2012: THE RETURN OF QUETZALCOATL

I've been hearing lots about the year 2012 over the past few years and decided to read up on the subject. I just picked up this book by Daniel Pinchbeck on the weekend and am enjoying it. Basically, most of the ancient indigenous cultures saw life in cycles and most of those cycles, according to their "predictions" are coming to an end. As Pinchbeck explains, the year 2012 is not the end of THE world, but the end of A world. A major paradigm shift is approaching the human psyche and as a result, we may be entering a new phase of understanding of just how world works and our inter-connections with each other and the environments we live in.




We as a society rely so much on goods provided to us and have access to anything we want the one thing we fail to access or have lost is our deeper connection to the natural forces that our ancestors knew. Scientists provide for us theories of relativity, black holes, string theories, etc. These modern theories are no different than myths; proposed thoughts and ideas of how the world works. For thousands of years, our ancestors lived more attuned to our environment and the result was thousands of years of sustainability. Their myths of how the world worked are just as valid as the theories proposed in Hawking's Brief History of Time.

In just 200 or so years, our current Western culture has abused our environment so drastically that we're freaking out about sustainability and the future of the environment and humanity etc. Is it time that we start to detach ourselves from our current understanding of the world and reacquaint ourselves with indigenous philosophies?

GOBLIN SHARK

Thanks Dustin!

I don't want this thing anywhere near me ever at all!

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MACH DICE

ABSENT GROTESQUE FONT

THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL

BEAUTIFUL LOSERS

Looking forward to this documentary.


Beautiful Losers film trailer from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.

HOW TO GET INTO ANYWHERE BY CLAIMING YOU'RE THE DJ

Learn how to hack at 5min.com

ARNOLD PUNCHES AN HORSE

SCHOOL OF DESIGN: NEW BBC SERIES

I'm looking forward to this new series being developed right now. Though I'm not moved by most of Starck's work, it will be cool to see what the students come up with. It would be cooler, for me at least, if the Beeb did a show featuring more on guerrilla urban art and design.

OKTAPODI

thanks Kevin Webb!
The students at Gobelins L'ecole de L'image's put out some superb work every year. The animation dept. is especially keen.

You can peruse previous years' work too which includes 2007's action/comedy/romance between two Octopi, called Oktapodi. It's pretty stellar like previous Goblelin's work, Pyrats and Burning Safari...

SASQUATCH BODY FOUND --- HOAX

Thanks Karnowski! Thanks Scott F.!

UPDATE...According to the BFRO, the thing is a hoax perpetrated by a known hoaxer. Here are the details.

UPDATE...here are a couple of photos



UPDATE...I just saw the photos and they don't look too convincing. Will post them as soon as they're loaded...

If this proves to be true it will be the biggest news ever. The website is currently being overloaded so it's taking about 20 minutes to load but a friend copied the press release for me and I'm presenting it here:

I have just talked with Robert Barrows, R.M. Barrows, Inc., Advertising & Public Relations, Burlingame, California, who informed me the following release has been distributed to news agencies worldwide. It is now in the hands of the media at large, and they will be going with this story. The embargo on the news is lifted. Therefore, here it is for Cryptomundo readers.

I feel, in all honesty, this, indeed, may be the real deal, and I say this carefully after reviewing information that has been shared privately with me. I cannot say more yet. But people will be very surprised. ~ Loren Coleman, Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
BIGFOOT BODY FOUND
DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a
PRESS CONFERENCE
to be held on
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: From 12Noon-1:00pm
Place: Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306

Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. Menlo Park, California
Tom Biscardi, CEO

BIGFOOT BODY FOUND - EVIDENCE AND DNA DETAILS TO BE PRESENTED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th

FROM 12 N00N TO 1:00PM AT THE CABANA HOTEL-PALO ALTO IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as “Bigfoot” has been found in the woods in northern Georgia.

DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature will be presented in a press conference on Friday, August 15th from 12 Noon to 1:00pm at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto at 4290 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, California, 94306. The press conference will not be open to the public. It will only be open to credentialed members of the press.
Here are some of the vital statistics on the “Bigfoot” body:
*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
*It weighs over five hundred pounds.
*The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
*It is male.
*It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
*It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and
five toes on each foot.
*The feet are flat and similar to human feet.
*Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and five and three-quarters inches wide at the heel.
*From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its hands are
eleven and three-quarters inches long and six and one-quarter inches wide.
*The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the same day that the body was found.)
*The teeth are more human-like than ape-like.
*DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo evidence will be presented at the press conference on Friday, August 15th.

The creature was found by Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer (residents of Georgia) in the woods in northern Georgia. (The exact location is being kept secret to protect the creatures.)
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer will be flying in from Georgia to be at the press conference. Also present at the press conference will be Tom Biscardi, CEO of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc.
Whitton is a Clayton County, Georgia, police officer, who is currently on administrative leave after being wounded in the course of duty pursuing an alleged felon. Dyer is a former correctional officer. Whitton and Dyer are co-owners of bigfoottracker.com and Bigfoot Global LLC., a company that offers Bigfoot expeditions. Whitton and Dyer are working with Bigfoot hunter, Tom Biscardi, and Biscardi’s Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., to present and conduct the scientific study of the evidence and information on this body.
A few weeks ago, Whitton and Dyer announced the finding of the body on the “Squatch Detective” radio show, an internet based radio show hosted by Steve Kulls. While on that show, the commentator asked Rick Dyer “Would you allow one of our people to come down and verify the body?” Dyer replied, “The only person we would allow to come down and verify the body was ‘the real Bigfoot Hunter,’ Tom Biscardi.” The next day, the producer of the Squatch Detective show contacted Biscardi with pertinent information on how to contact Dyer and Whitton.
Extensive scientific studies will be done on the body by a team of scientists including a molecular biologist, an anthropologist, a paleontologist and other scientists over the next few months at an undisclosed location. The studies will be carefully documented and the findings will be released to the world, according to Biscardi.
Biscardi is known as “the real Bigfoot Hunter” because of his extensive investigations out in the field. He has been searching for Bigfoot since 1971 and over the past several years, he has been criss-crossing the United States and Canada tracking down the hottest leads on Bigfoot sightings.
Videography on the studies will be done under the supervision of Scott Davis, an independent producer and owner of TV Biz Productions in Phoenix, Arizona.
Currently, Tom Biscardi and his Searching for Bigfoot Team, in conjunction with Bigfoot Global LLC., are preparing to capture another of these creatures alive. That expedition will start very soon. The dates and the locations are being kept confidential.
The body that is currently being studied is being referred to as the “RICKMAT” creature, a name derived from the names of Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton. [Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman recommends the term “Georgia Gorilla” be used to remove any taint of ego from the discovery, and so the general public, media, and science will have a comfortable moniker until a formal zoological name may be bestowed.]
Last year, a film that Biscardi produced about his investigations, called “Bigfoot Lives,” won first place in the Documentary category at the Pocono Mountains Film Festival. Biscardi also hosts a Bigfoot oriented internet radio show that can be heard on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 8:00pm PDT at www.bigfootliveradioshow.com. The show is heard in over thirty countries.
Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. has exclusive rights to all publishing rights, photo rights, television and film rights, production and distribution rights and other commercial opportunities related to the discovery and findings regarding this body and these creatures.
Interested parties may contact Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., in writing, at their mailing address, 1134 Crane St., Suite 216, Menlo Park, California 94025.

