'Creating a universe between two small pieces of Cardboard. When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's torrid illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again.'(from IMDB)
I just found this remarkably brilliant, the concept/how it was created is uber cool (sorry about the ad in the beginning, you just can't seem to escape them!)- The Story-
'Creating a universe between two small pieces of Cardboard. When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's torrid illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again.'(from IMDB) Dead and laid to rest...oops, nope- (K, so had to replace the previous video because it was apparently no longer there and I have so much to say, I can't remember what the post was actually sposed to be about, so posted the one above as a replacement......dunno what I meant by the 'dead and laid to rest part though...) The determination of survival. and I just couldn't help posting this- All the members of the Ramones are gone from this world. Keep singing in the next, guys! ~ ~ ~ Also in the news- For the god's sake, is it a planet, dwarf or not, make up your minds already! ~ ~ ~ and in case you're in need of a little extra cash, here's the poop, I mean scoop, I mean, just never mind *sigh*
You Can Sell Your Poop For $13,000 a Year yeah, that's a really gross transplant, but $13,000 a year is nothing to turn your nose up at, hold it maybe, hey, I'm not here to make pretty,er, just giving you the facts. K, I'm dung here, I mean done, DONE here. A state of emergency has been declared where I live due to the approaching snow storm. Hasn't quite started yet, though announcements of closings has already been made. Something I don't get is there was no milk, bread or eggs left at the store. Why specifically milk, bread and eggs? There was plenty of meat. Plenty of veggies and fruit, just no bread, milk or eggs!?! Does everyone plan to eat nothing but french toast during a storm? They also said on the local news there was a rush to buy snow shovels and salt. I should think people would already have at least a snow shovel, or do they throw them out come summer...'well, won't need this anymore, out it goes'. Anyway, here's something I've been meaning to post and now seems the appropriate time for it- and also this- and in keeping with the theme, here's something you can print, colour, cut-out and wear when you go out to shovel- or, you could stay indoors, print, colour and play with this by Jason Goad- OR just stay inside and play Skyrim....forever- (in specific order of selfish, shallow importance)
my brain was smarter (just not have it bigger one like those aliens with huge, swollen, veiny pulsating ones) I was unconditionally loved (at least loved back by those I love) I was drop dead gorgeous I had more self confidence I was braver and more daring I was not so painfully shy and insecure (IRL) I did not procrastinate I was more creative and I knew when to just let go. (of course there are randomly more, like having untold wealth; having super powers like being able to manipulate matter >:) [that could be a positive, maybe I'd be able to eradicate world hunger, and create a new environmentally friendly form of energy, turn mean/cruel people into insects, stuff like that]; have time travel abilities;space and perhaps dimensional travel, too; be indestructible [save the cheerleader]; get a kitten and puppy and parrot and Capuchin monkey and elephant...maybe just have a nature/wildlife refuge/preserve; have my ears clipped so I look like an elf; have a holodeck [well, guess with time travel abilities, I could live history so wouldn't really need it, but then things wouldn't necessarily turn out the way I would want, plus all that causing paradoxes and/or anomalies and possibly making things worse, and if it were a fantasy, like being part of a novel, then yes, need a holodeck thoooough, could afford with the untold wealth to have reenactment parties which would be uber fun], oh, and do good things like stop war {turning dictators, warmongers, terrorists into ants let them form their ant armies [hey, I wonder if that is what they are reincarnated as or were?]; and do lots of other good stuff and things.) and I'm sure fashionable Hipsters everywhere will embrace these. I just hope they're lined (peek-a-boo), I imagine they could be a bit itchy. If you really want to see more- Crotcheted...I mean Crocheted Shorts custom made from vintage afghans by LordvonSchmitt (or, if you have one your grams crocheted lying around you could make your own, or have her crochet you some spanking brand new ones! Honestly, the photo shoot of these are da bomb!...yes, you heard me right, 'DA BOMB!' :) Butt, oops! too much of the above, anyway, what I was starting to say, but while on the topic of fashion, these are really fantastic- CONVERSE CELEBRATES THE CREATIVE SPIRIT OF ANDY WARHOL I'm rather partial to the black ones. Again, you could actually buy a plain pair and stencil/paint them yourself. For that matter, I've seen some really creative hand-done artwork on trainers and regular shoes, so get creative! If you don't paint, then buy some pop culture fabric and adhere it with glue, maybe even just cut out certain images you like, or just use fabric markers and write whatever interests you or comes to mind, quotes, whatever all over them! Could be a good conversation starter! Just saw these, which I like even better- Teefury is a cool site, check out the other stuff while you're there, though I still advocate being creative and designing/making your own. Think about it, whatever you create will be utterly unique and one-of-a-kind! Make a personal statement! Think Basquiat's wooden shoes.... (BTW, fantastic film, 'Basquiat', super cast and great soundtrack!) Humankind, the explorers.
