hippocampusmusic.com/LPs
" The history of the Jews in America has been spelled out in books and dramatized on the big screen. But it has never been told through LP covers. Until now."
They're seeking submissions and posting them blog style with comments. Here's a few examples:
FilmLoop
Don't miss Zip Zap Rap, ManOWar, The Many Facets of Roger, or any of these great album covers. There's a speed control for the slide show in the bottom right corner.
America's Drunkest Cities - Forbes.com
Forbes magazine took the top 35 metro areas in the US and rated them on 5 alcohol related categories:
1. State Laws 9 point rating scale (using a variety of sources) low scores are more loose with their liquor laws.
2. Number of Drinkers (1 drink in last 30 days - self report)
3. Heavy Drinkers (2drinks/day for men and1drink/day for women)
4. Binge Drinking (more than 5 drinks on one occasion - not clear about the time frame)
5. Alcoholism (number of AA meetings as a proportion of population)
The top of the list is mostly cold-weather midwestern cities, with the exception of Boston at 4 and Austin at 5. I seem to be making my way down the list to less drunk cities. Here are the cities I have some connection with:
3. Columbus, OH - #2 in heavy drinkers, 5 in binge, and 6 alcoholism. #17 in drinkers, and relatively strong laws 7 (out of 9) Maybe some OSU influence here.
7. Cleveland, OH - #2 in alcoholism, 7 in drinkers, 10 in heavy, and 19 in binge
16. Cincinnati, OH - middle of the road score for middle of the road city
24. New Orleans - quite a surprize, main surveys were conducted in 2004, so the data should match the former New Orleans, ranked 33rd in number of drinkers, but rated a 4 in liquor laws - would probably be a 1 if they took into account how the laws are actually enforced
33. Miami - maybe a combo of the health nuts and old people at work on this low rating.
Via Neatorama
riverIQGame
Can you get everyone across the river?
1. Only the adults (Mother, Father, or Police Officer) can operate the raft.
2. The Mother cannot be left with the either boy without the Father.
3. The Father cannot be left alone with either girl without the Mother.
4. The thief (gender irrelevant) cannot be left with anyone other than the Police Officer.
5. Only two people on the boat at a time.
Click the blue circle to start, click the person you want to add to the boat, when you want to make a crossing, click the red knob on the other side of the river.
jimmy's cocktail hour: Fog Cutter
A classic tiki concotion recipe courtesy of Jimmy's Cocktail Hour
Good Decorating - Hash Den
Originally uploaded by MikeLove.
We won't be decorating our new home this way, or any of the ways illustrated in this fantastic photo set of scanned images from a 70s decorating magazine. For anyone who didn't know, right after the blog post saying I was through the busy time at work and would be back to blogging more regularly, we ended up trying to buy a house so, that's sucked up all my free time. I think we're pretty well set now, so maybe there will be more blogging.
Here's some bonus bad decor.
Via BoingBoing
YouTube - Flying Manta Ray
I may have posted something about this a few months ago, but now there's video:
Looks like a cross between hanggliding and water skiing, two of my favorite things.
Via PingMag
When you move across country for a job, it should come as no surprise to find it cutting into your blogging time. Just wanted to quickly check in and let you know I'll be back to my usual schedule soon. I've got my first big deadline on Monday and I've really been working hard to make it. A few random things kicking around in my head:
Clerks II was hillarious! The wheels kind of fall off as they resolve the conflicts of the movie, but plot is not what I'm looking for in a Clerks movie. Beware of Pillow Pants!
Who wants to be a Superhero was a lot better than I ever expected. Didn't turn it on until about half way through and was really dissapppointed to see the cast was chosen and they were moving into their "secret lair." I only wanted to see the audition part, where people dressed as "underwear perverts" as boingboing likes to call them try to convince Stan Lee they should be on the show. They were already into the standard reality show setup of challenge then elimination, but the challenge was great. They tell the superheros the challenge is about changing into their costumes discreetly and getting to a place quickly. The real challenge is to notice a young girl who needs help along the way and to do anything for her. Only three out of thirteen superheros notice the little girl, but the best is that two of the three who notice do so because they run slow (one because she's a big girl, she goes by Fat Momma, and the other because her costume has very high heels). The other one who notices probably only does so because he's embraced the cheese of the comic book superhero and stops and poses every so often. As luck would have it he stops to pose within earshot of the girl. I loved watching the superheros who missed the girl find out what the real challenge was. Stan Lee is pretty amusing too in his over the top interactions with the heros. Don't know if they can keep it up, but I'll be watching again.
The show on after it has a lot of potential too. I'll have to look it up though cause the name is long and ridiculous, but it's some kind of sci-fi horror spoof with a bad 80s Dr. Who hospital twist. It conflicts with It's Always Sunny in Philladelphia though so hopefully I'll catch it another time.
Diggin the new peaches album and a recent release by the Rakes.
I'm finding it a little bizzare to hear about the heat wave, but live about as far south as I can go and thinking the weather's been great, not much different than Baton Rouge except with an ocean breeze.
