fun with post-its
the last arts-and-crafts-style project i did (that was not stickering the portapotties at bonnaroo) revolved around a non-stick, poly-vinyl coated beach mat to keep your, um, beach towel sand-free during your ocean-side travels. i did this throughout the first semester of my junior year of college. this was, admittedly, an awful idea, despite the fact that said beach mat’s ykk zipper-lining enabled it to double as a beach bag and the bean-bag-weighted corners kept your towel or blanket from blowing away. for the record, i never actually thought this was a good idea or that it’s utility had much merit in the realm of sh*t-people-pay-for, but the prospect of doing a semester-long business plan for an invented product with the son of a turkish chromite tycoon and a chilean futbol jersey enthusiast/collector left myself and chris with way too much work to worry about the fact that we’d be pitching a product that the skymall publishers would undoubtedly scoff at. with that said…
this is bang-yao liu’s senior project for savannah college of art and design. that he used royksopp’s “eple” as the music bed of this video suggests that he and i have similarly stellar taste in music. the actual video suggests that his last collegiate arts-and-crafts-style project may be slightly more mind-blowing than mine.
to quote sean maloney (who was actually talking about raphael saadiq’s bonnaroo set and not this video when he wrote the following): “holy sh*tf*ckmuthaf*ckas!”
Add comment June 18, 2009
team spirit + ronye = #VALUE!
ronye is a laker fan. i know this because he told me so. and although you might not know it from the way he saunters into your office, casually asking, “oh, is the game on?” during the fourth quarter of a pivotal western conference semifinal game five, you might know it by the way his royal waviness wears his team’s colors. or you might not. because, well, he is ronye and everything he does is so haphazardly suspect that his mere existence is an imaginary, giant asterisk beside the plot summary of malcolm gladwell’s blink.
in any case, the following outfit is ronye’s laker pride ensemble. it is also part of neiman marcus’ harlem nights-inspired wavy cruise collection. purple v-neck. gold slip-ons. file under: how you like me now?
for the record, i was the fifteenth person at my office to see this outfit, despite charlotte sending a picture of these shoes – “they tod’s, of course,” ronye would explain later in the day – during my lunch-hour drive back to the office.
and, in case you were wondering why, on laker-pride wednesday, ronye paired his golden slippers with red socks, i give you the same explanation i was given:
“ketchup for the mustard!” – ronye
Add comment June 18, 2009
jimmy fallon makes my dreams come true
as of this moment i’ve watched exactly eleven minutes of the jimmy fallon show. nine-and-a-half of those minutes were spent this morning watching this!
i cannot fully explain what this has done for my day. i could spend the rest of the day trying to explain the concept of twitter to my grandmother and this would still be one of the most fulfilling days i’ve had in some time. the residual disgust left from the homeless wine (alcoholic miscellany) and cheese (ninety-five-percent smoked and stomped out cigarette butts) party taking place outside my apartment this morning has all but dissipated and i am pretty confident that i now have the ability to fly. minus that last part.
many thanks to my cousin scotty for the years of saved by the bell trivia, the naming of the dominator and making this a wonderfully un-tuesday tuesday.
Add comment June 9, 2009
chairlift + lots of televisions = #VALUE!
i think i kinda like this chairlift band. i’m not sure how i’ll feel about them tomorrow or next week or three years from now, but as of today and, more specifically, in this moment, i find them kinda enjoyable. as (very few of) the kids say: i’m digging it.
this is the video for chairlift’s single “bruises” which i’m being told has been featured in an itunes or ipod or imac commercial and features a lot of televisions and what appears to be a pretty f*cking cute lead singer when she manages to not remind me of dazed and confused’s insatiable nose-toucher, mitch kramer. yes, this mitch kramer.
i could do without the dude in the bare chest and furry vest combo though. i can do without him in a big ‘ol way.
many thanks to jen c for the heads up and a free album.
in other chairlift-related news: i’d like to take this moment to let all the super-cool people who’ve ever shared a chairlift with me, suggesting that there wasn’t any good reason to lower the bar on said chairlift, shaming me into agreement and leaving me frozen in cold, slippery fear while the chair unsteadily ascended up the mountain that i will forever and ever, in stubborn perpetuity hold for you an uncomfortably small, dark space in the cholesterol-hardened lower-left-corner of my heart.
