Thursday, June 30, 2005

Not Coming Soon ... to An Xbox Near You

Juegos que no existen... pero deberian:

Leaving Las Vegas



Destroying your liver and your psyche on the streets of Sin City sounds easy enough, but watch out for that dreaded Hooker with a Heart of Gold—she'll try to reform you and keep you on the straight and narrow. Anything less than suicide is complete failure.


The Silence of the Lambs



Here's a different sort of role-playing game, tailor-made to satisfy your inner seamstress. Use night-vision goggles to hunt down unsuspecting size-14 women so you can make the suit of your dreams and become the butterfly you've always known you could be. "It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."



Not Coming Soon ... to An Xbox Near You

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Sloganizer.net

Todavia no encuentro uso práctico para el sloganizer... es como tener un creador de frases en engrish. El mas chistoso de los resultados fue Lets ponchorama!!!

Escoges la marca o nombre, el tipo de background y el color de texto y a circular slogans...




generated by sloganizer.net

pretty funny stuff


y cada vez que hago refresh hay uno nuevo!!!


Lets ponchorama!!! indeed!


Sloganizer.net - Image generator for your slogan.

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Psycho Therapy Clothing

Cuando estar tocado (termino científico) no es suficiente, y tienes que decirle al mundo que enfermedad o estado te afecta... Psycho Therapy Clothing al rescate:




tambien hay: abnormal, sex objetct, antisocial, co-dependent, etc, etc, etc...



Psycho Therapy Clothing :: Humorous psychotherapy t-shirts and novelty products.

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Esao Andrews

Esao Andrews es un excelente ilustrador y sus pinturas son bizarras pero muy buenas.





y por su pequeña galeria de fotos puedo deducir que tiene un poco de fetiche de pies...

el sitio es flash heavy. pero muy buena navegación.


hello

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Smart eyewear for keen swimmers

Excelente diseño de unos goggles con contador de vueltas y tiempo integrado:






Smart goggles that help swimmers log lengths have been designed by a UK engineering student.

The Inview goggles display a lap count and time elapsed on their lenses so swimmers can track their progress.

Invented by industrial design student Katie Williams, the goggles use an in-built compass to spot when swimmers complete lengths.

Ms Williams said the goggles would let swimmers concentrate on improving their strokes rather than count laps.



BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart eyewear for keen swimmers

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Cita del día




W. H. Auden

"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."




Tom Stoppard

"The days of the digital watch are numbered."




Henry James

"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."




John Kenneth Galbraith

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought."

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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Casino Carpet Gallery

Adoro la interné... Donde puedo encontrar una galeria de alfombras de hoteles de las Vegas???

aqui!




Die is Cast casino carpet gallery

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Paintings by Chimpanzee Outsell Warhol

Esta historia me recuerda un programa americano 20/20 o 60 Minutes donde les gusta armar polémica. El experimento en cuestión era tomar a: un mono, un salón de niños de primaria y a un analista de bolsa. Dejar que cada uno escogiera un grupo de acciones y ver como iban progresando...


El mono quedo en primer lugar, los niños en segundo y el analista en tercero... El analista se quejó y dijo que el habia hecho inversiones a largo plazo y lo mejor para su cliente y blah blah... Se revisaron los resultados meses después... y si el analista subió de lugar... a segundo. Monkey business indeed.



Monkey business proved to be lucrative Monday when paintings by Congo the chimpanzee sold at auction for more than $25,000.
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The three abstract, tempera paintings were auctioned at Bonhams in London alongside works by impressionist master Renoir and pop art provocateur Andy Warhol.

But while Warhol's and Renoir's work didn't sell, bidders lavished attention on Congo's paintings.





Coco no lo hace mal... pero despierta el viejo "Qué es arte?"

I like them myself...


Paintings by Chimpanzee Outsell Warhol - Yahoo! News

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The Wretched

Leí de esta película hace como un mes en Twitch y todavía no se me baja la emoción. Tres cosas:

1. Chow Yun Fat
2. Zombies
3. Western???


Too good to be true:





Welcome To Twitch. Spreading the News On Strange Little Films From Around the World.

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domo-kun

Domo-kun es un perfecto ejemplo del excelente diseño de personajes japonés. Aunque me sorprende un poco el hecho de que sea para niños.



but its too cute.