I wonder if it is so much curiosity now, or necessity? Yes, prepare for a rant... Earth's natural resources will not last forever, and cannot be reformed for many years. That is, IF it even can. I have faith that Earth, as an organism, will, and has, found means to heal itself, the problem is can it overcome us in time? We are all parasites. Maybe all living things are, one feeds off the other, nature keeps a balance, or tries to. I just hope we don't become 'those' aliens. The ones that go from planet to planet harvesting all they can with disregard. You know, the ones the human race try to defeat in films. One positive is perhaps, if/when we colonize other planets, and don't kill this one in the meantime, it will give it a chance to heal. The other inhabitants, the flora and fauna, will go on happily. They have no need of oil/fuel or electricity. At one time we didn't either. I do not know if we should put our fate in the hands of our leaders and science alone and simply live our lives and not worry about it? Not worry about the future? Let those that follow worry about it? As has been done. Honestly, our continuing survival on this planet is a problem we should be facing together, not quibbling and trying to hurt and destroy one another, warring over who owns what, or who's god is the true one. Does any of that really matter if the majority may face extinction? End of rant. For now. It does worry me, though, and I feel so useless since there is nothing I can do about it. Yes, I can recycle more, use/consume less, and I suppose if everyone did, it would help the earth, and in doing so, ourselves, although it would hurt the gods of economy. It makes me sad.*sigh* Afterthought- Do we really want to be known throughout time and the universes as 'the planet killers'? Well, maybe it will strike fear in the hearts (theoretically speaking, some may not have hearts, literally and/or metaphorically) of anything else living out there. ....and finally found! (Actually it was named after the ship on which Darwin sailed, and not the dog breed.)
These are so amazing...and yes, a little bit creepy in their realism. Kazuhiro used silicone.
I wonder what god used? I was raised Christian, and it’s bible can be so confusing. For instance, Genesis 1:26 and 1:27 states- (26) ‘Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (27) ‘So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.’ That doesn’t stipulate exactly what humans were made of. Forming matter, then imbuing it with energy (from Higgs Field)? In another source it stated god created man from dust and woman from man (rib). Star dust? Furthermore, to whom was god speaking when he said ‘Let us’ and ‘in our’? Was there more than one god (both male and female, as apparently he knew the difference)? Or was he speaking in some duality? Or was it dissociative identity disorder. Yes, it can get all kinds of confusing, because then evolution comes into it with a Big Bang! What did god (and/or gods) look like? Us today, or something Denisovan or Homo What? Or did he not have any material form, or did so at one time but transcended it and is just using it as a blueprint? Like cloned or something, then infused with some original energy source (Higgs Field again?) that is just continually transferred from one matter containment unit of sorts to another?. None of the above is meant to offend, it’s just me trying to merge the science of creation with something spiritual. *sigh* Anyway, Kazuhiro's work is very impressive. So is god's. Or whatever. *deeper sigh* I REALLY like the movie 'The Shining' (should read the book, I guess, but the film scared me enough, don't need to add my own imagery to it!) Anyway, this is so cool, the Stanley Hotel is going to create a maze (the one in the film was not for reals, it was a set)! They are having a design contest, the winner gets a plaque at the center of their maze design with their name on it in recognition (honestly, I think they could do a little better than just that, like at least a free REDRUM pass to the Stanley Film Festival or something.) The Stanley Maze Comes To Life and if youre interested- The Stanley Film Festival Maybe in the center they could put a statue of frozen Jack Nicholson. That'd be uber cool! And have other figures (like the twins) here and there at dead ends in the maze. Yeah. Loved The Simpsons parody- And here's a life cast of Jack Nicholson from The Shining that I painted. Have been wanting to do a trompe l'oeil axed look on a door or just a wooden panel, then hang the plaster cast from it. For now it's only put out on Halloween. Maybe one day I'll stop procrastinating.... Oh, and I've always wanted a hedge maze with my own secret garden in the center....
