The Soviet (Mayan) Playing Cards?
As it happens Mayan motives were popular during Soviet times in Russia. The only vendor for playing cards (as for many other stuff in Soviet Russia) was the Soviet State, so there were only a few type of the cards – just maybe ten at most, not hundreds or thousands as in free market societies, and one of the types of the playing cards were devoted to the Mayan culture for some reason.
The Soviet (Mayan)
Playing Cards?
Via: English Russian
Blogging like an Asshole
JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING...
Imagine the typewriter was a labtop...then yeah that's how I blog.
Comic-Con: Where geeks can be geeks...with their kids.
Amazing Spider-Man vs 1970's Spider-Man
New Spider-Man vs 70's Spider-Man
Looking forward for the new version of the Amazing Spider-Man coming out in 2012. But, I could never forget the 1970's show I use to rent from Blockbuster. The special I rented was called "Deadly Dust." It was so bad...it was good...well just bad.
Love Vanessa Lake
Crystal Castles Bullshit Moment.
Miami Beach Police Shoot Up Car (Gangster Style)
Miami Beach Police Shoot Up Car
A police chase and firefight on the streets of South Beach Monday morning ended with officers shooting into a car on Collins Avenue and killing the driver, bringing a bloody conclusion to Miami Beach’s annual Memorial Day weekend parties.
By 5:30 a.m., police were investigating two officer-involved shootings. One alleged gunman was dead, four bystanders were wounded — possibly by police gunfire — and three officers were being treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. None has been named by police.
Club and bar hoppers in town for the massively popular Urban Beach Week scattered and screamed as gunshots followed after the weaving car. Some on the relatively empty stretch of Collins Avenue jumped behind cars or into bushes as shots grew closer and louder.
Hundreds of officers shut down the heart of South Beach.
“This incident really mars us,” said Mayor Matti Herrera Bower.
Police Chief Carlos Noriega said the weekend’s relative peace was shattered just before 4 a.m. when a driver struck an officer with his car near Collins Avenue and 16th Street. Noriega said the officer was not from Miami Beach, but an employee of one of many departments who help police South Beach’s Urban Beach Week crowds, which come for hip-hop shows and private parties and can grow to be several hundred thousand strong.
Miami Beach PD shot up a car and killed the crazy guy inside that was shooting at them. Typical Memorial Day (Urban Weekend) in sunny South Beach.
Via: Miami Herald
View this amazing footage caught by...what sounds to be a local.
Elvis Presley Jewish
Was The King...Jewish?
In 1998, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled, "All Shook Up in the Holy Land" exposing Elvis Presley's unlikely Jewish lineage. Apparently, Elvis' maternal great-great grandmother, Nancy Burdine, was a Jew. Her daughter gave birth to Doll Mansell who gave birth to Gladys Smith who gave birth to Elvis. Although it sounds improbable, according to Jewish law, which confers Jewish lineage by way of the mother, that makes Elvis Presley Jewish.
Furthermore, this fact was something that Elvis was apparently aware of and even sensitive to. For example, there is a famous picture of Elvis performing in Salt Lake City in 1972 wearing a Jewish "chai" symbol, and when Elvis' mother Gladys died in 1959 he made sure to put a Jewish Star of David on her headstone. But even if Elvis may have been technically Jewish, and was even aware of his background, he was not at all observant.
Apparently Elvis was Jewish by his great great grandma.
Via: Aish.com
No Tan Hispanic
Via: Yes-Butno.com
Do It Today!
Monster Money
Monster
Money
Pretty clever crafted money that has your favorite movie monsters. Hmm, I wonder if a $100 Dracula bill can cover dinner for me and my family? Blood money now takes on a new meaning. ha.
Jim Lambie - Colored Tape Installations
Since 1999, the Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie (1964) has used glossy tape in varying colors to build floor installations such as Touch Zobop (2003). The vinyl tape, an everyday material applied in continuous lines, has a capacity to transform the dynamics of space, changing a quiet gallery space into an energetic and emotional space of sensory pleasure. Lambie creates a rhythm that vibrates and pulsates, and even confuses and disorients the spectator.
According to Lambie:
“For me something like Zobop, the floor piece, it is creating so many edges that they all dissolve. Is the room expanding or contracting? … Covering an object somehow evaporates the hard edge off the thing, and pulls you towards more of a dreamscape.”
Lambie has a musical background. Like music, his art fills its surroundings and transforms the environment. As Lambie says, “You put a record on and it’s like all the edges disappear. You’re in a psychological space. You don’t sit there thinking about the music, you’re listening to the music. You’re inside that space that the music’s making for you.”
JIM LAMBIE
Via: Web Exhibits
Image: C-Monster
James "Jim" Lambie (born 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a contemporary visual artist, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize with an installation called Mental Oyster.
Vincent Price - I Like What I Know
In 1959 Vincent Price wrote I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography recounting his lifelong love affair with the art world.
VINCENT LIKES
TO KNOW.
“Most art books (and this isn’t one) discuss the artist’s date of birth, his background, his teacher, and endless, detailed depictions of his work…I want the readers to question themselves as I have questioned myself, in my desire to know the art of the past and, at the same time, accept and get to know the art of today and to be ready for the art of tomorrow. - Vincent Price
Cher - Makeup Center WTF?
There's only one word to describe this, and the word doesn't even exist.
BIZARREO
KN COSMETICS BLOG-A-ZINE
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It's Not Broken.
It's not broken. I just don't like you.
Fredrik Raddum's Sculpture
Fredrik Raddum live and work in Oslo. He works with sculpture, installation, photo and performance related journeys. He has exhibited at various spaces since 1999
Via: Fredrik Raddum
Krazy Kat, Popeye and Betty Boop Vintage Posters
CLASSIC CARTOON FILM ADS
These are pretty remarkable ads of cartoons from Colombia Pictures and others. I love the imagery even more so because they are rather ghostly. Anything vintage spooky/Halloween I'm totally into it. Add on cartoons and I'm a fan! Enjoy.
Via: Paul Malon
Meryl Streep on Superstitious Fear
"My feeling about fear is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I’m superstitious enough to believe that."
- Meryl Streep
