Doing some seriously mind-numbing grunt work today, and the only thing keeping me smiling is this NPR recording of Jamie Cullum’s live performance at the Monterey Jazz Festival. If you can’t listen to the whole thing, do me a favor and at least go to 46:10 and listen to his rendition of Singin’ in the Rain leading into Rihanna’s Umbrella. Quality.
Update: After googling him for photos, I find out that he is going to marry supermodel Sophie Dahl in 2010. Ignore title of post. (sob.)
Posted in Classy., just lovely, Katie, Mix, music
“‘A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my leather jacket and said, ‘Don’t you know a cow was murdered for that jacket?’ I said ‘I didn’t know there were any witnesses. Now I’ll have to kill you too.'”
Posted in Collin, UltraViolence
Chad Hagen is a Minnesota based designer who makes some srsly nice collages. It’s amazing at how powerful simple shapes can be when manipulated with a skilled hand. It’s subtlety that I always struggle to achieve in my work.
You can buy two of Chad’s Nonsensical Infographics prints at 20×200.
Posted in aleks, colorz, design, easy on the eyes, I wish I did it, just lovely
I’ve been terrible at Fatty Fridays but I just saw this new ad for bo dem juice and figured Fatty Fridays don’t always have to happen on a Friday. Anyway, I don’t care what year it is and how far we’ve come with making hyper-real, life-like animation (hear that James Cameron?) stop-motion will always triumph. Bonus points for me because I own that ridiculous toucan lamp you see sippin’ on juice up there.
Posted in a tasty beverage, advertising, aleks, animation, colorz, fatty fridays
This question has boggled my mind for decades (2 to be exact)! So for no reason at all, I decided to google it and now I know. Here you can find more random trivia about Heinz. Check out their ads too!
What does the “57” stand for in Heinz’s famous slogan, “57 Varieties?”
While riding a train in New York City in 1896, Henry Heinz saw a sign advertising 21 styles of shoes, which he thought was clever. Although Heinz was manufacturing more than 60 products at the time, Henry thought 57 was a lucky number. So, he began using the slogan “57 Varieties” in all his advertising. Today the company has more than 5,700 products around the globe, but still uses the magic number of “57.”
Lovely lovely lovely lovely paintings by Kim Cogan. He uses the exact number of brushstrokes and the exact colors needed to give us the exact feeling he wants. Elegant.
Posted in Classy., colorz, easy on the eyes, I wish I could do it, Katie
They sure don’t make ’em like they used to (ladies amirite?).
via A.Paslooka, FRANK151‘s finest.
Posted in Andrew, Antiques Web Show, folks., Uncategorized
With this photo of Spain’s first family with Michelle + Barack. Check it:
Here’s Barack and Michelle Obama with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family. The State Department uploaded it to Flickr. (What an unlikely sentence!) Whoops—no one in Spain has ever seen Zapatero’s Goth daughters before! According to Zapatero, Spanish law allows him to prevent the Spanish media from running any photographs of his 16 and 13-year-old daughters Laura and Alba. For their privacy, see. And because maybe it would be considered weird for the PM to have goth daughters, but it totally shouldn’t be. It is a natural part of life, becoming a teenaged goth.
(via Jezebel)
Posted in aleks, americuh, nerd alert, sentimental awesomeness
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