Secret Still

I somehow slept on my wrist in a way that replaced muscled with blinding pain. I’m a sleep ninja.

I’ve been wondering recently (for the last 10 minutes) what my life would be like if I didn’t use the internet other than for work related purposes. Would television and books and periodicals keep me entertained? Would they keep me informed? What would I talk about with people who used the internet?

“Did you see that video of the woman being kicked by the horse?”
“No.”
“Um….you wanna makeout?”
“OK!”

Not so bad after all. But I actually want to know what would happen if I stopped. I guess I would have to continue using it as a job resource and also a job locator, I only e-mail people at work. Could I update my blog on the progress of the experiment? Of course, who wants to experiment alone. I would risk losing all 15 of my readers, but then again maybe my life would be more interesting to me and everyone else if there were some purpose driving it, if only for a year. Is the internet a powerful enough resource that I won’t be a properly functioning member of my peer group without it? Or will I prove that we can be more than the things we read about? Is this an idea that can result in transcendence? What would I be transcending?

Gimme some feedback on this idea. It’s so crazy it just might work.

p.s. any sort of instant messenger counts as internet use.

Until I decide, here are some links to interest those of you still committed to the world wide web:

How much time do you spend looking at your rug? If you smoke enough pot or consume psychedelics on a regular basis the chances are good that you have discovered every intricate facet of your floor covering. If you drink a lot then chances are you’ve covered it in vomit. But whatever attention you pay to your floor it stands to reason that you don’t have anything as cool as what Rugged Art makes. I have no idea how much they cost, which leads me to believe that I can’t afford them.

A little weird, a little cute, an assload of awesome. All this and more describes the new Kelis and Andre 3000 video (qt). Word on the street is you should buy the new Kelis album. The street knows where it’s at. Link via Cliptip.

I don’t know what the cost is in bills, but you can buy Grafuck at Fuss for 10 British pounds. Which are like pounds but with bad teeth and gay accents.

Nerds have started making art or artists have started being nerds, but either way the results are really something.

Finally a clown does something funny.

Don’t sleep on the feedback.

There seemed to be a little explosion of interesting things to look at and wonder about on the internet overnight. Look and wonder with me, won’t you neighbors?

I might have mentioned Hypebeast before, but they update everyday with about a hundred new things (mostly shoes).

Jack White is selling his digs in Detroit for just under a big bill. Interested in buying it? Take the tour to make sure. The closet for the master bedroom (actually a dressing room) actually made me drool a little.

If you’ve ever wanted to have some sweet artist-designed shoes and are tired of the converse or vans slip-on that most galleries go with then you need to glance at the catalog String Republic. Let me know if you think guys can get away with wearing them. I have my fingers crossed.

I get the feeling like there should be some phone prank involving Meg Hunt’s name, similar to the Mike Hunt prank. Is MikeHunt there? I’m looking for MikeHunt! But it just doesn’t work the same with Meg. Her illustrations are still tight, though.

Let’s give it up for The French because they’re giving it up for us.

I like to give shouts to the art and design blogs that are better, more trafficked, and more interesting than this one. Manystuff is just such a blog.

Dude, you are a genius.

It’s no wonder Nowacek is part of Metropolis.

I am still infatuated with T.E.D. and T.E.D.’s blog. This video is hard to watch, but damn if that isn’t awesome. Anyone want to find a way for me to go to T.E.D.2007?

I really enjoy the fact that trendspotting is a new trend, and that I’m somewhere on the white cap of the wave. Were I clever enough I could make it work in my favor. I am not.

Look out for a new section of the sidebar. Rocking your world in left-align.

I’m gonna go learn what C-4 is made of and how it works. Put that in your terrorist content filter and smoke it, C.I.A. webcrawlers.

Here is the link packed goodness that your heart so desperately wants to destroy with a fiery, spiked bat.

The Urban Forest Project is a long time coming and desperately needed at a time when everyone except America knows that global warming is going to crush us as a species (whether we’re the cause of it or not). They offer the banners as t-shirts, too. I wish I could see the real thing.

