The artist did molds of real bones with provenance from different dead people and after reproduced in wax each one, adjusting them and creating the representation of a new subject in that sculpture. The weight of the concrete is used like a symbolic element. Equilibrium is as a metaphor of struggle and resistance. Gravity reminds the spiritual weight that everyone supports and talks about fragility of our own life.
YOAN CAPOTE
Born: Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 1977
Via: Yoan Capote
It's time for Mario. Enjoy.
(マリオブラザーズ Mario Burazāzu)
the arcade game published and developed by Nintendo in 1983. Mario Bros. was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, two of the lead developers for the video game Donkey Kong.
Mario Bros. features two plumbers, Mario and Luigi, having to investigate the sewers of New York after strange creatures have been appearing down there.
I happend to find these 3 Mario Brothers related videos in the same day! They gave me flashbacks of the good old time of the early video arcade era in Tokyo where My dad took me to a game arcade in Tokyo Tower
At the time, Mario Bros looked totally westernized to me, I never knew that they were made by Japanese developers. (did you know?) and now I realize that maybe they could be Italian immigrant New Yorkers?
You can play updated Mario games with Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 3DS & DS. Mario Bros.
comments welcome in my twitter account. ty.
Jabba the
Hut Cupcake
Love this. If you eat enough cupcakes you will be just as fat as jabba.
COOL CUPCAKES LIST: NUMBER 200
Gotta make my mind up. Which TV do I take?
70' flatscreen sale in Walmart. 70' flatscreen sale at Target.
Rebecca
Black
Friday, Friday.
Black Storm Trooper Friday!
Here's hoping you avoided the food coma: you'll need your wits about you for Black Friday. The traditional day-after-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza has become a full-contact sport, with crazed shoppers determined to find the best deals, sometimes with tragic results. In last year's frenzy, a worker at a New York Walmart was trampled to death when the store opened its doors; two shoppers were shot in a dispute at a Toys "R" Us in California. The ensuing safety concerns may have prompted some shoppers to think twice, but retailers still expect a bonanza: the weekend after Thanksgiving is expected to account for some $40 billion in sales.
As early as the 19th century, shoppers have viewed Thanksgiving as the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, an occasion marked by celebrations and sales. Department stores in particular locked onto this marketing notion, hosting parades to launch the start of the first wave of Christmas advertisements, chief among them, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, running in New York City since 1924. The holiday spree became so important to retailers that during the Great Depression, they appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to move Thanksgiving up in order to stretch out the holiday shopping season. Roosevelt obliged, moving Thanksgiving one week earlier, but didn't announce the change until October. As a result, Americans had two Thanksgivings that year — Roosevelt's, derisively dubbed "Franksgiving," and the original. Because the switchover was handled so poorly, few observed it, and the change resulted in little economic boost.
The term Black Friday itself was originally used to describe something else entirely — the Sept. 24, 1864, stock-market panic set off by plunging gold prices. Newspapers in Philadelphia reappropriated the phrase in the late 1960s, using it to describe the rush of crowds at stores. The justification came later, tied to accounting balance sheets where black ink would represent a profit. Many see Black Friday as the day retailers go into the black or show a profit for the first time in a given year. The term stuck and spread, and by the 1990s Black Friday became an unofficial retail holiday nationwide. Since 2002, Black Friday has been the season's biggest shopping day each year except 2004, according to market-research firm ShopperTrak.
Nevertheless, retailers continue to tie one-day in-store sales to Black Friday. In the Internet era, bloggers race to obtain leaked circulars and post them online weeks in advance of Thanksgiving. Many forums and websites chart the deals, helping shoppers make a plan of attack for the big day. And attack they will — the National Retail Federation anticipates 134 million people will hit the stores on Thanksgiving weekend. After the deaths last year, there's an added focus on making sure stores are ready to handle the crowds. Walmart extended hours to keep stores open on Thanksgiving Day to try and handle the crush and had safety experts develop plans for all their stores, a tactic followed by many retailers.
QUICK HISTORY ON
BLACK FRIDAY
A brief history on the morning after Thanksgiving, otherwise known as Black Friday. Where you can get a great deal and run over someone all at one place! Rock on!
