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Both The Running Man and The Roger Rabbit have since been called ‘outdated.’
— Wikipedia. Way harsh.
Dec
1st
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1st
Big Catch
The conservative blog ‘Little Green Footballs’ is not so much switching side but diverting from the right. In something reminiscent of Lucille Bluth turning too prayer, this is a ‘big catch’.
The list of reasons provided is just about the same 10 reasons I diverged. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Life’s too short to be so angry all the time.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35243_Why_I_Parted_Ways_With_The_Right
via BoingBoing
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Break Down
I think most art is absolute shit. There’s too many artists that have too much food. But while watching a program on the BBC about modern art I heard about Break Down by Michael Landy and is was pretty intense. From Wikipedia…
Break Down, the work which put him in the public eye, was held in February 2001 at an old branch of the clothes store C&A on Oxford Street in London (C&A had recently ceased trading, and the shop had been emptied). Landy gathered together all his possessions, ranging from postage stamps to his car, and including all his clothes and works of art by himself and others, painstakingly catalogued all 7,227 of them in detail, and then destroyed all in public. The process of destruction was done on something resembling an assembly line in a mass production factory, with ten workers reducing each item to its basic materials and then shredding them.
Break Down, which was a joint commission from The Times newspaper and Artangel, attracted around 45,000 visitors. At the end of the process all that was left was bags of rubbish, none of which were sold or exhibited in any form. Landy made no money as a direct result of Break Down, and following it had no possessions at all.
That’s committed.
This reminds me of a video game created by Penn & Teller called Desert Bus. From the Wikipedia article…
The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of 45mph. The feat requires 8 hours of continuous play to complete, since the game cannot be paused.
The bus contains no passengers, and there is no scenery or other traffic on the road. The bus veers to the right slightly; as a result, it is impossible to tape down a button to go do something else and have the game end properly. If the bus veers off the road it will stall and be towed back to Tucson, also in real time. If the player makes it to Las Vegas, they will score exactly one point. The player then gets the option to make the return trip to Tucson—for another point (a decision they must make in a few seconds or the game ends).
Love that.
ahhh. nothin like the open road.
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Nov
15th
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Video of Bugatti Crash
Earlier this week Geekologie had some pictures of a Bugatti that crashed into a swamp after the driver swerved to avoid a ‘low flying pelican’. In what’s to become a more common occurrence, some kids were actually taking a video of the car as it crashed. Why? Well it’s $million+ car, I’m surprised there aren’t more videos of expensive cars crashing. Click through for the full coverage.
