Experiment 33

Friday, June 23, 2006

Friday Cocktail - Golden Dawn

Amazon.com: Classic Cocktails: Books: Salvatore Calabrese

I just bought this new book of Classic Cocktails by Salvatore Calabrese. It is gorgeous with a nice mix of cocktail history, trivia and recipes. It's also nicely illustrated with vintage ads and photos. This is where I found the Golden Dawn, winner of the International Cocktail Competition in London in 1930.

equal parts:
-gin
-apricot brandy
-Calvados
-orange juce

Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail glass and add a dash of grenadine to produce "the effect of a glorious sunrise."

Cheers!

By Hook Or By Rook

ESPN.com - E-Ticket: By Hook Or By Rook
Last October I blogged a snippet about Chessboxing. I didn't have much to go on, but now ESPN has a big article with video. Inspired by a European comic book, chessboxing alternates 4 minute rounds of chess with 2 minute rounds of boxing. The winner is determined by checkmate, knockout, offical's decision, or taking too much time in the chess rounds.

"...the sport combines elements of the complete man, one who is prepared for any eventuality, not a pure brute, not a hopeless nerd."

Hundreds of Dutch Fans Forced to Watch World Cup Match in Underwear

Taipei Times - archives
Budweiser is the offical beer sponsor of the cup and when hundreds of Dutch fans showed up wearing orange lederhosen that were given away free with Bavaria beer purchases, they were forced to remove the offending garments, resulting in many watching the match in their underwear. Thank goodness they weren't kilts.

Photo found at Spiegel's world cup blog

Via Days that end in a Y

Titi Bar?

Titi Bar?
Originally uploaded by allanimal.

Tee Hee

Smoking Stick Figure

Smoking Stick Figure
Originally uploaded by biketourist.

It's cool to Smoke and Bike

Warhol's silver wig sells for $10,800 - Yahoo! News

Warhol's silver wig sells for $10,800 - Yahoo! News
Who cares about that $130M Klimt

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Kinetic Sculpture Race - Home Page

Kinetic Sculpture Race - Home Page

Racers and sculptures are judged on a set of criteria encompasing engineering, art, speed and their ability to "Ace" the course. Read the criteria, they are a hoot, but mostly check the photo galleries:

Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos

Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos
All available via youtube. Pitchfork gives brief take on why it's in the list and embeds the video right where you can see it. Potential huge time waster.
Here's Air with Kelly Watch the Stars

Via Waxy

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Local10.com - News - Heat Victory Parade Will Be Friday In Downtown Miami

Local10.com - News - Heat Victory Parade Will Be Friday In Downtown Miami
I'll have to see how this compares to the LSU/Southern University dual college football national championships parade from a few years ago.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

NPR : 'Greetings from New Orleans': Postcards as Art

NPR : 'Greetings from New Orleans': Postcards as Art
Back in September, I posted something about this art project where LuRu and myself were photographed by a stranger who turned out to be my graduate advisor's son. He took the photo (and several others), turned it into a postcard, "lost" it around the city (prior to Katrina), and waited to see which if any of the cards arrived at their intended destination in Ohio. The stories on the back ranged from mundane to bizzare and dark. The series is currently on display at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center through July 9, then it will travel to Martha's Vinyard for the Vinyard Gumbo Festival July 17 through 22. The festival is a fund raiser for New Orleans non-profits.

The link above goes to an interview on National Public Radio where Lundgren describes the project and the results.

Here's our postcard:

Click here to read the back.

Via boingboing

Monday, June 19, 2006

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

FX Networks: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

I can't wait for next Thursday's premier of season 2. They just added all of season 1 to iTunes, with one free episode, so if you haven't checked it out, try that. You can also see clips of the new season at the site. I wondered what was up with this show. I found it late last fall and Tivo'd it with high priority. Then it was gone. Now I find out the people just made it up and there were only a few episodes. I saw all but one and got that one from iTunes so I'm geeked for next week's premier. It's very painfully funny, similar feeling to the Office, but the setting is much better.

