May 2009
9 posts
“I’m the only calm, cool and collected one around here, it seems.”
– That’s a pretty funny statement, coming from the ex-Mariner’s manager famous for picking up and tossing first base across the field. I love Lou, and by association, the Cubs. Be sure to watch the video of Zambrano taking a bat to the Gatorade machine. Zambrano loses his cool after ejection at...
“Colombo’s phone drawing is very much in the tradition of a certain kind of New...”
– I just picked up Brushes for my phone, inspired by the video of Jorge Colombo drawing/painting this week’s New Yorker cover.
Watch“Last Day Dream” by Chris Milk. Nice, short little film. Beautiful. (via Daring Fireball)
Watch“He Needs Kidney,” from the season finale of 30 Rock. Hands down, the funniest television moment this year. We’re talking tears.
Please watch 30 Rock. Don’t let it go the way of Arrested Development — the Home Builders Organization (HBO) won’t have anything to do with 30 Rock either.
“He wears a specially made six-fingered Mizuno glove with two thumbs.”
– Wow, a switch-pitcher. Pat Venditte pitches right-handed to right-handed batters, left-handed to left-handed batters. And he’s in the Yankee single-A farm team. Watch out. ESPN The Magazine, via The Triumph of Bullshit
WatchThis video was shot in one take, with the audio being recorded during that same take. To be able to technically pull this off is amazing, and it’s not a bad song, either. You can learn more by reading the behind the scenes info.
“Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in an article about aesthetics and how important they are in every day life. Form does not follow function. They are each part of each other. In Defense of Eye Candy, at A List Apart.
