Month: July 2011

Startup Guys

oldie but this still makes me giggle every time i watch it.

My Brightest Diamond

My Brightest Diamond at castle clinton. Shara Worden reminds me a bit of a songwriter version of Róisín Murphy.

The longest foot race

“The 5000 km Race is the longest certified foot race in the world. The competitors seek to complete 5649 laps of a 800m course in a timespan of 52 days.”

Fabian Jäger are you up for your next challenge?

Yeah right, MTA

Silliest MTA PSA: “don’t display cell phones or other electronic devices.”

The Anti Powerpoint Party

it is hard to exaggerate how awesome this is. where is the US version? of course the proposed solution is only slightly better. much better: really think hard if you need to present anything at all.

The Anti-PowerPoint Party (abbreviated APPP) is a political party whose aim is to influence the public with regard to limiting the phenomenon of unproductive use of time in the Swiss economy industry, in research, and educational institutions. Particular attention is being paid to the economic damage resulting from presentations using PowerPoint. The party aims to launching a national referendum to obtain a law forbidding PowerPoint during presentations.

365 layers of makeup

Cheeky directors Lernert & Sander embrace the urge for cosmetic overkill in their surreal short Natural Beauty. Makeup artist Ferry van der Nat and his assistant Vanessa Chan helped to execute the vision, slathering a host of Ellis Faas products on Belgian beauty Hannelore Knuts, who was recently named the new face of Swiss fashion house Akris. Lernert & Sander began collaborating in 2006; since then they’ve done everything from melt a chocolate bunny with a hairdryer to repurpose household appliances as sex toys in the name of video art. We asked the co-conspirators to break down the shoot in detail.

Mission Statement: We wanted to apply 365 layers of makeup in 1 day to see how much is needed to go from a natural look to an outrageous one.