This was a design for another project that didn’t happen but I always liked it and now that I have a fancy iphone I had a reason to make it into my screen wallpaper. All the other wallpapers I found ignored the iphone graphics that get overlaid on the BG image so I wanted to design one that incorporated the clock and slider bar/buttons. DOWNLOAD the wallpaper here.

I’ve also been converting some Disney mp3s into iphone ringtones to go with this theme. Here’s The Haunted Mansion Crow, The Haunted Mansion Coyote, The Haunted Mansion Bells, The Big Thunder Mountain Coyote, The Spinning Teacups, and the one I’m using that’s from the Disneyland Paris 15th anniversary celebration (I guess). When it goes off it’s like ULTRA-MAGICAL!!!, or SUPER GAY!!! which are sort of the same thing.   

Oh hi!

I’ve parked my Ferrari by this True Value Hardware semi here-

and I’m enjoying a delicious wine cooler-

I’ve forgotten if I ever had a job, I don’t care what I’m doing tomorrow-

Today it’s sunny in this national park and I’m loving this song-

The air is so clean, I’m gonna toss my hair around in it-

Take a few steps forward, then back-

My obsession with this scene from National Lampoons Family Vacation has little to do with Christie being “hot” but everything to do with how perfectly everything about her performance captured EXACTLY what that scene (,the movie, and the entire concept of the American Vacation) was aiming for. If you don’t want to be her after seeing this then you sir are a liar and no fun to be around.

The funny thing is if this were filmed to day it would be so over produced it wouldn’t work. The accidental genius of the set up is how casual and real it is. (In the film’s commentary the director talks about how he didn’t even realize that giant semi was there until later.) This makes the impact so much stronger because it doesn’t read like a slow-mo, Hollywood fantasy but something that could actually happen on a road trip. And how badly do we want it to!

Found, and more info, at Airworks.

The mix downloads as a .zip file and then you’ll have a bunch of songs in a folder - it doesn’t really matter the order they play in but I’ve numbered them in a sequence that’s nice. Here’s the link. My liner notes:

He’s part of the nightly shows at the “Lake of Dreams” inside the resort and the highlight of my Vegas trip (as was the entire Wynn resort). The shows have an oddness to them that makes me think the designer was French but I can’t find any info on who the deserves the creative credit. [I shot the picture below but not the videos.]

One of six shows happens every hour and half-hour. The large “screen” is a waterfall when the show isn’t happening, and the lake is filled with bubbles during the show so the submerged LED units have something to bounce light off of. Here’s another show with a bullfighting theme:

First, Muse performs Invincible in a It’s a Small World-style attraction I’d so love to see built. (I’ve tried to track down the designer but emails to the production company have gone unanswered.) Below is the YouTube link, but a higher-res version is here.

Second, Goldfrapp’s Twist

The places you find walking by the LA river.

Here’s a three-part micro-documentary by Vice about Northern Colombians and their unique relationship with donkeys. Audio is SO NOT WORK SAFE.

And, yes, the kid above is taking about what you think he is.

I know Vice magazine gets a lot of crap, maybe deserved, but I think they do a great job addressing real things real people deal with that are either too sexy, or not sexy enough, for mainstream media. Now Vice has an online TV channel, webchannel, whatever, called VBS.TV and I watch it almost every day during lunch. Their series on heavy metal in Baghdad is probably the most accurate representation of what life is now like in Iraq, which is to say I almost crapped myself just watching it. There’s way more, so I’ll post my favorites here over the next weeks.

Unrelated: I’m eating Parrano cheese, it’s between Gouda and parmesan, and having a glass of Coppola’s Rosso Shiraz, which may or may not be a good pairing, but I don’t know any better.

Someone over at Dior thought Victoire de Castellane’s new flower and insect-heavy jewelry collection needed it’s own island inside Second Life. I made a visit, filmed it, and set it to Philip Glass, resulting in overly dramatic virtual home movie.

A couple weeks ago I appeared on the call-in show, Ring My Bell. Here’s the condensed video.

See it here.