IT'S FRIDAY. WHAT DO YOU WANT?
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light on the mayo, chump!
What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat?
When a Republican plans to screw you over, they do it in your face.
When a Democrat plans to screw you over, they do it behind your back.
Politics 101
“City officials are still leaning toward this being a natural phenomenon.
“It could be based on the weather, being so warm, being warm early, whether we’ve had less rain, whether there’s things within our ground water, our bedrock below the surface, things like that that could be adjusting that would create these sort of noises,” City Administrator Lisa Kuss said.”
The latest news: “There are reports of more booming sounds 80 miles away. Police in Montello are now investigating similar sounds.”
NBC 15 News Video Report, March 21, 2012:
“It’s the talk of the town in Montello today, a loud rumble last night that was apparently loud enough to shake walls and rattle windows. Last night the police department received several reports of loud noise and a loud rumble around 5:30. Police say they are investigating.”
WHY IS WISCONSIN SHAKING?
The “Big Story” in Wisconsin: mystery booms appeared in a second town Tuesday night. The still unexplained phenomena heard by residents in Montello, Wisconsin, 80 miles southwest of Clintonville, the location of mystery booms or ‘blasts’ and shaking that have frightened residentsthree nights in row beginning Sunday night. Ruled out as the cause of the mystery booms and ground shaking in Clintonville: mining, the military, earthquakes, sewer gas, and anything caused by humans. The current theory: the granite bedrock beneath the town is the culprit. Other theories in the comment sections of news reports: The mystery booms are caused by ‘HAARP’, a ‘sinkhole’ beneath Clintonville, or, ‘giant earthworms’.
Say what?
The ballsy folks at PCRM.org put up this show-stopping billboard in many different cities with the hopes of bringing awareness that there are studies that suggest Hot Dogs (and processed meats) cause colorectal cancer and/or increase the risks of it. Read the press release below targeting baseball fans in Miami…
WASHINGTON — A huge billboard near the new Marlins Park stadium will warn fans that eating hot dogs can increase their risk of colorectal cancer. The billboard, sponsored by the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, reads “Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer” and directs readers to www.PCRM.org.
Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer: Processed meats increase colorectal cancer risk. The billboard, timed to coincide with the April 4 home opener of the 2012 baseball season in Miami, features a cartoon drawing of a man in a hospital gown, hot dog in one hand, perplexed eyes fixed on his protruding behind. It is located at 600 N.W. 57th Ave.
PCRM has also written to Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria asking him to post warning signs about the link between processed meat and colorectal cancer anywhere in the stadium that hot dogs are sold.
The billboard’s blunt language was prompted by a recent survey showing that a surprising number—39 percent—of Americans do not know where their colon is. The survey also found that one in three Americans does not know what part of the body is more likely to get cancer as a result of eating processed meats frequently.
“A person who averages a hot dog each day increases his risk of colorectal cancer by 21 percent,” says PCRM nutrition education director Susan Levin, M.S., R.D. “And many people feed their children bacon for breakfast, hot dogs for lunch, and pepperoni pizza for dinner. The cumulative risk of all that processed meat can be enormous.” --- Keep reading
WTF?
Via: The305
Aramis Gutierrez
Aramis Gutierrez unpacks narrative conflict with a diligence evident in the medium of oil painting itself. Gutierrez’s imposing canvases frame classic entanglements of romantic and pragmatic relationships, ambition, betrayal, and mortality. His mythologies equate sun blisters and love pains, labyrinthine woods and Evolutionary Psychology. The result is an effervescent study of beauty, longevity, and neurosis within human drama and the history of painting.
Aramis Gutierrez was born in Pittsburgh, PA and lives and works in Miami, FL. He studied at Cooper Union where he received his BFA in painting in 1998. He has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Istanbul, and elsewhere. His recent exhibitions include the group show The Wilderness at Miami Art Museum (2011).
Caracas In Civil War (2007, Oil on canvas)
Winning (2007, Oil on canvas)
I LOVE ME SOME BECKMANN, MAN!
While living his last years in NYC, Beckmann's art took a colorful and ambitious turn.With the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945, Beckmann had an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The next year he had a major exhibition at the Curt Valentin gallery in New York City. In 1947 he accepted an invitation to teach at Washington University in St. Louis. The following year the City Art Museum of St. Louis gave him a retrospective, which brought him the highest acclaim in the art world. In 1949 Beckmann received first prize at the Carnegie International and taught at the Brooklyn Art Museum. In the summer of 1950 he died in New York.
The artist did some great paintings and got some great respect in his final years.
Source: Encyclopedia
TATI SUAREZ: Machete
Tati Suarez is an artist/illustrator that works from Brooklyn, NY by way of Miami, FL. Her work pulls from pop surrealism and imagery of the Brazilian orisha Yemanjá. She incorporates her own personal motifs of bugs, fruit and wildlife into the long, at times curly hair of goddess figures that end up as oil canvas paintings and giant murals. The image in this post is titled " Caiubi " Oil on Machete 2012. Via: Tati Suarez
I need some new haters. The old ones are starting to like me.
