My two favorite people in the entire world (this month), Lindsay and Kristy Landers, put out a music video this past Summer and it is truly a masterpiece. Not since Michael Jackson's Thriller has there been such a groundbreaking and important video. High art!
I've been talking about these two lovely ladies for the past few weeks, but you might have no idea who they are. It's probably better that way. They are the 16 and 18-year-old daughters of Judy Landers. They want to be big pop stars.
I'm not even joking when I say that I think this video was made at one of those kiosks at Six Flags amusement park. You know that shit where you can make your own music video and pick your own background. I think that's how this video was made. That being said, this is some hot shit.
Nothing says "mother of the year" like allowing your teen daughters to dress and dance like Laughlin, NV strippers. I really think their inspiration for this video came from Elizabeth Berkeley's performance in "Showgirls."
You don’t see too many optical illusions in advertising. But when they are employed, it’s usually for a noble cause—like making a woman’s boobs look bigger, as in this homemade Wonderbra spot. Sony Bravia did a few optical-illusion print ads recently, too.
'Dilbert's' 9-point financial plan worthy of economics Nobel - MarketWatch
Topic: Arts
11:17 am EST, Jan 10, 2008
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- OK, so Dilbert didn't win the Nobel Prize in economics this year. There's always next year, right? Or perhaps a parallel universe? You may wonder whether Dilbert and his creator, cartoonist Scott Adams, have any chance, but since the Nobel committee's records are sealed for 50 years our imagination runs free. We know creativity and science share much in common. Both science and art begin with what-ifs, unproven ideas about unknown realities, dreams of the future before it unfolds. And often all it takes is a small, simple "key" such as "E=mc2" to unlock the door.
Virginia Postrel talks with Gary Hustwit — director of Helvetica — about filmmaking, creativity, and the expressive implications of one of the world's most popular typefaces
See also, from the archives:
In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.
While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.
Typography is not simply a frou-frou debate over aesthetics orchestrated by a hidden coterie of graphic-design nerds. You need only imagine a STOP sign that utilizes the heavy-metal typefaces favoured by bands Dokken or Krokus to realize that clear, clean and direct typography can save lives, or at the very least prevent drivers from prolonged bouts of confused squinting.
Why should you care?
Because everything you read, every sign, book and logo, is in a font.
And don't forget:
The reality is that, despite fears that our children are "pumped full of chemicals," everything is made of chemicals, including Helvetica, and even Comic Sans.
Most of the blame for the obesity epidemic in America rests squarely on the fat font face of Comic Sans.
The dress that changes colour to reflect your mood | the Daily Mail
Topic: Arts
10:57 am EST, Dec 20, 2007
After centuries of wondering, men can finally work out if their partner really is 'fine' or not thanks to a new dress that changes colour depending on a woman's mood.
The Bubelle Dress is made up of two layers, the inner layer contains biometric sensors that pick up a person's emotions and projects them in colours onto the second layer, the outer textile.
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The Bubelle dress changes colour depending on your mood Enlarge the image
The sensitive dress, which was designed by electronical giants Philips, works by monitoring physical changes associated with different feelings.
Emotions such as stress, arousal, or fear affect the body's temperature and sweat levels and these generate the light that changes the pattern and colour on the dress.
Ingrid Bal from Philip's Design said: "You could programme the material so that it turned red if you were angry or stressed, or green when you're calm."
Should the prototype ever hit the high street it would help British couples to communicate better.
It was developed as part of the SKIN Probe Project, a research programme concerned with what lifestyles might be like in 2020. Time magazine named the impressive clothing as the best fashion invention of the year.
Ms Bal said: "We were interested to see how technology may affect our lives in the future and to provoke debate. We are asking: 'Would the idea of emotional clothing be something we will wear in 10 years time?'"
Scientists at the Dutch firm have also designed emotion-sensitive electronic tattoos as part of their design project.
A spokeswoman said: "In much the same way as make-up is put on and taken off to suit the occasion, a tattoo could alter whenever desired.
"The tattoos could even change in response to gestures or emotions."
The entire cast of Karate Kid (minus Miyagi) re-assemble for this music video re-creation of the climactic events depicted in the film, with a surprise ending.