Speaking of living in Miami, another new thing for me is living in a place with such a large Jewish community. Today in the paper there was a full-page add urging Jewish men to wear a leather box strapped to their arm in support of Israel. I'll be watching to see if that happens much.
Also been on a health/active lifestyle kick lately that shows no signs of slowing. We're both practically addicted to indoor rock climbing, going 2 or 3 times a week for over a month now, and slowly working our way up in difficulty level. Also swimming and we went kayaking once which was really great. I want to eventually buy some kayaks and use them to paddle out to snorkeling locations. This area is the worlds beach dive capital meaning you can find great snorkeling/scuba diving from the beach without a boat.
Well that was more than I intended and I left a lot out. Not sure if there will be a Friday cocktail or not. Probably depends on how my writing goes today. If I don't get to one, I suggest a crisp gin and tonic as a classic that shoudl hit the spot this warm evening.
Cheers!
Top 25 Rejected Movie Roles -- notstarring.com
The whole site is devoted to actors who were considered for roles in movies but for some reason it didn't work out. Some real jaw droppers here. The link goes to the top 25 as voted by people who check out the site. A few of my favorites:
Mick Jagger wanted to play Dr. Frank N Furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show
Johnny Depp turning down the role of Lestat in Interview with the Vampire
Tom Selleck originally pursued for Indiana Jones, but was too tied up with Magnum P.I.
and O.J. Simpson passed over for The Terminator because producers didn't think he'd be taken seriously.
Search by movie or actor. I bet the Pirate's of the Carribean franchise wouldn't have worked with Jim Carrey or Michael Keaton as Capt. Jack Sparrow.
Beat the Heat with a Margarita Popsicle Recipe | Liquor Snob
Something extra cold for those of you sweltering through the heat wave.
Jiggle The Handle: MixMo 5 Roundup - When Life Hands You Lemons...
Lemony Cocktails from around the globe. I've got to participate in one of these soon.
The Cocktail Chronicles
This regular cocktail blog is currently giving day by day updates of the Tales of the Cocktail event in New Orleans throught this weekend. Wish I was there.
Threadless T-Shirts - Stat City by Graham Dobson
Threadless releases a statistics based t-shirt and it's sold out of men's large within a day. I'm hoping for a reprint.
SPACE INVADERS - Guillaume Reymond - video / performance
67 people, 4 hours, in an empty theatre, 390 images later, = a 3 minute video of space invaders. Much more interesting that I thought it would be.
Via Neatorama
Edit: When I went to play the video again, I couldn't find it at the link above. Here is a workings as of this minute video link.
Unthirsty - Find your happy hour.
This week instead of mixing one at home, try out a happy hour in your area courtesy of Unthirsty. Go to the site and type in your zip code to see happy hour information in your area on a google map. It's a new site, based on user input, so if there's not much going on in your area, add your favorite. I'd love to see this populated in my area.
Cheers!
Via Saving the world, one drink at a time
"Wear nice pants" - police tell women drinkers - Yahoo! News
From an article about a police safety campaign in Suffolk England:
"If you fall over or pass out, remember your skirt or dress may ride up," the magazine says. "You could show off more than you intended -- for all our sakes, please make sure you're wearing nice pants and that you've recently had a wax."Tags:
The Museum of Temporary Art
Tiny artwork contained in the 33 drawer Museum of Temporary art. Works come from around the world with vary levels of description. Submissions are welcome.
The Spirit World - De la Louisiane
Slight twist on the Sazerac adding Benedictine and sweet vermouth. I think I've used sweet vermouth in sazerac a few times and liked it.
Cheers!
SWAPATORIUM: All Aboard the S.S. Boogie
Collection of dance floor photos from cruises in the late 60s and early 70s.
Kaiser Penguin: Zombie - Recipe Comparison
Nice comparison of several recipes for my favorite tiki cocktail.
Independence Day Fireworks 2006 - a photoset on Flickr
We got to be up close and personal for the fireworks last night.
These works were all lit by hand using flares.
We were about 100 yards away.
Our camera doesn't have a wide-angle lens so lots of the pictures only capture part of the explosion.
But I think they turned out great.
We also have 4 videos at youtube some of which are sideways:
Album Covers - a photoset on Flickr
After my recent post of Dennis Catron's collection of sexy lp cover art, I realized we had a few ourselves and a few not so sexy, but eminently worth sharing. Since space is limited in our tiny apartment, I'm going to start taking the camera with us to the thrift store for those covers that I want to remember, but albums I don't necessarily want to hear. The quality of the photo's not as good, but not too bad either. BTW, Dennis has added a some new covers to his collection.
Here are a few more highlights:
Love the Belly Dancing Albums
Great Title, reminds me of Mint Juleps in St. Francisville.
Fun covers aren't limited to any specific era.
