Archive for March, 2009
While I was away these last couple of weeks, doing many important and productive things (or watching Battlestar Galactica – how did I miss this show until now?), my hosting expired. It occurred to me after I renewed that I probably could have just moved to a free WordPress blog, since I’m a little over [ READ MORE ]
The Playing For Change Foundation is a group “dedicated to connecting the world through music” by raising money and providing supplies and facilities to musicians and their communities. They’re releasing a DVD this spring entitled Playing for Change – Peace Through Music, which features over 100 musicians from around the world playing music together. They [ READ MORE ]
I’ve always had a fascination with graffiti. Something about the culture and the adventure is really attracting. Casing the town at night with a backpack of spray paint, looking for that perfect canvas to display your art to the world. Like most people, I can’t stand those ugly tags covering the city, but I also can’t [ READ MORE ]
Mystery Man on Film has posted a 125-page transcript of the five day meeting Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan had when mapping out the story for Raiders of the Lost Ark. Did you fall out of your chair? I did! Most who know me are aware of my little obsession for Indiana Jones. When I [ READ MORE ]
I’m going to have this song stuck in my head all day now. Hilarious and disgusting, a great combination. Maybe I’ll become a vegetarian… [via] [ READ MORE ]
A guest writer on Boing Boing posted an short article entitled Big Tent Atheism earlier today. It’s worth a quick read, if you feel like you haven’t been irritated enough yet today. His post is essentially saying that atheists shouldn’t be outspoken and should just participate quietly with religious ceremonies while keeping their opinions to [ READ MORE ]
Reza Dolatabadi created this for his graduation project, and it’s very cool. What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards. [ READ MORE ]
There was a weigh-in controversy last Thursday. Apparently, the Official Competition Scale was fluctuating too much, and it was deemed faulty. We had to change to a new scale, and therefore the competition had to be reset. This was clearly a scheme to bring me, the current frontman in the race, down. My weight from [ READ MORE ]