Beware: Coppertone Sport Continuous Spray

Beware: Coppertone Sport Continuous Spray
A rare product reviw here at experiment33, be very careful if you try this spray on sunscreen. Having lived at the beach for 5 months now, we decided to try this sunscreen so we wouldn't have to rub sand into our skin every time we reapply. I burn fairly easily, but have been very careful since we moved. I've been out in the sun tons though. I've been burned twice and each time I was fooled by the spray on sunscreen. The problem seems to be that the stuff feels cool as you spray it on and I think I'm covered. I've got the wierdest burn line right now. If you try this, have someone else spray you, preferably someone who would feel awful if you got burned, maybe they'll do a better job. Even though I could go this route, I'm going back to the lotion.

Beating the Stork

Beating the Stork,
originally uploaded by iamafriendofthesquirrels.

Via the As He Was photo pool

Jerking Authority

DSC_8651- Jerking Authority,
originally uploaded by dogseat.

Great photo via the Bad Signs Photo Pool

Friday, June 16, 2006

Daily Show- Donkey Showdown

Daily Show - Donkey Showdown
As brilliant as the Daily Show is, this had my jaw dropped from about 2 minute in, until the end

Dont' know if Comedy Central tries to pull this stuff off of youtube or not. You can find it on comedy central's website, but they make it really hard to blog. If the vid leaves, go and find it. I really can't find words.

I'm totally in favor of settling all disputes with spin the bottle from now on!

Follow up: Empty plinth sidelines sculpture

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Southern Counties | Empty plinth sidelines sculpture
New article with picture of the rejected sculpture and the accepted plinth and piece of wood:

The article also has a link to an audio interview with the artist who appears to be taking it all in stride.

Via boingboing

I forgot, but this same situation happened to LuRu's uncle. I may get some of the details wrong, but as I recall he got into making metal sculptures of dinosaurs. He decided to make a bird and enter it into the state fair. He spent a ton of time and when he was done he decided the bird needed a place to be, so he whipped out a tree very quickly. The tree was accepted, the bird rejected, and he quit sculpting after that.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Art gallery loses its head, displays plinth - Yahoo! News

Art gallery loses its head, displays plinth - Yahoo! News
The Royal Academy displays pedestal and wooden steak that were intended to hold up a sculpture of a head that was sent in a separate container.

"Given their separate submission, the two parts were judged independently," it said in a statement. "The head was rejected. The base was thought to have merit and accepted.

"The head has been safely stored ready to be collected by the artist," it added. "It is accepted that works may not be displayed in the way that the artist might have intended."

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

polka_dot_elephant

polka_dot_elephant,
originally uploaded by matt.ohara.

Awesome roadside pink elephant from The Another Roadside Attraction pool.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Elephant Drive In Movie

The Cellar Image of the Day

Via Neatorama

Saturday, June 10, 2006

LAPTOPBATTLE.ORG

LAPTOPBATTLE.ORG
Last Saturday night we checked out the first Miami Laptop Musician's battle at Churchill's Pub. The battle is set up tourney style with competitors limited to about 3 minute sets head to head, one winner moves to the next round. The idea was great and the music had it's moments. I hoped for more visual interaction, but it was the first time and I sure as heck couldn't do what they were doing. Highlights included:

fake scratching a real record in time witht he laptop scratching, followed by breaking the record

neat wolf mask and indian dancer

they guy who rapped about liking vagina and set his laptop up then joined the crowd

Lowlights:

slam dancing, didn't this go out already? is it ironically back? laptops and slam dancing?

pee on the women's room floor/and elsewhere (via report from LuRu)

Check out the video from the Seattle Laptop battle to get a taste.

Hot LP Cover Art

Dennis Catron :: Guitarist :: Designer
6 glorious pages of Hot LP cover art

and one more

Via Eye of the Goof

My NikeID Sneakers Arrive!

NikeID Sneakers - a photoset on Flickr
Last june I designed some sneakers at nikeid.com but I never ordered them. Since I lost my good sneakers in the move, I decided to go back and try again. Here's the design:

To design the shoes, nike has a nice flash application where you pick the style first, then colors for different parts. It all materializes right before your eyes. You can save designs and try different variations. This was about my third try. I ordered the shoes on May 23, and they arrived in a beautiful package on June 8.