A mi me gusta la imagen de los gatitos donde Domo Kun hace una aparición infractora de copyright


drew: domo-kun

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Kozir Dmitry

Este post va dedicado al Dr. Solis que tiene un proyecto de tener las representaciones gráficas de las estructuras oseas y características físicas de personajes fantásticos.


Kozir Dmitry hizo lo mismo pero con enfasis en lo artístico, por lo que considero los dos proyectos complementarios:

Triton:






AIDAN GALLERY - GALLERY: Kozir Dmitry - Graphics

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Scientists 'raise the dead' in experiment

Debo admitir que el encabezado me hizo hacer un inventario de todas las tiendas donde podría conseguir armas para combatir a los muertos vivientes... pero decidí leer todo el articulo primero:








Zombies rising from the dead sound like the stuff of horror films and nightmares - but it could soon be reality.

Scientists have discovered a way to bring dead dogs back to life.

Using a so-called suspended animation technique, they emptied the dead animals' veins of blood and filled them with ice-cold saline solution to preserve the tissues and organs.

The animals had no heartbeat or brain activity and were classed as being clinically dead.

The saline solution was then replaced with fresh blood and electric shocks were used to restart the heart. The dogs appeared unharmed by their suspension and had suffered no brain damage

Scientists at the Safar Centre in Pittsburgh hope to use the technique on humans within a year and are in talks with hospitals about trials on trauma patients.

They believe it could save the lives of people who have suffered massive blood loss, such as battlefield casualties or stabbings victims.

'The results are stunning. They have these dogs with complete cardiac standstill for three hours and they recover to normality,' said trauma surgeon Dr Howard Champion.



still very creepy...


the Mail online | Mail - news, sport, showbiz, health and more | Scientists 'raise the dead' in experiment

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Citas del día

Jeff Valdez

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."




Andy Warhol


"I am a deeply superficial person."




Robert Pante


"If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life."




H. H. Williams

"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."




Phineas Taylor Barnum

"Every crowd has a silver lining."




Professor Irwin Corey

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."




John Gunther

"Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts."





Will Durant

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."



Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."




Scott Adams

"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."





Edward Abbey


"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Engadget Spanish

Engadget traduce contenidos y hará en el futuro artículos enfocodos a España y Latinoamerica.

ejemplo:





El tamaño es lo que importa, bueno por lo menos según el nuevo proyector de Sony. El nuevo proyector digital VPL-cx20 de Sony es solamente unas 2 pulgadas (52mm) de espeso. Este es de resolución XGA(1204 x 768) y 2000 Lumenés. Con ese tamaño (273x210x52mm) y peso (1.9 Kg.), el proyector es perfecto para fiestas en la terraza y apartamentos minimalistas. Puedes esperar pagar unos USD $2000 (1600 EUR) para esta belleza.


hey suena como un proyector poco espeso... heheheh


Engadget Spanish

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Painting of Tica by Dru Blair

Dru Blair afirma ser un pintor virtuoso (esta bien yo lo digo si es que la pintura es real, que no lo creo)al presentar esta obra de super realismo:




en esta era de Photoshop no se si se esta riendo de nosotros o con nosotros


What do you think?


Painting of Tica by Dru Blair


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The Hidden Tokyo

Nunca una página de internet, o un programa van a reemplazar la sensación de visitar un lugar. Pero son pàginas como las de Marco Silvestri que nos muestran un poco más de la literatura tradicional de agencia de viaje o programa promocional. Mercadeando y disparando a diestra y siniestra el portafolio de Silvestri en Materia Tokio es muy extenso e igualmente crea nostalgia y anticipación para los que ya visitaron o tienen planes de hacerlo:





me impresionó en particular las fotos de las maquinas de boletos en el metro... como me daban miedo, hasta que aprendimos a ser amigos...





The Hidden Tokyo

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What Video Game Character Am I?

Quiz para saber quien eres en el mundo de los videojuegos:




What Video Game Character Are You? I am a Gauntlet Adventurer.I am a Gauntlet Adventurer.


I strive to improve my living conditions by hoarding gold, food, and sometimes keys and potions. I love adventure, fighting, and particularly winning - especially when there's a prize at stake. I occasionally get lost inside buildings and can't find the exit. I need food badly. What Video Game Character Are You?


