Yeah, it’s a rip-off of “Peanut Butter and Jelly Time,” but this ice cream/cake/dance commercial from Baskin Robbins is pretty fun. I love it. My two-year old nephews love it. Ice cream cake, shouting and dancing plastic toys bring families together.
I was slightly aghast at the NY Post cover today:
I spotted it while running through the rain a few hours ago and was happy to see that EV Grieve had noted it. This seems bad, even for the Post.
An abridged list of titles from David Carradine’s movies and television shows that also could have been used for inspiration besides Kung Fu: Kung Fu Killer (2008), Deathsport (1978), Bitter End (1993), Final Move (2006), Road of No Return (2009), Permanent Vacation (2007), In Case of Emergency (2007), Dead and Breakfast (2004), Kill Zone (1993), Last Goodbye (2004), Kill Bill Vol. I & II (2003, 2004), Knocking on Death’s Door (1999), Fall Down Dead (2007), Dead Center (1993), Death Race 2000 and the remake, Death Race, in 2008.
I’m not trying to be morbid, I’m just pointing out that the guy starred in a lot of different things with some pretty dark titles. RIP Frankenstein.
Photo courtesy of EV Grieve, an awesome NYC blog.
I’ve been in Pennsylvania since last Saturday, driving out of Hartford a few hours before all of the shooting started going down in the North End. I coincidentally checked out Courant.com right around the time that the reports of violence started, then went to WFSB to see if they had more information.
The WFSB site had the most unfortunate ads accompanying the initial news report: CT “Staycation” and Hartford Hospital. I’m not sure when I’m coming back.
Poster Boy NYC, the (literally) underground New York City subway artist, has added new creations to his Flickr account. Here’s a few of my faves:
The Capitol Cinema Collective is hosting LoRes Fest 3.0, the third in a series of DIY video projects promoting Hartford.
It’s easy. Get a group together to split the registration cost ($50). They give you a disposable video camera for 24 hours and ask you to incorporate one specific element of Hartford somewhere in the footage. The rest is up to you. No editing allowed.
The finished videos are given back to the LoRes coordinators who edit it all into one project which is shown at the 3rd Annual Hartford International Film Festival in November.
We did it two years ago and, as you can see from the picture, it was a blast. Until we fought some guy outside of the Webster Theater, but that’s another story. I think we’re going to do it again this year, but we don’t have the Mexican wrestling masks anymore.
Friday, July 25 to Sunday, July 27
LoRes Fest ‘08 Headquarters: Red Rock Tavern, 369 Capitol Avenue, Hartford Registration- $50 ($60 after July 23)-includes video equipment and LoRes Fest ’08 DVD. For more information and to register contact info@capitolcinemacollective.org or (860) 830-6222.
Google is finally starting to add Hartford to their “street view” section in the maps. There’s only a few sections of the city up right now, but scrolling through the streets, panning from left to right, is a great way to kill a few hours in the office.
Go to Google Maps, then punch up Hartford and start navigating. Street views already uploaded are marked in blue for easy zooming.
Side view on Trumbull, looking up Pratt Street:
Main Street circa Peppercorns:
If you spot anyone you know or see anything devious going down, let me know.
I’m not sure if the opiate of the masses is religion or advertising, but here’s a few images from The Evangelical Church of Finland’s new ad campaign. I want that shirt.
“Room for Faith You Consider Yours.” If you zoom in, it’s Hillary Clinton.
“What Would Jesus Do?” I say, “What Would Jesus Wear?”
“Room For Faith You Consider Yours,” although I vote for “Morgan Freeman is God”
SKULLPHONE is taking over Clear Channel billboards all over Los Angeles.
Hacking into the billboard’s computer network today, our boy positioned his trademark skullphone imagery in between the array of flashing movie, TV, and auto company ads that make up the normal paid advertising barrage on the giant illuminated monitors.
If anyone knows how to do this, shoot me an email. There’s a few LED billboards on I-84 that I have my eye on…
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I think it all started a few years ago with the Wadsworth Atheneum’s Collage parties. All of a sudden we were flooded with pictures of shiny happy people out and about, radiating ecstatic about being a “young professional” in Hartford. Cookie cutter shots all over Niche Magazine, all over YourHartford, all over the Hartford Advocate’s Lush Life. I’d include the Hartford Courant’s Java column, but I don’t read it anymore. In the words of Fantasy Island’s Mr. Roarke, “Smiles everyone! Smiles!”
Now it’s time to embrace the concept of “bershon.”
Bershon, defined:
the spirit of bershon is pretty much how you feel when you’re 13 and your parents make you wear a Christmas sweatshirt and then pose for a family picture, and you could not possibly summon one more ounce of disgust, but you’re also way too cool to really even DEAL with it, so you just make this face like you smelled something bad and sort of roll your eyes and seethe in a put-out manner. Kelly Taylor from Beverly Hills, 90210 is the patron saint of bershon, as her face, like most other teenagers’, was permanently frozen in this expression.
Michael Beirut’s article in the Design Observer tells you everything you need to know about bershon
Although bershon can be experienced and expressed anywhere, it seems to be especially associated with the act of being photographed. (”God, will you please just take the stupid picture?”) You don’t have to be an adolescent to qualify.
including a link to a NYT article which explains the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to crack down on bershon at airport security.
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