Did you have a good weekend? I did. Spent a lot of time lazing around having fun, then went to the East Lansing Art Festival. I think I've been spoiled by the Ann Arbor Art Fair my whole life, but I appreciated the brevity of the East Lansing one. MUCH smaller and more bearable, especially in that heat. Wow.
Ok, some cool stuff for today.
I really like the art of Mischief Champion. Some of it is just too funny.
If you haven't heard of Pinterest, definitely check it out. They are still in the works, so I am eagerly awaiting my account!!!
Pinterest lets users create image boards based on their specifications: design, cooking, art, typography, furniture, ideas for future decorating, or just to collect ideas. I think it's GENIUS.
We just had a TORNADO WARNING! Yes, folks. A funnel cloud was startin' somethin' somewhere around here. I have to say I saw it coming. The sky looked a foul shade of vomit and darkness a bit before we heard the sirens.
One good thing that came out of the experience was that I happened across this Etsy gem.
Don't worry. It's only TWO-THOUSAND DOLLARS. And I totally submitted it to my favorite site, Regretsy. I hope it makes it onto the site!
This isn't really art-related, but this Tumblr, Lesbians who look like Justin Bieber (and also other folks who just happen to look like him too), has been CRACKING me up.
Pahahahahaha!
That one is quite the gem. Now let me clarify: I only recently gave enough of a shit to even discover who this kid was, and I have repeatedly made the mistake of listening to several of his songs on Youtube. Each and every time I feel dirty, not because I'm attracted to him, but because I feel like I'm supposed to be and there is a TWELVE-YEAR-OLD CHILD on screen acting like he's some clown down the street at Rick's bar, smarming it up for the ladies. Disturbing much?
First I'd like to apologize for neglecting y'all while I was on Spring Break. I tried to update, I swear, but I was on Chrome and it's a bitch to upload pics with it. Try it sometime. Anyway, I tried for like 5 seconds and gave up. Boooo.
First up is this crazy video from Pleix films. They have some truly bizarre videos on there, but this was my favorite. E-Baby and Pleix Blog were some other cool ones. via design crisis.
I thought this was too cool:
I am all about incorporating tree motifs into interior design - especially something this cool! Things like this house in Austin, TX, however, I do not want:
Erin over at design crisis had the pleasurehorror of touring this house last November.
"There is a TREE in the middle of the house — in the kitchen, for goodness sake, which is somehow even more offensive... Whoever built this patchwork piece of shit house built it out of plywood, cardboard and duct tape. The roof leaked all around the hole where the tree is, and a foundation was laid over the tree roots. Not good planning.
Plus it looks like sandworms from Beetlejuice are attacking the exterior of the home, and nobody wants that."
Hopefully some DIY-crazed lumberjack happens across that house and helps get its shit together. His darling, yet no-nonsense wife can redecorate and make it shabby-chic! Dunno what they're gonna do about the poltergeists, though. Maybe they will be very religious people and can perform an exorcism!
Yeeeaaahh! Man oh man, that post cracks me up EVERY SINGLE TIME. Click here to check it out!
Wow - such cool stuff. Here, I'll even RE-LINK you so you go check it out! Reminds me a lot of Nightmare Before Christmas - which ALWAYS freaks me out. Thank goodness for Sally and her sad songs and good intentions, or everything would have been ruined.
Those are some questions you may have been asking yourself while I was on vay-cay and being lazy, because you know this blog defines you. Readership is down 75-point-something percent! Now that's what I call readershit. So it's time to stoke that fire under my ass and get to bloggin' again! We'll see how this goes.
Ok, this one's just to get me going...
Zach Levi.
What a Hottie McHots. Yes, indeed.
But then sometimes he looks like a hobo...
Chocolate fountain? - Yes. Derelicte? - Nawsomuch. Still, I ain't mad at him. By the way, you should watch Chuck. It's really good, trust me.
Speaking of Chuck, he always wears a pair of Chucks (I am looking to buy some new ones - does anyone know of a cheap place to find them online?) to his job at Buy-More in addition to a spiffy tie. I would like to pull off a similar look, but fear I would look like a Avril Lavigne wannabe. But these tie-scarves are quite nice. via design verb.
Hopefully you can click the image and see it ok. If not, follow the link. Anyway, who was this guy? A stranger, poppin' some chick's collar? I would be uncomfortable, yet completely entranced if someone did that. Especially while I was holding my boyfriend's hand? Just a cuuurrrious situation indeed. And stranger danger!
Ok, now ya'll gotta check out this video. The animation is adorable and very well-done. There is a crazy twist at the end you miigghhttt see coming, but it's worth it!
Because you've always wanted vertical Kanye-shades, except to the extreme. Feel like you've been growing your bangs out for three years but didn't realize you could pin them back. WIN.
I feel like this monstrosity was specifically designed to make me hork up this morning's mini-wheats back into my mouth. Look at the right arm... WHO IS WEARING THIS? An old lady, or a dude with some really shitty nice implants (and a wig)? Those veins look thirsty for some heroin, especially in that get-up.
One of the commenters on regretsy said it best: "aren't we always trying to keep the dog OUT of our crotch?"
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Ok. On a more intellectual note, this video/guy is friggin' brilliant. He developed a type-motion program that displays song lyrics in real-time and animates them based on several pre-set visualizations. IMPRESSIVE, SIR. IMPRESSIVE, INDEED.
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