Monday, March 29, 2010
This guy is cooler than your dad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/grigori-perelman-reclusiv_n_511938.html
Piano Improv
Original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTwJetox_tU
Ben Folds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEYxiK0kpEw
-Contillo
Monday, March 22, 2010
Where the Eff did the Cowboy Hat Guy Come From?
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=binder+and+binder+cowboy&search_type=&aq=1
I imagine this is a good example of the client telling the ad men what the ad was and was not going to have in it.
NPR: Sensual Sounds Can Get Lost In Translation
Everyone knows what a smile looks like, but apparently how we sound to one another changes from culture to culture.
Why the problem communicating good times? Positive feelings can promote social cohesion, the researchers surmise, so it might not be a good idea to share them with someone outside the group. These include sounds for emotions evoked by pride and relief and making love.NPR.org for audio examples.
- William
GOTCHA!
GOTCHA! is Richmond's newest weekly newspaper,which is kind of sad. Sad that each week there are enough mug shots in the central Virginia are to fill a newspaper. Filled with just pages of Mug shots and the crimes they commited, it also has listing of restaurants that have failed inspection.
They have fun with the pictures too, on one page grouping people that look like Harry Potter.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Apocalypse Cakes
We’re doomed. Eat cake.
A variety of cataclysmic punishments from God continue to rain down upon us. Obviously, this is the time to eat several entire cakes. Use this blog to help you celebrate your time on this earth, for when you look up from your cake-smeared cakehole, the sky will fade ablack, the lakes will blaze aflame and the locusts will buzz aswarming. Eat now, little heathens; there are no cakes in the apocalypse.
Posted by: Allyson Otis
Monday, March 1, 2010
A lot like the 6 word memoirs from last week, but still pretty cool
http://tenwordwiki.wikispot.org/Front_Page
-Sam
-Sam
The Wilhelm scream is a frequently-used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars and many other blockbuster films as well as television programs and video games. The scream is often used when someone is either falling to their death from great height or from an explosion.
The Wilhelm scream has become a well-known cinematic sound cliché, and is claimed to have been used in over 149 films.
Here is a nice video compilation to make the point: Ta-daa!
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.
Ifferisms: An Anthology of Aphorisms Beginning With the Word "If"
Book by Dr. Mardy Grothe
Grothe is a lifelong quotation collector, psychologist, management consultant and public speaker. With the success of his other books (I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like, Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You, Viva la Reparte, Oxymoronica) he is on his way to becoming America's most popular quotation anthologist.
-jen
Subscription News Doesn't work
http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site
Love,
Ryan Gregory Contillo
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