Saturday, October 11, 2008
Womanizer premiere
We'll see how long the video stays on youtube... but here's Britney's new video for Womanizer....
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
baby of the future...
I have a feeling this will soon be the children of the future.... AYO... technology!!!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
cute french octopus video...
i liked this video a lot... i need to learn to do animation like these folks!!
austin vs. seattle
i was browsing around the world wide web when I discovered this interesting article comparing living in Seattle to living in Austin. Just thought I'd throw it out there!! :)
Posted by Shilo Urban
With all the brou-haha over the South By Southwest Music Festival going on right now around the country, our thoughts here in Seattle naturally turn to Austin, our sister city down south. Like siblings, the two cities might pull each other’s pigtails now and again, but ultimately we have a shared ethos. I have lived in both placed for over four years each and can empirically say that the two blazin’ metropoli have the same liberal, progressive, music-lovin’, life-is-good-let’s-party-vibe. Seattle just adds ‘please’ on the end, where Austin yells ‘yee-haw’!
Seattle is full of transplants from Austin and vice versa; many people are like me and love both cities. But which city is the best? Obviously since I live in Seattle my opinion on the Austin vs. Seattle debate is clear, I’m not the type of person to live in a place that I don’t absolutely love. When I took this question to the streets of Seattle however, I found passionate responses on both sides, which of course makes me wonder: if you are screaming about how much you love the Texas capital, why the hell do you live in Seattle? Either way, here’s what I found out:
- MUSIC FESTIVAL: SXSW vs. Bumbershoot? At Austin’s (and the South’s, and the Southwest’s) premier music festival there are more performers and artists from more countries around the world than at Bumbershoot. Plus the venues and environment of Sixth Street is much more genuine rock and roll and better and suited for musicthon than the corporatey-feeling Seattle Center. Austin wins, hands down.
- WEATHER: Insanely hot, sunny weather for month after month in the summer, or drizzly, overcast, sun-deprived skies for month after month in the winter? When you step out of the shower and are covered in sweat as you are toweling off, that is too hot. When swimming pools become bathwater-warm and you can no longer swim in them, that is too hot. When the temperature drops below 100 degrees and folks talk of a cold front, that is too hot. A little rain in Seattle? I’ll take it, a fair trade for those glorious spring/summer/fall days that we know will arrive. Seattle wins, with props to Texas for those amazing thunder and lightening storms.
- UNIVERSITY BLOODLINE: The Drag or The Ave? In Austin, Guadalupe Street runs between the University of Texas campus and the Greek houses; it is chock full of coffee shops, cheap ethnic restaurants, funky clothing stores, and bookstores. In Seattle, University Way NE runs north and south right next to the University of Washington campus, it is chock full of coffee shops, cheap ethnic restaurants, funky clothing stores, and bookstores. However The Ave has no Drag Rats, kids from mostly middle-class families having fun at playing homeless and busking for bones when they have hundreds of dollars of piercings in their face alone. Seattle wins.
- SWIMMING HOLE: Barton Springs Park or Green Lake Park? Bubbling up from the earth a clear and constant 68 degrees year round, Barton Springs keeps Austinites sane during the hot-as-hell summer days. Green Lake Park is Seattle’s working park where people are serious about getting their exercise and having fun. Kids and dogs are always swimming in the glacial lake, despite past years’ warnings against toxicity. Hmmm. Austin wins.
- POLITICS: Liberal and progressive or liberal and progressive? Both cities are home to a forward-thinking, Obama (no! Hillary!)-loving, book-reading, gay-friendly, dog-owning, lecture-attending, politically involved populace. Seattle has the rest of the West Coast for support in this stance, but Austin stands alone in Texas, a tiny liberal island set afloat in a vast, conservative sea of pickups, churches, and XXX stores. This is probably why in general, Austinites have bigger kahunas than Seattleites. Because of this additional hardship, Austin wins.
- TRAFFIC: Horrible or terrible? In Seattle the traffic during rush hour is slow, like the drivers, and I hear if you live on the Eastside for some strange reason, those bridges get really backed up. In Austin however, you schedule your life around rush hour, and never plan to go anywhere between the hours of 4-7PM. It’s really that bad. Seattle wins.
- HIP MOVIE FILMED AT ALL THE RIGHT PLACES: Dazed and Confusedor Singles? Richard Linklater filmed the former all over Austin with local actor Wiley Wiggins; you can climb the Moontower (and get arrested) at Zilker Park and eat at In-an-Out Burger (Top Notch Burger on Burnet Road). Singles showcases Gasworks Park and a billion other Seattle locales AND stars our favorite non-celebrity, Eddie Vedder. One movie is about cool people trying to hook up in the 70’s, the other is about cool people trying to hook up in the 90’s. It’s a tie.
- GEOGRAPHY: Hill Country or The Olympic Peninsula and the Cascades? If you drive out of Austin at the right time of year you will encounter firey swaths of wildflowers on rolling hills, wide open spaces, and Bush supporters frothing wildly at the mouth. If you drive out of Seattle any time of year you will find incredible snow-capped mountains, rain forests, turquoise-colored glacial lakes, rock-strewn beaches and Bush supporters frothing mildly at the mouth. Seattle wins, hands down.