Sólo me senti 100% identificado con el hecho de que en videojuegos yo soy el tipo que juega 40 hrs más de las necesarias para acabar el juego porque siempre me pierdo ...


What Video Game Character Am I?

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AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES

Siendo un fanático del cine obviamente hay varias de estas citas que me hacen sonreir y otras que postularía para las peores.

Esta es una de mis favoritas. Laren Bacall a Humprey Bogart en To Have and Have not:


You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.


por cierto el personaje de Bogart no se llama Steve... pero a ella no le importa.


AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES

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Malls of America

Una muestra de una parte importante de vida Norteamericana.





Malls of America

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Danica McKellar en STUFF

Le habia perdido la pista a Danica McKellar desde un post a principios de año. Pero por lo visto ha estado ocupada la muchacha, posando para la revista STUFF:





click for bigger and better pictures

Winnie is all grown up!

STUFF MAGAZINE DOT COM: Danica McKellar

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Citas del día

Kurt Herbert Alder

"Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right."



Phillip Lopate

"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'."




Voltaire


"A witty saying proves nothing."




Dave Barry

"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Nobody smashes the hulk piñata!!!

Por qué? porque Hulk tiene copyright, y/o pagas o no pegas...




Drop the piñata: Hollywood cracks down on unlicensed characters
Piñatas fashioned after popular cartoon characters and sold by small-time street vendors are the subject of a new legal crackdown by big entertainment companies including Disney.

The two men browsing in Benjamin Santoyo's downtown Los Angeles produce store acted like many of his customers, not so much interested in fruit and vegetables as in the enormous pinatas of Winnie the Pooh, The Incredibles, and an orange fish named Nemo, all bobbing from a string tied to the ceiling. But theirs was an undercover visit on behalf of Disney Enterprises Inc. and four other entertainment industry giants aiming to stop the sale of counterfeit pinatas just as the bust-it-up party activity has become about as mainstream at Southland kids parties as cake, streamers and tortilla chips.

Disney and the other companies, in what experts said was an understandable move to protect their popular cartoon and character properties, filed copyright and trademark infringement lawsuits against Santoyo and another nearby shop owner for allegedly selling the counterfeit pinatas.



Boing Boing: Drop the pi�ata: Hollywood cracks down on unlicensed characters

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Grafitti the Grafitti

Hay una tendencia en el mundo de los anuncios en la calle de anunciarse con grafitti. Pero hay varios casos de venganza en donde los anuncios son llevados a la realidad por grafiteros urbanos. Ejemplo en el caso de un comercial para el SUV/tanque Hummer:




on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Usb Finger

Ok soy fan del sushi usb... pero un dedo?? por mas manicureado que este... sigue siendo un poco creepy:




Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women: As tasteless as it can get

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The Lost Cosmonauts

Los hermanos Judica-Cordiglia tenían una antena que recibia señales del espacio, y con el tiempo pudieron escuchar las transmisiones de los satelites que sobrevolaban Italia, todos eran bips hasta que un dia escucharon los últimos latidos de un cosmonauta sin nombre:






The Soviet Union had beaten the U.S. in 1957 by launching the first, unmanned artificial satellite, Sputnik.
In total secrecy, preparations were also underway at the space center in Baikonur, for an orbital manned flight. The U.S.S.R. had to show the world its scientific leadership by being first with a man in space.

We now present a document which unequivocally proves that on February 2, 1961, nine weeks before Gagarin, another Russian cosmonaut flew into space. His mission was not successful and this hero perished during the flight. His sacrifice was kept secret from the world for reasons of political propaganda.

The attached 'RealAudio' files are actual recordings of the last moments of this hero's life. His failing heartbeat can be heard, as it was recorded by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers. A leading cardiologist of the time, Prof. Dogliotti, confirmed that the heartbeats are those of a dying person. The breathing sounds are, literally, the last gasps of the cosmonaut, already unconscious.


y la primera mujer en el espacio:

The launch took place on the 16th of May, 1961. We don't know what went wrong during the flight, but re-entry had to be delayed. It is possible that the thermal shield of the Vostok capsule may have been damaged during launch. A decision was finally made to attempt re-entry on May 23rd, due to the dwindling air supplies.

