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Bad song, weird 80s inspired video
0November 30, 2008 by Colin
That would be “Cowboy,” from the Blastoids (MySpace). Liberal use of old wrestling footage, perfectly clean yet strangely erotic clips from “Twenty Minute Workout” alongside the wholesome “You Can’t Do That On Television” – the Ottawa-based home of the green slime head dump.
Oh, and a little too much footage of roller blading douche bags.
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On the French fondness for big personalities
0November 29, 2008 by Colin
On the occasion of Claude Levi-Strauss’ 100th birthday, a quote about the great anthropologist:
“Roger-Pol Droit, a philosopher who read from “Tristes Tropiques,” said that he “would have loved a text from Lévi-Strauss today saying, ‘I hate birthdays and commemorations,’ just as he began ‘Tristes Tropiques’ saying, ‘I hate traveling and explorers.’ “
“This is all about the effort of making him into a myth,” Mr. Droit continued, “because that is what we do in our time.” (NYTimes)
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Oooh. Water’s just gettin good!
0November 27, 2008 by Colin
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Something’s gnawing away at me
0November 24, 2008 by Colin
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Functional use versus tourist charm
0November 23, 2008 by Colin
There’s some construction underway at the Eiffel Tower- work that apparently requires a three story stack of construction office modules. Some forethought in placement and decoration mean that the heritage feel and tourist charm isn’t harmed – very much.
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Street cred really demands brass balls
0November 22, 2008 by Colin
Spotted between the Place des Voges and Place de la Bastille – Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the composer of the Barber of Seville and, judging from his pose, the original gangster.
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Adaptive design for bad drivers
1November 17, 2008 by Colin
Spotted in the 16ieme arrondissement – a design adaptation meant to protect this car from the close parking and bad driving of fellow Parisians. That’s a mint Mini. Tied to the back bumper? Two hard plastic bumpers normally found hanging off the gunwales of small boats.
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Changing priorities or evolving interests
3November 9, 2008 by Colin
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Now that winter’s back
1November 9, 2008 by Colin
The original Contac C television ad. I have to admit, I always hoped that once, just once, the bus would jump the curb and hit Mr. “Oh Yes I DO”
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Graphic: Election Night Coverage
0November 4, 2008 by Colin
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Wolf Blitzer’s infographic p0rn
0November 4, 2008 by Colin
Ohhh. Woolfie. Forget John King’s 60 inch touch screen with county by county demographic breakdowns. You have that wall of infograph heaven. You’ve come so far from that little book-filled cubby hole, back when you were the correspondent on the Department of Defense beat.
What is it like to work in the chyron and graphics department at CNN on an election night? Is it all Red Bull, Cheetos and Vista crashes?
At least it’s more fun than running the satellite feeds at CBS, where Katie had TWO double enders – one with the McCain campaign director and one with the Obama campaign director – fail with audio whiteouts.
By the way – why is John King so obsessed with comparing Obama results with Kerry results, on a county-by-county basis? There should be a giant disclaimer running along the bottom of his screen:
*please remember: in 2004, the United States was not entering a recession, had not been stuck in a seemingly intractable land war for five years, and had not yet experienced the trampling of civil liberties in the name of a paranoid national security regime.
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Blood Stains from the slaine Monks of Lindisfarne in the Viking attack of 793AD. Folios 191v and 192r of the Lindisfarne Gospels - written and illuminated by the Anglo-Saxon Bishop Eadfrith in 698AD.
Liber generationis Jesu Christi
“Lo, it is nearly 350 years that we and our fathers have inhabited this most lovely land, and never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race, nor was it thought that such an inroad from the sea could be made. Behold, the church of St. Cuthbert spattered with the blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples.”
Alcuin, Letter to Ethelred, King of Northumbria
Images: British Library
I had a Brooks Brothers 15 1/2 - 35 shirt and we used its front pocket to determine when the Pilot design was “pocket sized” - Joel Jewitt, discussing the invention of the Palm Pilot
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