CUNTBLOCKER 5000

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LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

I get the feeling that the Large Hadron Collider is actually a super-villain's enormous super-weapon housed in the evil headquarters which is in the guise of a scientific research facility. Think about it: If you were a super-villain; the kind you'd find in James Bond movies, and you're going to set up a massive missile silo/rocket launch pad/electro magnetic disruptor ray-gun super-station, your plans would be foiled almost immediately when some inspector knocks on the door to see if you have certain permits for your not-too-subtle super-base that is going to take you years to build. So you kidnap or kill the inspector but before long, some Intelligence agency sends a super-spy to shut you down. So I think that what we have here: a bunch of naer-do-well scientists (super-villainous) have been building a machine that'll destroy the Earth unless their demands for kazillions of dollars are met. No one has caught on to them yet because they've been convincing people that it's actually a research facility that is going to do some incredible, highly complex, mind-boggling tests for the sake of the universe.




So what are these super-villainous scientistific master-minds up to exactly? Well they claim that they're going to fire a couple of protons at each other through a 27 km underground tube and see what happens. Their goal is to witness and record what happened nanoseconds after the big-bang through a "re-creation". Some "side-effects" of this experiment might be micro black holes opening up under the Earth, strangelets (strange matter), and Lectoids emerging into our material plane from the 8th Dimension. They've begun the cooling process and in September they'll fire a test proton through the system and then on my birthday, Oct. 21, they'll officially fire the colliding protons! SWEET BABY JESUS! Here's the project's official site.










(Copied from Wikipedia) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator complex intended to collide opposing beams of 7 TeV protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. This model is known to break down at a certain high energy level.

The LHC is being built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

The collider is currently undergoing commissioning while being cooled down to its final operating temperature of approximately 1.9 K (−271.25 °C). The initial particle beams are due for injection in August 2008, the first attempt to circulate beam through the entire LHC is scheduled for September 10, 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled, on October 21, 2008.

When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared to the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized novel particles that might be produced, and for which searches are planned, include strangelets, micro black holes, magnetic monopoles and supersymmetric particles.

HERE! HERE!

WINDEX FANTASY PORTAL

Another knob-gobbling Duncan Brothers short:

MONTAUK MONSTER UPDATE

Known as the Montauk Monster, it was supposedly dragged to shore by a surfer who claimed that he didn't want to be surfing next to this crazy corpse. There is still no word as to what kind of creature it is. More at Cryptomundo! and here's a CNN news report

NASA CONFIRMS MARTIAN WATER

NASA has just revealed that they have concrete proof that water exists on Mars and that the Phoenix Mars Lander's exploration has been extended. HERE!

GOOG 411

BUSH TOURS STATES DEVESTATED BY HIS PRESIDENCY

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

MONTAUK MONSTER

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!? More non-useful information here! My guess is that it's a leather-back sea turtle that never developed a shell or it's a baby griffin. I don't think it's a carrion crawler nor do I think it's a rust monster.

MY ENEMY & MY LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH TRANSIT

As the title implies, I have a love/hate relationship for taking transit to work. The pros equal the cons so I'm stuck in the middle.

PROS:
•less stressful and safer than driving in traffic
•cheaper than driving
•I can read, "relax", listen to music, eaves drop (some young 18-year-old Surrey construction workers talking about what drugs they did yesterday and what drugs they'll do today and fears of being fired. And just today in fact was a schizophrenic talk-out-loud kook who had many enjoyable things to talk and laugh about--as he exited he said to everyone "Smile! You're on TV!")
•environmentally more friendly
•looking at hot girls

CONS:
•sick people coughing (I make it a point to not touch anything on board with bare hands)
•when it breaks down (rarely) it sucks
•missing your scheduled bus sucks
•dealing with assholes

Monday night was a great example of a bad day. On my home from work, the Skytrain was packed. I'll let a train go and wait for another in the chances that it's less packed but last night it wasn't happening so I got crammed in. I got a backpack to the face, someone's arm got hooked into my headphone cables and yanked my phones off, and someone let one rip. When I got off at my station I went and stood in line for the bus which was on schedule any minute. We boarded and as I approached the back of the bus I saw my ENEMY: A retarded Asian fellow.

My enemy: Keeping up to speed with Hollywood gossip!