The italian listening post manned by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers had, by now, learned how to intercept the voice communications between the spacecraft and mission control, in addition to the physiological data received on the previous missions.
The document we are presenting is dramatic and unsettling: the cosmonaut can be heard complaining about the increasing ambient temperature, in a professional voice which yet betrays the knowledge of a mission gone terribly wrong. In the end, when flames start engulfing the capsule, the voice becomes heart-rending.

A full english translation is presented, together with the original voice recording.

Three days later, on May 26, 1961, TASS, the soviet press agency announced the return to earth on the 23rd of a large, unmanned satellite which burned upon re-entering the atmosphere. The satellite was the size of a city bus. Its launch had not been previously disclosed and its purpose was unknown.



The Lost Cosmonauts

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Moscow Graffiti

Página dedicada al grafitti y stencil en Moscú:






Moscow Graffiti

también existe una comunidad rusa grafitera en livejournal
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Dog Raper

Desde Cat Killer que renombre Cat Raper, un luchador vuelto violador que no pensé que pudiera ser superado, pero esta nota se vuela la barda:




A Campobello teen is accused of raping one neighbor's dog and another neighbor's two little girls. Now the dog has died and charges against the teen have been upgraded.

After receiving word that the dog died possibly because of the rape. Fox Carolina called the Solicitor's office to see if now new charges would be filed against the teen. An hour later Solicitor Trey Gowdy called to say that the charges will be upgraded to the "most serious animal cruelty charges they have on the books."

The dog's owner Sylvia Jones says, "At first when it happened, I couldn't eat or sleep every morning I'm waking up thinking Princess is there but she's not.

Princess's little dog house is empty now. Sylvia Jones says she died of internal bleeding this past Sunday because of the rape. "The vet told me she had a little blood in her urine and that she was bleeding inside."



Sylvia says she and her husband would not have believed Cory Williamson raped Princess exactly two weeks to the day she died had they not seen it with their own eyes.

"When I got here we were laying on the deck looking at him and he had his pants down and he was doing sexual activity with the dog like a man would do to a woman."

The Jones family says Princess wouldn't eat or play anymore after the attack. "She (Princess) couldn't even sit down, her bottom was swollen sore."


Y antes de ser acusado de insensible lo que realmente me preocupa es que la nota se centra al 100 en el hecho de que la victima es un perro. Y hay poco nivel de enojo y demanda de justicia por el hecho de que también hayan sido violadas dos niñas menores de 14 años...

pero como bien dice el buen Ewan McGregor en Shallow Grave:

Now, was there a pet in the house? Yes, a pet. like a dog or budgie or a gerbil. You see, what I need is 'PC Plod rescues Harry the Hamster from House of Horror'. all right...well, that's a pity, you see, no pets, no human angle."

FOX Carolina The Ten O'Clock News Charges Against Teen Upgraded After Dog He Allegedly Raped Dies

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Cita del día



Aristotle

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

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Friday, June 17, 2005

Big Boobs Keep Foster's Beer Cold

Campaña sexista del día:



We know boobs have been used to sell beer forever but not in association with the large shady area a pair of prodigious breasts can provide. Under the photoshopped boobage of one woman, another woman holds a glass of Foster's beer accompanied by the headline, "Well. You Wouldn't Want A Warm Beer, Would You?" At first we thought we were looking at some new form of breast-produced beer milk until we came to our senses and focused on the shadier aspects of this ad

Adrants � Big Boobs Keep Foster's Beer Cold

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Netdiver Best of the Year / 2004

El portal de diseño Netdiver hizo su lista de lo mejor de 2004 (En Enero... pero yo la saco del archivo hasta hoy, bueno mejor hoy que en 2005...)


Netdiver Best of the Year 2004

These sites are a tribute to the immense talent of designers across many media and disciplines. They stand out as being unique, innovative and displaying stellar concept, craftmanship and compelling content and / projects.






netdiver.net newsarchive --> Best of the Year / 2004

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Ruud Peters

Preciosas galerias de este fotografo. En especial les recomiendo su sección de animales. Aunque también tiene una de hielo buenísima... entre otras






Ruud Peters
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Banksy

Gracias a las fechas del archivo de blogger debí de haber posteado esto desde Diciembre 10 de 2004. Bueno mejor tarde que nunca (sorry M. ) Y es el más conocido y travieso artista grafitero.





