Month: November 2003

Web link of note: ReadyMade Magazine
(At http://www.readymademag.com/)

The “Starve” concept is interesting, but the execution on the website is terrible- if I didn’t know what this was already, I would not put any energy in finding out more! It’s a good anti-demo for me.

Michael has a DVD somewhere with his short videos, starring himself, acting out various novels or something. I wonder where it is?
Web link of note: Michael Trigilio
(At http://www.starve.org/)

their “lobby” on their home page looks like BART… because it is!
Web link of note: montgomery pfeifer
(At http://www.mp.com)

Web link of note: Banned Japanese stuff
(At http://plaza10.mbn.or.jp/~fragile/mana/)

Half Bakery is sort of an unfiltered idea mill. Maybe VCs should raid this site every so often!
Web link of note: Half Bakery
(At http://www.halfbakery.com/)

Their shop is here. Some of their rarer items they will only sell in the UK!

• The Snail Ball is a ball which very slowly rolls down an incline
• talking tape- it’s a tape with ridges on it, you hold it in your teeth and pull it out of your mouth, and it “talks”
• magic mirrors – they will reflect an image (in light) onto a flat surface, but are totally smooth
• squirting water buffalo – a clay ox which spits water without a motor
• singing water bowls – rub their handles and the bowl will “sing” and make a fountain
• gelly (jelly) glasses – edible shot glasses

Web link of note: Grand Illusions
(At http://www.grand-illusions.com/)

This site is so awesome…

Ultraman is basically where Power Rangers comes from. A Japanese TV show in the 1960’s, it had dozens of spin-offs and hundreds of episodes.

I had always wondered where some of these aliens came from, for example “Baltan-seijin” or “kanegon,” the guy who looks like he has a clam for a head, or “eleking” who looks like a wrestler with a giant slug head. You can buy a lot of these guys as vinyl figures now.
Web link of note: Absolute Ultraman !!
(At http://www.waynebrain.com/ultra)

Their design is so good, I find myself wanting a kidney transporter.
Web link of note: IDEO
(At http://www.ideo.com/)

“Meet your iMac’s other half.”

It’s a stand for the “Sunflower” iMac, which matches the look and feel perfectly… very pretty.

If you wanted your house to have that icy all-white Scandanavian feel to it, you pretty much need one of these.

Check out the photos in the “living section.”
Web link of note: iGo iMac stand
(At http://www.igo4mac.com)

NEVERLAND VALLEY: Five peace officers were killed this morning while serving a warrant on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Valley Ranch. Sources report that the officers stumbled upon Jackson’s secret underground stash of lethal toxins that had been mixed with laughing gas. The officer in charge of the investigation claimed Jackson was storing the gas in childrens’ dolls.

(article courtesy of Kirby Doom)

It’s a joke, you dorks.

You know? The Joker?

The Dark Knight Returns? One of the greatest graphic novels ever written? No? Buncha illiterates.

It’s the near future and Batman is pushing sixty and retired. Without the Batman to fight, the Joker has lapsed into catatonia. And when Batman returns to fight crime, the Joker suddenly becomes aware of his surroundings…

The Joker uses his signature “Smile” gas, which makes the victim die laughing, on the entire audience of the David Letterman show. Using flying cabbage patch kids. Too fricken cool.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns uses all the imagery of the Batman mythology and makes it darker, richer, and more psychological. The theme of the dual personality of Batman/Bruce Wayne… Two-Face as the dark mirror of Batman… the moral ambiguity of Batman’s vigilantism… the inevitable results of Reagan’s nuclear-powered “Morning in America”… it’s all in there. Go buy a copy immediately!