A brief history on the morning after Thanksgiving, otherwise known as Black Friday. Where you can get a great deal and run over someone all at one place! Rock on!
Via: TIME
"One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy."
- Scarlett Johansson
Halloween...
The Anthology Movie Series...
that could have been.
John Carpenter's original concept was to have a different story for each of the Halloween movies.
His first Halloween movie was about a metal patient named Michael Myers who had escaped. After the success of the first Halloween film Carpenter wanted to continue with other stories that all had the Halloween theme.
John Carpenter didn't want to do yet another Michael film. He never wanted to do a second one because he felt the story had already been told, but with enough studio pressure, he gave in. But sure enough he decided to kill off Michael Myers in the second film, which he does. With Myers out of the way Carpenter could start his Halloween anthology films with Halloween III :Season of the Witch.
After Halloween III opened up to disappointed fans who were looking forward to the return of Michael Myers, the studio forced Carpenter to bring Myers back, and so John Carpenter quit.
Today Fans of the Halloween franchise debate on whether or not Halloween III should be considered in the series.
The night he came home.
The night no one
comes home.
HOW THE X-FILES INFLUENCED TELEVISION FOREVER.
Soon after the success of The X-Files we began to see an alarming rate of television shows with the word "files" in them.
The Justice Files
Cold case files
You can't watch shows like Fringe, Bones, Supernatural, and even Roswell without thinking of The X-Files.
The X-Files was the first television show to have it's entire season on DVD. As a sort of experiment to see if it would sell. Which eventually open the gates for every series on televison to be available on DVD.
The Series started on Sept. 10, 1993, declaring �The truth is out there.� Entertainment Weekly replied, �We know — this show's a goner.�
HOW THE X-FILES INFLUENCED TELEVISION FOREVER.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked about her favorite thing to eat at Thanksgiving in a recent interview with Kristi Watts of “The 700 Club.”
"It's mac and cheese," Rice answered.
"Sister, that is my dish, that is the one thing I can rock!" Watts said in agreement.
Though Rice’s answer wasn’t all that interesting, Pat Robertson, co-host of “The 700 Club,” thought it was downright confusing.
"What is this mac and cheese? Is that a black thing?" Robertson asked Watts on Wednesday’s show.
"It is a black thing, Pat. Listen, and you guys, other people, the world needs to get on board with macaroni and cheese," Watts said. "Seriously, I just … OK, Christmas and Thanksgiving, we have to have macaroni and cheese and it trips me out that you don't."
The pair chuckled as Robertson admitted, "I really don't, I don't, and I have never.”
Click above to watch the exchange.
WTF??
WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS MAC N CHEESE? IS IT A BLACK THING?
PAT RICHARDSON DOESN'T HAVE MAC N CHEESE ON THANKSGIVING. HE THINKS IT'S A "BLACK THING." FUNNY SHIT.
Condoleeza Rice knows what's up. I can seriously throw down some good and health damaging Mac n Cheese.
Pat Richardson doesn't know what the hell he is missing...It is heavenly!
Via: Politico
Winter is almost upon us. The skiers in the audience are probably excited at the prospect of snow, chilly winter mornings and speeding down a mountain face. But who needs snow? Hop on a flight to beautiful Mieders, Austria and you can get all the thrills of bombing down the hill without the chill. But you better have the stomach for roller coasters, because this ride looks intense!
Yikes! It's called an alpine coaster, and it's basically a sled attached to a rail. As the
YouTube description explains: You reach the summit via a cablecar and then sit on a small car with a brake lever and off you go. Having ridden it once using a little braking, I decided to try it a second time without using the brakes. This is SCARY! Enjoy the ride! That looks SCARY even with brakes.
Alpine
Coasting
Austria doesn't play.