For some reason I got geeked up about fixing the February redesign, and went overboard. I hope you like some of the new features. The new left sidebar contains most of the fun stuff. Top left are my pictures (had been on the right. The next section of del.icio.us cocktail recipes came about because I recently subscribed to a bunch of cocktail blogs (will add those shortly) and realized that I didn't have something to say about all the recipes I'd like to share and/or remember for myself, so I found a way to just tag pages/posts in my del.icio.us that would then automatically add them to the sidebar. I'll still highlight recipes when I have something to add, or one's I make up myself, or get from books, in the main content area, but there should always be a dozen or so recipes to try in the left column. Below that is my Google calendar, which I'm using to try to track all the arts and cultural events I'd like to attend (no guarantee I'll go to any). Google calendar doesn't let me change the color yet. Then we've got the links (I'll have to add the cocktail blogs soon, but this was plenty of work for now). Over on the right I've added pictures from other people that I find amusing. If you have a flickr account and want one of your pictures to show up there, try tagging it with e33 and see if it works. There's a new subscribe button that takes you to a page to quickly add Experiment33 to many common rss readers. Then the Zoomclouds that I added a few months ago and some searching and stats stuff.
Hopefully, the left and right columns stay fixed in their position and width and the middle column will adjust itself to fit your window. You should also be able to finally see my whole banner that I made a while ago, but didn't show correctly. I've only tested in firefox and internet explorer on a pc, so any mac users or other browser folks please let me know if it doesn't look right. I am having a couple of problems that I know of, that I'll be looking into. In firefox the background color sometimes shows corectly in a dark burgundy color, but usually is white. In internet explorer the columns don't always size correctly. That's what I'm aware of.
Please comment and let me know if there's anything else not working, or that you think I should add.
Cocktail Jen: Diabolo
Been pretty busy at work lately, so I'll just point you to a different take on the Diabolo and also highly suggest Cocktail Jen's whole blog. She's working her way through her Mr. Boston's Guide one drink at a time and photographing her "work" along the way.
Cheers!
jimmy's cocktail hour: Mixology Monday IV: Aperitif Wrap-up
Wrap up of this Monday's Mixology Monday blog-a-thon, with the subject being apertifs I did not participate. Reading the descriptions and seeing the pictures makes me want to try some. I won't be trying the one developed at the Art of the Drink which features Unicum (the blogger of Art of the Drink won't be making it again either), but it does remind me of a story.
I didn't start drinking until I was 20, on a trip to Europe. I've always disliked beer, so I just didn't bother. While in Europe, we (LuRu and I) made a picinic one day in France and bought some wine, just because we thought we should. It was pretty good and certainly made us feel tres chic. Forward in the trip a few weeks and we find our selves in Budapest. We arrive early Sunday morning and we just wanted to spend the day on our way to either Prauge or Vienna (can't recall the exact order). We only stopped because it had been a long ride from Rome. We exchange $50 for the day (this was 1992) and wandered throughout the city. Well, Budapest was cheap, and lots of things were closed on Sunday, so we found ourselves with a ton (to us at the time) of money at the train station, where we could eat McDonald's food, get tattoos, or buy liquor. Even the McDonald's didn't put a dent in our funds. We bought 2 or 3 bottles of wine, a bottle of champagne, and a bottle of Unicum, because of the bottle. We pile into the midnight train and it's packed. After hunting through several cars, we luck into the last 2 seats in a 6 seat compartment. Our traveling companions happen to be a pair from England and a pair from Scotland, so some form of english all around! The 2 pair had the same issues with excess cash to burn and had spent similarly. The train was hot and uncomfortable, but the companionship was excellent and bottles were opened and passed freely. Eventually we squeezed in 2 Canadians who had great stories of sleeping in a train station in war torn Yugoslavia. As bottles were drained we finally had to try the Unicum. No one tried it more than once. I only recall it being nasty. The Art of the Drink describes it as making Yeagermeister look like a girls drink, so I figure that's about right. We left the bottle under the seat and forgot about it. I hope it didn't cause a bomb scare.
polanoid
Assembling the largest collection of Polaroid instant photographs. Lots of flickrish features with tagging and commenting. Here's a shot from 1980:
There is also a great gallery of the tools, highlighting photos of the different cameras with a little history. Here's the "Swinger" from 1965:
There's also an X-posed section where you have to register and be over 18, so I assume it includes some naughty bits. Registration is free.
the theatre
Originally uploaded by photobotic.
Not exactly sure what is going on here, must be from some sort of performance, just love the picture/costume
LILEKS (James) The Dorcus Line of Menswear
Bad fashions past
I forget which blog pointed this out first, sorry for the non reference.
Speedboat Race and Volleyball Videos from Hollywood Beach.
Some short digital camera videos from last weekend.
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!
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."
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
Warhol's silver wig sells for $10,800 - Yahoo! News
Who cares about that $130M Klimt
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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."
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.
Dennis Catron :: Guitarist :: Designer
6 glorious pages of Hot LP cover art
and one more
Via Eye of the Goof
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.
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
Like a stock exchange for setting drink prices in a bar. Interactive, cocktail, geekery.
Via Saving the world, one drink at a time
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