And here they are:

The red and gold are both a little brighter than I expected, but overall, I'm very pleased. I also can't believe how fast they arrived. Two and a half weeks for custom sneakers!

Note, the E33 stitched in gold.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Friday Cocktail - Hibiscu-tini

The Spirit World - Hibiscu-tini
My stumbling upon the mixology monday has opened up a ton of new cocktail blogs. This one is from the well fed network and looks great.

follow the link for the recipe. See the note at the bottom about getting dried hibiscus in the herb section at Whole Foods.

The Unstabalizer

The Unstabalizer
Like a stock exchange for setting drink prices in a bar. Interactive, cocktail, geekery.

Via Saving the world, one drink at a time

Thursday, June 08, 2006

The Monkey Chow Diaries

The Monkey Chow Diaries

This guy is eating nothing but monkey chow for a week and cataloging his experience at the above link. He's also blogging about it.

Via boingboing via neatorama via j-walkblog via exploding aardvark who doesn't say where it was found

Vintage Swim Caps By Playtex

Vintage Swim Caps By Playtex

Sweet Caps

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Kaiser Penguin: Mixology Monday III Round-Up

Kaiser Penguin: Mixology Monday III Round-Up
A group of cocktail and food bloggers have started this project where a theme is chosen and then the bloggers have a few weeks to select a recipe or two to share by posting it to their blog. A different blogger hosts the event each time and writes a summary. It's open to all and I'll probably participate in the future, though the next theme: apertifs are not something I've really ever dealt with. Lots of tasty mint recipes from this past monday summarized by Kaiser Penguin. I'm particularly looking forward to Kate's Thai Mojito which uses coconut rum, mint, basil, and ginger for that classic thai twist.

Cheers!

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

AP Wire | 06/03/2006 | Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit

AP Wire | 06/03/2006 | Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit
Just months before the summer movie blockbuster of the year "Snakes on a Plane" we have this true story from the Associated Press.

While maintaining control of the single-engine plane with one hand, Coles grabbed the reptile behind its head with his other.

Via Waxy

Top 20 strangest guitars

Top 20 strangest guitars
Title speaks for itself:

Picaso Guitar

Birdfish

More pictures and descriptions at the site.

Via Eye of the Goof

DataNumerics - Reliable Statistics

DataNumerics - Reliable Statistics
Real looking fake statistics page generator for whatever you want to see shown. It's funny because it hurts. Check out the sample pages.

Friday, June 02, 2006

Friday Cocktails - Hurricane Season Edition

City Link Magazine: Rock You Like a Hurricane
One of the Local weekly entertainment zines posted a list of 13 drinks "to help you weather the storms, power outages, gas lines, cold showers, television withdrawals, price gougers and every other aggravation hurricanes bring." All of them have a dry wit about them and some sound tasty. Click on the link to the photo gallery to scroll through each drink recipe. Picture is of the Category 5

Speaking of pictures, I actually made last Friday's Pop Rocks Martini and took a photo:

That's our friend Lenore in the background. I didn't find any Mango Fruja Liqueur, so I used Xtreme, which is one of those oddly colored French fruit Cognacs (like Hypnotiq). The Xtreme gives it the pink color and I chose it because it did list mango as a prominent flavor. I added a couple of raspberries and blueberries to the glass. The cocktail was very good overall. The pop rocks were fun, but not necessary. I did manage to make the first round in the kitchen by myself, so everyone was surprised. The clean up wasn't as bad as I feared.

Cheers!

Thursday, June 01, 2006

DailySixer.com Videos: Casual Sex Fridays

DailySixer.com Videos: Casual Sex Fridays
Anyone looking forward to Friday?

Via YesButNobutYes

TagLines

TagLines
Amazing river style visualization of flickr tags over time. The date is displayed at the top of the page, and scrolls from left to right starting at June 4, 2004 to September 16, 2005. Popular photo tags stream by from right to left with the size indicating popularity. Thumbnails appear. Clicking on a tag stops it momentarily and adds a few pictures with the tag, more clicks yield more pictures. Overall the tag sizes grow over time with the expansion of flickr overall (or at least that's what I think is going on). You can see special events popping up like holidays, and lots of geekfests, as well as different memes over time. Notice the controls at the bottom. You can pause, jump by months, change the speed, and change the visualization to something more static and easier to follow (but not as mesmerizing).