In an ideal world...
At work, with Jack and Coke...you make it work!
BAD BRAINS/FLYERS
If there is any band as mighty as Black Flag it is the Bad Brains. The Bad Brains music is the best in the world IMO. I haven't been able to see them live which sucks...but lucky for me and others like me we can still enjoy their records and some of these great old school flyers. Talk about real social media right here. I'm looking foward to their film which should be out soon. At any case here are some of my favoite flyers I found online Via: Bryan Ostrand
BAD BRAINS LIVE!
We first heard rumors about Google's augmented reality glasses a few months ago, and now in a post on Google Plus, the company revealed "Project Glass" along with some early concepts and prototype designs. These specs look like the freaky science fiction concept they are. Would you wear them, though?
Watch this video of what the world would look like from behind these glasses. It's like Iron Man except instead of important world-saving information you're answering your friend's text messages and learning about delays on the subway. The Google[x] team that's working on the project says they've opened it up to the public to solicit ideas about what people actually want from a set of augmented reality specs.
From what we can see in the video, Google Glasses basically seem like a smartphone notification system that allows you to respond to notifications in with your voice. Without actually trying the glasses on, the experience seems like something not only useful, but enjoyable. People might actually wear them if they can get over how nerdy they look.
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Glasses
Via: Gizmodo
Imagine a labtop on your face. It's reality!
The Academy Of Country Music Awards were last night and Ashton Kutcher found someone else’s invitation and went to the show.
So, of course he looked like a complete idiot in a cowboy jacket and hat. Now, true… most people in this outfit would look like a complete idiot, but I just read that he might star in a indie biopic about Steve Jobs, so he looks like even more of a moron.
COUNTRY
DOUCHE
Via: Rocco's Revolution
(apparently Mr. Kutcher insulted the whole country music community. Rawhide!!)
On beaches in Peru well over 600 dead dolphins have been found by conservationists from an organization called BlueVoice.org. The head of this group was quoted in MSNBC as saying the deceased dolphin count is 615, but on the the Blue Voice blog, the number was said to be potentially much higher by a marine mammal rescue director in Peru. In fact the Blue Voice blog says the stranding could be the largest dolphin mortality event yet recorded.
“I was stunned to hear we’d counted over 200 dolphins. We hit a length of beach no more than 100 yards long in which we found ten dolphins of varying levels of decomposition. The numbers continued to mount. By the time the rising tide forced us off the beach the count had reached 615, counted over 135 kilometers,” said a Blue Voice employee who visited Peru.
It sounds like there could be many more. It isn’t clear yet exactly what caused the deaths. One speculation is sonic testing conducted by oil companies, because it is believed the very loud noises can cause internal bleeding in dolphins. (Sound travels faster in water, than in air.)
“We have been noting that the animals were suffering from acute decompression syndrome – that is to say, a violent death produced by an acoustic boom that disorients the animal and produces haemorrhages which cause the animal to end up dying on the beach,” said ORCA director Dr Carlos Yaipen. (Source: 3news) Another speculation is that a disease caused an epidemic.
In the United States an increase in deadly dolphin strandings in the Gulf has been tied to habitat damage due to the huge oil catastrophe, a situation which is ongoing because there is still some oil in the Gulf.
Found
Why are hundreds of dead dolphins ending up on the coast of Peru?
Whoa: Over 600 Dolpins
Via: Care2
by: Jack Richardson
Dead!
"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
- Abraham Lincoln
Pac Man Wedding Cake? Yeah!!
I love that grooms' cakes can be a way to interject a little fun into wedding receptions, especially when they perfectly capture a groom's personality. This Pac Mac groom's cake from The Domestic Scientist is a perfect example. Complete with a keepsake Sculpey topper, it was a huge hit with the groom. Read more about how and why it was made over on The Domestic Scientist blog.
Via: Craft Zine
IT AIN'T
EASY
BEING
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B VICIOUS!
I really dig this girl. She's 24 and based out of LA. She just started taking photos not to long ago, but as you can see she's really easy to look at. :-) If you would like to follow what she's doing check out her Twitter. (@b-vicious) Photo was taken by Volve Photography
"Erasing Boogie"
Kiki Valdes - Oil, acyrlic on canvas.
I found this photo of this painting I did a few years ago. It was a painting I was working on then I started layering it with older paintings and ideas I never finished, basically in some ways I resolved this painting with previous ideas from other works and studies.
josh keyes
Sirens (40"x30", acrylic on panel, 2012)
Scorch I (18"x24", acrylic on panel, 2009)
Stampede (60"x120", acrylic on canvas, 2011)
Tangled II (30"x40", acrylic on panel, 2011)
Descent (24"x20", acrylic on panel, 2011)
Waking (40"x30", acrylic on panel, 2011)
-Josh Keyes' work is a hybrid of
eco-surrealism and dystopian folktales that express a concern for our time and the Earth's future.-
-American contemporary artist-
via: biography page in
