The Guardian has called The Ecce Homo fresco restoration the 2012 meme of the year. I have to say I have enjoyed the monkey man invasion of art as shown in this tribute gallery. Personally, I think IKEA monkey could have given it a run for its money. In true internet parlance, we should ask, […]
Someone joked that it looked like the folks at Pixar took some inspiration from the parties at Burning Man for this Toy story short involving the hapless by goodhearted T-Rex toy. I can definitely see the comparison, but the short is worth watching even you’ve never been to Burning Man. There is some seriously beautiful […]
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Posted 15 November 2012
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After a summer of testing and failing at the grand wedding cakepops adventure, Jake and I finally pulled off a coup de grâce in the form of a ginormous, tasty wedding cake. It only took numerous rounds of baking, 18 different taste configurations, 4 frosting trials, and one screaming match that both bakers now regret […]
I just came across this video by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis: (warning, lyrics are NSFW) It reminded me of being a little grunge kid in the 1990′s. I really got into the grunge movement when I was in my teens, I got so deeply involved that I was downright mad when Pop music made a […]
This story has been crawling around the interwebs. An elderly Spanish woman undertakes a DIY painting restoration on an Ecce Homo Spanish fresco leaving the image of Christ looking more… um… monkey like. I go back and forth between cringing at the atrocity and laughing at the absurdity. The story reflects human foibles, I mean […]
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Posted 22 August 2012
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If you were to ask me what the song of the summer was this year, I would reluctantly say it was Gotye’s Somebody that I used to know. I add reluctantly because at some point it was getting a little nutty the amount of times I would hear it every day. It was on the […]
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Posted 12 August 2012
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This is one of those stories that reaffirms your faith in humanity. The basic gist of it is a filmmaker walks along a street in Los Angeles and discovers a cardboard arcade that has been created by a 9 year old boy, Caine. Caine offers to sell him a fun pass, which he buys and […]
It is finally done, scanned in and tomorrow it will be sent off to the owner. My first commission, woo!
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Posted 11 August 2009
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about Burningman is the art projects. I like the ones that are the little art projects like this: Not amazing in that pretentious way, but wonderful nonetheless. I think I ended up losing my marble somewhere on the playa. But that is to be expected. *smiles* Enjoy it anyway.
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Posted 18 March 2009
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