Slow Motion Sneezing

Ew. People, this is why you should cover your mouth/nose when you sneeze. Or at least use a tissue. Btw, ignore the message at the end.

Summerscreen - Free Movies in the Park!

Yaaaay, L Magazine's Summerscreen is back!! This year the movies aren't at the pool (duh, because it's closed, *tear) but at the McCarren ball fields. Not exactly sure which ball fields, but I'm sure it won't be hard to spot the giant movie screen and tons of kids gathered round.

The free summer movies get off to a start at dusk on July 8th with Reality Bites and go till August 12th with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Here's what the schedule looks like:

July 8: Reality Bites
July 15: Evil Dead 2
July 22: 24 Hour Party People
July 29: Wild at Heart
August 5: Fame
August 12: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I'm in. Hooraaaaaay for summer!

Tiny Art Director

Tiny Art Director is a blog where a little girl (the TAD) asks her dad, illustrator Bill Zeman, to draw her something. He does, she critiques it (like only a 4 year old could) and he blogs about it. She's super bossy and hilarious.



The Brief: A dinosaur, not too scary
The Critique: He's a ugly one! I hate those kind of dinosaurs! Where's your eraser?
Job Status: Rejected
Additional Comments: [hits page] He has ugly eyeballs.

via Boing Boing

Slow Motion Waves

via HuffPo

Bruno Has A Twitter

Yes, that Bruno has a Twitter. It's hilarious and offensive and I love it. The movie comes out July 10th, which means these shenanigans will go on for another month and a half or so. Yay!

Some tweets:

Heisse news! Ich have just made a movie. It’s basically ze most important documentary made about a hot vhite guy since Passion Of Ze Christ.

Fashion is ze lifesavingest of all ze sciences. NOT 1 suicide bomber has ever blown zemselves up vearing Marc Jacobs. U do ze mathematischer

Mein niece's 13th birthday next Mon - been searching for her present for ages. AT LAST ich have found a surgeon who vill do ze tzitzenjob!!

Strange Stories

Vice recently posted 15 strange stories, excerpted from The New Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace. Some weren't all that crazy or unbelievable, but a few were downright eerie...



BALLOON BUDDIES
Laura Buxton released a helium-filled balloon during celebrations for her grandparents’ gold wedding anniversary in Blurton, Staffordshire, in June 2001. Attached to the balloon were her name and address and a note asking the finder to write back. Ten days later, she received a reply. The balloon had been found by another Laura Buxton in the garden hedge of her home in Pewsey, Wiltshire, 140 miles away. Both Lauras were aged ten, and both had three-year-old black Labradors, a guinea pig, and a rabbit. “I hope we can become best friends,” said the Staffordshire Laura.

PHANTOM CAR CRASH
On December 11, 2002, two motorists called the police to report seeing a car veer off the A3 trunk road with headlights blazing at Burpham in Surrey. A thorough search uncovered a car concealed in dense undergrowth and the long-dead driver nearby. It turned out that the crash had happened five months earlier; the driver, Christopher Chandler, had been reported missing by his brother.

Paper Mag's 'Rebranding America'

I picked up Paper magazine this weekend to read on the train back up to NYC. I came across this really interesting piece by Kim Hastreiter called 'Rebranding America', in which they asked 15 of their favorite visual communicators (artists, advertising agencies, graphic designers, etc) to redefine America's image:

"Right now America is like a company teetering on bankruptcy -- we have lost so much credibility and brand currency over the past eight years. And so we invited some of the best visual communicators we know (from ad gurus to artists) to create original advertising concepts that could redefine our country's image. Welcome to U.S.A. 2.0."

There were some really great faux ad campaigns, so I thought I'd share my favorites...


Dan Wieden, Wieden + Kennedy 12 (W+K12) - The simplicity of this design and message is sweetly fantastic.


Ivan Chermayeff & Geismar - This design is just fun and exciting.



Peter Buchanan-Smith - The message is a bit too apologetic for me, but nonetheless, the message and design are quite clear and well executed.


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Kevin Roberts, Saatchi & Saatchi - "America's future. It's in our hands."



Kevin Roberts, Saatchi & Saatchi - "The US. Because we are all stronger when there is no them." - I really liked the concept of this ad, but wish it was done in color, like this ad, to be more impactful.

"We Fed Them Cheetos"

This kid made pot brownies for a class field trip and gave them to his classmates and teacher...he told them they were regular brownies. Sneaky little bastard.

Why did stuff like this not happen when I was still in school!?

I also really love how all the parents think its hilarious.

All The Right Moves

Location Department II - I Want!

Game over, I want to live here. Exposed brick walls, huge floor to ceiling windows...I'm drooling!


huge living room, check.


lost of exposed brick and hardwood floors, yep.


big kitchen, check.


library with built in bookshelves, check.


2 floor, indoor swimming pool, definitely check!


outdoor patio, of course!

there's a dungeon too! go here to see the rest of the place. So dreamy...

Location Department

I want to switch careers and be a location scouter for films and print. Seriously, if I had to check out ridiculously amazing places like these all day, I'd be in heaven. Look at those views!! Ahhhh...








Check out more pics of this place here!