Banksy

y de plano no tengo perdón de no haber posteado esta historia desde Marzo...

Banksy haciendo de las suyas en museos de Nueva York:

Se disfrazo de pensionado inglés y como el se cree ya listo para pertenecer al mundo del arte reconocido... Pues colgo sus obras en los museos:



Un turista admirando:



la pintura en cuestión:



The images above - exclusive to the Wooster site and provided by Banksy - are of Banksy installing four pieces in New York's most prestigious museums - The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Natural History.

Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with authorative name plaque and explanation.

He says - "This historic occasion has less to do with finally being embraced by the fine art establishment and is more about the judicious use of a fake beard and some high strength glue." Banksy continues -"They're good enough to be in there, so I don't see why I should wait"

Staff at the New York Met discovered and removed their new aquisition early Sunday morning while Banksy's discount soup can print took pride of place in the MoMA for over three days before being torn down.

As of now, the other two pieces currently remain firmly in place...


Wooster Collective : Stickers / Posters / Graf / Culture Jamming

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Jerome's Wonders,

Este es Jerome:




Su página esta escrita por (uno de sus padres, primera vez que maldigo al idioma inglés por su ambiguedad de genero... J. Dominguez M.D. hmm podría ser su padre, pero igualmente podría ser su madre... whatever read on) y empieza así:

My son Jerome is still missing after the terrorist disaster of September 11, 2001 on the Twin Towers in New York City.


Que no es tan raro mucha gene no ha aparecido, pero Jerome no es como toda la gente:

His friend Bob had to have Hernia Surgery... ask your friend Jerome to help you, we told him... he did!, just a Hail Mary not expecting too much... one week later the wife called, and I asked her, how is Bob, how was the operation?... No, she answered, he went to the operating room and was told, "you don't need surgery"... I am a Medical Doctor, and I still don't know how a hernia operation can be cancelled just like that!.

His other friend, Berlanga, was called from the Air Force Reserve to go to Aphganistan... his main problem was that he had to stay Christmas away from home... again, we told him, ask Jerome to help you... he did!, again just a Hail Mary... two weeks later he was on the phone... Where are you, Berlanga?, I asked... I am in New York, they brought me to 6 countries, England, Turkey, Greece, Pakistan, not to Aphganistan... and they just told me, go home until after New Year, so here I am!.



que para milagros otra vez no es la gran cosa... pero lo siguiente...

The first experiences I had with Jerome was two days after the disaster, on September 13:

I was working on the Internet at 6:30 AM, and Jerome was missing in the tragedy of the World Trade Center for almost 48 hours... suddenly I told Jerome: If you are in Heaven, can you give me a sign?... immediately I said again: Forget it Jero!, because I knew Jerome did not like extra-natural experiences... but 10 minutes later, when I had forgotten my question to Jero, I looked at the statistics of this same Domain and on September 11 had 52,000 hits...
... This may look nothing to you, but for 3 years, I had been working to increase the number of hits on this Domain that was about 25,000 hits per day in 1998, and after thousands of working hours and about 50 web sites more, the number of hits never went over 30,000 hits, it looked like an impossible wall to brake.... and, all of a sudden, 52,000, 53,000 the next day... and the next day 56,654... and up to today, January 30, 2002, the number of hits has been around 50,000, with one day, an impossible!, 106,181 hits!... without any human explanation I can give... now, in 2004, the hits are usually about 200,000 per day... thanks, Jero!.

Of course, this may not mean much to you, but for me it was an immediate answer of Jero, telling me he was dead and that he was in Heaven!...



Jerome... el santo de las estadísticas de visita???


lo leyeron primero aqui...



Jerome's Wonders, the little miracles of Jerome after his death on 911 in the World Trade Center in New York

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Joshua Ellingson

Excelente ilustrador, y muy facil de navegar su página. En especial me gusto que cada imagen tiene un pequeño texto donde describe el cliente y la inspiración.





Joshua Ellingson


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Citas del día




Charles F. Kettering

"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."



Blaise Pascal

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Who watches the watchmen?

Por el momento no seremos nosotros. Se cancela la producción de la película basada en la novela gráfica de Alan Moore y Dave Gibbons:





Plug Pulled On Watchmen Movie

Paramount has pulled the plug on its proposed film version of Watchmen, Alan Moore's celebrated superhero graphic novel, Variety reported. Producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin were taking the project, with British director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy) attached, out to other studios, the trade paper reported.

