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via Kottke, a link to a list of commercials directed by film directors…great stuff in there…

to whet your appetite for it, here’s a Guiness ad that was pretty big in the UK but we never saw here…it’s so good, and directed by Sexy Beast’s Jonathan Glazer…audio takes a moment to kick in, so don’t adjust your set…

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The other day ML at work hipped me to the great angryalien site, which contains many many films that have been cut to 30 seconds, animated and had all the actors replaced with bunnies. Needless to say, it is great. Star Wars is really well done, the bleeped version of Reservoir Dogs is particularly fantastic, but the Shining is just classic.

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I was on the subway, sitting down, listening to music on my headphones. I’ve got this new thing I’m doing where I wear my sunglasses on the subway, you know? I hate the feeling of them up on top of my head, and I think people who wear them like that look like idiots. I won’t hang them in the v-neck of my shirt, and I won’t wear them backwards on the back on my neck. The people who wear their sunglasses while on the subway always look kind of cool, so I decided to do it too.

It feels great, and since a portion of my commute goes topside, I feel justified. And, let’s admit it, it is a bit pretentious. But still. Who cares. This is New York.

So I’m sitting down, and across from me are a couple of kids, a girl who’s maybe 13 and a young boy of about 9 or 10. And they’re some kind of orthodox Jews, though I can’t be sure which kind. The girl’s wearing her hair up, and a black dress with some kind of white trim around it, and the boy has on a yarmulka and black slacks and a black shirt. He’s also wearing these weird small loafers, made for 10 year-old feet, and they look uncomfortable. He’s sitting on the subway, his feet dangling above the floor, and he’s got a plastic bag sitting on his lap that I assume is his lunch. Through the white plastic I can make out shapes and colors that suggest some kind of apple, a box drink, some bright rectangles, maybe candy bars.

The boy and his sister are talking to each other, but I can’t hear them because I’ve got my music going. But I watch their lips, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t speaking English. Hebrew maybe? Probably. The boy looks full of vim and life, taking the world in with big curious eyes. The girl looks tired and bored, and like she wishes she was somewhere else. Probably away from her brother. Maybe in different clothes. I’m projecting here.

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Today is a good day for a party. But in this case, I’m talking about a food party.

It’s so weird how in the beginning, she sings about picking donuts "for you and for me", but then in the next shot, she says she got the donuts for her and her alone! Wha? It makes me want one of those donuts. 

via the blog of Wiley Wiggins! Yes, Mitch Kramer has a blog!

small article in the NYT about a bike thief in Toronto (apparently the city known as the most bike friendly) who stole over 2300 bikes!…that’s a lot, but then this paragraph also caught my eye:

That was just the beginning. An additional 200 bikes were seized in Mr. Kenk’s home. Ten landlords around the city reported that their garages had been rented by Mr. Kenk and were bulging with bicycles. As the police gathered the mounds of bikes, they also found cocaine, crack cocaine, about 15 pounds of marijuana and a stolen bronze sculpture of a centaur and a snake in battle.

15 POUNDS of mj! And how about that sculpture! It sounds so great. Obviously, when he saw it he just had to have it. If only it had been a centaur with a crossbow fighting a minotaur with a trident. Amazingly when you type "centaur and snake in battle", you get this, which is really creepy and probably not what the statue was like at all:

Flowers in backpack

Grafitti wood glued 2 pole

This is fantastic. At a festival in Ireland (check the electronic thump in the background), a group of jump-suited folks decide to play soccer. Also they are wearing binoculars. Hilarity ensues.

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As with all of the hallucinogenic swirl that is the internets, I have no clue if this stuff is super-popular or totally under the radar. Either way, you should check it out. Nice animation, politically motivated, and kind of absurd. Sign me up.

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so funny…there’s more of them over here…

So rare for an animated gif to make me laugh out loud…

the first line is "So Superman went ballistic." If you see some other line, press refresh to start at the beginning.

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here we go, finally…there are so many photos, and it took a while to get them culled down…and then another while to get them posted…and then another while to caption them…but here they are:

From July 10th through the 20th, Maxine and I traveled down the Pacific Coast Hwy…from visiting Shelagh in Portland, Roscoe’s wedding in Florence, the OR coast, the CA Redwoods, Sonoma wine country, to Z & G in San Francisco…enjoy the pix… 

We started at Shelagh’s in Portland, having dinner out in her backyard, hanging with her chickens…when the sun sets, the chickens know it’s time for bed and the put themselves to sleep! Shelagh, her husband and new baby Marty seem pretty great…

Also her husband installed a bath outside! The fence is high enough that there’s privacy, so they can experience bathing outside…seems like it would be so sweet…

Next day we jetted down to Florence, OR where I was the best man for Roscoe’s wedding…I got to make the scene in a tux, and I think it’s the first time I’ve ever worn one…unless I wore one for prom? I hope I didn’t…

If Maxine hadn’t been there, half of us wouldn’t have been able to get our ties tied…

there are so many more photos, I swear. Click here for the rest…

SC hipped me to this at work. Don’t know why but I think its great. Something to do with the great lo-fi UFO and the accents…