The fantastic work at J3 Concepts is on hiatus, but you should still give a your eyes a treat with it. Word is he’s working with 4impressions. Good luck.

Did I mention Sam Weber already? Fuck it, he deserves another mention if I did.

The Big Easy just got a whole lot harder.

Do you have a 12″ speaker driver and a lot of free time? Then you too can make your own Hornmassive. Deafen your friends!

M Modern Gallery is having a genius show called The Cat Is Out of the Hat. You can see previews of all the paintings here. I can see why the Mark Ryden painting went for $60K.

And if you like to read and you are a fan of any ad design since the 70’s you need to get yourself a copy of this book. Design Observer has a good run-up here.

Does anyone else feel dirty after they look at all the Cobrasnake pictures? But like dirty in a sort of sexy way. Like being a DJ at the The Cheetah?

I spent five minutes of my valuable work time doing this because it just wouldn’t get out of my head. That’s about 4 minutes and 45 seconds too long. But still, ballin’, na’mean?

Image inspired by this post.

I know I’ve been giving you all the skimpy posts and this is no exception, but they’ll get longer soon.

Stephen Colbert and John Stewart are my favorite people.

If you travel or just want to build your karma then you should check out Hospitality Club. Members can browse profiles and arrange places to stay wherever they travel or just find a guide to show them around. Fuck hostels, this is the jam.

I think that this short from Mutant Hands may be one of the best I’ve seen in a while.

We went and caught a bunch of salamanders yesterday, fun right? It was until we got home and realized that we were being occupied by about 100 seed ticks (they’re teeny tiny). Every time you think you’ve gotten them all you look away and then when you look back there are more just hanging out. Awesome. I mean, who doesn’t want Lyme Disease.

I need to do something awesome tonight. And I still have some cans of spray paint left….

Um, so I’ll just be staying in then. Just sitting around the old house. Definitely won’t be going out to paint any private property. Not this guy. Just an old couch potato….on the couch.

This is happening only one state away. One more warm Winter and we can kiss our asses goodbye. This is because of those melted ants isn’t it, Jesus?

Quick, quick, while no one’s looking.

Good Point

New Ruler of Awesome. If enough Athenians contact them I bet they would come here.

I’m beyond my comfortable stress level for the week and it’s making me tired even if i get enough sleep (I know that’s nothing to you, Jeremiah). I need money, much more than I have or will have. A new house means new bills to pay, most of them higher than before, and when you skate the thin line of credit and cash like I did you don’t have any wiggle room. So now I’m left with not enough money to pay for the basic necessities of life (cable is not one of these of course, but I can’t read forever) and a job that should be providing enough but isn’t. Get a new job? I can’t because a) I really like the one I have and b) I need it to pay for school (tuition assistance program). So I’m stressed out up shit creek.

But hey here’s something fun.

To the guy in the white truck in front of me,

Hey, buddy, I just wanted to let you know how I admire you. I really like your window sticker that says God Bless USA in red, white, and blue letters. And your support our troops sticker in giant letters next to it is a daring move. I have to really appreciate someone who cares so much about our country and the well being of our soldiers that they would obscure their entire rear window to show it. You’ve got moxy, brother, and I for one love it. I figure you were really busy thinking about the troops overseas and that’s why you made that fast left onto the street that I was turning right on, nearly side-swiping me and forcing me to swerve almost into someone waiting to come out of the gas station parking lot. It’s ok, man, really, because I’m not one of those whiny liberal types that think traffic laws are more important than praying for those young men fighting in that Godforsaken desert. You keep right on prayin’, buddy. The kids in the gas station car might not understand being thrown through a side-window when my truck crashes into them, but before I pass out from the concussion my hand will come up in salute to you, sir, because I know that you’re the one accomplishing the really important things in this world, and those stickers are keeping men alive halfway around the Earth. Those men are there protecting the lives of people over here….so you can end them with your fucking reckless driving you fucking asshole.

Oh, and America? We have got to stop making things like this or I swear I will join a Jihad.