Watchmen came under heavy scrutiny in the wake of Paramount chief Brad Grey's surprise move to replace Donald De Line with Gail Berman as studio president in late March, the trade paper reported. De Line found out about the change while in London meeting with Greengrass about Watchmen and the need to cut its budget, rumored to be $100 million, the trade paper reported.

Paramount had been aiming for a summer start, but began releasing crews working on preproduction at that point.


bien por el hecho de que no la hicieron... para no arruinarla ... y mal por el hecho de no poder ver a Rorschach en la patanlla grande... ( y no puedo creer que pueda escribir Rorschach sin error ortográfico... damn comics you taught me well)



Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel

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Art of Science Competition

¿Por qué muchas veces los segundos lugares son más impresionantes que los primeros?

Este es el Segundo lugar en Art of Science




Driven
Anton Darhuber, Benjamin Fischer and Sandra Troian
Microfluidic Research and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering
SECOND PRIZE WINNER
This image illustrates evolving dynamical patterns formed during the spreading of a surface-active substance (surfactant) over a thin liquid film on a silicon wafer. After spin-coating of glycerol, small droplets of oleic acid were deposited. The usually slow spreading process was highly accelerated by the surface tension imbalance that triggered a cascade of hydrodynamic instabilities. Such surface-tension driven flow phenomena are believed to be important for the self-cleaning mechanism of the lung as well as pulmonary drug delivery.



¿qué es Art of Science?


This spring we asked the Princeton University community to submit imagery produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science. The response was overwhelming: more than 200 entries from nearly 100 individuals in 15 departments. We selected 55 of these works to appear in the 2005 Art of Science Exhibition.

The resulting assembly of images presents a fascinating and beautiful cross section of the arts and sciences at Princeton. It celebrates the aesthetics of research and the ways in which science and art inform each other.

We thank all those who submitted works to the competition. By sharing their imagination, as well as the fruits of their research, they have made this project an interdisciplinary collaboration on a grand scale.



Art of Science Competition / Gallery

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El Santo!

Tienda de posters del cine mexicano con sección especial de fantasía (lease de luchadores)



Estaria bueno hacer stenciles guerrilleros y convertir todos los anuncios de lencería en mujeres muerciegalas!

Santocxdata

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Yotophoto

Yotophoto es un sitio de busqueda de imagenes libres para su manipulación y distribución muchas veces bajo el Creative Commons.

Abajo una foto de (en el caption se lee que es el barrio chino de la Ciudad de México pero de hecho esta a media cuadra) de la calle de Dolores





Yotophoto: Find Free photos Fast! (A Search engine for Free Images & Stock Photos)

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Postal peek

El servicio postal de Japón es uno de los mayores poseedores de cuentas de ahorro del mundo. Las tasas de Japón son tan bajas (menos del 1%) que muchas veces el tener dinero en el banco resulta perjudicial (manejo de cuenta, comisiones, etc) y los japoneses prefieren meter su dinero a cuentas del servicio postal. Que además tiene mayores sucursales gracias a sus colaboraciones con los mini supers, etc. Y esto que tiene que ver con la imagen?




El presidente japonés Koizumi quiere privatizar la parte de ahorro del correo. Y ha habido debate de si esto es correcto o no y de ahi se soltó una polémica que acabo hasta afectando la industria de ropa interior de mujeres...

Don't you just love Japan?


� Blog Archive � Postal peek

via Baaloco: о популярном и занимательном que es como ponchorama!!! pero en ruso. El único blog en ruso que leo!

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Cita del día




Dick Cavett

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either."

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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Citas del día



Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."


Don Marquis

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Bling Bling Graves

visitando el blog de cacouno me encontré estas imagenes de tumbas que han sido blingizadas (palabra inventada) y no me sorprende en nada que sean de gitanos:

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Ed Mironiuk's Crap

Ed Mironiuk además de ser excelente ilustrador, hace un buen reportaje de su viaje a Japón donde se dio vuelta por lugares que en cualquier lado estarían fuera de lugar...