Via Information Aesthetics

Panasonic Online Video Fest

Panasonic Online Video Fest
Easy to enter, focus on humourous flicks under 5 minutes, which is burried in the rules, it's ok to enter older videos as long as they are yours.

Via Alfie's Blog, though his slant is more about the impications of YouTube partnering with Panasonic

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Collaborations Art Show Opening Sunday June 11

Collaborations Art Show Opening Sunday June 11
"Fifteen artist groups will gatehr to create a series fo individual and collaborative works including ceramic, video, wood, jewelry, painting, and drawing. Each group will create and display one collaborative piece; in addition, each member of the group will display an individual piece." We'll see how strict the curator is about the one collaborative piece, as I know LuRu and Kathryn Hunter sent several. Lots of friends in the list of artists.

Reception 4-6:30 Sunday June 11
Exhibition June 11-July 19
Irvine Fine Arts Center
14321 Yale Avenue (Heritage Park)
Irvine, CA 92604
Open Mon-Thurs 9 to 9
Fri-Sat 9 to 5
Closed Sun

Unfortunately, we can't make it. If any friends do, please take pics and send them our way.

productdose.com: Cool Jewels Ice Tray

productdose.com: Cool Jewels Ice Tray

About $9 from Z-Gallery

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

New Orleans Craft Mafia

New Orleans Craft Mafia
I found this awesome messenger bag at the New Orleans Craft Mafia site:

Here's the link to buy.
"The thirteen unique craft women that make up the New Orleans Craft Mafia are all committed to the economic reconstruction of their great city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina"

Friday, May 26, 2006

The Friday Cocktail - Le Pops Rocks Martini

Cocktails: Le Pops Rocks Martini
I wish there was a picture to share:

3/4 ounce Skyy berry vodka
3/4 ounce Skyy citrus vodka
1 ounce Mango Fruja liqueur
1/4 ounce cranberry juice
1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass rimmed with honey and Pop Rocks.

Adapted from a recipe by Payman Khania, Bistro 110, Chicago. First spotted in Cheers magazine, October, 2003.

Cheers!

Florida Keys first Cadillac stretch limosine on the water

Florida Keys first Cadillac stretch limosine on the water

We were thinking about heading to the keys for part of the holliday weekend, but it looks like there will be scattered thunderstorms so we'll probably stick around. When we do get to the keys, maybe we'll check this limo boat out.

I think we've got the blogger problem solved. Apparently blogger started trying to catch sploggers (spam bloggers) using an algorithm. No algorithm is perfect, so for some reason they flagged me as a potential splogger. I didn't figure this out until Wednesday morning. As long as this post goes up, it's fixed and I'll be back on my regular irregular posting schedule.

Friday, May 19, 2006

Friday Cocktail - Orange Cinntini

Blogger's been acting wierd for me lately. I've had several posts that never went through. I'm using a different method for this post, but it's not as convenient for link posts.

A couple of weekends ago, we stopped in a martini bar for happy hour. It was a little early for the place, so the bartender had time to visit with us. She said she liked making things up and would be happy to do so for us if we'd give her a little direction. LuRu recalled having an orange and cinnamon martini in Cincinnati many moons ago that she loved, so our bartender tried to replicate it. The Cincinnati version used Stoli Zinnamon vodka, but it doesn't look like they make it anymore. So the bartender worked with a little orange vodka, hot damn, and a little orange juice. Take it easy on the hot damn, it can overpower the drink quickly. It was a pretty good facsimile for what we could remember and a damn fine drink. We also added a little vanilla liquer to smooth it out a bit.

You could also just make your own cinnamon infused vodka by sticking some cinnamon sticks in a bottle of vodka. Check the taste after a couple of days and take the sticks out when it's to your liking.

Cheers!