Here's the deal. About a year ago, I noticed that every once in a while I'd see this retarded man on the bus. He always took the back bench, sprawling out to take over three seats. No biggie. I can handle that as long as it's not busy and no elderly person needs the seat (they never come to the back of the bus anyways). He sits quietly, occasionally saying something out loud nodding his head to his headphones of his DiscMan (I'd love to know what he listens to). A few trips with this fellow and I realize that he's a snorter. He snorts so loud that the first time, I actually thought it was perhaps hydraulic pressure being released from the bus itself. Started to get kinda annoying. One day, coming home from work, he's sitting there when he suddenly blurts out, and this is no lie, "DAHHHH! Oh, fuck! I shit my pants!" And he stood up and tried to fix himself as best he could. I can handle that kind of stuff from a distance, and kinda relish the fact that I witnessed this but am too cold and inconsiderate to help the poor chap. What would I be able to do anyway? I'm sure someone out there would have a good solution to this kind of situation but not me. I just kinda grin inside. I know that sounds harsh but I've had the same thing happen to me so I've earned the right to enjoy this man's sudden and unexpected pants-shitting.

My enemy: Sprawled out like a son-of-a-bitch.

A while later, my son and I took a bus to the Skytrain to catch a movie and there he is; sprawled over three seats on the back bench: his ass in the middle seat, his legs across the window seat and his hand on his left "reserving" the third seat. There's one empty seat next to the "reserved" seat so I figure, he'll move his hand and we'll both be able to sit. As I guide Kai to the "reserved" seat I quickly realize that Gretzkeee isn't going to move his hand and I quickly usher Kai into the empty seat. Gretzkeee looks at me with a look that says "Nothin' you can do about it, fuck-face: I'm Gretzkeee." It creeps me out to think that my son's ass was this close to sitting on this man's hand. So I decided at that point that I really didn't like this guy and I didn't care that he was retarded. He was going to be my enemy.

Last night was the icing on the cake that took my level of dislike of this man to a higher level. After being crammed uncomfortably in this sweltering Skytrain car I cheerfully hopped almost immediately onto my connector bus. I saw my enemy sprawled out in his usual seats. His DiscMan now reserving in the third seat, his backpack taking the window seat. A very tall, very friendly looking African man came loping to the back and tried to take the seat next to the DiscMan, but due to circumstances of another man's circumference, it was but half a seat. The friendly tall man looked to Gretzkeee with a look like "excuse me please" and gestured to the DiscMan. Gretzkeee ignored him though was fully aware of his situation. Mr. Friendly then takes the DiscMan and considerately pushes it towards Gretzkeee who pushes it back with a loud "Hmphhh!" Mr. Friendly then picks up the DiscMan and hands it to my enemy who then pushes the man's hand, grabs the DiscMan and shoves it back onto the seat muttering "Fuckin' Christ!" At this point I finally say my first words to my enemy "Give the man the fucking seat. You've got plenty of room." Gretzkeee throws daggers, knives and torches my way with his eyes and yells "FUCK YOU" and then stammers and huffs and puffs in anger as he rearranges his seating arrangements. Occasionally he'd stare at me, throwing more javelins into my eyes and shaking his head in complete disgust, nodding his head more furiously to the music as though it was now playing something really heavy and aggressive, like Bon Jovi or Cinderella or maybe even Warrant. Somewhere along the ride his backpack fell to the floor and he chose to ignore this opting instead to look at me as if this was all my fault.

My bus ride is really only 5-minutes (I usually opt to walk if it's not there) so I don't have to share it with him for long and when I got off and walked past where he was sitting, again he was looking at me as if he wanted to kill me so I did the only thing that came to my head: I stared directly into his eyes, pointed at him very sternly as if poking him and said, yeah, that's right, "YOU!" Of course a million other ideas popped into my head as the bus drove my enemy safely away from me.

This morning, as luck would have it, Gretzkeee was on the bus and he and I gave each other the evil eyes.

MARTIN JET PACK UNVEILED

Thanks Geeky Steve!