We got home late sunday night. Still trying to get stuff in order. In the meantime we gots a few more pictures. Probably one of my favorite places in Shibuya was a restaraunt with a medical/prison theme called Alcatraz E.R (http://www.hy-japan.com/alcatraz/top.html). This was one of our waitresses (in fact she was the one who greeted us at the door and handcuffed Kris and I together before leading us to our prison cell.

Ed Mironiuk's Crap

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he Years of Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start The Fire'

La BBC tiene en su h2g2 una guía tipo wikipedia de todo lo importante para la vida y el universo... en cuestión la letra de We Didn't start the fire por Billy Joel explicada año por año y suceso por suceso:






Foreign Debts, Homeless Vets
AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz,
Hypodermics on the Shore,
China's Under Martial Law,
Rock and Roller Cola Wars
I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE


Y esta disección de la canción me explica quien es Bernie Getz:

Bernie Goetz

On a cold December night in 1984, Bernard Goetz and three young black men met each other in a rather deserted Subway car in New York City. The last thing that all of the parties involved in the events that transpired agree on is that is that Goetz was riding the Subway alone when the four black youths approached him. Goetz claimed that the four youths threatened him with the business end of a screwdriver and demanded that he hand over his money. The youths contended that they were merely 'panhandling' to get some money so they could play video games.

To many people in New York, and all over the world, what Goetz did next was way out of line, even if a mugging was going on. He pulled out a gun and shot all four of the youths in what he called 'self defence.' One of the youths, Darryl Cabbey, was paralyzed for life and suffered brain damage as well.

For more than three years, New Yorkers were engrossed in the saga of 'The Subway Vigilante.' The case was a contentious one and at the time, it seemed that everyone had an opinion about it.

In general, conservatives called him a hero who was protecting himself in the face of a violent threat; just as, they said, any American has the right to do when threatened with a deadly weapon, like a screwdriver.

Liberals were outraged at the idea of a man taking the law into his own hands in such a deadly way. They were further incensed that he was doing it to protect a mere $53 (according to both the youth and Goetz, that is all they asked for).

After an eight-and-a-half-month trial, Goetz was acquitted of attempted murder and assault. He was found guilty of criminal possession of an unlicensed weapon for which he spent a total of 250 days in jail.

Cabbey, however, brought a civil suit against Goetz. He was awarded $43m: $18m for past and future pain and suffering and $25m in punitive damages. Goetz declared bankruptcy shortly after the judgment.

Goetz after the Trial

Goetz has never shown any remorse for his actions. In a 1994 interview with The Toronto Star he said 'If you're injured, paralyzed or whatever while committing a violent crime against me, that's not my fault.'

He even acknowledged that he thought about gouging out the eyes of one of his injured 'attackers' with his keys and said that the attack 'should be looked on as a public service'.

Goetz is now a vegetarian activist, working with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals , and espousing his Buddhist views about why animals shouldn't be food for humans. He told The Washington (DC) Times that had he not been a meat eater at the time of the shooting, it would never have happened because of the 'good karma' attached to vegetarianism.

In 2001, Goetz campaigned for Mayor of New York City. His platform was based on a call for vegetarian meals in the city's public schools. In fact, other than that, he was so happy with the administration of then Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Goetz said that he would offer Giuliani a job as his right-hand man if he won the election.

Goetz received 1,049 votes out of 1,520,443 cast.


The Years of Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start The Fire'

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EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

Hoy se celebra el 2ndo dia internacional de los bloggers, así que la EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) publica su guía legal para bloggers con contenidos como:


The Overview of Legal Liability Issues FAQ briefly addresses some common legal issues that affect you as a publisher, especially situations where you may face legal claims or threats based on the information you published on your blog.

The Bloggers' FAQ on Intellectual Property addresses issues that arise when you publish material created by others on your blog.

The Bloggers' FAQ on Online Defamation Law provides an overview of defamation (libel) law, including a discussion of the constitutional and statutory privileges that may protect you.

The Bloggers' FAQ on Section 230 Protections discusses a powerful federal law that gives you, as a web host, protection against legal claims arising from hosting information written by third parties.

The Bloggers' FAQ on Privacy addresses the legal issues surrounding the privacy rights of people you blog about.



EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers


Felicidades a todos los bloggers!!!


