And bonus! – they were 50% off – hello sold! Now i have something to wear when i step out of my chrome Lamborghini in my future car fantasies.

$510 Silver Dior sneakers. That’s the easy part. If u find them in a 14 u win a prize. I spotted these in Vegas at the Wynn shops.

lagomdesign.co.uk

From cristianzuzunaga.com found via swiss-miss.com

I’ll have sex with u if u buy me one.

Can I get my hands on this new novel from McSweeney’s any faster?

God Says No By James Hannaham

“Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen. God Says No is his testimony—the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other men, told in a singular, emotional voice. Driven by desperation and religious visions, the path that Gary Gray takes—from revival meetings to out life in Atlanta to a pray-away-the-gay ministry in Memphis, Tennessee—gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived, and how it can’t.”

 It’s $10,000 and I so want it purely because of the AC-DC-like font on the decal. Not that I’m a big AC-DC fan but yesterday while bench pressing I listened to this AC-DC/Daft Punk mash up like non-stop while thinking about driving this thing and playing that song and believing I AM THE SHIT while other drivers would just look at me like “You know you’re retarded right?”

I’m looking to hire a variety of people for a variety of jobs – some creative – some not. Nothing is long-term but I need people I can call on for these things which come up frequently, like now. Here’s what’s on my to do list:
- Designing two theme park attractions for a foreign park
- Designing and creating all the art to hang in a new high-end entertainment resort hotel
- A follow-up book to my Obscene Interiors
- A gallery show of new work for early 2009
- A sprucing up of this website, a creation of a new site and identity for my commercial work, and a new site for my non-commercial work
- And I’ll likely be moving soon as neighbors have pointed out that the two floors above seem ready to collapse onto my bedroom. The city of Burbank is looking into it, but I’m not sure I want to wait for their engineer’s evaluation.

SO…realizing many of the following could be the same person, I’m needing:
- An original inspired graphic designer
- Someone good with vector art creation
- A visual reference researcher (“Find me pictures of old industrial pipes”)
- A general personal assistant – mailing, running errands, making calls, writing letters. this person should be in the Burbank area or nearish and familiar with the area.
- A cleaning person
- Modelers, both digital 3-D, and maybe some physical
- And anyone good with illustrating environments or concept design
Send me an email (do not post a comment) if you are interested in any of this or know anyone who would be – the address it at the top of the sidebar. Send your location, contact info, myspace links and images of your work if applicable – It saves so much time if I don’t have to email or dig through portfolio sites. BTW, mine is here: JustinJorgensen.com I get calls all the time now for projects that I have to turn down so it’s be nice if I could refer those jobs to people – because everyone I know  is working now.

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!

It’s fiberglass, and around $4,500. I found it at T. L. Gurley Antiques in Pasadena. I have no idea what films it appeared in.