Via: CBS
Some of the culture’s most enduring Lowriders start at an early age, and so it goes with protégé’ Adrian “Lil Rascal” Hernandez, a five-year-old from Sacramento County. “Lowriding has always been a part of Adrian’s life,” explains his father, Eric. An owner of a few cars himself, Eric has been a regular attendee of local shows, bringing his Lowrider creations to the masses. He included his son in these experiences, and young Adrian took to it like a fish to water. Too young to drive, Adrian wanted to partake in the pastime that captivated his father, and he told him that he wanted to build a Lowrider bicycle. Delighted at his son’s interest, Eric approved of the idea, and the conversation quickly began to revolve around parts and paint schemes for the perfect Lowrider bike. After compiling some mental sketches and attending a few more shows, Adrian knew exactly what he wanted to accomplish in his first bike build.
Via: Lowrider
Daniel Edwards: Jay-Z as Scrooge
Last week, it was reported that Jay-z made OWS supporters real mad after refusing to share profits from Rocawear’s ‘Occupy All Streets’ tees with the actual Occupy Wall Street movement. An angry sculptor who was livid that Jay, who earned $63 million last year, would profit from people who were being arrested for what they believe to be one of the most important social justice movements of our generation, created a piece which he describes as a Scrooge Totem pole.
The sculpture, created by artist Daniel Edwards, features Jay-Z wearing chains with a big dollar sign on his chest at the base and animated characters that have played the money-hungry Scrooge character on television stacked on top of him. Above Jay is Mr. Burns from ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Scrooge McDuck’ from Disney’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ and Richie Rich.
Daniel recently discussed why he chose to make the sculpture of Jay-z:
“I think Jay-Z has made himself a face of [the] Wall Street that Occupiers are protesting against. Maybe Jay-Z is strivingto be in the one percent? Which is why I chose the composition of a totem pole because I thought it would resemble the number one. Rap stars who turn ‘Scrooge’ have to suffer some damage to their street credibility.”
Russell Simmons recently spoke out defending his friend’s choice to sell ‘Occupy All Streets’ tees, saying that the movement isn’t being against business or branding, it’s just against those businesses controlling our government.
“What’s wrong with selling goodness? There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s not the most preferred. In yogi scripture, at least, the highest form of giving is giving without expectation. Selfless. But a lot of people need incentive.
You should sell things you’re happy about. You should sell products that you’re inspired by, that promote lasting and stable well-being. Give the world something or sell the world something that you’re proud of. Jay-Z didn’t make a T-shirt [that said] “F— the Bums on the Street.” He wrote a T-shirt “Occupy All Streets” – I’m happy, it furthers the movement, it inspires the movement.
Listen, I’m going to get every corporation that wants to support us to get branding as part of the process. No one’s against business. We’re against business having too much control over our government.”
Via: necolebitchie
Mary Jane Russell
and Evelyn Tripp
Photo by Louise Dahl-Wolfe for Harper’s Bazaar, 1953
I just get a thrill from vintage fashion. Love this.
TheGreat Flood is a mythical and religious story of a great flood sent by god or gods to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution. The story has been told throughout human history, though it is perhaps best known in modern times in both the Bible and Koran, in the account of Noah's Ark. Although civilization appears to have survived earth's complete destruction in these tales, when natural disasters really happen, a whole country like Japan can be devastated.
After witnessing the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 3rd, 2011 that devastated Japan’s northern coast and left nearly 20,000 people dead or missing, what can one do to protect themselves and loved ones from a water based catastrophe? A Japanese company called COSMO has developed a miniature version of Noah’s ark- a floating capsule that looks like a huge tennis ball. The “Noah” shelter is made from enhanced fiberglass and could save users from disasters. They are getting orders now worldwide, their first capsule in the US will be shipped to NYC a week from now and will be auctioned at the"Design Saves Lives" charity event hosted by a non profit organization for Japan tsunami relief. This capsule will be displayed at the MAD museum in December, right before the auction event on 12/7/2011.
Design Saves Lives Facebook page
Noah's Ark 2011
Disaster Capsule
note: this video was shot in March 2011
Nicolas Kennedy Sitton‘s Twisted series uses photographic manipulation to distort the architecture of San Francisco. The photographer adds concentric circles to the images to form new shapes, with the buildings seemingly folding and toppling into themselves.
Via: Beautiful Decay
Nicolas Kennedy Sitton's interesting way of
twisting and turning photos of cityscapes.
