VIDEO Re-enacting Full House: Episode 28 Joey Gets Tough
“DJ!”
“You can’t tell me what to do! You’re not my father!”
Trinitron
The day that I hauled the carcass of my 13” Trinitron out to the sidewalk to give it a proper burial was the same day that Gizmodo ran its obituary for Sony’s now-discontinued cathode ray tube set.
Richard Feynman on Spirit-cleansing Percussion
“I gotta have a little bit o’ that o-range juice!”
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Baseball Boogie Bunch, 1986 LA Dodgers
Okay, the Internet gets it - the 80s are funny. But this music video produced by the World Series cutups of the ‘86 Dodgers is so shitty and awful, you can take your Super Bowl Shuffles and your Mr. T Treat Your Mother Rights and even your MS-DOS Raps and you can delete them from your YouTube because all their shittiness is contained in this one clip. And Orel Hershiser.
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Wow, I do believe that was the fastest series of reblogs on record!My read: it takes a Don Draper to inspire a nation. In 2008, Barack Obama is that Don Draper.
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AssEffects® (raberprazole sodium)
How embarrassing for Belgian pharmaceutical company Janssen Pharmaceutica and its parent company Johnson & Johnson that it has gone forward with marketing its acid reflux drug with a cleverly hybridized name that no one had actually spoken out loud before releasing to the public.
“You son of a bitch, we beat penicillin!” ”We kicked penicillin’s sorry ass!”
thanks, keeks
“When you’re young, you look at television and think, ‘There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down.’ But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.
Steve Jobs in WIRED 4.02, 1996
12 years on, have the seeds been planted to circumvent the networks as they were the labels? Answer below.
Yes.
Following up on this quote led me to another by Steve, age 29 in Playboy, 1985: “It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.” Steve recently turned 53 on the day before I turned over from 29 to 30 and I wonder whether 53-year-old Steve would back up his statement. I have a feeling he would.
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And now… The Architect Post
Did you know that for the moderate sum of $150-400 per night, you can stay overnight in one of six Frank Lloyd Wright houses? Details in NY Times Travel.
I.M. Pei frames via Coolboom
And now, without more ado… The Architect Sketch.
[THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION]
Newsweek: How much have brands like Target or Apple or Volkswagen—these high-design, but essentially accessible brands—paved the way Obama?
Michael Beirut: I think they’re all very much of a kind. I would name those three brands as ones that share a lot with the way this candidate is presenting himself. They’re meant to look transparent, open, accessible and democratic to a certain degree. Non-intimidating. You don’t feel that this stuff is all being hatched in corporate boardrooms with ad agencies and marketing experts at the table. They all sort of look as if people like you are talking to people like you. Of course, there’s a lot of forethought put into all this stuff. But in the end, being able to project an identity that people are willing to credit with being authentic is a hard thing to do. But those brands, and the Obama brand, are managing to do it.
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