Today Martin Jet Packs (hope their jet packs are faster than their site's load time) officially unveiled its "affordable" jet pack. They're asking a cool one-hundred grand. Here's an article from the New York Times which includes some video.

BIGFOOT SIGHTED IN NORTHERN ONTARIO

A couple of ladies from Grassy Narrows, ON. (near the border of Manitoba) were berry picking when they saw a hairy 8-foot humanoid creature. When it saw them, it took off into the woods. FASCINATING HUH?! What drama! What suspense! WHAT A STORY! And again, it's exactly this reason alone; the fact that the story is so dull, that I believe these ladies. If I wanted to tell a story and risk my reputation, then I think I'd go for the gusto and make it a doozy. More here!

"YETI" HAIRS TO GET DNA ANALYSIS

According to the BBC, some hair which is claimed to be that of a Yeti, were given to some high-profile British scientists to examine. As it stands now, prior to DNA testings, is that the hair is currently an enigma and does not match any other possible animal from the region. MORE HERE!

FRED & SHARON: PEACE OR WAR

Very profound and hugely symbolic! Fred & Sharon star in this poetic narrative which weighs the pros and cons of both peace and war. The music is like something off Anticon Records!

CREEPY PIG

Nothing more creepy than a pig with a really weird primate face!

Curious locals flocked to the home of owner Feng Changlin after news of the piglet spread in Fengzhang village, Xiping township.

“It’s hideous. No one will be willing to buy it, and it scares the family to even look at it!” Feng told Oriental Today.

He says the piglet looks just like a monkey, with two thin lips, a small nose and two big eyes. Its rear legs are also much longer than its forelegs, causing it to jump instead of walk.

Feng’s wife said the monkey-faced piglet was one of five newborns of a sow which the family had raised for nine years.

“My God, it was so scary. I didn’t known what it was. I was really frightened,” she said.

“But our son likes to play with it, and he stopped us from getting rid of it. He even feeds it milk.”

Neighbours have suggested the couple keep the piglet to see how it looks as it matures.

THE GREEN DOOR / TOOTHPICK THE CLOWN!

Years and years ago, there was a fabled rumour of some Chinese restaurant hidden in one of the allies near Main & Hastings (possibly Canada's poorest and "seediest" neighbourhoods; riddled with drug addicts). The rumours included that you brought your own booze and that there was some underground gambling racket going on in the back room. So myself and a couple of friends decided to go looking for it one evening.

We didn't really know where to start but whatever our starting point was, it turned out to be a solid choice because we found it within 5 minutes. In one of the allies (can't remember where) there as a junkie sitting in front of a green door. My memory's a little fuzzy but it was either unmarked or there may have been its name on the door in Sharpie or those gold square decals you see on the back of truck windows boasting the owner's CB handle.


We said "excuse us" to our junkie and she moved aside and in we went. I believe we were greeted warmly and the place was small. We were the only customers. We sat down, ordered a beer and food (we didn't bring our own booze) and soon enough our food came and it wasn't very good. We genuinely felt like the place probably wasn't too concerned about health codes and practices.

While there, we noticed on one of the walls was a number of framed autographed 8x10's of various actors and performers. There wasn't one single actor that we recognized but two did stand out: The Checkerboard Guy and Toothpick The Clown (his site doesn't seem to be properly internetted).



We finished up and left and have never returned. I don't even know if it's still around. A few years after, perhaps it was around 1997 or so, I was in Kamloops, BC and I was in the mall. The mall was having a big side-walk "salebration!" and as I was passing through, I heard some cheering and applause and then saw a number of kids erupt from behind a make-shift performance set/stage; some kind of kid's show had just finished. As I passed the set I saw that it was none-other than my good friend Toothpick The Clown! He was packing some stuff back into a chest and he looked up and saw me staring at him so I kept walking, kind of embarrassed that I was staring at him. When I got about 40 feet from the clown I turned and yelled, "HEY TOOTHPICK!" He looked up. "I'LL SEE YOU AT THE GREEN DOOR!" and then I just kept walking. From behind I could hear him yelling; almost mad, "HOW DO YOU KNOW!? Hey! HEY COME BACK HERE! HOW DO YOU KNOW!!!!" But I just kept walking, leaving the clown with a mystery: How did that guy with the crazy, muppety nose know I went to the Green Door? Now...to track down The Checkerboard Guy!

