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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The Hillbilly Movie
Many family and friends continue to ask: "Whatever happened to that Hillbilly Movie?"
Whelp. Here 'tis! Created for the '99 West Buena Halloween Party in Chicago, this has been floated around for years.
Diane (Cross) Durand stars as June, the damsel in distress, who has a very big problem. She's got hillbillies (Jarrell McAlister and Peter Durand) and she can't make'em go away!
Labels: hillbillies, humor, video
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Beijing's 798 Art Zone
To see that the Chinese don't always take themselves, their culture or their history too seriously, check out the wacky sculptures of this huge site of a former factory, the 798 Art Zone.
Every artist seems to have one thing in common: a mash-up or cultural language and contemporary imagery. Maoist imagery mixed with Warhol love of the icon, but through an asian Jeffrey Coombs filter. (Lots of irony and nudity.)
Every artist seems to have one thing in common: a mash-up or cultural language and contemporary imagery. Maoist imagery mixed with Warhol love of the icon, but through an asian Jeffrey Coombs filter. (Lots of irony and nudity.)
Labels: art, China, culture, humor
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
ManBabies.com
I have a new baby. And I am a man. But this site makes me concerned about taking any photographs with my genetic off-spring that might make it on the interweb. ManBabies.com show us a truer side of fathers, and the children we embarrass.
( Spotted on Kevin Kelly's del.icio.us page!? )
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Heaven on HEMA
Have fun shopping at this crazy on-line store from the Netherlands. If only strolling the aisles of Target were so exciting!Thanks to Nellie Durand!
Labels: humor
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Why You Should Include a Joker in Every Brainstorming Session
The Fast Interview: John Morreall on the link between humor and innovation, why authoritarian bosses fear humor, and the funniest CEO in America.
From: FastCompany.com | November 2007 | By: Kermit Pattison
Humor makes us think more flexibly. People who think funny do better on creativity studies. To put it really simply, humor loosens up your brain to think of more possibilities and be more open to the wild and wacky ones. There is a guy at the State University of New York at Buffalo named Roger Firestien who has a center for the study of creativity. When he teaches brainstorming, he says you should put a joker in the group -- somebody who will come up with preposterous ideas. Very often that will stimulate people to come up with ideas that will work. Let me give you an example. A bunch of paint engineers were moaning and bitching about how hard it is to get paint off a house. read full interview >> |
Labels: creativity, humor
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