http://youtu.be/WB8WjlgiHxs&w=600&h=400 An odd commercial for Vifon Tu Quoy Ramen Noodle soup. An older, very lazy man in his pajamas, sitting in a hammock asks his daughter when the hell is lunch going to be ready. She purses her lips and says, “Here, old man, here's some fried fucking noodles in a sodium bomb. Enjoy your heart attack, you bastard."
Then, the woman's husband comes in and they make love next to his lifeless body.
Ok, I made that last part up.
We're in the home stretch of the Summer of 2011.
It's been hot as hell's door hinge here in Philadelphia. Many days spent indoors (thankfully) air-conditioned.
We curse these days. I'd rather be out and about and my dog would rather go for a run than sit looking wistfully out the window all day.
But, it beats shoveling snow.
August 2011 graphic: A quick type study done in Illustrator August font: Air (modified) 2011 Font: Avant Gard EF Medium
Summertime always brings random thunderstorms and crazy, angry skies. I happened to see this in the sky as I walked out of a local store last week. Shot with an iPhone 3GS using the Camera+ app and the Clarity filter.
”The Wisdom of the Llama", the misunderstood genius of Carl Spackler.
Illustration by N.C. Winters.
Next Animation TV (those folks who do the strange news animations, like Bin Laden Was a Sex machine), ask the question, "Is Philadelphia The Crappiest City?" The animation is so twisted and bizarre you have to laugh. As one YouTube commenter said, the only thing they got right was how bad Geno's Steaks really are. http://youtu.be/W4fTLmeIIuQ&w=640&h=440
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to YouTube, out comes Norwiegian insta-pop singer Tonje Langeteig. The song is just plain awful. The video looks like it was shot on a Thursday afternoon with a cheap handheld and with whoever they could find that wasn't too embarrassed to appear in it. I'm not sure how songs like this get made, but I think it goes something like this:
Tonje: "I waan to be pop seenger. I waaan to make moosik veedyo"
Husband: (roll eyes) "Here you go, honey. Go play and leave Daddy alone."
This song will haunt your dreams and penetrate your soul.
Bonus Round: A Mashup of Tonje and Rebecca.
(I never knew until now how really bad the Rebecca Black video was, since I could never stomach a full viewing.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQkx6WAbHrs&w=600&h=400
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFc1pr2yUU&w=600&h=400
The 1970's. Veteran's Stadium. Those groovy orange and yellow plastic seats. Usherettes wearing hot pants. Harry Kalas. Funky music. Schmdit's Beer. That's what this awesome video is made of.
(via Philly Sports History, a great read if you're into the old-timey Philly sports.)
McCann Worldgroup is one of the world's largest advertising agency networks in the world, doing work for all types of brands and products. Agencies just don't do 'advertising' anymore (sorry, Don Draper), they're involved in everything from interactive, tv, print and that 'social media' thing.
To show how multi-disciplinary they are, they decided to pile a bunch of icons, like clouds (it's in the cloud, man!) email, phone, RSS feed symbol, and kitty cats and assembled them to form the MW.
Frankly, the multi-colored monstrosity is the stuff that gives print designers nightmares, and at small sizes just looks...fuzzy. Oh, and there's other versions, like ones made of leaves, flowers, fire and $100 bills (OK, I made the last one up).
Anybody remember the Aol rebranding? Yeah, thought not.
The dumbest idea in the world, or just another fake viral video.'Defriending' must be quite painful. Either way, the tattoo artist is kinda hot. Just sayin'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApOWWb7Mqdo&w=600&h=400
UPDATE: It's a fake:
Rotterdam tattoo artist Dex Moelker eventually came clean on the Telegraaf website, admitting the tattoo and video is an advertising stunt.
'It is a try out tattoo, a transfer, that washes off in a couple of days,' Moelker, who has a tattoo shop in Rotterdam, told the paper. It took a couple of hours to apply the transfer not the 30 hours the video claimed to produce the real tattoo.
Can't anyone commit to anything anymore? At least we still have people like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs&w=600&h=400 I couldn't love these people more even if I tried:
We do not tolerate people that talk or text in the theater. In fact, before every film, we have several warnings on screen to prevent such happenings. Occasionally, someone doesn't follow the rules, and we do, in fact, kick their asses out of our theater. This video is an actual voicemail from a woman that was kicked out of one of our Austin theaters. Thanks, anonymous woman, for being awesome.
It's a perfectly calibrated recipe for maximum personal achievement.The Swanson Pyramid made me the man I am today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIZ4ckmd9-I&w=600&h=400
Berlin-based illustrator Christopher Niemann speaks at Creative Mornings/New York, describing his work process and the ups and downs of living life as an illustrator.
My favorite slide from the talk, as Christopher describes how he spends his day:
Christopher's work appears in the New Yorker. Below is an animated illustration for the iPad edition of the magazine.