It is this last bit of information, the gorgeous natural setting, that pushes our city to the top every time in my mind, and in yours: Seattle wins. Out on the streets of our city most people were pro-Seattle, but the few Austin-lovers I did find would give me all the reasons in the world why Austin was the winner until I pulled out the trump card: the mountains, Puget Sound, and this beautiful emerald world we have around us. Sorry, but Austin just can’t compete in the natural beauty category. Now we just have to get our music scene up to par. Who’s with me?
via CultureMob
Saturday, September 20, 2008
i'm in love with this song....
this is by far the song of the week/month... I'm in love with it for some reason.
The band name is The Veronicas and they are twins from Australia. check out my favorite of their songs... "Untouched"
anti-theft sandwich bags!
I LOVE these bags!! Perhaps because people at my work think it's appropriate to steal my lunch every once in a while. These bags are BEAUTIFUL!! All you do is put your sandwich inside of them and WALLA! No one will be stealing your sandwich now!
romantic song of the week....kind of
OK...so I think it's a romantic song even though she sings about being pushed away bitterly.
I think the second reason I love this video is the CHEESY soap opera that accompanies it. :) So enjoy one of my favorite musicians -- Me'Shell Ndegeocello.... "Bitter"
and here is one of my other favorite songs from her cd....
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
two amazing cat videos...
this made me smile...
1.
a firefighter rescued a cat from a burning building.... the cat was UNCONSCIOUS!!!!! The firefighter gave the cat mouth-to-meowth (bwaha...) resuscitation!!! It made me happy...
2. Cute cat doing technical support on a printer. HILARIOUS!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
the TRUTH about McCain's ads....
found this today and thought it was quite interesting.... oh the political spin that transcends our nation's stupidity.... sigh...
omg...I'm going to be hit by a hurricane....
OK.
So I wasn't too stressed about Hurricane Ike, until I heard the update on it. It's apparently going to hit Saturday morning at the coast and reach Austin with up to 70 MPH winds. Oh my goodness....I'm going to fly away. So needless to say I'm a little worried. It's already killed over 100 people on it's way here. Luckily I'm a ways in from the coast...where as Corpus or Galveston are going to get hit the worst.
So hopefully all will be well. They are advising Austinites to fill up their car and have food to cook as the wind might knock down power and the such. Should be exciting. I'll be blogging any crazy activity that happens!!!
Just so you out of country/state people know where I'm at...the top photo is the forecast for it's path and the map below is of the Lone Star state.... so Austin is a little ways in!! :)
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
obama vs. palin round 1
found this interesting...."Al-Queda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and [Obama's] worried that someone won't read them their rights."----Palinwow. how republican of her.his response?"My position has always been clear: If you've got a terrorist, take him out, anybody who was involved in 9/11, take 'em out. If the government grabs you, you have the right to at least ask, 'Why was I grabbed?' The reason that you have this principle is not to be soft on terrorism. It's because that's who we are. That's what we're protecting. Don't mock the Constitution. Don't make fun of it. Don't suggest that it's not American to abide by what the founding fathers set up. It's worked pretty well for over 200 years." ---Obama
via Washington Post
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama
ok... this story made my week.... HA! A co-worker showed me this today and I couldn't stop laughing....
Apparently in Mobile, Alabama the community believed a leprechaun was living in a tree by a popular intersection. All sorts of people came out to see if they could find the "Pot-o-gold." HAHAHA.... interesting.....
Katy Perry church sign
a congregation in Ohio had this up relating to Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" song.
I actually know people that will agree with this sign! Ha!
old navy and target ads..
I'm always amazed by how TV spots have the opportunity to embed their brand into your psyche. I'll have to do a post on random ads that have changed advertising...but as of today I'm focusing on Target and Old Navy. Two brands that have seen pretty radical changes of their focus audience over the past five years. I'm a huge fan of Target's ads....and they always seem to make me smile. Here are some of my favorite of theirs:
I think what I'm most struck by is the editing and the engaging reaction it gets from the audience watching it. The first ad is very creative in the split screen and the regular people vs. everyday household items. Cute for sure. The second is good for branding and being creative with showing how "Target" is everywhere. It's in everything you have. The third clip is an example to how beautiful women can be done up and edited in a way that's quite fascinating. They play with time a lot in the editing... going from slow to fast, matching the music. I'm a big fan.
Now the Old Navy ones....
What we have here is two completely different spots done extremely well with both music, character, attitude, placement and form of text and fonts, etc. They were both done by the same agency: Mac Guff which is quite a cool visual effects company. I had the nice opportunity to talk with one of the creators over email regarding Film and the possibility of having an online Film Community and Class setting that I would help run. I like the two ads because of what they make you feel. The editing of the shots combined with the music is actually quite powerful. The first one is just plain exploitation in a way of... "because we have Old Navy swimsuits, we're cooler than you, hotter than you, and have more fun than you." I liked it. Ha! It made Old Navy look.... (dare I say?!): Cool. The second one is fascinating in that they have a minute length one that goes into each character's story a bit more. It's available to watch on their website and I'd recommend it.
JUST my two cents for tonight! :)
Saturday, September 6, 2008
they transformed my face!!!!!!!
so above is an original picture of me..... from a good time this year in San Francisco, CA where I was sent there by work for some training. Lots of fun. NOW below.... is my face transformed!! :) haha... check it out! It's scary! :)
Me as a Baby --->
me as old --->
me as African American --->
me as Asian --->
me as Middle Eastern --->
me as Anime --->
me as Ape Man --->
SCARY!!!!!!
Friday, September 5, 2008
I think Palin is related to Karen Walker and Tina Fey
I think Karen Walker and Tina Fey had a love child...and that love child is named Sarah Palin.
:)
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