*note: i’m quite aware of grammatical and medicial liberties i’ve taken in the last sentence/paragraph.
1 comment June 5, 2009
give me/em shelter
i’ve never been completely certain if it’s called a car-port or car-park, but it’s become less the place where guests to my apartment can park their cars and more the super-dope venice hangout/lounge/unisex toilet for the local – and occasionally wandering – homeless. i bring this up because as los angeles is on its third consecutive day of being kinda cloudy, but sorta sunny, but windy and rainy, but only sporadically at different intervals, in different locations with varying levels of intensity, i want to offer you – drivers/parkers of cars and blog-savvy transients – this image of sheltered unity, where compact cars and unabashed vagrants can rest together in peace and quiet, albeit not five feet from an ever-present puddle of improbably pungent urine and other miscellaneous fecal accoutrement.
photo courtesy of boredom, nerve and my blackberry bold.
happy friday!
Add comment June 5, 2009
ben is high on potassium
who: william lamson
what: um, it’s “a moment of zen” which happens to be a video of a guy in an impossibly creepy-looking, homemade firecracker-stuffed banana mask. forreals.
when: sometime between the advent of morons and now.
where: thankfully not here and, presumably, in a dark basement next to a soundproof bondage chamber.
why: because even sure-shot psychopaths like to unwind with some moderately danger-laden zaniness.
this video, unsurprisingly, came courtesy of ben, who’s knack for coming across demented self-promotion featuring topless men is rivaling only ronye’s ability for delivering delightful ghetto-nonsense. the main difference, of course, being that ronye’s recommendations make me want to give him a great big thanks-for-the-content hug and i am becoming increasingly why-is-he-laughing-like-that terrified of ben.
oh, and by the way, ben is still on notice. ronye is still not.
happy thursday.
Add comment June 4, 2009
breakin’ + lcd soundsystem = #VALUE!
breakin’ 2: electric boogaloo would have been the reason i became a dancer if it weren’t for my famously slow footwork and inability to “move my hips like this” when the girls i grew up with instructed me to “just move your hips like this.” so while i prepared to master the ever-complicated pursed-lips-head-nod, B2EB was relegated to simply being one of the first wonderfully absurd films to appear on – and never disappear from – my radar.
today’s twist on the classic breakdance flick comes courtesy of lcd soundsystem’s “time to get away” and rami dearest’s rami dearest.
thank you to rami for the three-point-five minutes of anti-gravity, indierock pop-and-lock. this almost (but doesn’t quite) makes up for the two-hour walk/wild-goose-chase up and down venice’s boardwalk that rami led me on two weekends ago to find what we were looking for not thirty yards from where we started.
Add comment June 3, 2009
people.com and religion and bears. oh my!
it’s always charming when your friend mark, who has no problem consistently mocking the way (he believes) you’ve embraced social networking, often going so far as to suggest people who are wondering how/where you are refer to your facebook status and/or twitter feed in lieu of actually asking you, sends you a link that was referred to him via his people gossip widget. seriously. charming. really.
in any event, the link mark was referred to really was – and is – worth sharing, if for no other reason than to point out that people.com cares very much about the venn diagram created by the mel gibson and catholicism circles and that, while it was an apparently slow news week for natasha stoynoff, we should still applaud the icky grace with which she makes catholicism feel a little bit like scientology.
this was mark’s email:
subject: finally, people gossip widget has chosen to explain catholicism
body: i never realized how crazy catholicism sounded until it was gossiped about
Add comment June 2, 2009
regina spektor = #VALUE!
man. regina spektor is kind of all sorts of awesome. the good news is that her new album comes out in three weeks. the better news is that her video for “laughing with” has arrived and is all sorts of wonderful in all of its regina spektor-y splendor. enjoy…
you. are. welcome.
Add comment June 2, 2009
