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“The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.” -Rorschach

Sometimes there aren’t words. But if the attempt was to make light of the opposition’s opinion of Obama, I’m afraid it didn’t work out the way it was planned.

This is a group of professional sand sculptors called Team Sandtastic. They take on a wide range of projects from very small to very large. their site is hard to navigate, but each of the images on the home page will generally take you to a whole other section. Enjoy.

For a cleaner page to navigate, go straight to their Sculptures Page.

What a difference 22 years can make. For those of us old enough to remember Number 5, you’ll appreciate this post. I remember thinking that WALL•E reminded me of Short Circuit, but that was just me remembering in my head.

Then I pulled up an image of Number 5, and was pretty astonished. The head shape, tire tread shape, even the digits, all are spookily similar. It’s a little disappointing from a character design standpoint, but I still thought WALL•E (especially the first act) was a fantastic film.

“Food of Your Choice” #2

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I returned from week up in the Northwoods of Ontario, Canada, amidst a cage match between the two US presidential candidates, only to have a buddy of mine from Japan send me a link which is, well, astonishing to say the least.

eMobile, a Japanese mobile phone company, is running a campaign, with a monkey, playing the part of . . . . . Barack Obama. They even lifted his campaign slogan, declaring “Yes, We Change!”

Do the Japanese creatives even KNOW how racist this is? I can’t wait for CNN and MSNBC and FOXNEWS of America to get a hold of this one.

Check it out now, and judge for yourself.

(BLOOD WINS!)

I know that No Country for Old Men took the award for best picture at the Academy Awards, but I don’t see how the critics chose it over There Will Be Blood. For me, Blood was a stronger, more rewarding film. Daniel Day Lewis and P.T. Anderson gave me a glimpse into the foundation of the oil economy, and drew me deeper into a seemingly one-dimensional character than I thought I could have gotten.

No Country came off as a faithful retelling of a novel where the emptiness between action created the story’s tone. Which can work fine on paper, but on screen, with the Cohen Brothers at the helm, it felt desolate, a sketch of a film, a skeleton of an idea where the dots connected, vaguely, but didn’t really care if we the viewer did so. It was no Blood Simple, I can say that. All of this said, I still liked No Country.

I left No Country asking myself what I had just watched, and came up with a fragment of an idea. I left Blood with questions about the characters and their motivations, but the good kind, the kind that keep you talking for days on end.

My post about veggie burgers led me to a spoof product from a couple years back, designed to have some fun with the absurdity of soy and tofu-based product names.

So if you’re “a cannibal who wants to quit,” then Hufu, The Healthy Human Flesh Alternative, is for you.

Step 1: Drop from cargo plane at 7,500 feet

Step 2: Unfold your 8 foot wings.

Step 3: Glide then fly at speeds of 200 mph

Step 4: Show off for the ladies with a couple sweet tricks.

Step 5: Land safely.

Step 6: Be radically, totally awesome.

Read more about the amazing jet man in this jaw dropping article. I want one!

If you ever wondered how your favorite band got its name, here is a pretty comprehensive list of band name etymologies, citing mostly first hand sources for the bands’ origins. You’ll spend quite a bit of time here, be warned.

Umm . . . I’m not really sure what to say here. A tremendous accomplishment? Raising the bar for bedroom doodlers and flip-book animators around the world?

The fact that the piece functions on more than one level — blending and defacing a medium of permanence (street art) with another which thrives on the moment (animation) — sort of heightens the impact of the project for me.

Thanks moxi for the link.

Courtesy of The Gallery of Regrettable Foods by way of my buddy Matt Daly.

Others prefer a tweny-seven story, two-billion dollar home.

This is not a joke. Please read the article, and draw your own conclusions.

Guillermo del Toro is directing “The Hobbit”. Peter Jackson will serve as Executive Producer.

I couldn’t think of two better hobbits for the project myself. Read more about this week-old development over at The Guardian.

In related news, Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis will be returning to play the roles of Gandalf and Gollum, respectively. Guillermo says so himself in an interview with TheOneRing.net.

Kinder Surprise. A chocolate candy with a plastic egg inside. Inside the egg is a painted plastic toy. Munch munch munch!

Presented to you by Chucky’s fraternal twin, the evil Humpty Dumpty.

“. . . She helps out her aunty Babette in the library in the day and sings along to the birds at night.”

This one-of-a-kind doll is for my daughter, but I think my wife and I are going to fight her for it. You should own the fabulous works of Le Train Fantome, too!

“For Sale: Baby shoes,
never worn.”

To read this story in its entirety, go to . . . wait, that IS the story in its entirety. And a good one at that.

For other (lesser) attempts at six word stories by renowned authors, check out the Wired article from a little while back. You’ll see that (though some are good) it is NOT easy to write a six word story. Not at all. If you think I’m wrong, try posting one of your own in the comments section.

p.s. I bet Roald Dahl would have written a great 6-word story.

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