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THE WORLD’S END…
•December 21, 2012 • Leave a Comment…Will NOT be any time soon i.e. today or tomorrow. I’m going to skip the exposition and get right to it. Firstly, December 21 marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year “Long Count” Mayan calendar, true, but it doesn’t predict the end of anything. I have a calendar that ends on December 31. Same thing, I just haven’t got around to getting a new one.
The reason why I want to bring this ridiculous topic of the 2012-Armageddon up, is because I’m blown-away by the amount of people who take this nonsense as truth, simply based on nothing more than hearsay. People have actually contacted me wishing me farewell… WTF!
December 22, 2012 will be the beginning of the next Long Count, or cycle in the Mayan calendar. It just happens to end on the Winter Solstice is all (the earth at its farthest point from the sun.)
Mayans themselves reject any notion that the world will end. In fact, the Mayans predicted the world would continue for 7,000 years onward, just as it always has. Sadly their entire civilization has been misrepresented and misinterpreted and used to generate fear in the general population. And by general, I mean less informed people who would rather rely on the opinions of strangers and advertisers than be content just to live their lives. Relax people, it’s all good. Step outside and marvel at that beautiful sky and listen to those birds chirp. Enjoy nature, don’t fear it, and I guarantee you will wake up feeling extra awesome the next day. Providing you don’t get piss drunk — it is Friday after all.
Doomsday-mongers are the ones predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth, and for one reason only; to cash in. Candles, survival shelters, ration packs, news papers, books books endless books, torches, thermos flasks, kerosene, petrol in order to converge on a mountain to be saved by aliens even, have been recorded around the globe to be selling by the droves. Superstitious, vague ideas of Armageddon bringing about very real consequences. Some people have gone for broke over this which is so sad, I can’t even laugh about it. Just smirk a little.
No, the end is not near. Park that limo, you are not John Cusack. Put away the chainsaw, Nancy and rejoice! Take to your keyboards and torment the fear-merchants among you with the immortally gratifying phrase; “I told you so.”
Trust NASA folks, that’s all I have to say on the matter of cataclysmic mortality. The day when astrophysicists talk of solar flares and radiation is the bloody day you’ll find me spelunking.
Happy Winter Solstice Everybody! I’m glad we had this discussion. Now go finish your homework and brush your teeth you lovable, stupidass. No one is going anywhere.
Pawnbroker’s Challenge
•December 12, 2012 • Leave a CommentWhile enjoying a brisk walk up Queen Street, I peered in to a pawn shop window and noticed this framed ‘75 Bands Challenge‘ picture (good, thick frame too) selling for $29 dollars!!! Ridiculous. Does give me an idea though. Print, frame, sell. Minus the frame.
Good luck trying to sell that – Here’s the downloadable.
1950s Vintage Hairstlyes and What They Say About You
•November 4, 2012 • Leave a CommentIf this great vintage magazine clipping is anything to go by, the way a woman wore her bow said more about her love life than what their hair said about them. This could narrow down my search for a wahine (doubtful). I may be somewhat out-of-date here, but I’m a’lookin for a girl with a bow!
Via Michael Angelo’s Wonderland Beauty Parlor in NY, NY. What other vintage gems were hiding in those pages I wonder?
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn [web-series]
•November 2, 2012 • Leave a CommentMass Effect 3 wasn’t that long ago, but I haven’t been as excited for a game in a long time, especially a first person shooter. Halo 4 not only looks to be pushing the Xbox360’s graphics capabilities to its maximum potential, but the story sounds amazing, and if the promotional material is anything to go by, then this game is going to seriously rock!
Coinciding with the imminent release of Halo 4 the ever popular first person shooter in the HALO saga; 343 Industries have put together an impressive web-series. Hastati Squad, the newest batch of freshman cadets at the UNSC’s Corbulo Academy of Military Science, pays the price for cadet Thomas Lasky’s tactics:
The first series on the web I liked came out in the late 90s and used early flash animation. The days of really low-bandwidth. Web series thereafter were either OK or like extremely short jokes or fizzed out due to unpopularity. Forward Unto Dawn is epic in comparison with production values rivaling many feature films. I hope this starts a trend within the gaming industry, because Hollywood sucks at it. Enjoy:
Below is the stunning launch trailer for Halo 4 Produced by David Fincher which features the origin of Master Chief:
Halloween Celebrities
•November 1, 2012 • Leave a CommentEven celebrities dress up. Wait, acting is all about dressing up. Did that make sense? Here are some of the cooler minded celebs anyway:
Massive Fish Sculptures Made from Discarded Plastic Bottles at Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
•July 3, 2012 • Leave a CommentRio de Janeiro, host to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Recycled materials to art is always ingenuitive. Quite the eye catching sentiment.
See more: Rio+20 Flicker set
‘From Love to Bingo’
•June 29, 2012 • Leave a Comment
This beautiful 1-minute short film is made entirely of still images, put together using 873 stock photos (15 images per second) from the Getty Images archives. An impressive 6 month labor of love:
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