Uriel, director/founder of the Unarius Educational Foundation, tells about the great upcoming spaceship landing in the year 2001.
Jimmy Kimmel visits..
December 2nd, 2008
Healthy breakfast testing…I cracked up so hard on this one…
Costco
see more on youtube…
Technical Diagrams
December 1st, 2008
End of the semester evaluations, critiques, and exams are approaching. Amidst all the stress, it’s nice to look over at someone else’s screen and… 
Fifty People, One Question
November 29th, 2008
We asked the same question and it took us somewhere new. Gone were the lazy days of summer. A cool breeze swept the streets with leaves under foot and the familiar hustle of the city…welcome to autumn in New York.
The historical origin and political significance of the country name “China” and other variations in other language.
November 28th, 2008
Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede
November 28th, 2008
A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an “out-of-control” mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store’s front doors and trampled him, police said.
The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees to the ground and sending others scurrying atop vending machines to avoid the horde.
When the madness ended, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was dead and four shoppers, including a woman eight months pregnant, were injured.
“He was bum-rushed by 200 people,” said Wal-Mart worker Jimmy Overby, 43.
“They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me.
“They took me down, too … I didn’t know if I was going to live through it. I literally had to fight people off my back,” Overby said.
Damour, a temporary maintenance worker from Jamaica, Queens, was gasping for air as shoppers continued to surge into the store after its 5 a.m. opening, witnesses said.
Even officers who arrived to perform CPR on the trampled worker were stepped on by wild-eyed shoppers streaming inside, a cop at the scene said.
“They pushed him down and walked all over him,” Damour’s sobbing sister, Danielle, 41, said. “How could these people do that?
“He was such a young man with a good heart, full of life. He didn’t deserve that.”
Damour’s sister said doctors told the family he died of a heart attack.
His cousin, Ernst Damour, called the circumstances “completely unacceptable.”
“His body was a stepping bag with so much disregard for human life,” Ernst Damour, 37, said. “There has to be some accountability.”
Roughly 2,000 people gathered outside the Wal-Mart’s doors in the predawn darkness.
Chanting “push the doors in,” the crowd pressed against the glass as the clock ticked down to the 5 a.m. opening.
Sensing catastrophe, nervous employees formed a human chain inside the entrance to slow down the mass of shoppers.
It didn’t work.
The mob barreled in and overwhelmed workers.
“They were jumping over the barricades and breaking down the door,” said Pat Alexander, 53, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. “Everyone was screaming. You just had to keep walking on your toes to keep from falling over.”
After the throng toppled Damour, his fellow employees had to fight through the crowd to help him, police said.
Witness Kimberly Cribbs said shoppers acted like “savages.”
“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since Friday morning!’” Cribbs said. “They kept shopping.”
Spot Nokia 5000, “Dance”, A day shared
November 28th, 2008
by W+K London
Hu Ming
November 28th, 2008
I thought this artist was a perv, until i realised it was a woman and read her story.
During the Cultural Revolution in China, Hu Ming spent her school days either drawing Chairman Mao’s portrait or memorizing his infamous red book, nothing else was allowed and Hu Ming found it very boring, so she begged her parents to let her enter the army, she was only 15 years old. As her parents were in the army it was not such a difficult task. So in 1970 she became a solider. She was stationed in an army hospital ‘254′ in Tian Jin a hospital of 5000 people.
Hu Ming’s parents knew that their dream of their daughter becoming a surgeon was futile, as her family and ancestors come from a long line of artisans, masters in exquisite wood carving of Buddha’s for the temples.
While Hu Ming was serving in the army hospital, she had numerous postings. Starting as the hospital broadcaster/announcer, a librarian, and a lone projectionist, traveling with a truck, and the same eight movies to seven different locations. Often she was the only woman at these locations. While as the hospital announcer she found herself often in the commander’s office, in trouble due to her careless mistakes. One night instead of the daily recorded wakeup bell at five in the morning, she played the call to arms at three in the morning! Everyone except Hu Ming assembled in the hospitals quadrangle expecting the worst, the commander knowing Hu Ming well went to her office to find her fast asleep.
She loved her sleep at this stage and at this time everyone was required to read Chairman Mao’s red book every morning between 7:30 till 8:30, however Ming would without fail fall asleep the moment she opened this book, she became notorious amongst her colleagues for being sound asleep every morning at this time and often would be found in dribble. People were starting to talk! Maybe she was losing her mind; she was not toeing the party line. Her commander at this time was a kind and wonderful man, who was a fatherly figure. At this time he called her into his office for a word …”Ming he started, why is it that you fall asleep each morning, you must read Chairman Mao’s book?” Ming replied “Sir I cannot help it, every time I open this book I fall asleep, it is so boring, if it were a story book then I would have no trouble”. “Ming he bellowed you must never say this again to anyone! As you would be in serious trouble. He then reached over and gave her a tub of tiger balm and told her to rub a little into her temples each morning at this time, and which he hoped would help her stay awake. Fortunately this did work for Ming and not too soon as her compatriots were starting to talk about her. However Ming loved her sleep at this time as it not only gave her a kind of refuge, but a place to dream and use her imagination. To this day she still paints many people asleep. In retrospection she say’s that nobody was ‘talking real’ during this period of the Cultural Revolution, and it was very dangerous to speak one’s truth, as any dissent would end in a jail sentence.