2nd Annual International Weblogger's Day

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Shanghai Adbay Public Ettiquette

Promocionales de conducta cívica en Shanghai:



Client Shanghai Adbay - Public Ettiquette
Ad "Picking Nose"
Media Poster
Office Shanghai

Ad Copy / Description

“Who will fall in love with such beauty of Shanghai?”


Part of a civil educational campaign initiated by the Shanghai City Government, was to remind her citizens to carry themselves properly in public.


también hay uno de bellezas escupitadoras...

Shanghai Adbay Public Ettiquette - "Picking Nose"

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Los mandamientos del creativo

Del publicista en el tejado leo estos mandamientos del creativo:



LOS DIEZ MANDAMIENTOS DEL CREATIVO:


1) Un buen creativo no debe dirigirse a los consumido­res sino a las 20 personas de París susceptibles de contratar­le (los directores creativos de las 20 mejores agencias de pu­blicidad). Por consiguiente, ganar un premio en Cannes o en el Club de los AD es mucho más importante que conse­guir que el cliente aumente sus cuotas de mercado.

2) La primera idea es la mejor, pero el creativo siempre debe exigir tres semanas de plazo antes de presentada.

3) La publicidad es el único trabajo en el que te pagan por hacer las cosas peor de lo que puedes hacerlas. Cuando presentas una idea genial y el anunciante desea estropearla, concéntrate en pensar en tu sueldo, y, en treinta segundos de cronómetro, endósale una mierda siguiendo su dictado y añádele unas palmeras en el story-board para salir a rodar el spot durante una semana en Miami o Ciudad del Cabo.


sigan la liga para ver los otros 7 y un bis:

Sección 9

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Drawing Restraint 9

El nuevo proyecto de Mathew Barney (mejor conocido como el autor de la serie Cremaster... ah si y la pareja de Bjork...)






Drawing Restraint 9, a film by Matthew Barney with a soundtrack composed by Björk, represents the first creative collaboration of two of the most protean, dynamic forces in music and fine art.

It is an apt pairing. Refusing to choose between pop pleasure and restless experimentation, Björk's musical vision weds technology and emotion, countering gut-level expression with an insistence upon formal modernity and innovation.



bjork.com : Drawing Restraint 9

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via L. más informaición del proyecto:


Björk has done some interesting things with film and music in her day, whether working with video directors such as Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry or filmmaker Lars Von Trier. These days, she's approaching film music from a different angle, contributing her talents to her baby daddy Matthew Barney's latest installment of his Drawing Restraint series. The film, Drawing Restraint 9, premieres July 1 in Kanazawa, Japan, and like the rest of the series us "centered on the conflicted relationship between human beings and their cultural environment, as well as the struggles of energies within the human body." It will feature a soundtrack of new music by Björk, a CD of which will follow (not, we assume, only in Japan) later in July.



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Monday, June 13, 2005

France holds 'Chameleon' impostor

Cuando la vida imita al arte es cosa curiosa... Cuando imita a los comics, es material para ponchorama!!!






A 31-year-old serial impostor who passed himself off for a whole month as a schoolboy - aged 15 - is being questioned by police in France.

Frederic Bourdin, nicknamed "the Chameleon", attended the Jean Monnet school in Pau posing as "Francisco Hernandez-Fernandez", a Spanish orphan.

A teacher unmasked him last week after having watched a television programme about his exploits.

Bourdin was jailed in the US in 1997 for posing as a couple's long-lost son.

The Texas couple's 14-year-old blue-eyed son had disappeared three years earlier and they travelled to the US embassy in Spain to meet "Nicholas Barclay".

Bourdin convinced them that he was their son, despite his brown eyes and strong French accent.

He lived with them for three months before his deception was exposed by a journalist and confirmed by a DNA test. He was jailed for six years.







BBC NEWS | World | Europe | France holds 'Chameleon' impostor

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myrmecos.net- ant and other insect photos

Esta página clásifica a los insectos en Hormigas y No-hormigas. Buenas imagenes de hormigas y otras no-hormigas:






myrmecos.net- ant and other insect photos

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The Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible.

El proyecto de la biblia ilustrada esta muy interesante:


Our goal is to illustrate the entire bible verse–by–verse— one illustration per verse. We plan to enlist artists and illustrators from all over the world— including you!— to help us bring each of the 36,665 verses in our database to life.




How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.


hay ilustraciones modernas como esta, o más apegadas al original.


The Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible.


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