DR. ED MITCHELL SPILLS MORE ALIEN BEANS

Astronaut Dr. Ed Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon recently explained in an interview that the Roswell crash was real and that there are extra-terrestrial aliens. He recently just talked to Discovery Channel to spill more beans...

MARTIN JETPACK SNEAKPEAK

Unveiling next weekend (July 29th) at the Oshkosh Airshow

ASTRONAUT: ALIENS EXIST, IT'S ALL OPENING UP

Dr. Ed Mitchell, the 6th human to walk on the surface of Moon recently admitted on a radio interview that the Roswell crash was real and that Earth has been visited for at least 60 years. He tells the interviewer that he's been privvy to classified information regarding the matter; that the governments around the world are starting to disclose more and more information about alien visitations, that they are not a threat (or we'd be dead by now) and that they look the way you think they look. More here!

MORE STAR WARS CELEBRATION JAPAN

How awesome is this?! The only thing that would have made it a tad better is if George was flying low. Take a gander at more detailed images of this other nifty things here!

THE VADER PROJECT

Tons of low-brow artists took their take on the infamous Vader mask for a show which took place July 19-21, 2008 at Star Wars Celebration Japan — at Makuhari-Messe in Chiba just outside Tokyo to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars. Click here for more photos.

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KUBRICK COMMERCIAL

Thanks Steve Sauers!



I like how when "Danny" sees "Kubrick" he runs away for his life...

WASP INJECTION KNIFE IN ACTION

A little while back I blogged about the Wasp Injection Knife. Here's a clip where a guy finds himself up against 2 deadly, perhaps even poisonous watermelons. Thanks to the Wasp Injection Knife, he will live to see another day. Joking aside, there's no wonder why police are all buggin' out over this crazy lethal weapon.

BATTLE AT KRUGER 2

We've all seen the Battle at Kruger National Park in Africa but recently, wildlife photographer Hal Brindley was having "the best day ever" when suddenly this happened:


A leopard takes down a crocodile! Check out more here and a "video" of the photos here!

JOHN DRYDEN: WORLD RUINER

WATCHMEN TRAILER

Well it looks like those trailers went and got all busted up....Go here instead!

Here's the official Watchmen trailer and it looks pretty damn slick (the music for the first part is less than cool though). Dr. Manhattan looks pretty sweet. Watch the Youtube version below or click here for a more hi-res version...

THESE HELMETS ARE: GO!

For some reason I like helmets. I don't have a motorcycle or skidoo or jet-fighter but I love helmets. Les Ateliers Ruby in Paris, France that makes really nice helmets.

The only thing missing from this one is a white stripe down the middle and a red-sparkled maple leaf.

T&E&Z'S ABSOLUT VODKA AD #3!

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RADIOHEAD "HOUSE OF CARDS"

KINETIC METAL BALLS SCULPTURE

This installation (one of 125 exhibits) at the new BMW Museum in Munich, Germany uses 714 metal balls, all suspended by barely visible strings. I'm not exactly sure what's driving the design pattern but it's pretty hypnotizing. WARNING: The music is absolutely atrocious. I can't think of worse music. I'd sit for hours listening to Black Metal through a pair of shitty speakers than listen to the crap they've chosen to present their movie with. This "down-tempo" jazzy shit that you hear at upscale trendy restaurants has got to go! You know what I'm talking about De-Phazz, Tosca and St. Germain!

EMD BRACLET: A NOVEL IDEA!