Her commander also gave her a clock, as to not sleep through and miss the time she was to play the morning bell. Ming slept with this clock for 6 years; however she still had trouble sleeping in and not hearing the alarm, or just setting the alarm to the wrong hour!
Her time as a Librarian was a godsend for Ming, and changed her most profoundly. During the cultural revolution, people were only to read Chairman Mao’s red book, or his poetry, or some history that was of the “right” sway…all other books were banned, and most were burnt in huge bon fires, yet for some reason of the three truck loads of books that arrived at the hospital, they decided not to burn the last load, and it was Ming’s task to categorize three rooms of books piled a metre high on the floors.
She was not allowed to read the books of course, but when she found amongst the mounds of books, classics from Tolstoy to the story of Oliver, she read everything she could get her hands on! She also found records of classical music…the library became a wondrous place for her she would awaken whilst within its walls and fall asleep once she returned to the outside world of the cultural revolution. She would also to much peril smuggle some of the books out of the library under her shirt to give to her girlfriends, and would sit around with them and play some of wonderful music she found.
However it was one day in that library that she found a book that would change her life forever, it was an life drawing book by Michelangelo a book of human anatomy, the figures were of men, and it was the first time for the now 16year old to see the nude. She was in a mental turmoil as she was both absolutely fascinated, yet petrified, as to be found with this would be serious. However despite the danger she took the book back to her room to study and copy the drawings, so she might be able to draw the human body so well. She kept the book in her pillow, along with her underwear and bra’s as it was just a convient place to keep them, though one day she discovered to her horror that both the book and her underwear were gone. Ming was in shock; she knew the consequences and wondered who it could have been. She instanting thought of the only man to have a key to her room, and she also knew that there were men around that deliberately stole women’s underwear.
Then one day her commander called her into his office, in a voice, that could not be mistaken, she sits down and he places the book in front of her and demands to know where she got this! “From the library” replied Ming. “Ming he said there are naked male images in this book, they are wearing no clothes! And you have copied these images as well! Why to you like this kind of material”? {This kind of book was considered pornographic at this time} Ming was very scared and started to cry, and she also started to believe that she had a problem, she thought to her self that maybe everyone was right “I’m not mentally well” but she retorted “please do not tell my parents”
The commander never reported the incident, however the book was never seen again and the underwear was stolen by another person, whom Ming was sure to be her immediate boss ( an ex-pilot ) as he had one of two key’s to her room. From that time on she kept her underwear inside her pillow. The cultural revolution required men and women to be homogeneous, women were not to display their femineity or to wear face cream that contained any perfume, Ming did not see shampoo until the mid 1980’s , hence the womanliness of her army girls in her painting.
Lenovo creates SMS ‘kill pill’
November 26th, 2008
New service will allows users to disable a lost or stolen 3G notebook by sending it an SMS message.
From early next year, Lenovo’s new Constant Secure Remote Disable service will allow owners of the latest ThinkPads to shut down their system by sending it a special SMS message from your mobile phone. Once the laptop shuts down, the self-encrypting hard drive will scramble the data.
Up to 10 mobile numbers can be associated with a single notebook, and the content of the SMS itself must registered with the service so that the laptop will shut down only on receipt of that specific message (which could be anything from a simple ‘SHUT DOWN’ to ‘Klaatu barada nikto’ if you’re a fan of classic sci-fi movies like The Day The Earth Stood Still (oh, and if you’re nerdy enough to remember how to spell it correctly!). You’ll get an automated SMS reply to confirm the notebook has gone into lock-down mode
http://apcmag.com/lenovo_creates_sms_kill_pill_for_thinkpads.htm
comment: sounds like an idea for new media art…
The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway
November 25th, 2008
There is a commonly held belief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system, a belief reinforced by Helvetica, Gary Hustwit’s popular 2007 documentary about the typeface. But it is not true—or rather, it is only somewhat true. Helvetica is the official typeface of the MTA today, but it was not the typeface specified by Unimark International when it created a new signage system at the end of the 1960s. Why was Helvetica not chosen originally? What was chosen in its place? Why is Helvetica used now, and when did the changeover occur? To answer those questions this essay explores several important histories: of the New York City subway system, transportation signage in the 1960s, Unimark International and, of course, Helvetica. These four strands are woven together, over nine pages, to tell a story that ultimately transcends the simple issue of Helvetica and the subway.
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/the-mostly-true-story-of-helvetica-and-the-new-york-city-subway?pp=1
Walt Whitman II
November 24th, 2008
Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times “People ask if I am a published poet,” he said. Reaching into his tote, he produced an anthology that was a tribute to Whitman by Long Island poets. He opened to a page where, signed Darrel Blaine Ford, the following lines were set down:
Walt, you are my gestalt
you are my malt
your Leaves of Grassare
my universal pass.
Pentagram’s new work for Musuem of Arts and Design
November 22nd, 2008
Identity, Typeface, Collateral, Exhibition Catalogs, Products, and Advertising:
Michael Bierut and Joe Marianek
Signage, Wayfinding and Exhibition Graphics:
Michael Bierut, Rion Byrd-Gumus and Kai Salmela
Dynamic Media:
Lisa Strausfeld, Christian Marc Schmidt, Kate Wolf and Christian Swinehart
http://blog.pentagram.com/2008/09/new-work-museum-of-arts-and-de.php
Palin interview with turkeys beheaded in backdrop
November 22nd, 2008
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