Nigel Thornberry Advice
June 28th, 2011
Nigel Thornberry: Keep Calm and Blarghargh
You’re welcome, Internet.
Inspired
June 14th, 2011
With the release of Portal 2, Valve have published this shirt, filled with Internet Meme Win:
Aroooo TAKATAKATAKATAKATAKA
This is totally inspired. Oh, and Portal 2? GOODBYE, PRODUCTIVITY.
Tiny Art Director
June 13th, 2011
Before I started off on my own, I worked for what seemed like an eternity for a graphic design firm. The art director would give incredibly vague orders & was outraged when we didn’t read his mind. I think a four-year-old would have been a better boss.
Step forward, Tiny Art Director! Your commands are far clearer, and your criticism are more reasoned! Example:
The Brief: I want you to draw me a dinosaur! Not a scary one! He's taking a bath.
The Critique: I don’t like him.
Job Status: Rejected.
Goatse Food
March 8th, 2011
Uhh, no thanks, I’ve lost my appetite.
So, who thinks that the designers were pranking the client?
Separated at Birth?
March 4th, 2011
Apple iOS Veep Scott Forstall; and,
Professional creep Steve Buscemi?
By “Professional Creep”, of course, I mean he frequently plays creeps. Whatever, this has been digging at me for a long time.
No, Really, WTF
January 27th, 2011
So I’m catching up on True Blood—which has generally been good—when it decided to not only jump the shark, but perform a particularly frenetic fandango mid-vault.
I wish I knew, Jean-Luc. I wish I knew.
Baby Dictators
January 14th, 2011
The artist nina Maria Kleivan dressed up babies as famous dictators. Kleivan says she’s exploring the meaning of evil:
Anyone who doesn’t think that kids can be dictators doesn’t have a child.
As Kleivan says, “We all begin life the same. We all have every opportunity ahead of us. To do good, or inexplicable evil.”
Innovative Baby Bjorn
December 17th, 2010
Babies are like aliens. And some of them are terrifying aliens, as was mine. From Fail Blog:
Well, it felt that way to me
Nice Look
November 29th, 2010
So I’m getting bored with the way I look. It’s time for a change. Here’s the beginning of an occasional series I’d like to call:
Take Me Seriously—I Am A Professional
First, the suit:
The “Accordion Suit”, from Poorly Dressed
Then, the glasses:
The informant from Bullitt
Stylin’!
The Big Caption
November 12th, 2010
A brilliant idea: take the wonderful photographs found on The Big Picture & add teh funneh. As The Big Caption’s mission statement says, it’s
A complement to The Big Picture wherein Jokes and Statements are made using Typography.
They’ve not been publishing much recently: I hope the Copyright Police haven’t shut them down. Here are two of my favourites:
Fuck you, flowers—how does it feel to get kicked right in the face?
And, equally strong:
Hipsters, Start Your Photocopiers
Heh—it’s funny 'cause it’s true!
Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier!
October 8th, 2010
God, I love this song.
The whole album (WAT) is pretty great, too.
Bad Paintings of Barack Obama
July 16th, 2010
Someone has collected bad paintings of Barack Obama:
Possibly my favourite example
It’s a site that does exactly what it says on the tin!
Songsmith
July 16th, 2010
So Microsoft has been churning out lots of really crap stuff recently—as well as really good stuff like the ongoing work on IE9. But this post is about the crap stuff. A prime example is “Songsmith”, software that helps you create the most banal music based on how you’re singing.
We’re going to place Songsmith within the context of a big joke. First:
The Wind-Up
Then:
The Pitch
“Running with the Songsmith”, based upon the old Van Halen song. Seriously? That’s what it came up with to accompany the singing? I laughed until I cried.
You're Gonna Win!
July 2nd, 2010
Culled from my Facebook posts:
Back in the 1990s, Comedy Central did a series of fantastic interstitial ads called “Think Positive” with the Buddy Scott Trio. It was filled with the ironic 50s nostalgia that characterised so much of the US in the late 1990s.
The subject in each ad’s focus was always in a dire, impossible situation (my favourite was with the man on death row) and, when things seemed their darkest, the Buddy Scott Trio would strike up the song “You’re Gonna Win!”.
You’re gonna win
You’re gonna go
You’re head of the pack:
You’re king of the show!
You’re on the move
Straight to the top
You’re way out in front:
You’ll never stop!
You’re gonna win!
YOU’RE GONNA WIN!
This song is frequently in my head, particularly if something is going spectacularly wrong.
And the drummer: he is awesome.