It's a Trap!

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Mateusz Kolek awesome Illustrations

In case you were wondering, the top one is me when I got lost in that darn sea of pink anemones. They just came out of nowhere! Good thing they were friendly... but boy did they stain my boots pink!

Awesomeness from here / prints from here / Mateusz Kolek site here

Colour Lovers, Social Media for, well... Color Lovers!

Ever have that feeling? When you are redesigning a website, and nothing is looking good and you just start to HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT? No? Maybe it's just me.

But I thought I would share some fun linkage for awesome color inspiration at ColourLovers! Users create color palates and share with the group their creations. Sure, it sounds like another Social Media experiment gone awry, but it has a great section of Website Color Trends!

And there goes another 4 hours of my life gone!

While I'm at it, there's also Color Schemer - a palette generator, and Design Seeds - PREEEEETY.

SOPA NOPA!

What's going on? See yesterday's post. Or the Oatmeal, or Google, or Wikipedia, or Geeks are Sexy, or iCanHasCheezburger...

FYI: SOPA, NOPA!

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Oh Government, you and your antiquated laws and greedy grasps for control.

Tomorrow, January 18th we will be joining Wikipedia and countless other sites in the global blackout to protest SOPA.

What is SOPA ( Stop Online Piracy Act )?

From Politico:

SOPA and PIPA are designed to crack down on websites based offshore that peddle illegal content  — think pirated Hollywood blockbusters and fake Viagra. No one disputes that that’s a worthy goal. The rub is whether it would give the government and copyright holders too much control over the Web.

This means the government and your IP hosts have the ability to cut off any site they see fit. Sure, the site is still out there, but your Internet Provider isn't going to let it go through their system...and you'll never see it. (Say goodbye to Pirate Bay!)

Sound like censorship to you?

Get involved: Fight the Future and tomorrow check out Wikipedia.

Sometimes You Gotta Love TX

I've found that Texans have this incredible ability to insult you to your face but do it in a way that makes them sound like they are just full of sugar and honey. It's a neat trick that I, as an original eastcoasty, secretly covet. Anyway, I just found the most incredible example of just this. Check out this story about a little brewpub in San Antonio, TX, that one day received a cease & desist letter in the mail..

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Moonrise Kingdom Trailer aka Ah, Wes Anderson

Moonrise Kingdom Trailer from Wes Anderson on Vimeo.

Yep. I'll be seeing this.
It's like watching a vintage thrift store painting come to life.

Did I mention the font is designed by Jessica Hische?

National Pinball Museum is Open for Business!

After relocating from Georgetown and months of waiting, the greatness has happened!
The National Pinball Museum Grand Opening is Today!

Where you can bask in the greatness of the best pinball machine there ever was: Addams Family! You know what I'm talking about. Thing that jumps out and grabs the ball? The Electric Chair? The "Oh, Gomez"? The crazy setup? Excellent.

They've got others, but who cares about Avatar Pinball. Can I dig for unobtainium? No? Not interested.

But can you hear the choir? Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Poop Coffee at Zeke's this Weekend!

By now you've probably heard of Kopie Luwak-civet coffee... the MOST EXPENSIVE COFFEE IN THE WOLRD! No? You mean you haven't heard of the Monkey poop it comes from?

I kid you not.

Let me tell you a little story of the Asian Palm Civet (the monkey culprit above). This scavenger scours the jungle eating the sweet red coffee beans he finds....then, yep! Poops out the undigested coffee beans!  Then some entrepreneurial genius gathers the poop, cleans it (tho never enough for my tastes),  grinds the digested coffee beans and charges outrageous amounts for it! Joy!

Boing Boing describes it best:

humans discovered that the enzymes in the civets’ tummies break down the coffee’s bitterness, leaving behind an extremely delicious pooped bean. 

I tell you all this because Zeke's, the best coffee in the known universe, is having a Tasting Event for Kopi Luwak this weekend!

I may need someone to come with to hold my hand...

And because I may have inadvertently destroyed your appetite, here's a cute kitty in a coffee cup as an apology:

Hey Girl, I heard it's Valentine's Day!

Yeah yeah, so I'm early... but this was way too hilarious to pass up!

In case you haven't seen the MEME sensation that is Fuck Yeah, Ryan Gosling, here's a sampling:

Happy Ryan Gosling, er... I mean Early Valentine's Day!

Mr. Alamo Drafthouse Goes to Washington!

DiG just sent me over the good news!

Alamo Drafthouse is planning on opening a location in DC!

Huzzah!

We love them because:

a) They have silly clips before movies, like this one with Monkeys!

b) They sometimes do a Rolling Roadshow, like the Dusk till Dawn Bad Taste John Water's Marathon in Bmore!

c) They LOVE stupid people!

A bit about them from their site:

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas provides a unique combination of theatre and restaurant, showing first-run & independent films and special programming events with an extensive menu made from scratch in a state-of-the-art culinary kitchen. Customers order all food and drinks from servers who quietly attend to them throughout the movie.  Handcrafted, specialty beers are available on tap, including The Drafthouse’s own signature ale brewed locally. 

Customers are encouraged to arrive early to enjoy the pre-show entertainment. Instead of a barrage of advertising, a pre-show of rare and hilarious clips are shown that change on a regular basis, often tailored specifically to the feature film. The pre-show adds to the overall Alamo experience where patrons can look forward to arriving early to catch it.

This is THE place to visit in Austin, where Weird Al, Elvira and Broken Lizard regularly visit and the Butt-Numb-A-Thon is held each year!

Wonder what the first movie will be....

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Childhood Drawings Revisited!

Hmm... I think I see a trend here!

From the art show "Homeroom" at Subtext Gallery, via booooooom:

To the realistic boogie monsters from The Monster Engine via Amusing Planet:

I'm gonna go dig up some finger paintings right now!

Goths in Trees!

My new favorite Tumblr! Goths in Trees

Snarky comments? Check.
Grading based on strict requirements? Check!

There's some stiff competition for a perfect 5 out of 5 score... but here's a sampler:

This is what I found for you. There are Goths, there is a tree, there’s an old guy dressed as what I assume is supposed to be Santa. We’re all seated/sitting around a giant chair which makes Santa look like a tiny elf man. My favourite Goth is the one with the hair in plaits. (Edit: there seems to be some confusion as to which one with the hair in plaits I like, it’s the one sitting on the couch, fool.) Very cute. I want to give them a Christmas hug and offer them a clove cigarette if they’d GET THE FUCK OFF THEIR BUMS AND JUMP UP THAT MOTHER FUCKING CHRISTMAS TREE. Please.

Awesome.

9 0 0 0's photostream = Heaven

Images from Plan 9.001

The lines of Art & Science should ALWAYS be blurred!
Throw in some Humor and BAM! Now your playing with Gasoline!

Images from Plan 9.002

Learning your ABC's has never been so easy!

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Fruity Love!

I love me some treasury love!!! Thanks Sara!