Kansas City.” You’re forgiven if those words generate not a spark of curiosity, much less inspiration.
But what if the original desk-top map were the size of a building, the image re-created through a series of perforations on metal, the whole thing lighted from behind?
