This GraphJam assessment of Christian music (not church music the "commercial" part of Christian music that is an industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars per annum) reminded me of this classic South Park episode where Cartman starts a Christian band and writes songs by substituting "you" for "God" in classic songs… these may be offensive to Christian music fans…
Here’s John Safran’s classic segment on Christian music…
Some are folders, some are scrunchers, some are readers…
Here’s one for the folders out there (via bookofjoe)…
And one for the readers (also from bookofjoe)
A horror novella printed on toilet paper… a few times over, so that you can pick up where you leave off…
Then there’s one for the “artistic”… from an Australian company called Crumpler… also via bookofjoe…
If none of these excite you you can always print your own (also from bookofjoe).
Pacman memorabilia is a dime a dozen. But plush pacman toys that will run around your floor are all too rare. You can buy the yellow guy here…
You can get the ghosts too – and it doesn’t come down to your ability…
You can just purchase them here…
There’s a new movie (Public Enemies) coming out about John Dillinger – amongst other achievements the guy managed to escape from prison with just a painted wooden gun (another time he escaped using actual guns).
He sounds so cool that a band called themselves The Dillinger Escape Plan – they’re a mathcore band… heard of mathcore? No?
“Much like math rock, mathcore incorporates heavy usage of unusual time signatures, jarring tempo changes and unconventional song structure. The influence of metal and metalcore is what sets it apart from math rock.”
I hope that has cleared things up.
Prisons are hotbeds of ingenuity. Prisoners have endless time on their hands (particularly the lifers). Over time prison guards have confiscated various pieces of prison grown technology – like this crucifix/sword…
A guy named Marc Steinmetz has photographed a bunch of these prison creations. They’re pretty interesting. Take this shotgun for instance…
SHOTGUN
made from iron bedposts; charge
made of pieces of lead from
curtain tape and match-heads,
to be ignited by AA batteries and
a broken light bulb.
On May 21, 1984 two inmates of
a prison in Celle, Germany, took
a jailer as a hostage, showed off
their fire power by letting go at
a pane of bullet-proof glass, and
escaped by car.
FailBlog is mostly funny. Sometimes it’s not. This time it’s Mr T awesome.
Zombies are scary. They eat brains. According to Shaun of the Dead they can’t be killed by your old record collection – even if you play them U2/
Resident Evil is a computer game series (and movie series too). It’s about zombies.
Right, we’re on the same page… here’s a new (and awesome) Resident Evil t-shirt.
It’s free for people playing a demo of a game at a comic convention – that’s so many combinations of nerdness that it’s barely worth it. But the shirt is clever.
Glennz.com is running a reader poll on the next shirt they may or may not produce… there are some crackers (though they’re always a little obscure without the caption)… like this one called – it’s a coffee serving robot from the future.
There’s also this Tetris Airdrop…
And these kung fu sumos…
So, I have a proposition I’d like to make publicly to Ben (of Vanishing Point fame)…
The title of this post would make a good shirt wouldn’t it? A cool cartoon about grumpy old men… something like this media pyramid but about growing old and dividing your time between telling stories about the good old days, complaining about the youth of today, etc, etc…
I reckon Ben could draw something awesome… something in this vein…
But I digress, this pyramid was really the reason for this post. It’s from Wired.
You may not realise it, but that picture is probably the cleverest reading lamp ever.
Book goes on, lamp goes off… beautiful. Designed by a team of four designers – found at the home of Jun Yasumoto – via DVICE.
Yes, this is what the world needs. The iBum. A chair that photocopies your bum. From this Japanese designer – Tomomi Sayuda – who says:
"The arse is the window of the soul."
Honestly? What’s wrong with sitting on the photocopier? Back in my day if you wanted a picture of your bum you sat in front of one of those charcoal drawers at the markets – now it’s all new fangled camera phones and mirrors, or chairs that take all the hard work out of things…
As mentioned this morning – you can now get Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters the book… here’s the cover – and here’s where you can buy it (when it’s in stock).
Art made from rubbish. How droll.
Actually, this is exceptionally clever…
“Six months’ worth of household waste plus a pair of dead seagulls comprise the heap of refuse. It’s no accident that it took the couple a further six months to make the piece, during which time they were eating and consuming – as you do. On the wall, the shadow figure self-portraits of the artists take a break with a cigarette and a glass of wine.”
There are a few more amazing shadow pieces at that link.
These photos of piles of rubbish are also pretty amazing… more for the vast quantity than for clever creative endeavour.
This print pretty much sums up two of my favourite things (not my only favourite things – just things I like). You can buy it as a print. Here.
