Posts from — July 2008

Do you remember that weird Starburst commercial where the kid made a bust of a girl he liked, entirely out of the awesomely delicious candy (I love Starburst) and then he started making out with it. Well, Jason Kronenwald has done something similar except without all the weirdness

Jason makes portraits out of chewed bubble gum which is placed on plywood backing and has dubbed his artwork as Gum Blondes. According to his bio, he has a whole team of gum chewers to create the substance of his masterpieces. There are a whole bunch of different pictures he’s created already, so go visit the site and enjoy some fun, creative art.

Brendan Dawes has come up with an awesome, and nerdy, idea. By creating a Java program using the programming language called Processing, he has taken several movies apart and at every second of the film, it outputs an image. See, I told you it was nerdy, but the results are really cool.

Each line represents one minute of the film and viewing the whole thing as one image shows some pretty interesting things, like how in the last 1/4 of the movie Vertigo(pictured above) has two lines that don’t match colors with the rest of the movie, purple and red. Or when you compare the image of The French Connection with the other movies, you can see it has a more bluish theme.

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When we think of eerie symptoms and bizarre theories of unknown diseases and infections, our minds go to the Hollywood movies plotting near extinction of mankind or television series like the X-Files and the Twilight Zone alike. But in recent times, there is such a disease that many people are suffering, even dying from that is far from a motion picture. And the scariest thing; many doctors don’t even believe that this disease exists.

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Along the same lines as LOLCats, there’s a new funny user-created photo site that’s sure to waste some more of your valuable time. Time that is probably designated for work, but nonetheless. Om Nom Nom Nom (likely inspired by the Cookie Monster) has one picture on the main page and if you refresh that page, a new picture will show up.

There are some really funny pics in here too, and I bet you could come up with one pretty damn easily. If you see something roundish or a hole of any kind, put some eyes on it, some jagged teeth and you’ve got yourself an Om Nom Nom Nom.

These words are all hot-button issues that were discussed in June 2008 by the United States Congress. Engery, oil and tax are understandable conversation topics, but Caribbean? After doing a little searching, I believe Congress was speaking about the anti-drug aid approval for the Caribbean. Anywho…

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