Dancing in the Street

For the "Dancers Among Us" (cough, Kassie), enjoy these beautiful photos. This is an ongoing project that began in the spring of 2009, featuring top professional dancers in everyday situations around New York City. There were no trampolines or other devices used for these images, just thousands of hours of training! There are so many, but here are a few of my favorites. Check them all out here and see the behind-the-scenes videos here.

Walk This Way

This is interesting... might need to conduct my own experiment.


A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? from NPR on Vimeo.

Pea Pod Pictures.

My Facebook feed is filled with too many pregnant women's bellies these days that I needed a laugh and a break from it all. Please enjoy this blog post on awkward pregnancy photos and enjoy it as much as I did.

Disclaimer: More nudity than one expects shows up in the pictures. You have been warned.

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Sweet Dreams

I love cupcakes and especially scrumptiously decorated ones. Ming Makes Cupcakes will make your mouth water, if not your sweet tooth twinge. I wanted to experiment with these recipes, but my time has been eaten up with SEO and finding computer bugs. By the end of the year, I hope to make at least two of these recipes, but for now I sit and daydream.

For Dummies?

I have become the resident IT support person for my family and extended family. I have been asked every question under the sun in regards to software issues. It's okay, but sometimes I have to laugh to myself because I take for granted my experience and education. I have trolled this site a few times for some comic relief and to commensurate. Here's a sample conversation.

Client: “Yes but it’s not moving when I move the mouse. I’m using a mousepad and everything!”

Me: “Look underneath the mouse. Does it have a ball or a light?”

Client: “Underneath? The ball is on top!”

Me: “Please turn the mouse right-side-up, so the ball is facing the ground.”

Catalog Living

Ran across this blog... not all jokes are funny, but it will make you look at your catalogs in a different way. I have worked and been around merchandising displays my entire life.  The overall goal is to show of your product and entice people to visualize the product in their life or home and ultimately purchasing the product. However, sometimes Pottery Barn and other like retailers push it into overkill because they are old school about filling the frame in a catalog shot. So... I'm glad someone has time on their hands to put out the ridiculousness of their fill-in objects. Enjoy!

smish. smash. smush.

If you need a time-waster game... here's one. Smash the beans!

stache it away.

I keep up with trends. I feel like I'm "in the know" at least half of the time, but this mustache trend bugs me a bit. Maybe I'm not into it because it went so trendy, so fast. Every where you turn, there was a bridal party or kids with fake mustaches. There were necklaces, t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc. I don't dig the "stache" to say the least.

Kris tried to bug me one weekend by keeping a pencil thin stache after shaving. Yuck! I think staches, like cats they have an agenda. No good can from a mustache. It seems creepy in a way. Remember the Guess Who? game? I would always ask "Does your person have a mustache?" Try to eliminate all of those creepy guys first. Some trends I can get behind, but this one needs to be stached away. This poster is the only thing that I can condone since it involves font-related humor.

Man in the Mirror

How cool is this Los Angeles street performer? I bet it hurts to sit down.

What's in a Name?

1. Did you know the Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons has a name? It’s Jeff Albertson. But that wasn’t the decision of creator Matt Groening. “I was out of the room when [the writers] named him,” he told MTV in 2007. “In my mind, ‘Louis Lane’ was his name, and he was obsessed and tormented by Lois Lane.”

2. Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. (Ken’s last name is Carson.)

3. Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch

4. Snuffleupagus has a first name—Aloysius.

5. The true identity of The Lone Ranger was John Reid.

6. The Wizard of Oz rolls off the tongue a lot easier than his full name, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. From Frank Baum’s Dorothy And the Wizard in Oz:“It was a dreadfully long name to weigh down a poor innocent child, and one of the hardest lessons I ever learned was to remember my own name. When I grew up I just called myself O.Z., because the other initials were P-I-N-H-E-A-D; and that spelled ‘pinhead,’ which was a reflection on my intelligence.”

7. Mr. Clean has a seldom-used first name—”Veritably.” The name came from a “Give Mr. Clean a First Name” promotion in 1962.

8. In a deleted scene in the 2006 Curious George movie, The Man With the Yellow Hat’s name was revealed as Ted Shackleford. (Since the scene was deleted, perhaps this doesn’t count.)

9. The real name of Monopoly mascot Rich Uncle Pennybags is Milburn Pennybags.

10. The policeman in Monopoly has a name, too. You can thank Officer Edgar Mallory the next time he sends you to jail.

11. On Night Court, Nostradamus Shannon was better known as Bull.

12. On Entourage, Turtle’s real name is Salvatore Assante.

13. Sesame Street’s resident game show host Guy Smiley was using a pseudonym all these years. He was born Bernie Liederkrantz.

14. The Michelin Man’s name is Bibendum.

15. On Gilligan’s Island, Jonas Grumby was simply called The Skipper.

16. The unkempt Shaggy of Scooby-Doo fame has a rather proper real name—Norville Rogers.

17. The Pillsbury Doughboy’s name is Poppin’ Fresh. He has a wife, Poppie Fresh, and two kids, Popper and Bun Bun.

18. Staying on Gilligan’s Island, The Professor was Roy Hinkley.

19. The patient in the classic game Operation is Cavity Sam.

20. In the Peanuts comic strip, Peppermint Patty’s real name is Patricia Reichardt.

MIA.

How quickly a month can fly by without you noticing? We have been logging many hours with our company's site and will soon soft-launch for initial testing. Very exciting! There have been many happy happenings this past month, which I will update soon. I will get back on track starting tomorrow, but now back to the grind...

Nashville got Kanye'd

play with your food.

Food Inspirations

Hey, Mr. Postman!

Mail is becoming slower and slower these days. With the exception of bills and mass-mailers, the post office is becoming close to obsolete in the residential segment. With workers being laid off and hours/days being cut, it isn't a surprise when they announce stamp price hikes every year it seems. I saw this on a site and can't remember where, but it is a neat concept of integrating Google maps and the snail mail. How awesome for the postman or postwoman? Get lost, look at the envelope for directions. I wonder if they would accept it now if I rigged my own version? May try it if I ever get to my 20th page of my To Do List.

Let.us

If lettuce was packaged more like these chips, then I would be more inclined to eating it. It's all in the packaging, folks!

Countdown Red Light. Yes, Please!

Why did it take someone so long to think of this? It is a stoplight that lets you know how much longer the light has until it turns green by the red light countdown around the actual stoplight. Brilliant! I much rather have these than those pesky ole red light cameras. I think I would be more incline to show patience if I knew it "knew" I was there waiting... to GO!

Font it out.

Flowchart by Julian Hansen

Conceptual Perceptual

I love designing print ads and would love to do a building wall advertisement some day. I have put together quite a few ads in my day, so I can appreciate a good campaign when I see it. Normally, I surf magazines and the web for new layouts or new fonts, but these are some really cool conceptual ads.

Apple Twins