iation! Before medical science knew of it's dangers (i.e. the cause of Madame Curie's death, she having coined the term 'radioactivity', even though Henri Becquerel discovered it years earlier) it was used as a cure all! In fact there was a patented medicine called Radithor manufactured in none other than New Jersey from 1918-1928 that contained high levels of radium (triple distilled water containing at a minimum 1 microcurie (37 kBq) each of the radium 226 and 228 isotopes.) It was advertised as 'A Cure for the Living Dead' (hmm....) as well as 'Perpetual Sunshine' (well, the sun does give off x-ray radiation during solar flares, or so I've read.) And Radithor was not the only preparation of it's ilk. It was found in many things, like- Snuggle your baby by wrapping it in the warm comfort of a homemade radioactive wool sweater! Did they get this from radioactive sheep or what? And to make sure your viral enough to produce that little tyke in the radioactive sweater, use vita radium suppositories! Yep, it was for men and you know where suppositories go, right? I don't have to explain? Good. And if you didn't want babies.....er...EVER........use radioactive condoms! Then after doing 'the deed' what better way to lay back and relax than having a radioactive cigarette! Wow, just, WOW, it's like doubling your chance at lung cancer.... or, there's chocolate to make you feel like your in love even if you aren't. It's all about radioactive love. And for the ladies to look their alluringly best, there's radioactive cosmetics! You want that perfect,'radiantly' glowing smile, right? Ja! Then use radioaktive toothpaste, of course! (seems a number of these products are German) followed by a cleansing rinse AND drink of quenching and healthful radium water. Radium Ore Revigator And don't forget to wash your hands using radium hand cleaner....pfft, makes triclosan look totally harmless. I'm seriously surprised there weren't more super heroes produced back then...or mutants. I mean RadiThor? Stan the man Lee should have marveled at that! Anyway, between all this radiation, as well as lead poisoning and god only knows what else, I'm surprised we've made it this far as a species. Then again, maybe we haven't and only think, or are death-dreaming we have. And for those who collect antiques like my mom, BEWARE! Read this- Vaseline It is cool, though, and it does fluoresce under black light. Here are some other interesting articles- EPA article on Radioactive Antiques 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know Were Radioactive Radioactive Quack Cures And lastly, if that radioactive child you had manages to grow up, you could buy him this to play with- Yay! Atomic energy! In 1951, Gilbert released an “Atomic Energy Lab,” which contained three “very low-level” radioactive sources (alpha, beta, and gamma particles), a U-239 Geiger counter, a Wilson cloud chamber, a spinthariscope, four samples of uranium-bearing ores, and an electroscope to measure radioactivity. And as adults we're still playing with it in the form of weaponry and as a power source.... *sigh* I leave you with this, on a much lighter note, I heard it on the RADIO while ACTIVE. (yeah, that was a really bad pun, I should be ashamed. But I'm not :) I wonder if that was Gloomy Bear in the starring role?
|
Archives
January 2018
AuthorAh, where to begin... |