Earlier this week I posted about the Dept. of Homeland "Security"'s new EMD wristbands which are given to passengers boarding planes. They claim that this would speed up security checks and what-not. But it dawned on me that there's a better idea: Why not just issue these out to every citizen of the U.S.of A.? Make it a law that they have to wear one of these at all times. It would carry all their identification and their bank card information, etc! You'd never have to carry a stupid wallet ever again! It could even be fashionable by incorporating a wrist-watch and bling! If you were ever caught without one, you'd have to be shot dead on the spot. Why just airport security DHS?! What about buses with bombs on them that'll explode if it slows down? What about car-jackers!? Unruly skateboarders and people taking pictures of stuff on public property? If you're visiting America, you'd have to wear one too, but it would look somewhat different so American citizens would know that you're a foreigner and potentially dangerous.

BAMAN & PIDERMAN

Thanks Nathan Thomas!

AWESOME KNIVES

As a member of the rock band "The Stabbers" it's only fitting that we have really awesome knives to do some stabbing between gigs. Here's some blades that I've ordered for John Dryden and I to use while stabbing things between and during gigs. Show us you're a fan of The Stabbers and get yours here!

Hatchet!! Do you have any of these already?!

CHAINSAW MAID

Thanks Blair!

A maid takes on Zombies in this "Claymation Masterpiece."

ITALIAN SPIDERMAN: EPISODES 7 & 8

THE EMD SAFTEY BRACELET!

Check out how awesome the Dept. of Homeland Security is becoming! They're actually toying with the idea of having passengers wear these Electro Muscular Disruptors which everyone on board would have to wear to check on and off of flights. Get a little unruly and you could be convulsing into submission.

I have no desire to pay a lot of money to become an airline prisoner for a few hours. Check out the Washington Times article here

and the makers of the device's promotional video here

Fuck you Dept. of Homeland Security!

Here's a blurb from the manufacturer's site to help clear up some misinformation:

The bracelets remain inactive until a hijacking situation has been identified. At such time a designated crew member will activate the bracelets making them capable of delivering the punitive measure - but only to those that need to be restrained. We believe that all passengers will welcome deliverance from a hijacking, as will the families, carriers, insurance providers etc. The F-16 on the wingtip is not to reassure the passengers during a hijacking but rather to shoot them down. Besides activation using the grid screen, the steward / stewardess will have a laser activator that can activate any bracelet as needed by simply pointing the laser at the bracelet - that laser dot only needs to be within 10 inches of the bracelet to activate it.

ART SHOW: JULY 12th

I've got a couple of pieces of art showing at a big group show in Gastown on Saturday July 12th. This show's theme is album cover art and I'll be showing with a whole shwack of talented people. Click on the image above for all the details and I hope to see y'all there.

ROBOT HUNTER

Them there Duncan Bros. have another short...

GOON: THE MOVIE

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I am with much delight and pent-up rage that The Goon, my favourite comic, is going to be a CG animated feature! Delighted that it's got Fincher at the helm and that it's going to be CGI. Irked to my core because about 6 years ago, I had approached my superiors at Mainframe to tell them that the rights to this comic may be available and that we should acquire them if they were. My "superiors" said, "Naaaa...I don't know...it doesn't look like it's something that people would like." "Are you kidding me?! It's got zombies, car chases, fighting, giant monsters, humour out the ying-yang! What's there not to like!?! Get the rights!! You missed your chance at getting the Hellboy rights! GET THE GOON!" To their credit they did look into the options and they were available but they still said "Naaaa. No one would like it."

At that time, Darkhorse was allowing some Australian-based rendering software company (some off-shoot of Renderman) to use The Goon's likeness for a bunch of tests they were doing. They weren't producing anything for broadcast; just testing their new rendering software.

ME IN THE PAPER!

A friend sent me this newspaper clipping recently and what's funny is that I'm thankful for the same things. I look some mutant-like praying mantis/alien Glekktod from the Inner 8th Dimension. Tim Young and Adam Corbett would eventually become my mind-slaves and then dinner and dessert (respectively).

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