Friday, May 12, 2006

Friday Cocktail - French 75

FRENCH 75 Recipe at Epicurious.com
Been listening to a lot of Serge Gainsbourg lately:

So, even though the 75 in the French 75 comes from 75 millimeter guns used by the French in WWI, it seemed fitting to make the French 75 the Friday Cocktail.

Place 8 coupe glasses or Champagne flutes in freezer and chill at least 2 hours. Place 1 cup ice, 1/4 cup gin, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, and 3 tablespoons simple syrup in cocktail shaker. Shake well, then strain into 2 chilled glasses or flutes. Repeat 3 more times with remaining ice cubes, gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup to make 6 more drinks. Divide Champagne among glasses and serve.

Cheers!

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Improv Everywhere Mission: Best Buy

Improv Everywhere Mission: Best Buy
80 agents dressed in blue polos and khaki's descend upon a Best Buy in NYC. As the video says: Everybody's workin for the weekend

Link goes to background and more pics.

Via: Eyebeam reBlog

PingMag - First spring at Isamu Noguchi’s Moerenuma Park

PingMag - First spring at Isamu Noguchi’s Moerenuma Park

Personal tour of the park. Here's the park's website, but I don't see an english version link.

PingMag - Making furniture with love and simplicity

PingMag - Making furniture with love and simplicity
Illustrated interview with SuperRobot. Love the flat packing system steel furniture.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Neatorama : Top 15 Amazingly Ginormous Fat Cats.

Neatorama: Top 15 Amazingly Ginormous Fat Cats.

Some real, some hoaxes, all jawdropping.

Friday, May 05, 2006

Friday Cocktail - Cinco de Mayo

Blogtender: Margarita

Easy choice this fine Friday. There are so many variations that I'm not going to retype them. The above link discusses some fruit variations and muddling lemon and lime in a traditional Margarita.

A little history from Wikipedia on both Margarita's and Cinco de Mayo.

And some more variations from Mr. Martini, who shares a recipe for Margarita Jello Shots. BTW, clicking on the episode title will open his Tequila podcast where you can learn some history and background on tequila and mezcal.

DrinkoftheWeek.com has a Cinco de Mayo drink as well:

2 1/2 oz. Tequila
1 oz. Grenadine
1 oz. Rose's Lime Juice

Combine with ice in a shaker and mix well. Strain into a chilled cokctail glass. Garnish with a wedge of lime.

and they also have an article about the $1,000 Mint Juleps that will be served tomorrow (Derby Day) to raise money for the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. The juleps "will be made with one of the world's best bourbons, produced by Woodford Brands, and served in a gold-plated cup with a silver straw. The mint will be brought in from Morocco, the ice will come from the Arctic Circle and the sugar from the South Pacific..." Zoiks!

I covered Mint Juleps last year at this time.

Cheers!

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Blender's 50 Worst Things to Happen to Music

Blender's 50 Worst Things to Happen to Music
Mostly amusing time waster.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Mr. Dante Fontana's Visual Guidance LTD

Mr. Dante Fontana's Visual Guidance LTD

New source of great music videos from the best of the recent past:

to foreign oddities:

to this:

Doesn't Hasselhof have a resemblence to Sir Tom Jones?

to great vintage:

and even some of the best newer stuff:

It's heavy on youtube, but there are other sources

from the person behind another favorite source, PCL linkdump

David Smith Ceramics at Palma Gallery

Welcome to Palma Gallery

Lots of pictures from David's fantastic show at Palma Gallery in New Orleans. Wish I could see it in person. Looks like the show is up until June, though it's not clear on the site. Should make for a nice stop during Jammin on Julia this Saturday night. Check out his stellar
review

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Soy Cuba!

Amazing sequence from a 1964 Cuban propaganda film shot by Russian filmmakers. It's simply breathtaking when you think about the technology available at the time and if you see it in it's full resolution. Anna tipped us to it a while back and it is available on netflix. This is near the start, when things look pretty good.

This clip is from when things start to take a turn for the worse.

I was reminded of this by the Eye of the Goof who pointed out the youtube clips.

I Dream Of Cake

Welcome To I Dream Of Cake
Apropros my restarting the diet and exercise routine, here are some amazing cakes that I can only dream of for now.

Many more where those came from.

Via Waxy

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