I feel honored that Rich chose my home city to do his flick-off kick-off.
Song by Trash Money.
You obviously don’t need this poster if you’re a crazy, wild-eyed scientist who invented the time machine but chances are you’re the hapless lackey who accidentally activates it while fleeing terrorists.
You can either keep it awkwardly folded up in your wallet or purchase its t-shirt version and ALWAYS wear it, you know, just in case.
Both available aquí.
via my brainiac WIRED editor @jetjocko
FIRST!
My awesome pal Jason Bierfield (who was an editor on this project) sent me the link to this brand new Muppet vid. It involves 70 friggin Muppets and RULES in a really hard way.
It makes me very happy to see these guys screwing around again instead of just doing commercial work. Head over to The Muppet Studio on YouTube for oodles of good-time Muppet tomfoolery.
If you’re having a bummer day so far, this should lift you into a cheer cloud.
Me likey.
What I love about this is that it conveys the simple message that you can do anything you want with a few short hours.
Except breathe underwater without machinery. I’m sorry but your body’s respiratory composition prohibits that.
via Aaron Wells
I took this at an old cafe in Paris. If you’re worldly, you’re probably all like, “Mmmbut zees toilets are EVreeWHERE, you buFOON!” Then you should start hitting yourself in the face because it’s not my fault I had never seen one before.
This type of “Standing Deployment” waste receptacle poses several logistical problems in my estimation. Going number UN seems pretty straightforward (literally), but number DEUX seems problematic at best. Let’s run the scenarios that I’m sure will be debunked in the comments section by an angry bored person:
- STANDING: Your first option would be to step up on the porcelain launch pads, face away from the toilet, drop your pantaloons and empty yourself. Of course, we humans are at a disadvantage re: poop-standing as our bipedalism has rendered our rectal firing system 4F and the resultant blast would be more reminiscent of an overactive Sugar Maple belching sap in lumpy spurts down its trunk. In this instance, the pants become less of a leg covering and more of a “shit net.”
- SQUATTING: Ok, let’s say you decide to squat down. You damn well better have the balance of a Cirque Du Soliel tumbler lest you fall backwards and end up supine in a tray of fresh butt butter, limbs a-flail like a toppled dung beetle.
- SPIDER-CRAWL: Using your ninja training and insanely developed quads you leap up from the foot stands and catch yourself in perfectly lateral splits against the opposing walls with unwavering strength. From this vantage, you rain down a Mentos-in-Coke-bottle-like fountain of your poop while holding your hands in a palm-strike position and screaming “Yu-Gi-OHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
In my opinion, #3 is really the only viable option but does involve total lower nudity. Next time you’re in France and spot one of these waterless proto-toilets, see which method works best for you and report back on your results!
As a side note, posts like one are the probably the reason this blog is blocked from many of your work computers.
Dig this snazzy tune with the stunning video portraiture!
Also, look for the Kuato reference. That made me very happy.
WARNING: Imagery in video may cause kitschy nightmares.
via Gavin Purcell
Not to be read as an imperative statement or confused with Freesia!, it is, in fact, a free song from former Zero 7 vocal sorceress Sia Furler. Have a listen to this discotastic groove shuttle:
And now that the tune is burrowing its way through your brain and wrapping itself around your cerebral cortex like an earworm of awesomeness, you may download it for the low, low price of FREE (with Sia’s blessing).
In my short and casual twittership with this Aussie-born songbird, I have found her to be one super-cool chick and fully support a bid for the aforementioned tune to “go viral,” as the out-of-touch marketing people say.
Pass. It. On.
The challenge was dropped…and YOU responded. The results were way beyond my expectations. I mean, there is some seriously kick-ass art-tasticness here. I received 158 submissions, all of which I will use when I order my new business cards from moo this week.
If you don’t want to view these as a slideshow because you’re a mover/shaker type with a lilt in your step and a neverending stream of important time-sensitive destinations, you can view the whole set here.
Many of you didn’t include anything other than your email addresses, so it would be great if you would go into the Flickr comments for each of your pieces and leave any info you want the world to know about you.
I sincerely can’t thank you all enough. Your talent is only exceeded by your generosity. Web Culture RULES!!!
“911?! Help!!! 40 million passengers are trapped in my balls I have to get them out!”
Now everyone knows the face of the guy who was didn’t have enough rollover minutes to tug one out. SADLARIOUS.
PS – News people are humorless.
